HEAD COACH Paul Gooden Head Coach
Women’s Coaching Honors: • 15th year as head coach of the JMU women’s golf team. • 2004 and 2005 CAA Coach of the Year and 2013 VaSID Women’s Golf Coach of the Year • 2005 and 2013 NCAA East Regionals. • Led women’s team to three-straight CAA Titles from 200305 as well as the 2013 CAA crown. • Coached three-straight CAA individual title winners from 2003-05 and a fourth in 2013. • Coached Carol Green to consecutive CAA Player of the Year honors. • Has coached three CAA Rookies of the Year. • 19 players have been named to All-CAA teams under his tutelage. • 19 women’s tournament victories. • Coached three individual NCAA qualifiers.
Men’s Coaching Honors: • Three-time Virginia Coach of the Year. • 1998 District Coach of the year. • Six NCAA East Region Championships appearances. • 12 men’s tournament victories.
Professional Career: • Previously worked as the head golf professional at the Country Club of Staunton. • Former vice president and tournament director of the Southern Chapter of the Middle Atlantic Professional Golf Association. • Former member of the Middle Atlantic PGA Board of Directors. • Received PGA’s Junior Golf Leader Award twice for his support of the junior circuit. • Qualified as a player for the National Club Professional Championships three times. • Qualified for the National Senior Club Professional Championship in 2006. • Amassed a number of Mid-Atlantic PGA tournament victories, including the senior match play event in 2004 and the 2006 MAPGA Senior Championship. • Qualified for the 2013 National Senior PGA Championship
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