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Um Holmes Named to WGCA National Coach of the Year Watch List
May 15, 2024 | Women's Golf
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – UCLA women's golf first-year head coach Alicia Um Holmes was named to the Division I Jackie Steinmann WGCA National Coach of the Year Watch List, it was announced Wednesday morning. Twenty-four coaches were named to the Watch List.
Named after UCLA Women's Golf Hall-of-Fame Coach Jackie Tobian-Steinmann, the WGCA National Coach of the Year award is recognized as the highest annual coaching honor in women's collegiate golf. Tobian-Steinmann won UCLA's first WGCA Coach of the Year Award in the 1995-96 season and fellow UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer Carrie Forsyth earned the honor in 2003-04.
Um Holmes, who is in her 18th year overall at UCLA after spending the previous 17 seasons as an assistant and associate head coach, guided the Bruins to the NCAA Championships in her debut campaign. UCLA posted four stroke play wins and a Battle for the Bell match play title versus crosstown rival USC in the 2023-24 regular season.
Several individuals have shined in Um Holmes' first season at the helm of the program. Junior Zoe Antoinette Campos is tied for the single-season school record for wins in a season (4) and is one round shy of tying the single-season record for rounds under par (currently at 19). Campos leads the team with eight top-10 finishes followed by Caroline Canales (4), Kate Villegas (3), Alessia Nobilio (2), Meghan Royal (2), Natalie Vo (2) and Tiffany Le (1), who have also placed in the top 10 this season.
Season In Review
UCLA's strong early-season surge was signaled in the third round of their first tournament of the season at the Mason Rudolph Championship on Sept. 24. All five Bruins shot under par to total a team score of 15-under 273 on day three for the fifth lowest 18-hole score in program history.
The Bruins rode that momentum into their very next round, shooting a 16-under 272 to open the Windy City Collegiate Classic. That mark is tied for the third lowest 18-hole score in program history and is UCLA's best showing since round three of the 2018 Golfweek Conference Challenge. UCLA's final score of 32-under 832 tied the program 54-hole record and secured Um Holmes' first win as head coach. Three Bruins placed in the top 10, and even more impressive, the win came in a stacked field containing nine top 25 teams. UCLA finished nine strokes ahead of second-place Northwestern.
UCLA concluded the fall with a t-5th spot at the highly competitive Stanford Intercollegiate (+6, 858) after entering the final round one stroke back of the lead.
The Bruins captured their first win of Spring 2024 at the Nanea Pac-12 Preview in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii on Feb. 22. UCLA shot 11-under 865 and a trio of Bruins placed in the top 10. The Bruins shot the lowest scores of the tournament in rounds two and three after trailing by eight strokes at the end of the first round.
WGCA Coach of the Year Finalists
Greg Allen, Vanderbilt University
Kalen Anderson, University of South Carolina
Amy Bond, Florida State University
Dan Brooks, Duke University
Gerrod Chadwell, Texas A&M University
Dana Dormann, San Jose State University
Charlie Ewing, Mississippi State University
Missy Farr-Kaye, Arizona State University
Emily Fletcher, Northwestern University
Laurie Gibbs, Pepperdine University
Kory Henkes, University of Mississippi
Kelley Hester, Clemson University
Kim Lewellen, Wake Forest University
Melissa Luellen, Auburn University
Lauren Mason, Southern Methodist University
Ryan Murphy, University of Texas
Aimee Neff, University of North Carolina
Derek Radley, University of Oregon
Garrett Runion, Louisiana State University
Ria Scott, University of Virginia
Justin Silverstein, University of Southern California
Shauna Taylor, University of Arkansas
Alicia Um Holmes, UCLA
Anne Walker, Stanford University
Named after UCLA Women's Golf Hall-of-Fame Coach Jackie Tobian-Steinmann, the WGCA National Coach of the Year award is recognized as the highest annual coaching honor in women's collegiate golf. Tobian-Steinmann won UCLA's first WGCA Coach of the Year Award in the 1995-96 season and fellow UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer Carrie Forsyth earned the honor in 2003-04.
Um Holmes, who is in her 18th year overall at UCLA after spending the previous 17 seasons as an assistant and associate head coach, guided the Bruins to the NCAA Championships in her debut campaign. UCLA posted four stroke play wins and a Battle for the Bell match play title versus crosstown rival USC in the 2023-24 regular season.
Several individuals have shined in Um Holmes' first season at the helm of the program. Junior Zoe Antoinette Campos is tied for the single-season school record for wins in a season (4) and is one round shy of tying the single-season record for rounds under par (currently at 19). Campos leads the team with eight top-10 finishes followed by Caroline Canales (4), Kate Villegas (3), Alessia Nobilio (2), Meghan Royal (2), Natalie Vo (2) and Tiffany Le (1), who have also placed in the top 10 this season.
Season In Review
UCLA's strong early-season surge was signaled in the third round of their first tournament of the season at the Mason Rudolph Championship on Sept. 24. All five Bruins shot under par to total a team score of 15-under 273 on day three for the fifth lowest 18-hole score in program history.
The Bruins rode that momentum into their very next round, shooting a 16-under 272 to open the Windy City Collegiate Classic. That mark is tied for the third lowest 18-hole score in program history and is UCLA's best showing since round three of the 2018 Golfweek Conference Challenge. UCLA's final score of 32-under 832 tied the program 54-hole record and secured Um Holmes' first win as head coach. Three Bruins placed in the top 10, and even more impressive, the win came in a stacked field containing nine top 25 teams. UCLA finished nine strokes ahead of second-place Northwestern.
UCLA concluded the fall with a t-5th spot at the highly competitive Stanford Intercollegiate (+6, 858) after entering the final round one stroke back of the lead.
The Bruins captured their first win of Spring 2024 at the Nanea Pac-12 Preview in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii on Feb. 22. UCLA shot 11-under 865 and a trio of Bruins placed in the top 10. The Bruins shot the lowest scores of the tournament in rounds two and three after trailing by eight strokes at the end of the first round.
WGCA Coach of the Year Finalists
Greg Allen, Vanderbilt University
Kalen Anderson, University of South Carolina
Amy Bond, Florida State University
Dan Brooks, Duke University
Gerrod Chadwell, Texas A&M University
Dana Dormann, San Jose State University
Charlie Ewing, Mississippi State University
Missy Farr-Kaye, Arizona State University
Emily Fletcher, Northwestern University
Laurie Gibbs, Pepperdine University
Kory Henkes, University of Mississippi
Kelley Hester, Clemson University
Kim Lewellen, Wake Forest University
Melissa Luellen, Auburn University
Lauren Mason, Southern Methodist University
Ryan Murphy, University of Texas
Aimee Neff, University of North Carolina
Derek Radley, University of Oregon
Garrett Runion, Louisiana State University
Ria Scott, University of Virginia
Justin Silverstein, University of Southern California
Shauna Taylor, University of Arkansas
Alicia Um Holmes, UCLA
Anne Walker, Stanford University
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