Stephanie Young

Head coach Stephanie Young took the helm of the Vandal women’s program in the spring of 2022 after 16 years as the head coach at Bowling Green State in Ohio.

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.