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This past season, Scott’s team has been ranked as high as No. 4 nationally, and has steadily been one of the Top-10 programs in the country. Her teams have produced All-Americans, All-Conference Players, All-America Scholars, and are known for being well-rounded student-athletes. Scott has 15 years of collegiate coaching experience, including stops at the University of Oregon and the University of San Francisco.

In addition to her successful collegiate coaching career, Scott also coached the winning International Teams at the 2020 and 2019 Arnold Palmer Cup. Scott was on the Board of Directors for the Women’s Golf Coaches Association from 2012-2016 and was the Associate Vice President from 2014-2016.

She played her collegiate golf at the University of California, Berkeley. She followed her collegiate years with an international playing career, highlighted by an appearance at the 2006 Women’s World Cup of Golf in South Africa, and the 2004 US Women’s Open.

She spent the previous two seasons as the assistant coach at Denver. In her final season at Denver, Collom helped the Crimson and Gold add to the legacy of the program, securing its fourth straight Summit League Championship by setting a 54-hole tournament record for a team with a 852 score. The Pioneers also posted the second lowest team scoring average in program history at 291.24.

The Pioneers picked up five All-Summit League selections in 2022-23, with four being first-team selections. Denver also produced the Summit League Golfer of the Year for the second consecutive season and the Summit League Championship MVP.

Collom helped Denver secure its third straight, and seventh overall, Summit League Championship in her first year with the program. That season Denver had three all-conference performers in addition to the Summit League Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year.

Prior to working at Denver, Collom spent two seasons at Denison University as an assistant coach for the men’s and women’s golf teams. In 2021, both the men and women’s golf programs won the NCAC Championship and earned trips to the NCAA Tournament. She coached the NCAC Player of the Year, four male golfers to All-American honors and two female golfers to All-Region accolades.

Prior to that, Collom enjoyed a successful four-year playing career at the University of Richmond from 2015-19.

Highlights from her career at Richmond included earning All-Patriot League second-team honors for all four seasons, holding the program’s second-lowest single-season scoring average (75.07) for her 2018-19 campaign, and her 2019 Second Team VaSID All-State Selection. She also tallied 12, top-10 finishes during her career and became the first player in school history to shoot five-under par in a single round (67 vs. Columbia on Oct. 14, 2018).

Collom helped to lead the Spiders to three-straight Patriot League Conference Championships from 2016-18, She qualified for the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Regionals in each of those three seasons while also being named to the Patriot League All-Academic team in 2018. Collom graduated from Richmond in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics, economics and law, while also minoring in healthcare studies. A native of Charlotte, N.C., she earned her master’s degree in sports industry management from Georgetown in 2022.

Fields was JSU's first Head Coach for Women's Golf after James Hobbs retired as the head coach for both the women's and men's teams after a 45-year Hall of Fame career with the institution earlier this summer. Already the men's coach, Hobbs started the women's program in 1995, and now hands over the reins to Fields.

"We're excited for Robbie Fields to take over our women's golf program here at Jacksonville State and for him to add to the continued success that we have become accustomed to under Coach Hobbs," JSU Athletics Director Greg Seitz said. "It became evident early on that he was the right person to hand over our women's golf team to, and I can't wait to see what the future holds for our players – on the field and in the classroom."

The new head coach comes from East Carolina, where he has served as the Pirates' Women's Golf Assistant Coach for the past three seasons. He spent one season at Mississippi State before joining the staff at ECU.

"I want to thank Greg Seitz and the entire JSU athletic department for the opportunity to serve JSU and the Jacksonville community as the Head Women's Golf Coach," Fields said. "I would also like to thank CC Buford and everyone at ECU for encouraging and preparing me for this position. We certainly had some fun along the way. I am excited to build on the excellence that Coach Hobbs established and am eager to get to work with our student-athletes!"

While at ECU, Fields helped head coach CC Buford coach a team that won four times and fielded three all-conference players during his three seasons. Kathryn Carson was an All-American Athletic Conference performer in 2022 after conference champion Dorthea Forbrigd and Julie Boysen Hillested earned All-AAC accolades the year prior.

Field also saw his players succeed on a broader scale, with Carson and Riley Hamilton qualifying to compete in the 2021 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship.

He is a 2019 graduate of Mississippi State with a degree in Business Administration, Marketing with a concentration in PGA Golf Management and spent his final year in Starkville as a volunteer assistant with the Bulldogs women's golf team.

During that season, he helped MSU reach the Norman Regional, their first regional appearance since 2015. The Bulldogs finished tied for ninth (881, 17-over) narrowly missing making the NCAA Championship and closed out the season ranked No. 44 nationally.

Fields was also part of the MSU program that advanced to the match-play portion (quarterfinals) of the SEC Championship where they were eliminated by No. 11 South Carolina. While in Starkville, Miss., Fields also oversaw all practice sessions utilizing drills, on-course coaching, tournament travel/operations and assisted in recruiting visits.

Prior to his first collegiate coaching position, Fields worked at the late Hank Johnson's School of Golf in Birmingham, Ala., for eight months assisting Hank Johnson, the 2004 PGA Teacher-of-the-Year, with lessons, while providing individual instruction to junior and adult golfers as well as serving as a caddie for students in competitive events.

Fields has also worked as a PGA Golf Management Level 1 and 2 intern at the Sea Island Golf Performance Center (St. Simons Island, Ga.), Crooked Stick Golf Club (Carmel, Ind.) and Northern Texas PGA Section (Dallas, Texas).

The Hartselle, Ala. native, owns several PGA Golf Management certifications and was the recipient of the 2017 PGA Golf Management Joe Assell Leadership and the 2018 PGA Golf Management Dr. S. Roland Jones Student-of-the-Year Awards. He was also a member of the 2018 PGA Jones Cup Team.

This is his 5^th year in college coaching. Prior to coaching, he was a certified personal trainer and assistant golf professional at Harbor Point Golf Club in Harbor Springs Michigan. His favorite parts of coaching include developing relationships with players and their families, with prospective student-athletes during the recruiting process, and helping develop our next generation of leaders.

2021-22 was Barlow's third season at Richmond but her first full season with the Spiders due to effects of COVID-19. Richmond captured the Navy Fall Invitational in October for its first win in an event with more than six teams since 2017's Bill Berg Invitational. The Spiders started their spring season with a win in the Independence Classic, with UR beating Seton Hall and Saint John's on its home course. The team played in three events in March, recording its best finish at the 14-team Kingsmill Spring Intercollegiate, where the Spiders placed fourth. At the 2022 Patriot League Championship in April, Richmond finished second by the slimmest possible margin, finishing one stroke behind Boston University. It was UR's best result in the Patriot League Championship since winning the event in 2018. The Spiders were led by sophomore Rory Weinfurther, who finished second, and junior Vicky Zhu, who tied for third. Both earned First Team All-Patriot League honors. Freshman Lauren Jones finished 10th, earning Second Team All-Patriot League honors. Weinfurther posted the third-lowest single-season stroke average in program history (75.25) and ended the season with the lowest career scoring average of any Spider to appear in at least 15 events, at 75.59.

During the 2020-21 school year, the Spiders were only able to play a spring season due to the effects of COVID-19. Barlow and the Spiders played an ambitious schedule, taking on some of nation's top teams at the Cavalier Match Play event in April and facing off against the University of Virginia and Old Dominion in early March. Richmond also played a pair of matches against William & Mary, defeating the Tribe twice, and competed in a pair of 54-hole events prior to the Patriot League Championship. The Spiders finished eighth at the River Landing Classic in March after shooting a 1-over par 289 in the final round, tied for the second-best 18-hole team score in program history. Richmond finished second in the Kingsmill Intercollegiate later that month, matching their best finish in an event with more than six teams since the fall of 2018. At the 2021 Patriot League Championship, the Spiders placed third, with freshman Rory Weinfurther winning the individual title with a score of 227 (+11). Weinfurther became the second Spider to win an individual conference title and the first freshman. Junior Emily Ward was named First Team All-Patriot League after finishing in a tie for fourth place and sophomore Vicky Zhu was named Second Team All-Patriot League after placing 10th.

In Barlow's first season at Richmond, the Spiders featured their youngest roster in years, as freshmen and sophomores combined to play more than 77 percent of (72 of 93) the team's competitive rounds. The team's development was halted in March, when Richmond and the Patriot League canceled all athletics competitions for the remainder of the calendar year due to the coronavirus.

Prior to joining the Spiders, Barlow spent five seasons as an assistant women's golf coach at the University of Virginia. Barlow, who competed as Calle Nielson, was a three-time All-American for the Cavaliers and helped UVA to four consecutive top-15 finishes at the NCAA Championships from 2008 to 2011.

During her five years on the Cavaliers staff, Virginia reached the NCAA Tournament four times. In 2015, her first full season as a coach, UVA captured the first Atlantic Coast Conference title in program history, snapping Duke's run of three straight conference titles.

The following season, the Cavaliers repeated as ACC champions and finished fifth in the stroke-play portion of the NCAA Championships. The result was UVA's first top-five finish at the NCAA Championships since placing fourth in 2012, when Barlow served as a substitute coach, her first foray into coaching.

Barlow earned All-ACC honors four times during her collegiate career and was named an All-American following her sophomore, junior, and senior seasons (2009-11). She was a three-time individual medalist for the Cavaliers, including a win at the 2010 NCAA Western Regional.

As an amateur, she was named Tennessee Women's Amateur Player of the Year four times, from 2008 to 2011. She qualified for the U.S. Amateur four times (2007, 2009-11) and won the U.S. Women's Southern Amateur in 2011. After turning pro, Barlow joined the LPGA Symetra Tour. From 2012 to 2014, she finished in the top 10 at Symetra Tour events five times, including a fourth-place finish in the 2012 Ladies Titan Tire Challenge.