Cheryl Stacy Named to Assistant Coach Position
8/15/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan women's golf coach Kathy Teichert announced today (Monday, Aug. 15), the hiring of former Ohio State All-American Cheryl Stacy as the new assistant coach of the Wolverine program.
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Stacy, a Class A member of the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Division, has spent the last 12 years teaching and directing golf instruction throughout Ohio. Most recently she was the teaching professional at The Country Club in Pepper Pike, Ohio, and prior to that she was the director of instruction at the Red Hawk Run Golf Course in Findlay, Ohio (2003-04). Before those teaching stops she spent eight years in Maumee, Ohio, at the Maumee Sportsmall Golf Learning Center. She served as a teaching professional from 1995-97 before becoming the head professional from 1997-2003.
From 1994-95, she was a teaching professional at the Meadows Golf Club and Golf Academy at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Mich. While there she helped with golf clinics and instructional schools for men and women junior and senior programs. She began her teaching career as an assistant golf professional at the Imperial Golf Club in Naples, Fla.
Stacy earned All-America second team honors in 1984, and then was the first Ohio State women's golfer to earn All-America first team honors in 1985. She remains just one of two players to earn the national distinction at Ohio State.
While at Ohio State, she guided the Buckeyes to three straight Big Ten Conference crowns (1983-84-85) and was a back-to-back medalist at the conference tournament (1984-85), where she earned All-Big Ten honors in both years. Stacy won eight college tournaments, and in the NCAA competition she helped lead Ohio State to a 14th-place finish in 1983, 12th place in 1984 and a 13th-place showing in 1985.
In addition to her collegiate play, as an amateur, she won back-to-back Ohio State Women's Amateur Championships (1984-85) and was the runner-up and co-medalist in stroke play at the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship in 1985.
In her professional golf career, she played on the LPGA Tour as a division member (1991), the Futures Golf Tour (1985-93), the Women's Florida Golf Tour (1986-87), the Central Florida Golf Tour (1991-92) and the Kosaido Ashai Golf Ladies Asia Golf Circuit (1993). While on the Futures Tour she won six tournaments and made the cut for the 1991 U.S. Women's Open.
She was inducted into Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Hancock County Hall of Fame in 1999.
Contact: Tom Wywrot (734) 763-4423
