Nanette Circo

A five-time state champion, Nan Circo was a member of the University of Nebraska’s Big Eight championship team of 1976 who went on to play on the LPGA Tour.

Nanette M. Circo’s golf career started with three consecutive Nebraska junior golf championships beginning in 1971. She lettered at NU in 1976, 1977, and 1978 with the Huskers winning the first Big Eight tournament.

Her first women’s state championship came in 1976 at Hillcrest Country Club in Lincoln, where she defeated Christie Schwartzkopf in the finals. She repeated the following year at Hillcrest, beating Val Skinner in the finals, then won at Highland Country Club (now Ironwood) in Omaha in 1979 by again besting Skinner in the finals. She was state stroke-play champion in 1978 and 1979, making her the first to win both women’s championships in the same year.

After moving to San Diego, CA., where she still resides, and playing several years on the Futures Tour, Circo qualified for the LPGA Tour for its 1984 season.