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Hoosier Women's Golf CampsCoaching Staff  Clint WallmanWomen's Head Coach PGA Professional The Hoosier women’s golf team is working its way back onto the national scene under the direction of fourth-year head coach Clint Wallman. Since taking over prior to the 2004-05 season, Wallman has guided the program back among the elite of the Big Ten and for the first time since 1998, has them playing among the nation’s best. The hard work of Wallman and his staff was no more evident on the course than this past season as the team made its first NCAA Championships appearance since the 1997-98 season. In fact, the 2006-07 season was one for the record books. In addition to recording the highest-ever finish at the Big Ten Championships under Wallman - fifth - the team set numerous individual and squad scoring records. Junior Elaine Harris had a break-out season for IU, recording three top-10 finishes, including her first career victory. After opening the season with a third-place finish at the Badger Invitational, Harris tallied a school-record three-round score of 209 to take medalist honors at the Mountain View Collegiate. Included in that score was a career-best round of 69, a mark she hit three times on the season. It was her seventh-place finish at the NCAA Central Regional that helped lead the Hoosiers to their 10th NCAA Championships appearance. Wallman’s freshman trio of Kellye Belcher, Laura Nochta and Anita Gahir wrapped up their first year of competition as the No. 1-ranked freshman class in the country, according to GolfStat’s Freshman Class Impact Rating. The three competed in all 12 tournaments, and Belcher finished the year leading the team in scoring average (76.51). All three topped the previous school record for freshman stroke average, and Gahir was the top Indiana finisher at both the Big Ten Championships (15th) and the NCAA Championships (81st).  The team’s first-place finish at the Badger Invitational marked the program’s first title under Wallman and its first victory since 2004. At the UNLV Spring Invitational, Indiana’s first-round 3-under par 285 was just one shot off the program low. IU also matched that score in the second round. Its final score of 864 (285-285-294) shattered the previous program low for a three-round tournament (885), which had been set in 2003. Over the course of the year the team recorded two of the top three single-round scores in school history, three of the top five two-round scores (including a school-record 570 at UNLV), and three of the top-five three-round scores. Competing at the NCAA?Central Regional for the first time in his tenure, Wallman’s crew blew through the University of Michigan Golf Course to finish fourth. It was the program’s best finish at a regional since a tie for third in 1997-98. During the 2005-06 season, numerous players on the squad made great strides under Wallman’s tutelage. The Hoosiers turned in a sixth-place performance at the Big Ten Championship. Their four-round total of 1,214 was the fifth-best 72-hole mark in program history, and the Hoosiers also turned in the eighth-best 18-hole total on the second day, 292, as well as the 10th-best 36-hole total, 592, and the eighth-best 54-hole mark, 893. In a nutshell, the numbers speak for themselves. Over the last three years, Wallman’s teams have shaved 18 strokes off their single-round average and have lept from a No. 149 ranking his first season, to 43rd nationally in 2006-07. “This has been an on-going project since I first arrived and it is exciting to start seeing the results of all our efforts.” Wallman came to IU after the 2004 campaign when he helped the University of New Mexico to back-to-back NCAA Women’s Golf Tournament appearances. While at UNM, he helped the Lobos to new heights. In 2003-04, the Lobos won four regular season tournaments and were nationally ranked among the top 10 for 33 consecutive weeks, including a lofty No. 3 ranking in March of 2004. Prior to his tenure at New Mexico, Wallman served as the teaching professional at Indian Canyon Golf Club in Spokane, Wash., and operated his own golf school. While the owner-operator of the Clint Wallman Golf School from 1996 to 2002, Wallman developed and conducted all instructional programs. During this time of his career, Wallman also volunteered his time to the Spokane Youth Sports Association and various elementary and high school teams in the area. Wallman has also been lauded as one of the premier golf instructors in the Pacific Northwest. He is a four-time Inland Empire PGA Teacher of the Year (1996-98 and 2000), two-time Pacific Northwest PGA Teacher of the Year (1998-99) and the 1999 Pacific Northwest PING Clubfitter of the Year. Golf Digest and Golf Magazine have twice ranked Wallman among the Top 10 Teachers in Washington state, and in 2003, Golf Digest named Wallman among the top 10 teachers in the region and top 50 in America.  Wallman is also a frequent lecturer for PGA of America on teaching and the development of video in teaching golf. His main focus in most of his lectures is the potential that computer-aided video has in developing the innate talent of any golfer. Just as he has been recognized for his teaching skills, Wallman has received just as many laurels as a player. The 1990 Chrysler National Putting Champion and Pacific Northwest Regional Putting Champion, Wallman also placed 30th at the 1997 Dave Pelz World Putting Championship. Wallman twice qualified for the U.S. Open Sectional, in 1998 and 2001, and he also won the 1994 Spalding Shootout, the 1999 Inland Empire PGA Championship and the 2002 Rossland Trail Open Championship. A 1985 graduate of Washington State University with a bachelor’s degree in physical education, Wallman was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. The two-time captain won the 1984 Washington State Invitational title and still ranks among the Cougars’ all-time leaders in top-10 finishes. He served as an assistant coach for the Cougars in 1984-85. Wallman and his wife, Julie, have two daughters, Katie (23) and Chris (21), who are both IU students. During their free time, the family enjoys skiing and kayaking. Coach Wallman’s Background
 Katie BrophyAssistant Coach Former Notre Dame standout golfer Katie Brophy is in her second season as an assistant coach of the Indiana women's golf program. Brophy’s duties include on-course coaching, recruiting and overseeing the budget. She is also in charge of organizing the IU?Invitational and various alumni golf events. In her first season with the Hoosiers, Brophy helped oversee the continuted transformation of the women’s golf program, culminating in IU’s first NCAA?Championships appearance since 1998. “Katie did a remarkable job last year,” said head coach Clint Wallman. “We would not have had the success we did without her efforts.” With her guidance, the freshman trio of Kellye Belcher, Laura Nochta and Anita Gahir finished the season as the No. 1-rated freshman class in the country, according to GolfStat’s Freshman Class Impact Rating. All three recorded season stroke averages which topped the previous school mark for a freshman, and Belcher led all IU golfers with a 76.51 mark. Brophy had an outstanding playing career at Notre Dame. As a two-time team captain, she recorded a school-record three tournament victories during her career, earning medalist honors at the 2005 Jeannine McHaney Invitational/Central Regional Preview, the 2003 BIG EAST Championship and the 2002 Peggy Kirk Bell Invitational. She also boasted a 77.46 per round scoring average in 131 career rounds during her four-year career, good for the second-best per-round average in school history. Brophy also earned a spot on the All-BIG EAST team in 2003, 2004 and 2006, and was the team MVP in 2003 and 2005. In addition to those honors, Brophy's name appears in other spots throughout the Fighting Irish record books. She holds the best 36-hole total in program history with a 141 at the Jeannine McHaney Invitational/Central Regional Preview during her junior season. Furthermore, Brophy set a program record for most rounds counted toward team scoring with 33 during the 2002-03 campaign and also ranks first in program history with 118 rounds counting towards the team score for her career. Additionally, her percentage of rounds scored, .901, is the third-highest in Notre Dame history. Brophy also shined in the classroom while a student-athlete at Notre Dame. She was a four-time member on the National Golf Coaches Association's (NGCA) All-Scholar team, a two-time Dean's List member at Notre Dame and was honored as a BIG EAST Academic All-Star following the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons. Brophy also has exceptional international amateur experience. During the summer of 2005, Brophy was one of 10 collegiate golfers selected to compete in the NCAA All-Star Golf Tour in Asia. The squad spent one week in South Korea, two weeks in Japan and then the final week was spent in Hong Kong and China. She also competed at the 103rd U.S. Women's Amateur Championship in the summer of 2003 and advanced to the second round of match play at the 104th U.S. Women's Amateur Championship in 2004. A native of Spokane, Wash., Brophy graduated from Notre Dame in May 2006 with a degree in sociology. ______________________________________________________________________________  Mike MayerMen's Head Coach Indiana University Director of Golf Coach Mayer took over the IU coaching helm seven years ago after a nine-year tenure as assistant coach. Under his guidance and recruiting efforts, the Hoosiers are consistently ranked in the top twenty for Division I college golf. Along with coaching duties, Mayer serves as Director of Golf for Indiana University and oversees the operation of IU's entire golf facility, including a state-of-the-art practice facility he helped bring to fruition in 2002. Coach Mayer’s Background
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