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Erynne Yoo Named to WGCA Assistant Coach of the Year Watch List
April 30, 2026 | Women's Golf
FRISCO, Texas – Assistant coach Erynne Yoo on the UCLA women's golf team has been named the inaugural watch lost for the 2025-26 Division I Golf Pride WGCA Assistant Coach of the Year Award. The award recipient will be announced after the conclusion of the NCAA Championships.
Yoo was one of 15 assistant coaches across the country named to the watch list.
This award recognizes an assistant coach whose leadership, preparation, and commitment elevate their program's performance and positively impact the student-athlete experience.
Yoo is in her third season coaching at her alma mater. Yoo, a former Bruin All-American, rejoined the UCLA program in June 2023 to work alongside her former coach Alicia Um Holmes.
Yoo and Um Holmes have continued UCLA's strong history of success with a pair of NCAA Championship appearances and five team victories over their first two seasons together as a coaching staff. Most recently in 2024-25, UCLA advanced to its 35th NCAA Championships after completing an unlikely postseason run.
In Yoo's first year on staff in 2023-24, UCLA placed runner-up at the NCAA Championships and recorded four team stroke play wins along with numerous individual accolades and records.
Yoo was coached by Um Holmes and UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer Carrie Forsyth during her collegiate playing career from 2011-15. During her Bruin playing career, Yoo was a three-time WGCA All-American, earning first-team recognition in 2012 and 2013, was an All-Pac-12 First Team honoree in 2013 and was both the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and NGCA Freshman of the Year in 2012.
UCLA qualified for the NCAA Championship all four years with Yoo in the program, finishing in the top 10 three times with a high finish of third during her junior year. Yoo helped UCLA to an outright NCAA Regional team title in 2014 and a share of the title with an individual top-20 finish as a true freshman in 2012. She finished her collegiate playing career with four medals, including one in each season.
Yoo competed in 26 LPGA events during her professional career. At the 2018 Bank of Hope Founders Cup at the Wildfire Golf Club in Phoenix, Ariz., Yoo tied for seventh, marking her top finish to date on the LPGA circuit. On the Symetra Tour, Yoo has competed in 73 events, turning in 10 top-10 finishes, including wins at the FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship and the Donald Ross Centennial, both in 2017, and the 2016 IOA Championship.
A native of Silverdale, Wash., Yoo graduated from UCLA in 2015 with a degree in psychology.
Yoo was one of 15 assistant coaches across the country named to the watch list.
This award recognizes an assistant coach whose leadership, preparation, and commitment elevate their program's performance and positively impact the student-athlete experience.
Yoo is in her third season coaching at her alma mater. Yoo, a former Bruin All-American, rejoined the UCLA program in June 2023 to work alongside her former coach Alicia Um Holmes.
Yoo and Um Holmes have continued UCLA's strong history of success with a pair of NCAA Championship appearances and five team victories over their first two seasons together as a coaching staff. Most recently in 2024-25, UCLA advanced to its 35th NCAA Championships after completing an unlikely postseason run.
In Yoo's first year on staff in 2023-24, UCLA placed runner-up at the NCAA Championships and recorded four team stroke play wins along with numerous individual accolades and records.
Yoo was coached by Um Holmes and UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer Carrie Forsyth during her collegiate playing career from 2011-15. During her Bruin playing career, Yoo was a three-time WGCA All-American, earning first-team recognition in 2012 and 2013, was an All-Pac-12 First Team honoree in 2013 and was both the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and NGCA Freshman of the Year in 2012.
UCLA qualified for the NCAA Championship all four years with Yoo in the program, finishing in the top 10 three times with a high finish of third during her junior year. Yoo helped UCLA to an outright NCAA Regional team title in 2014 and a share of the title with an individual top-20 finish as a true freshman in 2012. She finished her collegiate playing career with four medals, including one in each season.
Yoo competed in 26 LPGA events during her professional career. At the 2018 Bank of Hope Founders Cup at the Wildfire Golf Club in Phoenix, Ariz., Yoo tied for seventh, marking her top finish to date on the LPGA circuit. On the Symetra Tour, Yoo has competed in 73 events, turning in 10 top-10 finishes, including wins at the FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship and the Donald Ross Centennial, both in 2017, and the 2016 IOA Championship.
A native of Silverdale, Wash., Yoo graduated from UCLA in 2015 with a degree in psychology.
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