Michele Redman has found success at numerous levels of golf. After a 20-year professional career, she will now try her hand as head coach of the Gophers women’s golf team.
Redman played on the boys’ varsity golf team at Zanesville High School in Zanesville, Ohio, where she was one of the top two players on the team.
“We didn’t have a girls’ golf team at my high school so I had to play on the boys’ team,” Redman said. “I think I started realizing in high school that there was something there for me.”
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Minnesota’s new head women’s golf coach played on the LPGA for 20 years.
Former associate women’s golf coach Katie Brenny will bring her sexual discrimination lawsuit against the University of Minnesota to court Thursday.
The hearing in the Minnesota Court of Appeals could set a trial date in her suit against former golf director John Harris.
When Brenny took the job as Gophers associate women’s head golf coach in the summer of 2010, she thought she had her dream job. Instead, the aspiring professional golfer found herself at a desk, handling paperwork and only interacting with players in a mentorship role — not coaching.
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Former associate women's golf coach Katie Brenny says she was discriminated against because of her sexual orientation.
Gophers golf is getting two new faces to lead its men’s and women’s programs, the team announced Thursday. John Carlson and Michele Redman will take over the two programs, respectively, according to Athletic Director Joel Maturi.
Redman graduated from Indiana University as a four-time All-Big Ten and two-time All-America selection. She is competing in her 20th season on the LPGA Tour.
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Michele Redman and John Carlson were hired to lead Minnesota.
University of Minnesota Director of Golf John Harris resigned Friday amid a pending lawsuit filed against him and the Board of Regents in January by former Gophers associate women’s head golf coach Katie Brenny. The suit alleged, among other things, discrimination and a hiring under false pretenses.
The University issued a press release late Friday afternoon announcing Harris’ decision to step down after less than a year on the job.
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Harris announced his resignation Friday, a search for his replacement will begin immediately.
In six years as a varsity golfer at Minneapolis’ Breck School, senior Anna Laorr has made Craig Teiken’s job pretty easy. Like many elite amateur golfers, Laorr — who last week won Minnesota’s girls’ Class 2A state title — has been playing since elementary school and had her swing more or less down before she ever played a round of high school golf.
“At the state tournament I didn’t have to say anything to her,” said Teiken, Breck’s varsity girls’ golf coach. “That’s a coach’s dream.”
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On the men's side, another future Gopher Tyler Lowenstein took third.
In a trying year across the board for Gophers athletics, the Minnesota women’s golf team is quietly having one of the best seasons in the program’s history.
Coming off of a sixth place finish at the Big Ten championships — the team’s best conference finish since 2001 — the Gophers will kick off play today at the NCAA Central Regional Golf tournament in South Bend, Ind.
It is the first time since 2001 that Minnesota will be participating as a team in the NCAA tournament.
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Minnesota is led by four seniors, all of whom have left a mark on the record books.
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Unfortunately, in the past decade, the Gophers have not finished better than seventh place and have posted four last-place finishes in that same span.
After posting one of the best regular season records in the program’s recent history, the No. 40 Minnesota women’s golf team has high hopes heading into the Big Ten Championships this weekend.
Unfortunately for Minnesota, history is not on its side when it comes to the conference tournament.
In the past decade, the Gophers have not finished better than seventh place and have posted four last-place finishes in that same span.
The last and only time the Gophers have managed to win the Big Ten Championships was in 1989.
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Unfortunately, in the past decade, the Gophers have not finished better than seventh place and have posted four last-place finishes in that same span.
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The men likewise struggled and remain five wins under .500.
With the Big Ten championships less than a week away, the Minnesota women’s golf team was hoping for a better outcome at the Lady Buckeye Spring Invite this past weekend.
With no Gophers golfers finishing in the top 20, the team earned a ninth-place finish at the Invite, struggling against a 12-team field that featured nine Big Ten teams.
After shooting a first round score of 312, Minnesota (81-51-1) struggled to find the pin for the rest of the weekend, finishing the tournament with rounds of 326 and 329.
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The men likewise struggled and remain five wins under .500.
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Host College of Charlestown won the Pinehurst Challenge.
With its best finish of the season, the Minnesota women’s golf team seems to be hitting its stride at the right time.
The Gophers finished second Tuesday at the Pinehurst Challenge, the team’s third top-five finish of the spring season.
After carding rounds of 306 and 309 over the first two rounds, Minnesota headed into the final 18 holes tied atop the leaderboard with host College of Charleston.
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Host College of Charlestown won the Pinehurst Challenge.