ROCK HILL, S.C. – The Hesston College disc golf team wrapped up their season in a spectacular fashion at the 2026 College Disc Golf National Championships from April 8 to 11. The Larks sent two teams to the four-round PDGA major tournament. Josalyn (Wipf) Henneberg (Huron, S.D.) and Lily Corkill (Olsburg, Kan.) represented the Larks in the FC1 division while the foursome of Devin Miller (Hesston, Kan.), Zach Kaufman (St. Louis, Mo.), Nolan Gorman (Redmond, Ore.) and Hayden Miller (Kalona, Iowa) competed in the MC3 division. Each group’s total score consisted of one singles round and three team rounds.
The women’s division started the tournament with a singles round on Wednesday at Winthrop Meadows. Henneberg racked up three birdies in her solo round and posted an 844 rated round, 50 points above her rating, with a score of +5. At the end of the round, the South Dakota native was tied for 13th place meaning she would return to the FC1 singles final for the second year in a row. Henneberg emerged from the final nine holes with a total score of +9 which was good for a T-14th place finish out of 69 competitors. Corkill posted a total score of +13 in the singles round while recording a birdie to finish T-28th place.
In the first two team rounds, Henneberg and Corkill put together solid scores shooting -1 at Winthrop Meadows and -2 at the Westminster Temp course to put them tied for 9th place headed into the final round at Winthrop Lake, the home of the United States Disc Golf Championship on the Professional Disc Golf Tour. The pair started their final round strong with a birdie before a tough stretch of unfortunate out of bounds shots moved them to +5 through the first six holes. Henneberg and Corkill battled back through the back nine recording three more birdies and no bogeys to finish the round +2 and cement a 10th place finish in a field of 32 teams. The pair hit eight of their 12 C1X putts in the final round to secure a top-10 finish for the second year in a row.
“Lily and Josalyn played a great tournament,” says Head Coach Nick Meis. “I am so proud of how they battled adversity and trusted each other to make tough shots. They absolutely crushed it.”
In MC3, the men’s team started their tournament with a team round at Westminster Park. The Larks recorded three birdies in the round, but a series of tough breaks dropped them down to a score of -1 in the opening round.
The Larks bounced back in a major way in the singles round. Miller found himself +2 through his first six holes on the Westminster Temp course, but he quickly put himself under par with three straight birdies to close out the front nine. He would go on to birdie five of his last six holes to post a -5 round score which put him t-7th place out of 263 players.
Kaufman also posted a -5 round score to tie with Devin recording seven birdies. Miller and Kaufman recorded a round rating of 970 which was nearly 20 points higher than Miller’s rating and 55 points higher than Kaufman’s. Gorman also played an impressive round, carding four birdies and finishing with a score of -1 for a 932 rated round, 45 points higher than his rating. Hayden caught a few tough breaks and finished the singles round with a score of +12. All four of the men’s scores combined were equated to a team score of even par, a score that only three teams out of nearly 70 were able to beat in that round.
The Larks continued their momentum in their next team round as they shot -8 with nine birdies including five in a row in the front nine to move up toward the middle of the field. In the final round, the Larks shot an astonishing -14, carding birdies on their first 11 holes and completing the round without a bogey. The Larks were sharpshooters off the tee as they parked six of their tee shots for easy tap-ins. They were a perfect 6-for-6 on C1X putting and Kaufman nailed two huge C2 birdie putts, one from 60 ft and the other from 41 ft. Their -14 round score was one stroke shy of the hot round for the tournament. After the dust settled in MC3, the Larks found themselves T-16th place.
“It was incredible to watch,” shares Meis. “After struggling in the first round, a lot of guys would get in their heads and spiral even further, but not this group. They trusted each other to execute in crucial situations and it paid off time after time. These guys have come so far as a team since the beginning of the year, and all of the work they put in resulted in an outcome that they can all be proud of.”
