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Karen Gravley
Allen High School
Impact Statement
Gravley guided a young Allen team to the 5A state team title this year, the third of her career.
Biography
Gravley guided a young Allen team to the 5A state team title this year, the third of her career. A Lady Eagles lineup that consisted of two seniors, four sophomores and a freshman won the District 8-5A tournament by 60 strokes, then shot 288-293-581 to win the state title by 11 shots. Under Gravley’s direction, Allen also won back-to-back titles in 2005 and 2006 – the first state titles won by the school in any sport – and also finished second in state in 2010 and third in 2011. Gravley is a five-time District Coach of the Year and a three-time North Texas High School Golf Coaches Association (NTHSGCA) Coach of the Year. She served as NTHSGCA vice-president in 1990 and president in 1991. The National Federation of State High School Associations named her Southwest Region Coach of the Year in 2007. A 1974 graduate of Oklahoma State University, Gravley taught health and physical education for five years at Dallas Trinity Christian Academy before embarking on a professional golf career. She played on the Women’s Professional Golf Tour and the Ladies Asian Golf Tour, earning her LPGA Tour card in 1984. She returned to education in 1987, coaching the boys and girls golf teams for four years at Flower Mound Marcus High and the women’s team at Southern Methodist University for one season before taking the reins at Allen in 1992. She teaches physical education at Kerr Elementary School in Allen.
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St. Thomas Aquinas High School
Best has coached the Girls’ and Boys’ teams at St. Thomas Aquinas to many state titles over the course of his career so far.
Best has coached the Girls’ and Boys’ teams at St. Thomas Aquinas to many state titles over the course of his career so far.
Ryan Best
St. Thomas Aquinas High School
Impact Statement
Best has coached the Girls’ and Boys’ teams at St. Thomas Aquinas to many state titles over the course of his career so far.
Biography
Best holds an interesting dual role at St. Thomas Aquinas. He is the chairman of the Theology Department…and has been the coach of the boys golf team since 1997 and the girls golf team since 1999. He has held numerous campus ministry positions, including director of the KAIROS Retreat Program, and has coached basketball and volleyball at the school in addition to golf.
Last fall, Best guided the Raiders girls golf team to a state-record fifth consecutive team title, shooting a state-record score of 303 to win the 5A title by 66 strokes. It was Best’s sixth girls state championship, his first coming in 2002. He also has had one of his girls golfers win medalist honors seven times, including each of the past five seasons.
The Kansas Coaches Association named Best Girls Coach of the Year in 2003. Best’s boys teams have qualified for state every year of his tenure, and broke through to win back-to-back 5A titles in 2007 and 2008, to go with five state runner-up finishes, two third-place finishes, two fourth-place finishes and a sixth-place finish. He has coached four boys to state medalist honors, and nearly 20 of his golfers have gone on to earn college scholarships. Best was guest speaker at the National High School Golf Association annual conference in 2007 and also created and directed “Golf for the Soul,” a summer golf retreat program for players of all ages.
Best played basketball and golf at Benedictine University in Atchison, Kansas. and earned a master’s degree from the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas.
In the years since being honored, Best continues to lead the Girls’ and Boys’ Golf teams at St. Thomas Aquinas. His Girl’s team has won an additional four state championships including the last three years. The Boys’ won another handful of state titles from 2016-2018. In 2019, the boys were the state runner ups. The 2020 State Championships were canceled.
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Hazen High School
Berglund coached Hazen’s Girls’ Golf teams to seven State Championships and nine Runner Up finishes.
Berglund coached Hazen’s Girls’ Golf teams to seven State Championships and nine Runner Up finishes.
Kathy Berglund
Hazen High School
Impact Statement
Berglund coached Hazen’s Girls’ Golf teams to seven State Championships and nine Runner Up finishes.
Biography
Berglund was a lower-level basketball, volleyball and track and field coach team-teaching sixth-grade science, English and reading at Hazen Middle School before agreeing in the early 1990s to help her husband, Darrell, who at the time was the head coach of both the boys’ and girls’ golf teams.
In 1996 she became the head coach of the girls’ team and the rest is history. Hazen’s girls won the first of seven Class B state titles on Kathy Berglund’s resume. That includes back-to-back titles the past two seasons. Her teams also have finished second in the state five times, third once and sixth once, and 25 of her golfers have won All-State honors.
That 1996 championship also brought Berglund the first of eight Class B Coach of the Year awards from the North Dakota High School Coaches Association, a run that included four straight awards from 2003-06. She was named National Girls’ Golf Coach of the Year by the National Federation of State High School Associations in 2005, and was a finalist for the National High School Athletic Coaches Association’s National Coach of the Year award in 2006.
Since being honored in 2010, Berglund led Hazen until her retirement in 2014. In 2015 Berglund was named NHSACA National Coach of the Year. A year later she was inducted into the NDHSAA Hall of Fame for her accolades over the course of her career.
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Caledonia High School
Van Den Boom led Caledonia to 7 state team titles over his 35 year career.
Van Den Boom led Caledonia to 7 state team titles over his 35 year career.
Ken Van Den Boom
Caledonia High School
Impact Statement
Van Den Boom led Caledonia to 7 state team titles over his 35 year career.
Biography
When Van Den Boom began teaching at Caledonia in 1968 there was no interscholastic competition for girls. When he became a junior high boys’ golf coach four years later he encouraged some girls to try the sport as well. Five years later, Minnesota held its first girls’ golf state tournament – and the Caledonia/Spring Grove High co-op team has been an integral part of the sport ever since.
Through the 2005 season his career record stood at 941-66. That season Van Den Boom coached Caledonia/Spring Grove to its sixth state title, the second most in the history of Minnesota girls’ golf. He also has coached five runner-up teams and five third place teams and his teams have competed in the state tournament 22 times. Caledonia also has won 29 conference titles.
This year’s team owns an 8-0 record, with the wins coming by an average of 37 strokes. Van Den Boom has been named Section 1A Coach of the Year 16 times, and the Minnesota Golf Coaches Association (MGCA) named him the state’s Coach of the Year in 1995. He was inducted into the MGCA Hall of Fame in 2005.
Van Den Boom retired after the 2009 season after 35 years. His teams has reached the state tournament 23 times over the duration of his career with 7 winning the state tournament. He had another five second place finishes and five third place finishes.
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Community Service
In 2017, Ken Van Den Boom restored portions of old tennis courts in Caledonia to bring a new sport called pickle ball.
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St. Joseph's Academy
Fromuth knows about winning. Since being honored, her girls have won the last four consecutive Missouri State Championships. She has nine titles while coaching at St. Joseph’s.
Fromuth knows about winning. Since being honored, her girls have won the last four consecutive Missouri State Championships. She has nine titles while coaching at St. Joseph’s.
Carol Fromuth
St. Joseph's Academy
Impact Statement
Fromuth knows about winning. Since being honored, her girls have won the last four consecutive Missouri State Championships. She has nine titles while coaching at St. Joseph’s.
Biography
Fromuth has had a varied coaching career. At St. Joseph’s Academy her teams had posted a record of 104-5 through last season. They have compiled three Class 2 state titles and three runnerup finishes, to go along with a third-place finish in 2006 and a fifth-place finish this season. She was named the state’s Coach of the Year in 1998 and 2000 and the St. Louis Metro Boys Coach of the Year in 1985, while coaching at Ballwin Lafayette High.
At Lafayette Fromuth also coached Junior and Senior Powder Puff football for four years and girls’ basketball for 22 years, 14 on the varsity. She has taught the rules of golf to high school golf coaches in Missouri for 12 years and is entering her ninth year as director of the Gateway PGA Junior Golf Association.
Fromuth received the Metropolitan Amateur Golf Association Meritorious Service Award in 1995 and the Gateway PGA Distinguished Service Award in 2003. She was named Coach of the Year by the National Federation of State High School Associations in 2006.
Fromuth continues to lead St. Joseph’s golf team since being honored in 2008. Her ladies continued to be the best on the course. Her teams have won the past four consecutive Class 2 Championships from 2016-2019.
Her 2017 State Championship team set a state record for the best 36-hole round with a score of 632.
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The Baylor School
Dr. Oehmig led Baylor to 21 State Tiles between the Girls’ and Boys’ Teams.
Dr. Oehmig led Baylor to 21 State Tiles between the Girls’ and Boys’ Teams.
Dr. H. King Oehmig
The Baylor School
Impact Statement
Dr. Oehmig led Baylor to 21 State Tiles between the Girls’ and Boys’ Teams.
Biography
A 1969 Baylor graduate and the Vicar of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Trion, Ga., Dr. Oehmig has been the Head Coach and Director of Golf at the Baylor School for the past 10 years. In that time he has coached the Red Raiders’ boys’ and girls’ golf teams to 17 Division 2 state team titles. That total includes 10 crowns in the girls’ team’s current 12-year state title streak, the longest in Tennessee high school history in any sport, and his boys’ teams also own a current seven-year title streak.
A member of the golf teams at Baylor and at the University of Virginia, Dr. Oehmig has played in the British Amateur twice, advanced to the USGA Mid-Amateur round of 16 and won many Chattanooga-area events. Three of his golfers earned All-Conference First Team honors at Southeastern Conference schools this spring.
Since being honored in 2007, Oehmig continued to coach at Baylor until 2009. During his tenure his teams won 21 state championships, including 12 consecutive for the girls/ and nine total for the boys’. In addition, he also coached 14 individual state champions.
In 2010 Dr. Oehmig was pegged as the interim head coach of Sewanee Men’s Head Coach, a position he held for three years until his retirement.
Away from the course Dr. Oehmig held a Doctor of Ministry from The School of Theology at Sewanee, The University of the South. He was an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church for almost 40 years.
Dr. Oehmig passed away in May of 2015.
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Penn High School
Garrett is third overall in Indiana history with 3 State Titles.
Garrett is third overall in Indiana history with 3 State Titles.
Jim Garrett
Penn High School
Impact Statement
Garrett is third overall in Indiana history with 3 State Titles.
Biography
Garrett’s teams have taken the state’s girls’ golf world by storm during the decade. This year’s team won its second consecutive state team title and third in four years, setting state scoring records with a Day 2 score of 301 and a 36-hole tournament score of 314, winning the crown by 32 strokes. Penn was 11-0 during the season and also set a sectional scoring record.
Garrett’s alma mater, Ball State University, has awarded him state High School Golf Coach of the Year honors for the past five years. Garrett also served as the District 2 Golf Committee representative for the Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association during the 2003-04 school year.
Since being honored in 2006, Garrett has continued to lead Penn Girls’ Golf. He is third overall in Indiana’s golf history with three state championships under his belt. Penn also took second at State in 2011 and 2013.
After 43 years of coaching and teaching, Garrett retired from Penn in 2018.
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Xavier College Preparatory School
“Values, academics, activities and athletics all work to empower young women to become leaders and caring, successful people.” – Winsor’s core coaching principles
“Values, academics, activities and athletics all work to empower young women to become leaders and caring, successful people.” – Winsor’s core coaching principles
Sister Lynn Winsor
Xavier College Preparatory School
Impact Statement
“Values, academics, activities and athletics all work to empower young women to become leaders and caring, successful people.” – Winsor’s core coaching principles
Biography
Winsor’s record at Xavier has been matched by few coaches anywhere. Her teams have won 23 of the last 25 Class 5A state titles, including the last seven in a row, and were runners-up the other two years.
Also Xavier’s athletic director since 1977, Winsor was awarded the Citation of Excellence by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association in 1989 and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arizona State University Alumni Association.
Since being honored by the NHSCA, Winsor has led Xavier as the Principal from 1974 until 2016. She was announced as the new President, a position she still holds.
Xavier won twelve straight 5A titles from 1998 until 2010, when the Gators finished second. Xavier went on to win the next four years until she retired from coaching in 2014.
In 2018 Winsor was honored as the recipient of the first AIA Lifetime Achievement Award for her many accomplishments.
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Mount Notre Dame
FitzHugh has greatly impacted Mount Notre Dame Girls’ Golf but also made a huge contribution in Basketball.
FitzHugh has greatly impacted Mount Notre Dame Girls’ Golf but also made a huge contribution in Basketball.
Grayson FitzHugh
Mount Notre Dame
Impact Statement
FitzHugh has greatly impacted Mount Notre Dame Girls’ Golf but also made a huge contribution in Basketball.
Biography
Girls’ golf coach and national honoree Grayson FitzHugh of Mount Notre Dame (Cincinnati, Ohio) High led his squad to it’s second straight Division 1 title, this one by an impressive 23-stroke victory.
FitzHugh was named as the SWOHGGCA Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2004. He was also honored as the Girls’ Greater Catholic League Coach of the Year from 2001 through 2005.
Over the course of his career he led Mount Notre Dame to four trips to the Ohio State Championship as a team. Individually, he had State Qualifiers in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
In addition, FitzHugh spent 20 years as the head freshman basketball coach. He had a career record 221-46. He also spent 16 seasons as the assistant varsity basketball coach. The basketball team won 7 State Championships and was a runner-up once.
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Middleton High school
“He’d insist the kids deserve all the credit. And he’d swear that he was nothing more than a game manager.”
–Rob Reischel, local sports writer
“He’d insist the kids deserve all the credit. And he’d swear that he was nothing more than a game manager.”
–Rob Reischel, local sports writer
Dewey Stendahl
Middleton High school
Impact Statement
“He’d insist the kids deserve all the credit. And he’d swear that he was nothing more than a game manager.”
–Rob Reischel, local sports writer
Biography
Stendahl is retiring from coaching this year after a distinguished career that saw him coach both the boys’ and girls’ teams at Middleton High.
In his final season Stendahl’s girls’ team qualified for the Division I state tournament for the fifth consecutive year and finished second, its best finish ever. His 1999 team finished third. All five of his top girls golfers were selected to the Big Eight Conference First or Second Teams.
Four of Stendahl’s boys teams won Division I state titles, including a three-peat in 1997, 1998, and 1999 after he won his first title in 1993. His 1991 team finished second, and his final squad this spring finished eighth. A 1970 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, Stendahl also was an outstanding kicker on the school’s football team in addition to his golf success.
Stendahl passesd away on November 1, 2012.
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Martinsville High School
Sharon Most made the most of her career leading Martinsville to 11 State Championships and 4 Runner- Up finishes over her illustrious career.
Sharon Most made the most of her career leading Martinsville to 11 State Championships and 4 Runner- Up finishes over her illustrious career.
Sharon Most
Martinsville High School
Impact Statement
Sharon Most made the most of her career leading Martinsville to 11 State Championships and 4 Runner- Up finishes over her illustrious career.
Biography
A teacher in Martinsville High’s business department since 1976, Most has guided the girls’ golf team to nine state titles -the past six in succession and three more from 1991-93. Since taking over the girls’ golf program in 1985, Most’s teams have a dual-meet record of 161-16, and have lost just three of 120 matches since 1990, the year Martinsville began a run of 11 straight years in the top two in the state.
In the fall of 2000, Martinsville rallied from six strokes down after the first day to win its sixth straight title by 14. More than a dozen of Most’s players have gone on to earn Division I scholarships at schools such as Duke, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Michigan State, Wake Forest, and Western Kentucky.
The year after being honored, Most’s Girls placed second in the State in the fall of 2001. In addition, Martinsville tacked on another two State Championships in 2007 and 2008. Most recently, her team finished second in 2014.
Most resigned in the spring of 2017, leaving Martinsville and the state of Indiana as one of their most elite coaches.
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Highland Park High School
Pierce coached Highland Park to eight State playoffs over her eight years as a coach.
Pierce coached Highland Park to eight State playoffs over her eight years as a coach.
Donna Pierce
Highland Park High School
Impact Statement
Pierce coached Highland Park to eight State playoffs over her eight years as a coach.
Biography
“Donna Pierce is an outstanding example for successful high school golf coaches,” NHSCA executive director Bob Ferraro said. “They place a high value on the teamwork skills players learn for success in the classroom and on the field, and we are proud to be honoring her.”
In her seven years as head coach Pierce has maintained Highland Park High’s reputation as one of the top girls golf teams in Texas, which is one of the nation’s top golf states. She has guided Highland Park High to the past three Class 4A Texas high school state team titles.
This year’s state championship team won the title by 22 strokes with a score of 618, the lowest state tournament score turned in by any girls team in any of Texas’ five classes and lower than three of the five team champions in the boys state tournament. Four of her golfers finished among the top 13 individuals in the state.
A graduate of Rice University, Pierce is Past President of the North Texas Golf Coaches Association. Incidentally, Pierce is not the first Highland Park coach to be honored by the NHSCA. Tim Marzuola, the school’s head wrestling coach, was among the organization’s four National High School Wrestling Coaches of the Year during the 1998-99 season.
After being honored Pierce only coached for one additional year. Her teams went to the State playoffs eight out of the eight years she coached.
In 2006, Highland Park Education Foundation presented Pierce with their prestigious Howie Award. This award is given in honor of work and for her hours of service in opening the world of Astronomy to groups of students, parents, alumni and friends.
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