Hoosier Women's Golf Camps

Katie Brophy
Assistant Coach

Former Notre Dame standout golfer Katie Brophy is in her fourth season as the 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.
Last year Brophy helped lead the Hoosiers to a sixth-place finish at the Big Ten Tournament. In addition, juniors Anita Gahir and Laura Nochta earned second-team All-Big Ten honors, while Nochta picked up her first individual title at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic.

In 2008, Brophy helped lead IU to its best-ever finish at the Big Ten Championship under head coach Clint Wallman, placing fourth. The team also made its second-straight NCAA postseason appearance with a trip to the NCAA East Regional.

Individually, Gahir earned second-team All-Big Ten honors, and senior Lauren Harling took home the individual title at the Mountain View Invitational, while Indiana was the team champion at the event.
In her first season with the Hoosiers, Brophy helped oversee the continued transformation of the women's golf program, culminating in IU's first NCAA?Championship appearance since 1998.
With her guidance, the freshman trio of Kellye Belcher, Nochta and Gahir finished the season as the No. 1-rated freshman class in the country, according to Golfstat's Freshman Class Impact Rating.
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.

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.

Brophy also has exceptional international amateur experience. In 2003, she traveled to Ireland and Scotland to compete in the St. Rule Trophy at The Old Course at St. Andrews where she placed in the top-10. 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. She earned her M.S. in athletics administration from Indiana in 2009.

Mike Mayer
Men's Head Coach
Indiana University Director of Golf

Mike Mayer enters his 11th season at the helm of the Indiana men's golf program. His focus has been to rekindle the fire that brought the Indiana men's golf team a Big Ten Championship in 1998, and he has accomplished just that.

Mayer, the 2008 Midwest Region Coach of the Year, guided the Hoosiers to their best NCAA finish since 1980 when IU finished 21st last season. Jorge Campillo tied for second place in the country by shooting a 1-over-par 289.

Mayer was named the Midwest Region Coach of the Year in 2006 as well. He was also recognized as the Big Ten Coach of the Year that season after leading the Hoosiers to their third consecutive NCAA Regional appearance.

Under the guidance of Mayer, Campillo was an All-American, Big Ten Champion and Big Ten Player of the Year last season. Campillo kept Mayer's streak of All-Big Ten selections intact, earning first team league honors. Mayer has had at least one all-conference selection each of his first 10 seasons. Seth Brandon also nabbed All-Big Ten laurels, a second team selection.

The Hoosiers netted Mayer two more team championships in 2008, running his career team titles total to 12. Indiana won the Pinehurst Intercollegiate and the UMB Bank-Mizzou Tiger Classic. Brandon took home the individual crown at Pinehurst while Campillo won at the Mizzou Classic, his first of three consecutive individual titles. He also finished on top at the Boilermaker Invitational and the Big Ten Championships.

Mayer's ninth and tenth team tournament championships came during the 2006-07 campaign. IU shared the title at the GADO North Texas Classic and claimed the 18-team Pinehurst Intercollegiate the following time out. In the past five seasons, Mayer's charges have won nine titles. Campillo also shared medalist honors at the GADO North Texas Classic and finished atop the field at the Pinehurst Intercollegiate.

In 2005-06, the Hoosiers collected two championships en route to their NCAA Regionals appearance. Campillo shattered former Hoosier and current PGA Tour member Jeff Overton's freshman scoring average, ending the season with a 72.67 average. Campillo was also named Big Ten Freshman of the Year by a unanimous vote and became the first IU rookie since Overton in 2002 to be selected to the All-Big Ten team. The Caceres, Spain, native earned a spot on the PING All-Midwest Region team following the season.

During the 2004-05 campaign, Mayer led the Hoosiers into the NCAAs for the second straight year. Indiana also corralled its best finish at the Big Ten Championships since 1998, finishing in second place - five shots behind Michigan State.

At Big Tens, Overton became the first Hoosier since Shaun Micheel in 1991 to win medalist honors. He plowed through the field with a record-tying total of 199.

One of the greatest seasons in program history came in 2004-05. For the first time since the 1996-97 season and the first time in his tenure, Mayer led the Hoosiers into the NCAA postseason. IU finished tied for 20th at the Central Regional, and Overton became the first Hoosier since Leen (1998) to advance to the NCAA Championships.

In addition to returning to the NCAAs, Mayer led Indiana to four team titles, the second-most in school history and the most in a single season since 1974-75. Mayer also coached Indiana's first All-American since Leen (1998) in Overton. Along with Overton, Mayer helped develop Heath Peters into one of the top golfers in the conference. Peters narrowly missed advancing to the NCAA Championships, tying for 30th at the NCAA Regionals. He finished the year earning a spot on the All-Midwest Region team and was a second team All-Big Ten member.

Mayer directed the career of one of the most accomplished golfers to ever step foot on the IU campus. Overton completed his four years in Bloomington leaving his personal stamp on the program. He earned second team All-America accolades in 2004 and 2005. Overton is the only Hoosier golfer to ever card a single-season scoring average under 70 with 69.97 in 2004-05, and his career average of 71.72 bested Randy Leen's 73.49 mark for the top spot in school history.

The Evansville, Ind., native won eight career tournaments, including Big Ten medalist honors in 2005, and for the second straight year was named Big Ten Player of the Year in 2004-05, becoming the first Hoosier since Leen (1996-98) to garner the award in consecutive seasons.

Additionally in 2004-05, Overton won the Big Ten's Les Bolstad Award for low season stroke average for the second time in as many years. Campillo won that award for the 2007-08 season. Overton was named to the All-Big Ten team all four years of his career, claiming first team honors three times. He also became the first Hoosier to participate in both the Walker and Palmer Cups in 2005. Overton qualified for the 2008 British Open, where he competed in his first career PGA major.

The success derived by Mayer is even more rewarding given Mayer's familiarity with IU. He is an alum of the university and spent nine seasons as an assistant coach under Sam Carmichael before taking over the Hoosier men's program in the fall of 1998.

During those nine seasons as an assistant coach, Mayer was a part of two Big Ten Championships and a trip to the NCAA Championships.

In his first year as head coach, Mayer had the pressure of repeating what the team had accomplished in 1998 - winning a Big Ten Championship. Though the Hoosiers did not repeat, he helped set the foundation for what is once again one of the top programs in the conference. In that first season, Mayer had his first All-Big Ten recipient, as Brent Landry was named to the all-conference squad. Steve Wheatcroft accomplished the feat in 2000 and 2001, Overton in 2002 and 2003, Overton and Peters in 2004, Overton in 2005, Campillo in 2006-08 and Brandon in 2008.

Individual accolades have not only come for Mayer's golfers on the course, but also in the classroom. During his tenure, Indiana golfers have earned 48 Academic All-Big Ten honors, including a program record eight in both 2004 and 2005. Additionally, four Hoosiers have been recognized as All-America Scholars under the leadership of Mayer. Most recently, was Drew Allenspach whom received that honor in addition to being named an Academic All-American by ESPN The Magazine.

Mayer has brought the Hoosiers into the Big Ten spotlight as the conference has emerged as one of the best in the nation. A big asset in Mayer returning the program to prominence has been his strong recruiting classes.

Mayer has brought in three of the top four IU golfers of all-time in terms of lowest career stroke average. The top three single-season averages also belong to Mayer recruits. A pair of All-Americans and Big Ten Champions in Campillo and Overton came to Bloomington in the Mayer Era, as well as two more All-Big Ten selections in Brandon and Peters.

Before Mayer embarked upon his coaching career, he worked as the sports editor for the North Vernon Plain Dealer and Sun as well as a sports writer and columnist for the Bedford Times Mail. Mayer also has held the position of Golf Course Manager and Superintendent at Muscatuck Country Club located in North Vernon, Ind.

A 1975 graduate of Jennings County High School, Mayer obtained degrees in journalism and English literature from Indiana in 1987, and went on to receive his master's degree in sport management from IU in 1998. Mayer also serves as the Director of Golf at Indiana University in charge of the IU golf facility and is a Class A member of the Professional Golfers Association of America and a Class A PGA Professional.

Born Michael Barry Mayer on Feb. 17, 1957 in Seymour, Ind., Mayer married the former Kimberly Collier on July 26, 2005. The couple resides in Unionville and have two children, Zachary Collier and Ty Mayer.