College of Coastal Georgia Women's Golf

Johns led the Mariners to the Southern States Athletic Conference championship in 2014 which was the first league title for Coastal Georgia as an NAIA-member school. She was voted SSAC Coach of the Year by her peers. She has led Coastal Georgia to two appearances in the NAIA national championship tournament including the 2014 season when the Mariners finished sixth and then again in the 2016 season when the team finished tied for 15th. In her first season with the Mariners, Johns helped the CCGA women to a region championship and a sixth-place finish in the National Junior College Athletic Association national tournament. In all, Johns has led the Mariners to 12 tournament wins while her players have claimed 19 individual titles as well. Also with the Mariners, she has coached five All-American selections, eight all-conference players and seven conference all-academic team members. Johns is a native of Baxley, Ga., where she was a standout golfer for Appling County High School. Her high school team won state championships twice in her four years. One of those years was 2002 when Johns finished as the individual runner-up in the state tournament. She also won the individual region championship twice in four seasons during her prep career. Following high school, Johns received a golf scholarship to Berry College in Rome, where she became a four-time NAIA All-American. Johns won the NAIA individual championship as a sophomore in 2004 when she set the lowest four-round score of 293 (72-72-75-74) in NAIA history. She is the only player from the Berry women's and men's teams to ever win the national individual title. She won 10 times in four years at Berry with three regional titles and also a conference championship included among those victories. Since finishing school, Johns has been inducted into the Berry College Hall of Fame. After finishing her college career, she played professionally on the LPGA Futures Tour in 2008-09. She took golf lessons from Mike Cook, who works as a Sea Island teaching instructor in addition to coaching at Coastal Georgia.  

Cook has guided the Mariners to two national championships and numerous tournament titles while building the Coastal Georgia program into an NAIA powerhouse. In the 2013-14 season, Cook guided the Coastal Georgia men to their first NAIA national championship, which also was the first national crown in the history of the school. The Mariners won five times during the season. In 2014-15, the Mariners won a second consecutive NAIA national title under Cook's guidance. He also led the team to eight wins in 10 total tournaments while producing five all-conference players and also five All-Americans. Cook, a longtime teaching instructor at the renowned Sea Island Golf Club, led both Coastal Georgia teams to instant success in their inaugural seasons. Both squads won their respective championships in the Georgia College Athletic Association and advanced to the National Junior College Athletic Association national championship tournaments, where the Coastal Georgia. men finished fourth and the women took sixth. Cook was named the NJCAA Coach of the Year for Region 17 after the 2011 season. In his time with the Coastal Georgia men, Cook has led the team to 23 tournament championships while Mariners players have also claimed 17 individual victories. Cook has produced 11 NAIA All-Americans, 17 all-conference selections and seven conference all-academic team members. Three CCGA players have won SSAC Player of the Year honors. Cook was named the NAIA Coach of the Year after the two national championship seasons and also received the Dave Williams NAIA Coach of the Year award from the Golf Coaches Association of America after those seasons. He has been named SSAC Coach of the Year twice as well. Cook was also chosen by the GCAA to coach the 2016 U.S. Arnold Palmer Cup team in England. Cook started with Sea Island as a teaching instructor in 1991. He was selected among the top 15 teachers in Georgia by Golf Digest and has been named teacher of the year by the Georgia PGA East Chapter three times. For several years, Cook had the responsibility of overseeing Sea Island's junior golf program, and in 2007, the Georgia PGA named him Junior Golf Leader. Cook has worked with players of all ages and skill-levels, including top junior, collegiate and professional players. Cook is a graduate of the University of Georgia, where he was a member of the Bulldogs golf team. He helped Georgia to the SEC championship as a senior during the 1982-83 season and was named All-American and first-team All-SEC that year. He played professionally from 1983-86 and was a member of the South African PGA Tour in 1984. Cook won the Georgia PGA championship in 1998 at Sea Island and won the Georgia PGA Assistant Professionals championship in 1992 in Peachtree City. He is married to wife Lori and they have a son Michael and daughter Madelyn.