San Jose State Women’s Golf 2009-10 San Jose State University Women’s Golf Roster Name Ht. Class Exp. Hometown/Last School Attended Jennifer Brumbaugh 5-7 SO SQ Scotts Valley, Calif./Scotts Valley HS Cristina Corpus 5-2 SR 3V San Leandro, Calif./San Leandro HS Katrina Delen-Briones 5-5 JR 2V San Francisco, Calif./Lowell HS Jody Ho 5-7 SO SQ San Jose, Calif./Piedmont Hills HS Kanika Minocha 5-3 SR 1V Panchkula, Haryana, India/Bhavan Vidyalaya HS Kimberly Punyasavatsut 5-4 JR 2V Anaheim,Calif./Wilson HS Shraddhanjali Singh 5-7 SR 1V Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India/Tarleton State Linda Thai 5-6 JR SQ San Francisco, Calif./George Washington HS Madeleine Ziegert 5-8 SO 1V Halmstad, Sweden/Allvar Gullstrand Head Coach: John Dormann (12th season, San Jose State, 1989) Associate Head Coach: Dana Dormann (6th season, San Jose State, 1988) Table of Contents 2009-10 Roster . 1 Spartan Coaching Staff . 2-4 2009-10 Spartan Players . 5-17 Fall 2009 Results . 18 2008-09 Results . 19 NCAA Championships . 20-21 All-Americans . 22-24 Spartan Honors . 25-27 LPGA. 28-29 Individual Tourney Wins . 30-33 2008-09 Success . 34-35 Spartan Success. 36 San José State University . 37-41 Campus Village. 42 Koret Athletic Training Center . 43 Golf Facilities . 44-45 Culture of Champions . 46-47 City of San José . 48 Credits: The 2009-10 San José State Women’s Golf Media Guide is a product of the San José State Sports Information Office. 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The 2008-09 team won four regular season titles along with the WAC Championship and played at the NCAA John Dormann West Regional. Former Spartan Erica Head Coach Moston won the individual WAC title twice (2007 & 2009). San Jose State has been a consistent threat at any tournament it has entered for top team honors since Dormann took over. The Spartans have Continuing to establish the Spartan placed in the top-three in 22 of 44 tourna- name among national contenders, John ments. Dormann is in his fifth season as the San Dormann has recruited effectively Jose State University women’s golf head and honed the games of young talents into coach. Now in his 12th season affiliated tournament-proven skilled players. The with the San Jose State golf programs, two-time WAC Coach of the Year (2006, Dormann was the assistant for both the 2009) has coached two of the past three men’s and women’s teams from October WAC champions including Moston, and 1998 through 2005 when he took over as two WAC Freshmen of the Year including the head coach for both teams. Dormann senior Cristina Corpus. San Jose State was named the women’s head coach in players have received seven first team and April 2005. seven second-team all-conference honors As head coach, the Spartans played with Dormann as head coach. in the NCAA Regional Championships As proficient in the classroom as on each of the last four seasons, won the the golf course, the 2008-09 team received 2006 and 2009 Western Athletic the Order of Spartan Team GPA award for Conference Championship, captured eight the highest combined team grade-point in-season tournament titles and been average for the fall and spring semesters. ranked in the top-30 of the GolfStat rank- Senior Kanika Minocha was recognized as one of the top-five female scholar athletes and is a member of the Dean’s List. As the assistant coach for the men's and women's programs, the Spartans women’s teams finished in the top-20 at the 1999 through 2001 NCAA Championships including a 15th place fin- ish in 2000. San Jose State men's and women's golfers received All-Western Athletic Conference first or second-team recognition 24 times while he was the assistant coach. Ashley Gomes, a 2004 honorable mention All-American, was the 2004 WAC Champion and Player of the Year. In the classroom, Spartan golfers received 25 Academic All-WAC awards and 10 national awards for academic excellence from the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) and the National Golf Coaches Association 2006 & 2009 WAC Coach of the Year 2 • San José State University Coaching Staff (NGCA) during his tenure as the Spartans' top assistant. “In addition to building a national championship-caliber team, we want to develop a program and student-athletes that represent the best in San Jose and the uni- versity,” says the Spartans’ coach. Before coming on board with the Spartans, Dormann was a professional caddy on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour. He worked for Meg Mallon, the 1991 LPGA Player of the Year and two-time U.S. Open champion, and his wife, Dana Dormann, when she, too, was one of the LPGA’s top players of the 1990’s. Though Dana no longer com- petes as a LPGA touring pro on a regular basis, the Dormanns have reunited as play- er and caddy at three of the past four U.S. Open Championships. The native of Daly City, Calif., is a 1979 graduate of Riordan High School in San Francisco, Calif. A 1989 graduate of San Jose State, he majored in social stud- ies. John and Dana Dormann have two sons, William and Jason, and reside in Pleasanton, Calif. Reaching the Spartans (408) Area Code Athletics Department . .924-1200 John Dormann, Head Coach . .924-1250 [email protected] Dana Dormann, Associate Head Coach 924-1250 Amy Villa, Associate SID . .924-1216 [email protected] Liz Jarnigan, Associate AD . .924-2462 Eileen Daley, Assistant AD . .924-2040 Lynn Meade, Assistant AD/Compliance 924-1514 Department FAX . .924-1291 Web Site . .www.sjsuspartans.com John Dormann has caddied at every LPGA major championship. 3 • 2009-10 Women’s Golf Media Guide Coaching Staff Dana Dormann Associate Head Coach Dana Dormann returns for her sixth season as an assistant women’s golf coach. Dormann played on the San Jose State University women’s golf teams during the 1985 through 1988 seasons. She was a member of the Spartans’ 1987 NCAA Dormann is a member of the San Jose State Championship team. Dormann was a four- Sports Hall of Fame. time tournament winner; the 1987 Pacific Coast Athletic Association "Player of the LPGA Classic in Stratton Mountain, Year” and a three-time All-American. Her Vermont. Dormann was also a member of 76.46 stroke average for 141 rounds of the 1992 and 1993 U.S. Nicheri Cup college competition puts her in the top-10 teams that competed against teams from all-time on the San Jose State list. Japan. She was the 1993 Most Valuable Dormann was the 1985 U.S. Junior Golfer of the competition. Dormann still and Junior World champion. The win at ranks #110 on the all-time LPGA money the U.S. Girls Junior Championship winning list. earned her an invitation to the 1986 U.S. She was one of five Spartan All- Open. The native of Oxnard, Calif., began Americans to make the cut at the 2006 her professional career on the Women U.S. Open after qualifying for her 13th Professional Golfers' European Tour Open of her career. She won the 2005 (WPGET). In her first LPGA event, the LPGA T-and-CP Championship for teach- 1991 Oldsmobile LPGA Classic, she fin- ing and club professionals. That win gar- ished in second place. She won the 1992 nered her an invitation to the 2006 LPGA Las Vegas LPGA International, birdieing Championship. No longer active on the her last hole, and won the 1993 McCall’s LPGA Tour, she is a teaching professional at the Pleasanton (Calif.) Golf Academy. 4 • San José State University MeetMeet TheThe SparSpartanstans 2009-10 Player Biographies her score 25 out of 29 rounds... three top- Cristina 10 and two more top-20 finishes in 10 Corpus tournaments... best individual finish was 5-2, Senior, 3V fourth at Papa Johns Collegiate...had one under-par round and three par rounds...low San Leandro, round of 71 at Spartan Invitational... Calif. recorded eighth place finish of 223 at Sociology Major Spartan Invitational...shot 219 with two par rounds for 13th place finish at At SJSU: In her fourth season...11 top-10 Ptarmigan Ram Classic...finished 8th with and six more top-20 finishes in 30 college 221 effort at Price’s Give Em Five tournaments. Intercollegiate. 2008-09: First team All-WAC honoree… HIGH SCHOOL: Played golf at San played all 28 rounds with a 74.11 stroke Leandro (Calif.) High (Pat Doohan)... average…shot seven rounds under par and named all-league and all-state...2004 three rounds of par…best career finish North Coast Section Girls Golf was second at the Lamkin Grip/Cal Poly Champion...finished third at the 2005 Invitational…shot 71-75-146 at the tour- NCS/Les Schwab Tires Girls Golf nament…finished sixth at the Ron Moore Championship..