{"id":1517,"date":"2013-05-30T09:47:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2013-05-30T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:47:06","slug":"uccs-hires-sadie-farnsworth-as-first-womens-golf-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"UCCS hires Sadie Farnsworth as first women\u2019s golf coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sadie Farnsworth was recently hired as the first\u00a0University\u00a0of Colorado Colorado Springs women\u2019s golf coach.<\/p>\n

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Sadie Farnsworth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Farnsworth was selected after a national search.\u00a0Her appointment was announced by Steve Kirkham, director, Athletics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very excited to have Sadie with her playing background at the Division II level and in the RMAC,\u201d Kirkham said. \u201cShe exemplified our philosophy as a student-athlete at Colorado Mesa with her accolades on the course and in the classroom. We are pleased that she will be the first coach in the programs history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farnsworth was the team captain at Colorado Mesa in the 2008-09 season. She holds the Maverick record for lowest round against par and is sixth in CMU records in career win-loss percentage and seventh in career rounds played. Farnsworth led Colorado Mesa to the NCAA regional tournament and was an RMAC Second Team selection in her senior season.<\/p>\n

Farnsworth was the RMAC Academic Golfer of the Year, the Colorado Mesa RMAC Honor Student-Athlete in 2009 and was a three-time member of the RMAC All-Academic Teams. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in kinesiology and exercise science in 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter taking some time away from golf to start my family, I couldn\u2019t be more excited to get back into it with UCCS and the inaugural women\u2019s golf team,\u201d Farnsworth said. \u201cI am anxious to get out on the course with the girls and start what I hope will become a very successful program in the RMAC. I am honored that Athletic Director Kirkham has instilled his trust in me to take on this responsibility, and I look forward to working alongside Men\u2019s Head Coach Phil Trujillo and hope to mirror the success he has had with the men\u2019s program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s golf will be the first sport added to the NCAA lineup since women\u2019s soccer in 2008, increasing its varsity total to 14 teams.\u00a0UCCS also fields teams in volleyball, men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross country, men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer, men\u2019s golf, men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball and men\u2019s and women\u2019s indoor and outdoor track and field.<\/p>\n

The Mountain Lions will join the RMAC as the ninth institution with women\u2019s golf, along with Adams State, Black Hills State, Chadron State, Colorado Christian, Colorado Mesa, Colorado State-Pueblo, Regis and Western New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sadie Farnsworth was recently hired as the first\u00a0University\u00a0of Colorado Colorado Springs women\u2019s golf coach. Farnsworth was selected after a national search.\u00a0Her appointment was announced by Steve Kirkham, director, Athletics. \u201cWe are very excited to have (Full Press Release)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressreleases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}