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During the 2016-17 fall season, Betland led junior Alivia Brown to a career-best second-place finish at the Golfweek Conference Challenge, Sept. 26-28.

During the 2015-16 season, Betland helped lead the Cougars to a conference-championship team record for the lowest three-round and single-round totals at the 2016 Pac-12 Championships. Betland also helped lead two golfers into the WSU all-time top-5 for scoring average as sophomore Alivia Brown averaged 73.85 strokes per round (second all-time) and junior Cherokee Kim averaged 74.20 strokes per round (fourth all-time).

In addition to the athletic success of the 2015-16 team, three Cougars were named as Women’s Collegiate Golf All-American scholars. Senior Nani Yanagi, sophomore Alivia Brown, and freshman Madison Odiorne received these honors.

During her first season as the assistant coach for the Washington State University women’s golf team, Betland helped lead the Cougars to their lowest team scoring average in school history. The WSU women averaged 299.45 strokes per round, while freshman Alivia Brown earned a bid to the NCAA St. George Regional, becoming the first WSU freshman to qualify as an individual. Betland guided Brown to a career-best sixth-place finish and a berth into the NCAA Championships, the second appearance for the Cougars in program history.

At the 2014 WSU Cougar Cup, the Cougars earned their lone tournament title of the season. WSU carded a three-round 867, the third-best 54-hole total in school history. Under Betland’s guidance, two golfers finished with scoring averages in the WSU all-time top-5. Senior Kristen Rue averaged 74.36 strokes per round (third all-time) and freshman Alivia Brown averaged 74.74 (fifth all-time).

In addition to the athletic success of the 2014-15 team, five Cougars earned Pac-12 All-Academic honors. Junior Rachel Lewis was named to the first team for the second-consecutive season. Fellow junior Nani Yanagi earned second team honors. Seniors Kristen Rue and Lindsay Harmon, as well as sophomore Cherokee Kim earned honorable mention.

A 2013 graduate of Washington State, Betland was a four-year letterwinner for the Cougars from 2010-13. The Australian native led Washington State in scoring average during her freshman and sophomore campaigns. She finished in the top 25 in 13 tournaments during her career.

A conference academic honorable mention selection, Betland spent the first year after graduation in her native country.

A Cougar through and through, Dustin White returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach in the January of 2014 and was named the Washington State men’s golf head coach prior to the 2016-17 season.

In his first season at the helm for the Cougars (2016-17), White led the Cougars to eight top-10 team finishes, as six Cougars landed at least one top-10 individual finish. WSU captured the Itani Quality Homes Intercollegiate (Sept. 12-13) championship on its home course, shooting 10-under par (842) for the three rounds. Senior Nick Mandell captured his first individual tournament title, winning the tournament as an individual after shooting 210 (-3).

Freshmen Nicklaus Chiam and Daniel Kolar showed promise in their rookie seasons, as Chiam tied for fifth at the Itani Quality Homes Intercollegiate (Sept. 12-13) and Kolar tied for the best WSU finish at the Pac-12 Championships (April 28-30), placing tied for 26th.

During his time at WSU, White has also overseen the academic success of the Cougars with seven Pac-12 All-Academic selections over four seasons. During the 2013-14 season, Michael Anderson was named a Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar.

During his third season as an assistant coach, the 2015-16 season, White helped guide freshmen AJ Armstrong and Aaron Whalen, as they recorded the seventh and eighth lowest scoring average amongst WSU freshmen in school history, respectively. In his sophomore year, Derek Bayley was just shy of WSU’s top-10 for lowest scoring average with an average of 73.08 in 37 rounds.

In his first complete season with WSU (2014-15), White helped the Cougars earn a title at the Pacific Invitational, WSU’s fifth victory in four seasons. White assisted in the success of redshirt-senior Sang Lee, who averaged the fourth-best season scoring average in WSU history. Freshman Derek Bayley also showed growth under the guidance of White, with the lowest scoring average by a freshman in school history.

In White’s first season in Pullman, senior Blake Snyder was named All-Pac-12 honorable mention as he finished tied for fourth at the Pac-12 Championships, the best finish by a Cougar at the conference championships in school history.

White returned to his alma mater after being a standout for the Cougars from 1999-2003. He was a three-time All-Pac-10 selection, including a first team honoree in 2002. That season, his junior campaign, he set a school record with eight top-10 finishes, earned his first-tournament victory and won a national player of the week honor.

As a sophomore, White began the season with a school-record tying 65 at the Northwest Classic in Corvallis, Ore. He earned one of his school record 17-career top 10 finishes at the event. He placed in the top 25 of a tournament 27 times, second in Cougar history.

A native of Pueblo, Colo., White was a winner on the Gateway Tour in 2004, 2006 and 2007. He played on the Nationwide Tour in 2005, 2009 and 2010. His career highlight came when he qualified for and participated in the 2006 U.S. Open. He is married to former WSU women’s golfer, and current women’s golf assistant coach, Emma Betland White.

In her first full-season as the head coach, the Vandals earned two second-place team finishes and a fourth-place finish in the regular season before closing out the year with a seventh-place finish at the Big Sky Championship. Vicky Tsai earned a runner-up finish at the Bobcat Spring Invitational.

Tsai earned second-team All-Big Sky honors while Yvonne Vinceri was named to the third team. Baipor Khunsri earned Honorable Mention honors.

In her first season as head coach, the Vandals finished fourth among all teams with Yvonne Vinceri finishing third at one-over for the tournament to earn first-team All-Tournament honors. Valaria Patino finished T9th at five-over. Tsai and Patino earned second-team All-Conference honors. Eddie Hsu and Yvonne Vinceri earned Honorable Mention recognition. Jenna Bruggeman was named WGCA Scholar All-America Team.

During her time at BGSU, Young has guided the Falcons to a school-record 12 team tournament titles and 11 individual tournament titles.

In a three-year span from 2011-14, the Falcons set a new BGSU team season scoring average record starting with a 318.57 mark in 2011-12, followed by a 311.26 stroke average in 2012-13 and a new BGSU team record of 311.22 season stroke average in 2013-14. The Falcons shattered that record in 2015-16 with a team scoring average of 307.83 overall on the year. The 2017-18 season average of 310.93 ranks second-best all-time.

Over Young's tenure, her players set school records for Team Season Scoring Average, Individual Season and Career Scoring Average 18,36,54-hole individual round scores 18,36,54-hole team round scores Freshman Scoring Average Highest Individual Conference Finish.

Her teams have also performed well in the classroom. Four times, her teams finished in the top 25 in GPA for team GPA, finishing 11th in 2006-07. Bowling Green also received NCAA APR Public Recognition for eight straight seasons after finishing among the top-10 percent in APR for DI women's golf programs.

Three Bowling Green golfers earned Mid America Conference Sportswomen of the Year honors.

Prior to BGSU, Young was an assistant golf professional at Sylvania Country Club for three years. During that time, she served as an assistant coach for the St. Ursula Academy's varsity golf team, where the team made two State Championship tournament appearances. In addition, she served as a USGA intern for the Toledo District Golf Association, worked for the Toledo Junior Golf Association, and worked under head teaching professional James P. McGurk, who has been named the #1 instructor in Ohio by Golf Magazine.

Young earned both her bachelor's degree in 2002 (Business Management) and her MBA in 2003 from the University of Toledo. She was also a four-year letterwinner and captain of the UT Women's Golf team from 1998-2002. Young helped her team win eight team titles and in 2000 she was the individual champion at the Bowling Green State Invitational.

After being an alumn of Washington State for eight years, two-time NCAA Regional Championship participant Kevin Tucker returned to WSU in 2018 as an assistant coach to Dustin White.

Tucker played one the men’s golf team at Washington State from 2006-10 and was the second Cougar in school history to be invited to the NCAA Regional Championship his junior year. He went back to the championship his senior year, becoming the first Cougar golfer to receive multiple individual post-season invites. Tucker was also a two-time All-Pacific-10 Conference honorable mention honoree, making him the third Cougar in school history to receive multiple post-season accolades.

During his time away from WSU, Tucker spent seven years playing professional golf and working at various golf clubs. He competed on the PGA Canada Tour from 2011-14, while also competing in All-American tour in Pheonix from 2011-13. He spent one season on the Dakotas Tour in 2016.

Tucker worked at many Golf Clubs including the Estancia Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., Castle Pines Golf Club in Castle Rock, Colo., and Scottsdale National Golf Club.

Originally from Kennewick Wash., Tucker graduated from Kennewick High School in 2006. He is married to his wife, Ellen Kellie, who is also a WSU alumn.

Goodson comes to the Palouse after spending the 2022-23 season as an assistant coach at East Tennessee State University, the school where she ended her collegiate playing career. The Buccaneers finished fourth at the 2023 Southern Conference Championship in her lone season as an assistant with ETSU.

"We are excited to welcome Julia as our new assistant coach to the Coug golf family," Aagaard expressed. "She comes to us with great experience from college play at both Kent State and ETSU. Most recently, she spent a year coaching at ETSU. She's had great mentors and coaches in her playing career with positive experiences that she will bring to us and add to our team. She has great knowledge of the game, having grown up in a golf family. Her father is the long-time head professional at Lake Forest Country Club in Hudson, Ohio. Not only with experience in play and competition, but Julia has also served as an assistant golf professional, teaching private lessons and instructing in golf clinics. Her positive energy and competitive personality will be a great addition to this golf program."

Goodson, a native of Hudson, Ohio, began her collegiate playing career at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. She competed for the Golden Flash between 2016-19. She graduted from KSU in 2020 before transferring to East Tennessee State as a graduate transfer prior to the 2020-21 season to conclude her career. At ETSU, Goodson earned All-Southern Conference honors and finished in a tie for seventh at the 2021 SoCon Championship. Her putt for par on her final hole clinched the 2021 SoCon Women's Golf Championship for the Buccaneers.

2019-20 | Senior
Played in all seven tournaments during her senior season … Shared the individual title with teammate Amy Chu at the Meadow Club Collegiate (March 9-10) for her first career victory … Posted three top-five finishes … Placed in the top-50 in every tournament she played in … Led the team in scoring average with a 73.11 per round … Played in a team-high 18 rounds … Carded par-or-better in a team-best nine rounds … Finished in a tie for fifth with teammate Darcy Habgood at 211 (-5) at the WSU Cougar Cup (Sept. 16-17) … Collected a third-place finish in her next tournament at the Coeur D’Alene Resort Collegiate Invitational (Sept. 23-24) by carding 216 (+3) … Shot a season-low 69 in the second round of the WSU Cougar Cup (Sept. 16) then again in the third round of the Stanford Intercollegiate (Oct. 13).

2018-19 | Junior
Played in all 10 tournaments for WSU...her best finish of the year was taking second at the Dr.DOnnis Thompson Invitational, just missing out on taking home their first career tournament victory scoring just three over... Scored a season best of 68 at the Coeur D'Alene Collegiate in the first round of play... had a career best of 73.70 average score through 30 rounds played...Finished top 25 in five of the ten tournaments this season.

2017-18 | Sophomore
Played in all 11 tournaments for WSU... just missed taking home their first career tournament victory finishing second at the Ron Moore Intercollegiate...etched her name in the Cougars' record book with the best tournament score to par in program history, finishing at eight-under with a combined 208 over 54 holes...finished with a 74.10 scoring average, the seventh-best individual scoring season in program history...carded 84 birdies, 10^th most in program history...dominated Par-3's with a 3.09 scoring average, third-best in the record books...shot a season-best 67, twice, in the second round of the CDA Collegiate Invitational and the third round of the Westbrook Invitational.

2016-17 | Freshman
Competed in nine of WSU’s 11 tournaments on the season…had four top-25 finishes and only finished 30th or higher twice during the season…tied for 21st at the Pat Lesser Harbottle Invitational (Oct. 10-11)…tied for 23rd in back-to-back tournaments, at the Westbrook Spring Invitational (Feb. 26-27) and Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational (March 14-15)…tied for 33rd at her first Pac-12 Championship tournament….74.78 season scoring average.