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TTABLEABLE OOFF CCONTENTSONTENTS PPEPPERDINEEPPERDINE HHISTORYISTORY Pepperdine History .......................................3-4 The 2017-18 season marks the 25th season that Laurie Gibbs has Yearly Results ..................................................5 been head coach of the Pepperdine women’s golf program. In that time, Awards & Honors ..........................................6-8 she’s taken the Waves to rare heights, annual success and contention for a Katherine Hull .................................................9 Team & Individual Records .......................10-14 national championship. Medalists & Champions ............................15-16 Pepperdine has made 12 appearances at the NCAA Championships Yearly Individual Leaders .............................. 17 during Gibbs’ tenure, and the Waves have enjoyed four top-five finishes All-Time Roster .........................................18-19 (including second place in 2003) and eight top-10 results. Pepperdine has Waves on the LPGA Tour .........................20-22 NCAA/WCC Championships Results .......23-30 also ended the season with national top-10 rankings on eight occasions. All-Time Tournament Results....................31-37 In addition, the Waves have dominated the West Coast Conference, winning 17 of the 21 championships ever contested, including 14 in a row QQUICKUICK FFACTSACTS between 2002 and 2015. Pepperdine individuals have won medalist honors 15 times at the league tournament. Location .............................Malibu, Calif. 90263 Since Gibbs took over in 1993-94, Pepperdine has recorded 50 Founded ...............1937 (Malibu Campus 1972) Enrollment ........... 8,000 (3,000 undergraduate) tournament victories and has had its players earn first-place finishes 47 Nickname................................................ Waves times. Additionally, 12 different players have earned All-American honors Colors .....................................Blue and Orange a total of 28 times, including at least one player attaining the honor for 17 Conference ......................................West Coast straight years between 2000 and 2016. President .............................. Andrew K. Benton Athletic Director .........................Dr. Steve Potts The Waves fielded their first team during the 1985-86 school year, and Athletic Department phone ........(310) 506-4150 the program made steady progress before exploding onto the national scene Ticket Offi ce phone ..................(866) WAVE-TIX in 1999. Kerry Hopps, the head golf professional at the nearby Woodland Hills WWOMEN’SOMEN’S GGOLFOLF Country Club, served as Pepperdine’s head coach during the program’s first six years. Hopps relinquished her head coaching duties prior to the 1991-92 Head Coach............Laurie Gibbs (25th season) season. She was succeeded by Kristy Hopkins, a former basketball standout phone ....................................(310) 506-4482 e-mail [email protected] and golfer at Pepperdine, who held the spot for two seasons. In an effort to further NCAA Championships Appearances .............12 elevate the program, Gibbs, a best ..............................................2003 (2nd) former teaching professional last ..............................................2017 (23rd) NCAA Regional Appearances........................ 19 at The Wilshire Country Club, best ............................................2002 (T-1st) was hired as the program’s consecutive ...............................................19 first-ever full-time head coach in WCC Championships ....................................17 the fall of 1993. Gibbs initiated last ........................................................2015 an aggressive recruiting and AATHLETICTHLETIC CCOMMUNICATIONSOMMUNICATIONS fundraising effort and quickly succeeded in building a Director/WGOLF Contact ..............Roger Horne nationally recognized program in offi ce phone ..........................(310) 506-4455 Malibu. cell phone ..............................(805) 279-4551 Under Gibbs, the Waves e-mail [email protected] won the WCC championship Assistant Dir................................ Jacob Breems offi ce phone ..........................(310) 506-4333 for the first time in 1998, e-mail [email protected] and then advanced to the Assistant Dir...............................Sarah Otteman NCAA Regionals and NCAA offi ce phone ..........................(310) 506-4160 Championships for the first time e-mail [email protected] Assistant Dir./Video ..........................Olivia Arns in 1999. The Waves posted a offi ce phone ..........................(310) 506-4703 fifth-place finish at the Tulsa e-mail [email protected] (Okla.) Country Club. Making Address .............. 24255 Pacifi c Coast Highway the accomplishment all the ...................................... Malibu, Calif. 90263 Fax.............................................(310) 506-7459 more impressive was the fact that Pepperdine reached such LLAURIEAURIE GGIBBSIBBS Website ..................www.pepperdinewaves.com heights with a roster made up Twitter ...........................................@WavesGolf entirely of underclassmen. ..................................... @PepperdineWaves Facebook ........................................./WavesGolf That began a run of five consecutive appearances at the NCAA ......................................../PepperdineWaves Championships, capped off by a second-place finish in 2003. Led by senior Instagram...............................pepperdinewaves All-Americans Katherine Hull and Lindsey Wright, the Waves produced their best-ever NCAA showing at the Kampen Course in West Lafayette, Ind. En route to the national championships, Pepperdine registered a school- record five straight tournaments during the spring and gained its first-ever #1 22017-18017-18 WWOMEN’SOMEN’S GGOLFOLF RRECORDECORD BBOOKOOK • 3 PPEPPERDINEEPPERDINE HHISTORYISTORY ccontinuedontinued national ranking. Pepperdine won its first five tournaments Championships four more times since then (2009, 2010, during the spring 2003 season. 2012, 2017). The team’s most recent top-10 finish was Hull, a three-time All-American, won both National ninth place in 2009. Player of the Year honors and the Dinah Shore Trophy Gibbs was honored as the 2005 National Coach from the NGCA in 2003. She held the #1 national ranking of the Year by Golfweek and the 1999 and 2003 NGCA among individuals for a time before concluding the season West Region Coach of the Year. Additionally, she has been at #3 for the second consecutive year. tabbed the West Coast Conference’s Coach of the Year 12 The Waves ran off three straight NCAA times. She was inducted into the WGCA Coaches Hall of Championships appearances between 2005-07 and Fame in 2015. finished no worse than seventh at any of them. In 2005 at Many Pepperdine alums have gone to success in the Meadows Course in Sunriver, Ore., Pepperdine was professional golf, with nine players earning their cards on tied for the lead after two rounds before finishing fourth. In the LPGA Tour: Hull, Wright, Misun Cho, Tamie Durdin, 2006, the Waves briefly held the lead during the final round Danielle Kang, Taylore Karle, Nadina (Taylor) Light, at the Scarlet Golf Course in Columbus, Ohio, before Carolina Llano and Grace Na. adding a third-place trophy. Three-time All-American Eileen Hull has three career victories on the LPGA Tour. Vargas was the individual leader after each of the first Before turning pro, Kang won back-to-back U.S. Amateur three rounds and eventually tied for fourth place. titles in 2010 and 2011. She became the first Wave to win The Waves have been back to the NCAA a Major at the 2017 Women’s PGA Championship. 22017-18017-18 WWOMEN’SOMEN’S GGOLFOLF RRECORDECORD BBOOKOOK • 4 YYEAR-BY-YEAREAR-BY-YEAR RRESULTSESULTS NCAA NCAA TEAM GOLFWEEK/ WGCA/GOLF HEAD WCC REGIONAL CHAMP. SCORING GOLFSTAT SAGARIN WORLD YEAR COACH FINISH FINISH FINISH AVERAGE RANKING RANKING RANKING 1985-86 Kerry Hopps — — — — — —— 1986-87 Kerry Hopps — — — — — — — 1987-88 Kerry Hopps — — — — — — — 1988-89 Kerry Hopps — — — — — — — 1989-90 Kerry Hopps — — — — — — — 1990-91 Kerry Hopps — — — — — — — 1991-92 Kristy Hopkins — — — — — — — 1992-93 Kristy Hopkins — — — — — — — 1993-94 Laurie Gibbs — — — 339.30 — — — 1994-95 Laurie Gibbs — — — 329.09 — — — 1995-96 Laurie Gibbs — — — 328.96 — — — 1996-97 Laurie Gibbs 2nd — — 326.24 — — — 1997-98 Laurie Gibbs 1st — — 315.00 — — — 1998-99 Laurie Gibbs 1st 6th 5th 303.59 — #13 — 1999-00 Laurie Gibbs 1st 8th 8th 301.50 — #5 — 2000-01 Laurie Gibbs 2nd 8th 14th 301.00 #10 #11 — 2001-02 Laurie Gibbs 1st T-1st T-9th 300.13 #9 #12 #12 2002-03 Laurie Gibbs 1st 4th 2nd 297.27 #2 #4 #2 2003-04 Laurie Gibbs 1st 12th — 304.27 #31 #26 #23 2004-05 Laurie Gibbs 1st 4th 4th 296.29 #4 #4 #7 2005-06 Laurie Gibbs 1st 3rd 3rd 295.88 #5 #7 #8 2006-07 Laurie Gibbs 1st 7th 7th 298.03 #5 #5 #4 2007-08 Laurie Gibbs 1st 12th — 300.67 #23 #18 #16 2008-09 Laurie Gibbs 1st 8th 9th 296.30 #14 #14 #13 2009-10 Laurie Gibbs 1st 7th T-14th 296.58 #15 #9 #10 2010-11 Laurie Gibbs 1st 15th — 298.13 #27 #20 #17 2011-12 Laurie Gibbs 1st 3rd 21st 299.70 #23 #26 #19 2012-13 Laurie Gibbs 1st 11th — 298.10 #26 #29 — 2013-14 Laurie Gibbs 1st 9th — 292.50 #18 #12 #12 2014-15 Laurie Gibbs 1st 13th — 297.52 #30 #25 — 2015-16 Laurie Gibbs 3rd 10th — 299.16 #49 #48 — 2016-17 Laurie Gibbs 2nd 3rd 23rd 297.60 #39 #34 — 22017-18017-18 WWOMEN’SOMEN’S GGOLFOLF RRECORDECORD