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16 Rosters.qxd 4/30/07 3:56 PM Page 1 Southern Miss Golden Eagles 2006-07 Women’s Golf Roster Player Hgt L/R Cl Hometown/Previous School Helena Backlund 5-7 R Jr. Bollegygd, Sweden/Hulta Golf Clubs Ladies Elite Jennifer Bodemann 5-7 R Jr. Palm City, Fla./Martin County HS Kate Burns 5-5 L So. Leesburg, Va./Loudon County HS Heather Golden 5-2 R So. Biloxi, Miss./University of Mobile Samantha Holt 5-10 R Fr. Pensacola, Fla./Tate HS Ashley Joubert 5-10 R Fr. Ponchatoula, La./Hammond HS Rebecka Nilsson 5-6 R Fr. Laholm, Sweden/Osbecks Gymnasiet Clara Viladomiu 5-4 R Fr. Barcelona, Spain/Colegi Sant Ignasi Head Coach: Julie Gallup, seventh season (Miami, Fla., 1995) Graduate Assistant Coach: Ofelia Lopez, second season (Southern Miss, 2004) 2006-07 Men’s Golf Roster Player Hgt L/R Cl Hometown/Previous School Paul Apyan 6-3 R r-Fr. Chattanooga, Tenn./Hixson HS Wesley Carter 5-8 R Fr. Birmingham, Ala./Hoover HS Rocky Cleland 6-1 R So. Hattiesburg, Miss./Presbyterian Christian HS Robert Hudson 6-1 R Fr. Fayetteville, Ark./Fayetteville HS Frederick Janneck 5-10 R Fr. Madison, Miss./St. Joseph HS Joel Myrick 6-1 R Sr. Hattiesburg, Miss./Meridian CC Alexander Park 5-6 R Fr. Ithaca, N.Y./Lansing HS Kyle Ramey 5-10 R Jr. Paducah, Ky./Tilgham HS Tyler Sparks 6-6 R Fr. Belmont, Miss./Belmont HS Head Coach: Jerry Weeks, first season (Alabama, 1974) Assistant Coach: Tim Yelverton (Southern Miss, 2002) 16 2006-07 Southern Miss Golf Southern Miss Golden Eagles Coaching Staff onship, while leading her team to three Top five fin- by Golfweek Magazine. Gallup hopes to increase ishes in 10 tournaments last season. the competitiveness and success of the golf pro- Gallup came to Southern Miss from East gram at Southern Miss. Tennessee State, where she was the head coach for She is married to Greg Gallup, a native of Texas, the 1999-2000 seasons. While at ETSU, the team and the couple has two children, Cameron and improved its average by over a dozen shots and fin- Gabrielle. ished in the top eight in every tournament. Prior to coaching at East Tennessee State, Gallup served as a golf instructor at numerous golf schools along the eastern seaboard, including the Bill Skelley Golf School in Florida. Gallup has three years of playing experience on different tours in the coun- try, including the LPGA Tour in 1997. Gallup graduated from the University of Miami Julie Gallup in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in business man- Women’s Head Coach agement. While attending school, she was a two- time All-American selection, ranking as high as Seventh Year third in the nation at one point in her collegiate University of Miami, 1995 career. As an amateur player, Gallup was ranked as high as sixth in the nation. She started her success ulie Gallup is in her seventh season as the Head early while she was attending high school, where JCoach of the Southern Miss women’s golf pro- she won the Women’s Western Open, the PGA Ofelia Lopez gram. Last season, she led the Lady Eagles to a sev- Junior Championship, the USF&G Junior Graduate Assistant Coach enth-place finish in the Conference USA champi- Championship and was ranked third in the nation Second Year Julie Gallup Southern Miss, 2004 ormer Southern Miss standout golfer Ofelia FLopez is in her second season as a graduate assistant coach with the women’s golf team, joining her former Head Coach Julie Gallup. While at Southern Miss, Lopez was an all-con- ference player and a four-year letterwinner. She was also the team captain for two years, from 2002- 2004. Her accomplishments and hard work as a Lady Eagle did not go unnoticed, as she earned inclusion to the Southern Miss Women’s Golf All-30 Team in conjunction with the Women’s Athletics 30-year cel- ebration at Southern Miss. Following her graduation in 2004, she began her professional career at the Resort Course at La Cantera in San Antonio, Texas, where she was an Assistant Golf Professional and later promoted to Tournament Coordinator. While working for La Cantera, she received the Associate of the Quarter Award and began the PGA program to be certified as a Class “A” golf Professional. After some time away from competitive golf, Lopez won the San Antonio City Women’s Amateur Championship in June of 2004. She also was a run- ner up to be on the Big Break III the Ladies only Challenge. A 2004 graduate from Southern Miss with a bachelor’s degree in coaching and sport administra- tion, Lopez is currently pursuing a master’s degree in sport management. She is the daughter of Benito and Hilda Lopez. SouthernMiss.com 17 18 Womens Outlook.qxd 4/30/07 3:57 PM Page 18 Southern Miss Golden Eagles 2006-2007 Women’s Golf Outlook highest finish of being tied for 26th to South Alabama and UAB, before finishing the year Rebecka Nilsson coming at the Troy Invitational at the C-USA Championship in Birmingham, Ala., at (10/31-11/1), while her low round of Limestone Springs. the year of 77 came in the Lady Eagle For Gallup her philosophy is simple. Invitational (4/10-11). Bodemann “I want them to get a chance to play the best enjoyed her best finish in the C-USA possible teams that we can,” Gallup added. “If we Championship (4/16-18) with a 20th- have an opportunity to play against great teams, we place tie and enjoyed her low round take it. As you can see from our schedule we do that of 74 in the Lady Eagle Invitational. as often as possible and that is just going to help us The two sophomores on the ros- in the long run. ter are Kate Burns (Leesburg, Va.) and “Conference USA for women’s golf is one of the Heather Golden (Biloxi, Miss.). Burns strongest in the country. If you don’t play that kind finished as high as a 34th-place tie in of schedule, you probably are in for a rude awaken- the Baja Invitational (2/13-14) and ing when it comes to conference time. While I had a low round of 80 twice. Golden could play an easier schedule and make us look transferred to Southern Miss after a better during the regular season, I don’t think that successful campaign at the University is accomplishing our long term goals of getting to of Mobile. She finished third in the that next level.” NAIA Regional Tournament and was This edition of Lady Eagle golf should be an the highest finisher for the school in interesting one as the team will see its veterans the NAIA National Tournament. mature and watch their newcomers grow as players As for freshmen, the Lady Eagles to make this program one of the top teams in have four on the roster, including Conference USA. Samantha Holt (Pensacola, Fla.), Samantha Holt Ashley Joubert (Ponchatoula, La.), Rebecka Nilsson (Laholm, Sweden) and Clara Viladomiu (Barcelona, Spain). While Joubert is expected to red- shirt, Holt, Nilsson s Julie Gallup embarks on her seventh season and Viladomiu, who transferred in Aat the helm of the Southern Miss women’s golf during the mid-semester break, are program, she sports an eight-member squad which all looked to make an immediate includes two juniors, two sophomores and four impact. In fact, Gallup has been freshmen. extremely pleased with the matura- Gallup has the challenging task of molding this tion of her young Swede, Nilsson. youth, along with the returning players, into a team “Rebecka Nilsson is very good that will vie for the Conference USA crown. at bringing the team together and “We are very young and my goal is to get us to also taking corrective action when get to the point where we are keeping the team it needs to be taken,” Gallup said. score to around 300 to 308 on average (per round),” “Although she is young, she is a said Gallup, the former two-time All-American at the great leader.” University of Miami. “I look for the team to improve This combination of youth and on their cohesiveness as the year progresses and we experience will go through another will use a sports psychologist that will help us to act typical challenging schedule that more like a team, as well as help one another on has them playing tournaments at and off the course. That is one of my main goals this Louisville, Kansas, Cincinnati and year is to right the ship, in that regard, and I think USF, as well as hosting the Baja we will do a good job there.” Invitational (2/12-13) in Ensenada, The lone upperclassmen back are juniors Helena Mexico, once again this season. Backlund (Bollegybd, Sweden) and Jennifer The slate also features the team Bodemann (Palm City, Fla.). Backlund saw limited playing host to its own event at action as she appeared in four tournaments with her Canebrake Country Club, and trips 18 2006-07 Southern Miss Golf Southern Miss Golden Eagles Coaching Staff Jerry Weeks Men’s Head Coach Tim Yelverton Men’s Assistant Coach First Year University of Alabama, 1974 First Year Southern Miss, 2002 erry Weeks begins his first season as men’s golf coach at Southern Miss Jafter spending the last 25 years as the Director of Golf at the Hattiesburg im Yelverton returns to the Southern Miss program as an assistant coach Country Club.