Our Cup Runneth Over…

Meet the winners of the Schomp BMW Cup and Colorado’s DI coaching searches.

It’s literally been an eventful few days here at Colorado AvidGolfer, with all hands on deck to present our annual Schomp BMW Cup at The Country Club at Castle Pines. Fifty teams participated in this year’s two-day, two-person, best-ball tournament, with the winning twosome of James Kurtenbach and Chris Kosa impressively representing their employer and title sponsor Schomp by posting a net 13-under 131 to edge out UMB Bank’s Dominic Karaba & Brandon Hurst (10-under 134) and Louie & Logan Lee (9-under 135) of Equinox Group.

Congratulations to them and a huge thank you to the staff of The Country Club at Castle Pines and all the participants, sponsors and contest winners. The event raised more than $37,500 for our longtime charity partner, Colorado PGA Reach, for which the event has now raised $265,000. (For information on playing in next year’s event, email [email protected])

Meanwhile, Colorado’s DI Coaching Carousel has slowed down

After losing the head coaches for both its men’s and women’s golf teams earlier this summer, the University of Denver and University of Northern Colorado have filled their vacancies.

DU recently named Logan Goulding the new head coach of the Pioneers men’s golf program, and Martha Richards the to lead the women’s. Clayton Sikorski will helm both the men’s and women’s teams for the Bears.

DU Men

At DU, Goulding takes the job after spending the last four seasons at the University of San Diego as an assistant coach. While with the Toreros, Goulding helped build the team into a powerful contender in the West Coast Conference, highlighted by an appearance in the NCAA Championships this past May in Scottsdale.

He inherits a Pioneers team that finished just three shots shy of qualifying for those same championships (which would have been the program’s first appearance in 61 years). If DU, which has also won two consecutive Summit League titles, reaches that next level this coming season, they’ll do it without senior Cal McCoy, who transferred to play for the University of Arizona.

DU Women

Richards will take over a team that won its 16^th conference championship since 2002 and made its 19th straight NCAA regional appearance. She’ll coach Anna Zanusso, who finished tied for ninth at the NCAA Championship, the best finish by a DU golfer since 2008.

No stranger to winning, Richards was the head coach at the University of Texas from 2007-14. She guided the Longhorns to the 2013 NCAA Championships and Big 12 Championship. Prior to that, Richards spent seven years as the head coach at Vanderbilt University, where she led the Commodores to two NCAA Top-10 finishes and to the NCAA Regionals four times.

During her time in Nashville, Richards’ squad captured the 2004 SEC title en route to a program-best fifth-place finish at the NCAA National Championship. Her efforts earned her the Golfweek National Coach of the Year and SEC Coach of the Year honors following that season.

Richards, who left Texas in 2014 to battle thyroid cancer, has spent the last four years as the athletic director at Aspen High School. While there, she was the head coach for the women’s team for two seasons from 2018-20.

“I have been looking at getting back into coaching for a few years now and was looking for the right fit,” she said in a press release. “The DU Women’s Golf team is a program I have long respected since Sammie Chergo coached here and have continued to be so impressed by the program Lindsay (Kuhle) has run.”

UNC Men & Women

In Greeley, Sikorski will serve as director of golf for both both the men’s and women’s teams.

He has previous experience in similar roles at a pair of NAIA universities. He started the men’s and women’s teams Ottawa University in Surprise, Ariz., and served as the men’s and women’s head coach at his alma mater, Oklahoma Wesleyan University, in Bartlesville, north of Tulsa.

Moving up to NCAA Division I, Sikorski for the last two seasons has been an assistant coach for the men’s golf team at Phoenix’s Grand Canyon University, which finished runner-up to New Mexico State in the 2021 Western Athletic Conference Championship.

UNC’s women’s team finished fifth out of seven teams in the most recent Big Sky Championship, while the men’s team finished sixth.

In related news, Air Force Academy named assistant men’s golf coach Tyler Goulding—the brother of new DU coach Logan Goulding—interim head coach of the men’s golf team, replacing George Koury, who has been promoted to associate athletic director.

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