High Point University Women's Golf

Hunnell became the fifth head coah of the High Point University women's golf program in June of 2022. Before the 2026 spring season, Hunnell inked a three-year extension.  Since being hired in 2022, Hunnell has taken the HPU Women’s Golf program to new heights. She’s a two-time Big South Conference Coach of the Year and has coached three Big South Golfer of the Year honorees, one Big South Newcomer of the Year, two Freshman of the Year winners, 12 Big South All-Conference golfers, while 20 student-athletes have been named Big South Freshman of the Week, 18 have earned Big South Golfer of the Week and 13 garnered a WCGA All-American Scholar accolade. Hunnell has led the Panthers to nine tournament wins, including the most in a single-season in 2024-25 with five wins and the most career wins for a head coach, while mentoring six individual medalist, two Big South medalist and a pair of NCAA Regional Individual qualifiers. With Hunnell at the helm, the Panthers have shattered 14 program records and continued to rise in the national rankings. High Point has gone from No. 177 to as high as No. 60 amid Hunnell’s fourth season, where she has the highest win percentage (73.73%) for a coach in program history. In her third season, Hunnell’s team crushed nine program records and soared to a program single-season best five tournaments wins. The Panthers were crowned with multiple accolades in Big South Golfer of the Year (Anna Howerton), Big South Freshman of the Year (Anais Arafi) and Big South Medalist (Julia McLaughlin). McLaughlin became the fourth HPU women’s golfer to win the conference and advance to NCAA Regionals as an individual. In her second season at HPU, Hunnell led the team to a top-10 finish in all 10 events the Panthers participated in, the best being their first-place finish at the UNCG Collegiate where the team secured a score of 286, 287, 282 (858) -6. Breakout freshman, Anna Howerton, led the team at UNCG as she finished as the tournament's medalist with a score of  66, 67, 68 (201) -15. At the end of the season, HPU finished third at the Big South Championship Stroke Play Tournament with a score of 298, 305, 298 (901) +37. Following the third round of stroke play, three High Point student-athletes were bestowed the three major yearly conference awards as Julia McLaughlin took home the Newcomer of the Year award, Anna Howerton secured the Freshman of the Year award, and Ella Perna was bestowed the Golfer of the Year award.  In Hunnell's first historic season at the helm, she was crowned the 2023 Big South Coach of the Year after guiding the Panthers to a Big South Conference Championship Runner-up title. Throughout the season, the team earned three tournament wins (Grandover Classic, Battle of the Triad, and Rivertowne Invitational), while Sarah Kahn took home three individual medals, including the Big South Champion Title (3rd in program history). Kahn went on to win the Big South Player of the Year and compete at the NCAA Regionals, becoming the second Panther in program history to compete as an individual. Her sixth place finish recorded the highest finish at an NCAA Regional in program history. During the 2022-23 season, three golfers were named to the Big South All-Conference teams (Kahn-first team, Ella Perna & Danielle Suh-Honorable Mention). Seven were named the Big South Golfers of the Week (Kahn (3), Perna (3), & Ekman (1)) and four were named to the WGCA All-Scholar Award list. The 2022-23 team broke multiple program records including, the 54-Hole Low Score: 869 (+5) on February 28, the 36-Hole Low Score: 580 (+4) on February 27, and the 36-Hole Low Score: 583 (+7) on October 10. The 2022-23 team became the first HPU team to advance to Big South Match Play Finals on April 15 along with having the first HPU Big South Player of the Year and the first HPU player to finish Top-10 at an NCAA Regional on May 10. Hunnell comes to High Point after spending the previous three seasons as an assistant coach at Campbell University where she helped the Fighting Camels to two-straight Big South Golf Championships in her three seasons on staff. She also helped develop the 2021 and 2022 Big South Golfers of the Year in Anna Nordfors and Emily Hawkins. As three-time Big South Champions, Hunnell joined the Fighting Camels as NCAA Regional participants as eight Campbell golfers earned WGCA Scholar All-American honors.  Prior to Campbell, Hunnell herself was a student-athlete at Virginia as she graduated with her undergraduate degree in 2018 before transferring to Xavier to play as a graduate transfer. She competed in the 2016 U.S. Women's Amateur championship and was a member of both UVA Women's Golf ACC Championship teams in 2015 and 2016. While earning a Masters degree in sports administration from Xavier, Hunnell earned Big East All-Conference honors and lead the Musketeers to its first Big East title and NCAA Regional appearance.  Hunnell is from Troutville, Virginia. #GoHPU

HIGH POINT, N.C. — High Point University Women's Golf Head Coach Lyndsey Hunnell announced the hiring of Anna Redding as the Panthers' new assistant coach on June 1, 2024. "I'm so excited for Anna to be joining our program!" Hunnell said. "She had an incredible collegiate and professional career, and she knows what it takes to prepare and win. Her knowledge and work ethic is going to elevate our team. I'm excited to get started with her and help build another record-breaking season." Redding, a native of Concord, N.C., played golf for the University of Virginia from 2015-19. During her time at UVA, Redding was awarded Rookie of the Year in 2016 and was twice named the Virginia Sports Information Directors Player of the Year. To cap her successful collegiate career, Redding became the third golfer in program history to be named All-ACC Academic Team for four consecutive years. After graduation, Redding developed AB Golf, Inc. as a platform to play professional golf. Redding has played full seasons on the Epson Tour in 2020 and 2021. Additionally, she played in the first ever ANWA in college and also she won the Epson Community Achievement Award while she was pro. Redding participated in a partial season in 2022 before returning for a full season in 2023.  "I am honored to be joining the High Point Women's Golf program," Redding said. "Coach Hunnell has made an impressive impact during her first two seasons as Head Coach. I look forward to this transition into coaching, learning from Coach Hunnell, and pursuing the team's first conference championship!" Off the course, Redding has established a Birdies for Babies fundraiser for underprivileged children and hopes to inspire young female athletes to pursue a pro-golf career.    #GoHPU