JULIE GARNER
HEAD WOMEN'S
GOLF COACH
 Julie
Garner enters her tenth season as head coach of the women's golf program.
This is Garner's third stint as head coach of the Tars as she took
the reigns in 1984-87 and 1996-97 before rejoining the Tars five seasons
ago. Garner has enjoyed unprecedented success in the last half of
her decade with the Tars. Coming into this season, Coach Garner has
led the Tars to three straight national championships. Rollins' dominance
of Division II golf has been evident by the way they have destroyed
the competition at the highest levels. The Tars have won the last
three national championships by an average of 47 strokes. Along the
way, Garner has earned a NGCA Division II Coach of the Year award
(2003) and has picked up three straight Sunshine State Conference
Coach of the Year awards (2003, 2004, 2005). She has also coached
a three-time NGCA Player of the Year award winner, Charlotte Campbell
(2005, 2004, 2003) and numerous All-American award winners.
Garner
graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in marketing
and journalism. She originally attended Auburn University and was
a part of their golf team for a year before transferring to Alabama
. While at Alabama , she was a three-year letter winner and a team
co-captain. After college, she won the 1984 Tennessee Women's Amateur
Golf Championship. In 2001, she was chosen to represent Florida in
the Southeastern Women's Amateur Team Championship played at Colonial
Country Club in Memphis , Tennessee . She was the runner-up at the
2002 FWSGA Stroke Play Championship, and represented Florida in the
2002 Georgia-Florida matches.
Garner's
team this season comes in ranked as they finished the last three seasons
in Division II, number one. Rollins has won the last three national
championships along with the last three Sunshine State Conference
Championships. Last season the Garner led team enjoyed an unparalleled
dominance of the National Championship. Rollins won the tournament
by 35 strokes, and set a record with their four round team total of
1185 strokes for a +17 score. All five team member finished in the
top eight individually. Mariana DeBiases placed the highest individually
at third. Charlotte Campbell and Ulrika Ljungman tied for fourth.
Charlotte Campbell and Mariana DeBiase both earned first team All-American
honors. Ulrika Ljungman received second team All-American honors,
and Vanessa Vela received Honorable Mention All-American honors.
During
her first tenure, Garner led the Tars to a second place ranking at
the end of the 1986-87 season and had three players qualify for the
NCAA Division I Championships (the NCAA did not have a Division II
tournament until 1996). She returned nine years later for one season
in 1996-97 to lead the Tars to a second place ranking in Division
II. She resigned in November 1997 to accept a position at Nike Golf,
where she was involved with their women's golf division for two and
a half years before returning to the Tars in 2000.
Garner
and her husband, Tom, reside in the Winter Park area. A teaching professional
in golf, Tom has spent time on both the PGA and Nike Tours, and is
currently an instructor at the Arnold Palmer Golf Academy .
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