Macalester College Women's Golf

Johnny Greene joined the Macalester golf program as assistant coach at the beginning of the 2019 fall golf season. He became the interim head coach in March of 2020 and was elevated to head coach in January of 2021. Since Greene became head coach, the golf program has grown both in size and competitiveness and has shattered many school records. In fall 2022, the men’s and women’s teams earned their best finish in the MIAC Championships in over 15 years, with the women's team received votes in the national poll for the first time since 2008. In 2023, the women's team registered its second consecutive fourth-place finish at the MIAC Championships, and followed that up with another fourth-place finish in 2024. That year, Bailey Lengfelder and Ava Austria were named to the All-MIAC team, marking the first time the program had two All-MIAC honorees in the same season since 2009. Greene began coaching golf in 2010 at Eastview High School in Apple Valley, Minnesota. In 2017, he was hired by Apple Valley High School as their head boys’ golf coach.  After earning his degree in Economics from Purdue University's Krannert School of Management, Greene had a brief career as a digital marketer before reclaiming his passion for golf. While working at Totally Driven Golf, he earned his certification from the Titleist Performance Institute to further his lesson and coaching knowledge.  At the beginning of the 2017 golf season, Greene accepted an assistant golf professional job at Bearpath Golf and Country Club. His responsibilities included running the 5-to-7 and 8-to-11-year-old junior golf camps and giving private and group lessons the older junior golfers. “I feel very fortunate to be part of this team, school and athletics department,” Greene said. “Macalester College has felt like a perfect fit since day one. I’m eager to help the golf program and its golfers achieve their goals.”   Greene lives in St. Louis Park with his loving wife, Kaye, daughter Emmy, and two cats, Maz and Willie.    

Adalsteinsson begins his third year as the Macalester's Men's and Women's Golf Coach in 2014. He joined the Macalester staff in 2012. Adalsteinsson is a former golfer for Iceland's national team and in 2000 placed 25th at the European Team Championship. In 2001 he was Icelandic Junior Champion and Icelandic Junior Tour Champion. Prior to coming to Macalester, Adalsteinsson was the head boys' varsity golf coach at Lakeville South High School in Lakeville, Minn., and before that was head boys' coach at University High School in San Francisco and a junior instructor at Keilir Golf Club in Iceland. Adalsteinsson led Lakeville South during the spring season of 2012 to second place in the South Suburban Conference. The team set two school records during the season, and ended fifth in its section, only four shots from first place and a spot in the state championships. In his teens, Adalsteinsson golfed with the Icelandic youth national teams from 1998-2003. He has experience coaching both golf and soccer. Last fall Adalsteinsson served as an assistant women's soccer coach at Carleton College and for the last year he has been a staff coach for Eden Prairie Soccer Club. Adalsteinsson is a graduate of the University of Iceland and received his master's in sports psychology from John F. Kennedy University in California. Adalsteinsson has provided sport psychology consultation to individuals and teams.