BATON ROUGE – LSU women’s golf coach Garrett Runion was named on Tuesday to the watchlist for the 2024-25 Division I Jackie Steinmann WGCA National Coach of the Year Presented by Golf Pride.
The award recipient will be announced after the upcoming NCAA Championship.
Recognized as the highest annual coaching honor in women’s collegiate golf, the Jackie Steinmann WGCA National Coach of the Year Presented by Golf Pride is awarded annually by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association to the top coach in Division I, II III and NAIA women’s golf.
Runion’s Tigers enter Friday’s first round of the NCAA Championship at Carlsbad, California as the No. 12 team in the country. The team is in a school record fifth consecutive national championship tournament after qualifying at the NCAA Columbus Regional in Ohio.
LSU has a win in the prestigious Darius Rucker Intercollegiate and seven total top three finishes this past season.
Division I Jackie Steinmann WGCA National Coach of the Year Presented by Golf Pride Watch List:
• Kalen Anderson, University of South Carolina
• Amy Bond, Florida State University
• Mimi Burke, Georgia Southern University
• Stew Burke, Kansas State University
• Amy Bush-Herzer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Diana Cantu, University of Tennessee
• Missy Farr-Kaye, Arizona State University
• Emily Fletcher, Northwestern University
• Emily Glaser, University of Florida
• Kory Henkes, University of Mississippi
• Kathryn Hosch, California State University, Fullerton
• Laura Ianello, University of Texas
• Lindsay Kuhle, University of Kansas
• Angie Larkin, Texas Christian University
• Kim Lewellen, Wake Forest University
• Aimee Neff, University of North Carolina
• Derek Radley, University of Oregon
• Garrett Runion, Louisiana State University
• Ria Scott, University of Virginia
• Justin Silverstein, University of Southern California
• Stacy Slobodnik Stoll, Michigan State University
• Lisa Strom, The Ohio State University
• Shauna Taylor, University of Arkansas
• Anne Walker, Stanford University
About the Women’s Golf Coaches Association
The Women’s Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women’s collegiate golf coaches. The WGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the WGCA represents over 750 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.