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Lisa Ferrero is entering her third season at the helm of the Fresno State women's golf program. She was named the third head coach in program history on Oct. 12, 2021.

Ferrero coached the Bulldogs to their best finish at the Mountain West Championship, finishing third of the nine-team field in 2022. The third place finish was the team’s best since 2016.

Harriet Lynch was an All-Mountain West selection and made an Individual NCAA Regional Appearance in 2023.

Since 2022, the Bulldogs have had 10 WGCA All-American Scholar selections, six MW All-Academic honorees and six MW Scholar Athletes.

PRIOR TO FRESNO STATE
Ferrero returned home to the Central Valley after spending the 2019-20 season at Idaho. Prior to her stint with the Vandals, she spent two years leading the women’s golf program at Towson.

Ferrero, a native of Lodi, Calif., had the Vandals out to a tremendous start prior to the 2019-20 season being cut short due to COVID-19. Three Vandals earned All-Big Sky distinction, led by First-Teamer Valeria Patino. The program also continued its incredible run in the classroom and earned NCAA Public Recognition for posting a perfect Annual Progress Rate (APR) multi-year average.

Ferrero made an immediate impact on the Towson program. In the first three weeks of her debut season, the Tigers broke every school record and claimed her first tournament title. By the end of the 2018 spring season, Towson took third at the Colonial Athletic Association Championships - the best finish in school history and shattered the program's previous low score at the tournament by 54 strokes.

Ferrero recruited and coached freshman Jordan Cornelius, who earned the program's first individual All-CAA Tournament honor after finishing in third place at the conference championships.

Prior to Towson, Ferrero gained experience working with Hall of Fame coach Chuck Cook on video and swing analysis, using the same technology the Vandals trained with under her leadership. She has also spent the last 10 years teaching professionally in the offseason as a Class A LPGA instructor.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE
Ferrero is a 12-year member of the LPGA and Symetra Tours, winning two tournaments on the Symetra Tour in 2011. She was also the recipient of the 2014 Heather Farr LPGA Courage Award.

An elite golfer for nearly two decades, Ferrero won the USGA Junior Amateur Championship in 2000 and a year later was named the California Amateur of the Year. She went on to play collegiately at Texas, where she helped the Longhorns win the 2004 Big 12 title and place in the top six at the NCAA Championships three times, including a second-place showing in 2002.

Michael Schaloum enters his fourth year with the GCU men’s golf program and his first as Associate Head Coach.

Schaloum was elevated to associate head coach in July of 2024 after serving as assistant coach for three seasons beginning in 2021-22.

In Schaloum's third season with GCU, he helped guide the Lopes to their second straight WAC Championship title. GCU took home three team titles in 2023-24, including the WAC title at Chaparral Pines in Payson, Ariz., to advance to the NCAA Regional Tournament for the second consecutive season. Two Lopes took home individual trophies that season, including Nicky Kling in the Wildcat Invitational and Tommaso Zorzetto in the GCU Invitational.

Schaloum worked closely with freshman Gavin O'Neill, who finished among the best for his class in the 2023-24 campaign. Schaloum also helped guide Kling, Zorzetto, and Matthew Pennington to All-WAC honors, including Kling's WAC Golfer of the Year award, the second Lope to win (third time) since joining the WAC in 2013-14.

In his second year on staff during the 2022-23 season, Schaloum helped guide the Lopes to the first WAC Tournament Championship in program history as well as the first team NCAA Regional Tournament appearance. The Lopes tied a 54-hole WAC Tournament record for lowest team score at 34 under par, winning by five strokes at Boulder Creek Golf Club in Boulder City, Nevada.

Schaloum coached three All-WAC recipients in 2022-23 and has coached eight during his time at GCU. Schaloum worked with players including Zorzetto and Sam Murphy into prominent roles in the starting five of each tournament, including Murphy, who was the Lopes' number one seeded player heading into the final days of both the WAC Championship and NCAA Tournament Regional as a sophomore.

With Schaloum on staff, the Lopes have finished in the top-three in each WAC Championship since the 2020-21 season with two titles, a second place showing that season and a third place finish in 2021-22.

Schaloum played for the Lopes as a student - graduating in 2018 with a degree in Finance and Economics - while serving as co-captain of the team. Prior to his career at GCU, he played at College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California where he led the Pacific Athletic Conference for two seasons, winning four tournaments in the process under the legendary coach Tony Manzoni. Schaloum graduated from O’Dea High School as a 4-year letterman in both golf and tennis, playing for Brian Vaughan.

Following college, Schaloum worked as an equities analyst for one of the largest wealth management firms in the Pacific Northwest, Evergreen Gavekal. He then moved back to Phoenix and spent the past year coaching players of all skill levels, from beginners to mini-tour pro’s. Aside from his playing career, his ‘on-the-course’ experience includes caddying for winners on both the PGA Tour and European Tour - Cameron Davis and Min Woo Lee – and in a major championship (2016 KPMG LPGA Championship).

Michael also spends his time volunteering, serving on the board of Fir State Golf Club - one of the oldest historically black golf clubs in the country - as investment coordinator and tournament chairman.

Spencer Dunaway joined the UNLV men's golf coaching staff as an assistant coach in July 2023.

Dunaway comes to Las Vegas after serving in the same role at Utah for the 2022-23 season. During that stint, he helped lead the Utes to six top-10 finishes, the program's second-highest individual finisher at a Pac-12 Championship and an individual NCAA Regional qualifier.

Prior to Utah, Dunaway began his coaching career in 2021 at Utah Tech. In his lone season with Trailblazers, the men's golf team posted three top-10 finishes, highlighted by a fifth-place outing at the Southern Utah Pizza Hut Pat Hicks Invitational Open.

A former student-athlete, Dunaway played four years of collegiate golf at BYU, where he finished his career with one win (2020 San Diego State Coronado Invitational), a 73.89 career scoring average, nine top-20 finishes and three top-five outings. Additionally, Dunaway won the 2021 Hawaii State Amatuer title, was a two-time Utah State Amateur semifinalist and qualified for the U.S. Amateur at Pebble Beach in 2018.

A 2016-17 All-WCC honorable mention and 2015-16 Freshman All-WCC Team selection, Dunaway helped guide the Cougars to a 2017 West Coast Conference title, three straight NCAA Regional appearances and back-to-back NCAA Championship trips in 2018 and 2019.

Originally from Mililani, Hawaii, Dunaway graduated from BYU in 2020 with his bachelor's degree in psychology. He has a wife, Lauren, and his hobbies include playing pickleball, boating and watching movies.