Grant Jabenis Season 2024-25

Honors & Awards

• Two Career Top Five Finishes (2, 2022-23)
• Four Career Top-25 Finishes (1, 2024-25)
• Tie for 43rd, Big Ten Championship (2023)
• Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2024)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2024)
• Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2022, 2023; Spring 2023, 2024)
• Blue River Classic Individual Champion (2020)

Senior (2024-25)
Grant Jabenis returns for his third season as a Husker in 2024-25. The senior from Omaha is providing leadership for the Huskers alongside graduate student Reed Malleck and fellow senior Hamish Murray. Jabenis has displayed his leadership on and aff the course as a Husker, competing in the Big Red's lineup at the 2023 Big Ten Championship while also being named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar in 2024.

Jabenis produced one of the best performances of his Nebraska career with a tie for sixth at the Qubein Cup (Oct. 14-15). He fired a 215 (+5) over three rounds to help Nebraska to a third-place finish in a loaded 13-team field that included nine 2024 NCAA Regional teams. His performance on the par-70, 7,130-yard layout of the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., included a season-best 68 (-2) in the second round, after opening with a 72. He closed with a 75 for his sixth consecutive round of 75 or better to open the season.

Jabenis made his season debut by competing as an individual in Nebraska's "B" lineup at the Git-R-Done Invitational (Sept. 23-24). Jabenis put together a solid tournament with rounds of 74, 71 and 75 on a challenging par-71, 7,003-yard layout at Firethorn Golf Club in Lincoln. He closed in a tie for 35th in a 65-player field.

He struggled with a three-round total of 239 (+23) to close the fall at the Steelwood Collegiate in Loxley, Ala. (Oct. 26-27).

Jabenis ended the fall with a 74.89 stroke average over nine rounds in 2024-25.

Junior (2023-24)
Jabenis opened his second season at Nebraska by shooting a 220 (+10) over three rounds at the Visit Knoxville Collegiate (Sept. 8-10). The junior from Omaha was Nebraska’s No. 4 golfer in the lineup and matched fifth-year senior Will Marshall as NU’s No. 3 finisher at the tournament, tying for 53rd overall after rounds of 77-73-70 on the par-72, 7,280-yard layout of the Tennessee National Golf Club in Louden.

Jabenis competed as an individual at the Stampede at the Creek in Omaha (April 8-9), finishing 24th with a three-round total of 226 (+10). He closed with an even-par 72 on the 7,627-yard layout at Indian Creek Golf Club after opening the tournament with back-to-back rounds of 77.

He closed the season with a 74.33 stroke average over six rounds.

Jabenis was a leader for Nebraska off the course as a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and an Academic All-Big Ten selection in 2024.

Sophomore (2022-23)
In his first season as a Husker, Jabenis made regular contributions to the lineup, competing in 20 rounds while posting a 74.50 stroke average.

He earned his first lineup appearance at the Purdue Fall Invitational (Oct. 10-11). The Omaha Westside product finished 33rd in Indiana, before closing the fall with a tie for 59th at the White Sands Bahamas Invitational.

His 74.83 stroke average helped Nebraska establish a record for fall stroke average (289.64).

Jabenis opened spring stroke play at The Prestige in Indio, Calif. (Feb. 20-22). He began with back-to-back rounds of 71 and finished in third place at 215 (-1) to match Nebraska’s top individual finish of the season.

He competed in the Husker lineup at the Desert Mountain Collegiate before notching a fifth-place finish at the Stampede at the Creek. His performance at Indian Creek in Elkhorn, Neb., included a career-best second-round 67 (-5) to finish with a career-best 54-hole score of 210 (71-67-72, -6).

He took 28th at the Fighting Illini Spring Collegiate with a 226 (+13), before concluding the season with a 153 (80-73) over two rounds at the rain-shortened Big Ten Championship in Galloway, N.J. (April 28-29).

Before Nebraska
Jabenis helped Iowa Western CC to a third-place finish at the NJCAA District III Championships in April of 2021, carding a three-round total of 222. In the fall of 2020, Jabenis captured his first individual title and led the Reivers to a team championship at the Blue River Classic. During the spring, Jabenis took seventh individually to help the Reivers to a team title at the Eagle Spring Classic in Bartlesville, Okla.

Jabenis did not compete collegiately in 2021-22, delaying his continued collegiate enrollment while focusing on his game in Arizona.

At the Nebraska Amateur in July of 2020, Jabenis fired a 66 (-5) in the opening round at Happy Hollow Club in Omaha. He finished fourth with a four-round total of 287 (+3) that also included a third-round 69 (-2). Jabenis added a 10th-place finish at the 2021 Nebraska Amateur in Hastings.

As a junior in 2018, Jabenis tied for fifth at the Nebraska Class A High School Championship in Norfolk. He added a tie for 10th at the 2019 high school championship to help Omaha Westside tie for fifth in the team standings. He also tied for 16th as a sophomore in 2017 to help the Warriors to an eighth-place team finish.

Personal
The son of Jon Jabenis and Dacia Goldstein, Grant was born Sept. 5, 2000. The child, youth and family studies major was a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and an Academic All-Big Ten selection in 2024. He has earned four spots on the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll.   

Career Statistics 

Year	Rounds	Strokes	Average
2022-23	20	1,490	74.50
2023-24	6	446	74.33
2024-25	9	674	74.89
Totals	35	2,610	74.57

Career Bests 
*Best Tournament Finish - 3rd (The Prestige, 2/21/23)
*Low 54-Hole Score - 210 (Stampede at the Creek, 4/10/23)
*Low Round - 67 (Stampede at the Creek, 4/10/23)
Career Rounds Under Par - 9

*Competed as individual outside Nebraska lineup