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Katie Mitchell has been named USC's new women's golf assistant coach after three seasons at Pepperdine.
Katie Mitchell Named USC Women's Golf Assistant Coach
July 03, 2019 | Women's Golf, Features
New Trojan hire, with collegiate playing and coaching experience, comes to USC after three seasons at Pepperdine.
Katie Mitchell, a standout collegiate golfer whose recent transition into coaching includes a 2019 West Coast Conference title, has been named a USC women's golf assistant coach, Trojan Head Coach Justin Silverstein announced today.
"We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Katie into the Trojan Family," Silverstein said. "She brings a ton of experience to our team which includes a very successful collegiate golf career. In her time as a coach, she has proven to be an elite talent evaluator and an extremely effective on-course coach."
Mitchell, a 2016 graduate from Louisville who played two years for the Cardinals, spent the last three seasons (2017-19) as an assistant coach at Pepperdine, where she helped lead the Waves to the West Coast Conference title this season as well as an appearance at the 2017 NCAA Championships.
Pepperdine reached the NCAA Regional Championships in each season with Mitchell. In her 2017 debut campaign, the Waves finished third in the Regionals to advance to the NCAA Championships, where they placed 23rd. Pepperdine finished second at the WCC Championships in 2017 and 2018 before winning the title in 2019.
Mitchell graduated from Louisville in the spring of 2016 with a degree in communications and earned Atlantic Coast Conference All-Academic honors in her two seasons there (2015-16). She spent the 2013 and 2014 seasons at Florida after her first collegiate season at Central Florida in 2012.
As a senior at Louisville in 2016, her 73.97 scoring average was second-best on the team and sixth-best in program history. Mitchell recorded four top-10 finishes. She had a team-best 13th-place finish at the ACC Championships, and then tied for 42nd place at the NCAA Bryan Regional Championship. She won the 2015 Fall Kickoff tournament at the Atlanta Athletic Club. As a 2015 junior, Mitchell led the team with a 74.18 stroke average, had five top-10 results, tied for 17th at the ACC Championships and tied for 14th at the NCAA South Bend Regional.
After redshirting in 2013, Mitchell recorded a stroke average of 74.30 as a 2014 redshirt sophomore at Florida. That followed her first year of college at Central Florida, where she was the 2012 Conference USA Freshman of the Year and an All-Conference-USA second team selection.
During all four of her collegiate seasons, Mitchell never missed a tournament.
In amateur golf, Mitchell won First Coast Women's Amateur titles in both 2014 and 2015. In 2015, she placed 15th in stroke play at the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship and tied for 10th at the North & South Amateur Championship, advancing to match play in both. In 2014, she led Florida's team to a first-place finish at the Southeast Challenge, and she also competed at the U.S. Women's Amateur.
Mitchell has previous coaching experience working with the First Tee program in California and Kentucky and assisting at various camps and clinics throughout her college career.
Mitchell is a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and attended Fernandina Beach High School, where she was a three-time all-state selection.
"We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Katie into the Trojan Family," Silverstein said. "She brings a ton of experience to our team which includes a very successful collegiate golf career. In her time as a coach, she has proven to be an elite talent evaluator and an extremely effective on-course coach."
Mitchell, a 2016 graduate from Louisville who played two years for the Cardinals, spent the last three seasons (2017-19) as an assistant coach at Pepperdine, where she helped lead the Waves to the West Coast Conference title this season as well as an appearance at the 2017 NCAA Championships.
Pepperdine reached the NCAA Regional Championships in each season with Mitchell. In her 2017 debut campaign, the Waves finished third in the Regionals to advance to the NCAA Championships, where they placed 23rd. Pepperdine finished second at the WCC Championships in 2017 and 2018 before winning the title in 2019.
Mitchell graduated from Louisville in the spring of 2016 with a degree in communications and earned Atlantic Coast Conference All-Academic honors in her two seasons there (2015-16). She spent the 2013 and 2014 seasons at Florida after her first collegiate season at Central Florida in 2012.
As a senior at Louisville in 2016, her 73.97 scoring average was second-best on the team and sixth-best in program history. Mitchell recorded four top-10 finishes. She had a team-best 13th-place finish at the ACC Championships, and then tied for 42nd place at the NCAA Bryan Regional Championship. She won the 2015 Fall Kickoff tournament at the Atlanta Athletic Club. As a 2015 junior, Mitchell led the team with a 74.18 stroke average, had five top-10 results, tied for 17th at the ACC Championships and tied for 14th at the NCAA South Bend Regional.
After redshirting in 2013, Mitchell recorded a stroke average of 74.30 as a 2014 redshirt sophomore at Florida. That followed her first year of college at Central Florida, where she was the 2012 Conference USA Freshman of the Year and an All-Conference-USA second team selection.
During all four of her collegiate seasons, Mitchell never missed a tournament.
In amateur golf, Mitchell won First Coast Women's Amateur titles in both 2014 and 2015. In 2015, she placed 15th in stroke play at the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship and tied for 10th at the North & South Amateur Championship, advancing to match play in both. In 2014, she led Florida's team to a first-place finish at the Southeast Challenge, and she also competed at the U.S. Women's Amateur.
Mitchell has previous coaching experience working with the First Tee program in California and Kentucky and assisting at various camps and clinics throughout her college career.
Mitchell is a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and attended Fernandina Beach High School, where she was a three-time all-state selection.
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