Caroline Westrup Named Women’s Golf Head Coach

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Caroline Westrup, a former LPGA player and collegiate standout, has been named the University of Missouri’s sixth women’s golf head coach, Director of Athletics Desireé Reed-Francois announced Saturday.

Westrup comes to Mizzou after a highly successful 2021-22 season as an assistant coach at Georgia. She will be introduced to the Tigers community at a welcome reception in the week ahead.

“When we started our search, we sought a leader with the character, competence and competitive drive to successfully lead our women’s golf team,” Reed-Francois said. “Coach Westrup’s determination, tactical expertise and recruiting abilities stood out from an impressive field. Her extensive experience and success as an amateur and professional golfer along with her methodical approach, focus on her student-athletes and ability to build community were difference makers as we moved through the search process. She has the vision to build upon our foundation and lead our women’s golf program to incredible success athletically, academically and as leaders. We have a great golf community here in Columbia and throughout Missouri and we are proud to welcome Caroline, Ivan and their family to Mizzou.”

“I am elated to join the Missouri family and am extremely grateful to Desireé Reed-Francois and the search committee for this incredible opportunity,” Westrup said. “During my visit to campus, I was struck by the vision for excellence across the entire department while the complete focus on the student-athlete experience spoke to my core values. We have big expectations for the program and want to compete with the best in the Southeastern Conference and nationally. I am fired up to get started in Columbia and develop outstanding student-athletes for their careers at Mizzou and beyond.”

Westrup helped lead a Georgia team which tied for fifth at the 2021-22 NCAA Championships at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. The Bulldogs were eighth in stroke-play qualifying – reaching the match-play bracket. UGA’s Jenny Bae and Candice Mahé both tied for sixth place in stroke play, making the Bulldogs the only team in the nation with two top-10 individual finishers. Georgia dropped a 3-2 decision to Stanford – the No. 1 seed and eventual national champions – in the…