ATHLETICS UPDATE
Women’s Golf Debuts AS THE MOST RECENT addition to Captains varsity sports, coach for womens’ golf, Howard graduated as one of the women’s golf set an impressive pace during the team’s first most accomplished golfers in CNU history, earning Conference Player of the Year honors to cap his four-year career. season. (See page 54 for a recap.) With an experienced coaching staff and skilled play- “Being able to return to Christopher Newport and give back ers, CNU has quickly discovered the winning formula to ad- to the program that gave me so much is a dream come true,” vance the program for years to come. Entering his 10th year he says. Currently, 204 NCAA Division III schools sponsor as head coach of men’s golf this year, Jamie Coleman has led Christopher Newport to four conference championships, women’s golf as a championship sport, including fellow including three straight since joining the Capital Athletic Capital Athletic Conference member Marymount University. Conference, and back-to-back appearances in the NCAA Christopher Newport is Virginia’s eighth Division III school championship. He now shares his coaching skills with the to sponsor the sport. Freshman Erica Whitehouse excelled in each event, finwomen’s team as well. “Women’s golf is growing by leaps and bounds across ishing as runner-up on the individual leader boards at the the country – in high school, college and professionally,” first two invitationals. “I am extremely pleased with how this Coleman says. “The expectation at Christopher Newport is season turned out,” she says. “My teammates and I worked excellence, and I am certain women’s golf will quickly reach so hard on the course this fall, and our results proved that.” Whitehouse looks forward to watching CNU improve this standard.” Also this year, Jonathan Howard ’14 returned to his in the coming years. “The women’s golf team can only get alma mater after serving as head coach for men’s golf at better from here, and we are all excited to see how good we Lynchburg College since 2015. Now serving as assistant can become,” she says. ON THE MOVE!
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