Stacy Named Head Coach of Wolverine Program
7/17/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan director of athletics Bill Martin announced Friday (July 17) the hiring of Cheryl Stacy as head women's golf coach. Stacy becomes the fourth head coach in the 34-year history of the U-M women's golf program.
"We are thrilled to name Cheryl Stacy as the new head coach of our women's golf program," said Martin. "We're excited to watch as Cheryl takes our program to new heights on both the conference and national levels."
"I would like to thank Bill Martin for this opportunity," said Stacy. "I am extremely honored and excited to be named the head women's golf coach at the University of Michigan. With the traditions of athletic and academic excellence, I look forward to building Michigan into one of the elite programs in the Big Ten and in the country."
Stacy, a Class A member of the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Division, spent the last four seasons with the Wolverines women's golf program as an assistant coach. During her time in Ann Arbor, the Wolverines made three NCAA regional appearances and posted two top-five finishes in the Big Ten Championships. Collecting five team titles and three individual medalist honors, U-M had 22 top-five finishes in 47 regular season events.
Prior to joining the Wolverine staff, she spent 13 years teaching and directing golf instruction throughout Florida, Michigan and Ohio. She began her teaching career as an assistant golf professional at the Imperial Golf Club in Naples, Fla., from 1992-94, before moving to the Meadows Golf Club and Golf Academy at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Mich., serving as the teaching professional from 1994-95.
In 1995, Stacy moved on to Maumee, Ohio, where she spent eight years at the Maumee Sportsmall Golf Learning Center as the teaching professional (1995-97) before being elevated to the head professional (1997-2003). In 2004, she served as the director of instruction at the Red Hawk Run Golf Course in Findlay, Ohio, before moving on to become the teaching professional at The Country Club in Pepper Pike, Ohio (2005)
Stacy is no stranger to Big Ten golf after playing three years (1983-85) at Ohio State University. She earned All-America second team honors in 1984 and was the first Ohio State women's golfer to earn All-America first team honors in 1985. She remains just one of three 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 both years.
Throughout her collegiate career, she won eight college tournaments. In the NCAA competition, Stacy helped lead Ohio State to a 14th-place finish in 1983, 12th-place showing in 1984 and a 13th-place showing in 1985. Stacy was inducted into Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Hancock County Hall of Fame in 1999.
In her professional golf career, Stacy 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 Golf Tour, she won six tournaments and made the cut for the 1991 U.S. Women's Open. 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.
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