2026-27 Women's Golf Roster
Biography
PRIOR TO COLLEGE
- Named to the Texas High School Coaches Association (THSCA) Class 3A Girls Golf Super Elite Team for her stellar 2025-26 high school campaign. Rainbolt capped off her high school career by leading the Sweetwater Lady Mustangs to the 2026 UIL Class 3A State Championship title in Austin. She led the team's scoring, carding a two-day total of 165 to anchor a dominant 19-shot team victory.
- As a junior in 2025, she powered Sweetwater to a 2nd-place silver medal team finish at the State Tournament. Individually, she placed 4th overall in the state with a two-day total of 159 (78-81).
- In 2024, she won Sweetwater's prestigious Vardon Trophy for Women's Golf, awarded at the All Sports Banquet to the varsity player with the lowest overall scoring average for the year.
- Was a highly decorated student leader off the course, serving officially as the 2025-2026 Area 2 Treasurer for the Sweetwater FFA Chapter. Rainbolt matched her immense athletic success with elite academics, earning the distinguished honor of Class of 2026 Salutatorian for Sweetwater High School.
- Competed statewide in public speaking and agriculture events while running a Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) raising market lambs.
- She was a true varsity leader outside of golf, playing point guard and shooting guard for the Lady Mustangs basketball team.
- Bailey’s aunt is Kelly Rainbolt, who also played golf for the LCU. Kelly Rainbolt was a decorated golfer for LCU from 2005 to 2009, also coming out of Sweetwater High School. During her tenure at LCU, she was named to the All-Region and All-Sooner Athletic Conference teams in 2008 and earned NAIA Academic All-American honors as a senior in 2009. She even won the NAIA National Tournament's Long Drive Competition in 2009 with a 250-yard drive.
- Father Rusty Rainbolt is a former Trinity Christian basketball coach and collegiate women's basketball head coach, who had stops at McMurry, Concordia (Texas), Southern Arkansas and East Texas Baptist.
