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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