HEAD COACH DENISE ST. PIERRE Every coach has a different strategy on how to run a team. Denise St. Pierre’s is not just centered around golf but around education and dreams. “I try to be supportive of student-athletes in both their athletic and academic endeavors while here at Penn State,” says the 1991 Mid-Atlantic/East Region Coach-of-the-Year. She understands that golf is not her student-athletes’ entire life. Each student-athlete is also at Penn State to receive an education and a life experience. “My main job as a coach is to discuss what our [team’s] dreams and aspirations are while we’re here...my goals are to help them reach theirs...I am a vehicle to allow my players to get where they want to go.” She wants her players to improve themselves in all aspects of life- as a competitor, an athlete and a person- during their time at Penn State. This Class A teaching professional hopes that her players can develop “using my background as a player...I can display the right attitude and the right actions that I want them to follow.” St. Pierre prepares her players for tournaments, both mentally and physically. The most important thing for her is to have as much information about a tournament, including climate, environment, grass, layout of the golf course and the competition. Physically, she has her players practice the things that are most likely to occur at those sites. “The more you know about the situation, the better you can prepare yourself both mentally and physically. The fewer the surprises, the more confident we can be,” says the Nittany Lion head coach.
Coaching Honors 1989 Champion Philadelphia PGA Section Championship 1989 Finished second National PGA Women’s Championship 1991 Mid-Atlantic/East Region Coach-of-the-Year
1999 Head Coach, U.S. Team U.S./Japan Collegiate Championships in Chiba, Japan 1999-2001 Member, NCAA Regional Selection Committee 2000 Top 50 Women PGA/LPGA Instructors Golf for Women magazine
1992 Guest Instructor National PGA Summit in San Francisco 1993 Guest Instructor National Golf Foundation
2000-04 Secretary, National Golf Coaches Association 2002-03 Director, National Golf Coaches Assoc. Education Committee
2004 published Golf Fundamentals 2004 Coach, U.S. Team World University Games Thailand 2004-2006 President, National Golf Coaches Association 2006 Coach, U.S. Team World University Games Torino, Italy 2008 Received Gladys Palmer Meritorious Service Award
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