Mountain Falls women repeat as WSNGA Net champions

Mountain Falls women turned a title defense into a regional statement, beating Spanish Trail Country Club 8-4 at Arroyo Golf Club to repeat as Women’s Southern Nevada Golf Association Net champions. The Pahrump club worked through eight regular-season matches and a playoff round against teams from Mesquite, Las Vegas and Henderson, then finished with another win that kept Nye County on the Southern Nevada golf map.

WSNGA Team Play is a match-play format built around club-versus-club competition, with each side sending eight players in four groups. Clubs are placed into Red or Blue Divisions based on the previous year’s results, and Mountain Falls advanced by finishing atop the Red Division before meeting the Blue Division winner for the overall championship. The association’s Team Play series dates to the late 1990s, and the 2025 season included 21 teams playing across 16 golf courses in and around the Vegas valley.

The repeat carried extra weight because Mountain Falls had already won its first program championship in 2025, the club’s first title since its inauguration in 2003. That made the 2026 victory a successful defense, and it reinforced how much depth the Pahrump squad brought to a format that demanded steady play from top to bottom. Mountain Falls also had to earn the result without a home-course edge, since clubs no longer compete on their own layouts. The team had to travel for scheduled matches at Canyon Gate, DragonRidge and Spanish Trail, while still leaning on the challenge of Mountain Falls Golf Club as preparation for the road.

Brenda Meinicke, the team president, said the squad pulled ahead late and credited the group’s consistency through the season. The 11-player roster included Meinicke, Vice President Charity Musial, Team Captain Sue Theiler, Team Co-Captain Julie Floyd, Anne Wagner, Katey Talbot, Lisa Hamrick, Tynna Jones, Karen Johnson, Chris Upton and Stacey Romney.

For Pahrump, the back-to-back championship showed that women’s golf here is not an accessory to the community but one of its more durable competitive programs. Mountain Falls proved it could win once, then win again under the same pressure, on the road and against a deep Southern Nevada field.