Oklahoma Christian University Women's Golf

David Lynn completed his 14th season of his second stint as the Oklahoma Christian head men’s golf coach following the 2024-25 season. Lynn has been named the Sooner Athletic Conference Coach of the Year five times, Heartland Conference Coach of the Year three times, Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year three times and the GCAA NCAA DII South Central Region Coach of the Year three times. Since joining the LSC in the 2019-20 season, the program under Lynn has produced 20 All-Conference selections; 14 First Team honorees, four Second Team selections and two Honorable Mention recipients. Additionally, Lynn's program produced the 2024 and 2025 LSC Men's Golf Academic Athlete of the Year as well as the 2024 LSC Fred Jacoby Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year in Exequiel Rodriguez. During Lynn’s two stints, he has guided the Eagles to 74 team tournament titles and 70 individual titles. Under his tutelage, 23 OC golfers have received NAIA, NCCAA or NCAA Division II All-America honors a total of 62 times, 10 Eagles have been named as NAIA or NCCAA Scholar-Athletes a total of 21 times and 14 players have been named as GCAA All-America Scholars a total of 23 times. After a Runner-Up finish in the 2025 West/South Central Regional, the Eagles qualified for Medal Match Play at the NCAA Division II National Championships, reaching the National Quarterfinals for the fourth consecutive season. Individually at the National Championships, Leandro Mihaich and Oskari Nikku became the first pair of OC teammates to be named PING GCAA First Team All-Americans in the NCAA era while Nikku made the All-Tournament team with a 10th-place finish. In 2024, Lynn led the Eagles to their second straight Lone Star Conference Runner-Up finish and third consecutive NCAA Division II National Semifinals appearance in 2024. Capping off the 2024 season was four GCAA All-America selections and three Cobalt Golf Academic All-Americans. Lynn, a 1995 OC graduate, has been a staple in the success of the OC golf program since 1998, when he started as an assistant coach. He became the Eagles’ head coach before the 1999-2000 season and guided the team until 2008, when he handed the reins to Kelsey Cline for two seasons. In 2011, the Eagles capped Lynn’s first season back with the program’s second NAIA national championship and Lynn was named as the Golf Coaches Association of America’s NAIA Dave Williams National Coach of the Year. In the fall of 2012, he guided OC to the NCCAA national title, with the Eagles taking the crown by a whopping 52 shots, a performance that earned Lynn NCCAA national coach of the year honors. In 2016, OC's first season of NCAA Division II postseason eligibility, he guided the Eagles to a runner-up finish in the West-South Central Super Regional and a berth in the Division II Championship, played in Denver. He was named by the GCAA as the South Central Region coach of the year as well as the Heartland Conference coach of the year. He again won the Heartland and South Central Region coaching honors in 2019, guiding the Eagles to five wins -- including their first Heartland title -- a No. 1 spot in the NCAA's South Central Region ranking and a No. 9 spot in the Division II coaches' poll. OC finished eighth in the Super Regional. The Eagles won the Lone Star Conference title for the 2020-21 season and made another Super Regional appearance. OC won four times during the 2021-22 season, qualified for the NCAA Division II Championship for the second time in program history and advanced all the way to the championship match before falling to Lee (Tenn.). The runner-up finish was at the time the highest ever by an OC team in any sport in NCAA competition. OC strung together a run of 16 straight top-four finishes in national-tournament play (either the NAIA or NCCAA Championship), a streak that began in 2000 during Lynn’s first stint as the Eagles’ coach, and lasted through the 2015-16 campaign. Along with the NAIA national titles in 2009 (under Cline) and 2011, OC finished as the NAIA national runner-up in 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012 and as the NCAA Division II runner-up in 2022. In addition to the 2012 NCCAA title, OC was the NCCAA runner-up in 2014. He’s a past president of the NAIA Men’s Golf Coaches Association (2007-2008) and served as the NAIA’s representative to the GCAA’s National Advisory Board from 2004 to 2008 and again from 2010 to 2012. From 2003-2005, he served as a rater for the SAC and NAIA Region 6 and from 2004-2007, he served as the chairman of the GCAA’s NAIA All-American Committee. In 2008, he served as the men’s coach for the U.S. team in the World University Games in South Africa, and he was the U.S. co-coach in the event during the 2012 Games in the Czech Republic. Lynn was inducted into the OC Athletic Hall of Fame in January 2014. A native of Everett, Wash., Lynn was a NAIA Scholar-Athlete and four-year letterman in track and field at Oklahoma Christian. He received a master's degree in higher education from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2000. Lynn is married to Michelle (Hays) and the couple has a daughter, Mackenzie, and a son, Danny.

A familiar face in OC golf circles, Greg Lynn is the only head coach in the history of Oklahoma Christian’s women’s golf program, which will enter its 11th season of competition in 2021-22. The Eagles have enjoyed much success during the program’s first six years, quickly achieving an NAIA national ranking in the spring of 2012 and finishing sixth nationally as Lynn was named as the Sooner Athletic Conference coach of the year. OC finished as the NCCAA runner-up in the fall of 2012 in its first year as a member of that organization and was third in 2013 and 2014. Since OC joined the Heartland Conference with the 2012-13 academic year, the Eagles have often beaten teams in the NCAA Division II rankings. In 2015, the Eagles posted the unofficial low team score in their inaugural appearance at the Heartland Conference Championship and during the season had beaten six of the 12 teams that qualified for the Division II Championship. In 2016, OC's first season of eligibility for the NCAA postseason, the Eagles received one of 12 bids to the Division II West Super Regional, an impressive accomplishment for a new NCAA program. OC senior Audrey Meisch qualified as an individual for the Division II Championship in Aurora, Colo. In 2017, freshman Abigail Rigsby gave OC another individual qualifier for the Division II tournament. Kate Goodwin won the West Super Regional individual title in 2018, earning a spot in the national tournament, and she helped lead the Eagles to their first team berth in the Division II event in 2019. In 2021, another of Lynn's players, freshman Camilla Jarvela, also qualified as an individual for the national tournament.  In 11 seasons, five OC players have combined to earn NAIA or NCCAA All-America honors nine times, two players were named as NCCAA Scholar-Athletes in both 2012 and 2014 and eight players have been named as WGCA All-America Scholar-Athletes a total of 25 times. Five OC golfers have combined to win 21 individual tournament titles under Lynn and the Eagles have won 13 tournament titles. Before taking the reins of the Eagles, Lynn was an assistant coach for OC’s men's program for 12 seasons and was instrumental in helping that program finish in the top four at the NAIA Championships each of those years. He was on the staff for both of OC’s NAIA national championships, in 2009 and 2011. Lynn's duties as an assistant coach included day-to-day instruction, fundraising, tournament travel and tournament operations. Lynn also was the head coach of the men’s junior varsity golf team for nine years. During his tenure as an assistant, Lynn worked with 18 All-America men’s players at OC, including some who went on to play in prestigious amateur tournaments including the U.S. Amateur, the British Amateur and the Australian Amateur. Lynn still plays competitively and qualified for the 2011 U.S. Senior Amateur in Manakin-Sabot, Va. During the summers of 2013, 2014 and 2015, he played in the prestigious Trans-Mississippi Senior Championship. He has been a scratch handicap golfer for more than 30 years and has won numerous individual and team tournaments. Lynn is a native of Everett, Wash., and retired from the commercial cabinet industry in 1999. He and his wife, Laurel, have three grown sons -- David, a 1995 OC graduate and the university’s current athletic director, men’s golf coach and director of golf; Michael, a 1998 OC graduate; and Jonathan. The Lynns also have five grandchildren.