Girls' Golf
2015 Coach of the Year
Leslie Bender
Sacred Heart Academy
Louisville,
Kentucky Impact Statement
Coach Bender led Sacred Heart Academy to four straight Kentucky girls’ golf state championships in 2014.
Biography
Leslie Bender led Sacred Heart Academy to its fourth straight Kentucky girls’ golf state championship in 2014. The road to the four-peat needed a little extra golf as Sacred Heart beat Henry Clay High School 21-23 in a playoff. The fourth straight state title matches the school’s run of four titles from 1984-to-87, which ties Glagow High for the record of four-straight state titles. Since taking-over the Sacred Heart Academy program in 2006, Bender has graduated 15 players that have moved-on to play golf at the college level. Bender is the first coach from Kentucky to win the NHSCA National Girls Golf Coach of the Year Award.
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