Sarah Sasse-Kildow
Sarah Sasse-Kildow is a University of Nebraska graduate who was the 2003 Big 12 Conference golfer of the year and the first Husker women’s golfer to earn first-team All-America honors.
In junior competition, Sarah was the state’s girls match-play champion in 1993, 1995, and 1996 and the first to claim back to back Class A high school state titles in 36-hole tournaments. She was still a Lincoln High student when she won the first of five Nebraska Women’s Amateur titles in six years (1997, 1999-2002).
At NU, her senior year included the 2003 Big 12 Championship and three other wins. She was a Scholastic All-American while making the All-Big 12 team for the third time and the conference’s academic team for the fourth time.
She played in three NCAA Championships and qualified for four U.S. Women’s Amateurs before turning professional.
Sarah was a member of the women’s Futures Tour from 2004 to 2006. In 2005, she appeared on the Golf Channel’s “Big Break III” series. Her win in the 2007 Nebraska Section PGA Assistant Championship was the first by a female.
She is enshrined in the NU Athletics, Nebraska High School Sports and Lincoln High halls of fame.
