San Jose State University Women's Golf

Dormann was a four-time tournament winner and the 1987 Pacific Coast Athletic Association "Player of the Year." Her 76.46 stroke average for 141 rounds of college competition puts her in the top-10 all-time on the San Jose State list. Dormann was the 1985 U.S. Junior and Junior World champion. The win at the U.S. Girls Junior Championship earned her an invitation to the 1986 U.S. Open. The native of Oxnard, Calif., began her professional career on the Women Professional Golfers' European Tour (WPGET). In her first LPGA event, the 1991 Oldsmobile LPGA Classic, she finished in second place. She won the 1992 Las Vegas LPGA International, birdieing her last hole, and won the 1993 McCall's LPGA Classic in Stratton Mountain, Vermont. Through 2011, she played in 228 LPGA Tour events with 27 top-10 finishes and ranks among the top 150 on the all-time career earnings list. Dormann was also a member of the 1992 and 1993 U.S. Nicheri Cup teams that competed against teams from Japan. She was the 1993 Most Valuable Golfer of the competition. She was one of five Spartan All-Americans to make the cut at the 2006 U.S. Open and has played in 14 U.S. Women's Open Championships. She won the 2005 LPGAT-and-CP Championship for teaching and club professionals. That win garnered her an invitation to the 2006 LPGA Championship. Besides her San Jose State coaching duties, she is a teaching professional at the Pleasanton (Calif.) Golf Academy.

Dormann has recruited effectively and honed the games of young talents into tournament-proven skilled players. The three-time WAC Coach of the Year (2006, 2009, 2012) has coached two WAC champions including Moston, and three WAC Freshmen of the Year including Regan De Guzman. San Jose State players have received 14 first team and 10 second-team all-conference honors with Dormann as head coach. As proficient in the classroom as on the golf course, the 2008-09 team received the Order of Spartan Team GPA award for the highest combined team grade-point average for the fall and spring semesters. 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 finish 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 (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 university," 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 competes as a LPGA touring pro on a regular basis, the Dormanns have reunited as player and caddy at three 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 studies. John and Dana have two sons, William, a student at UC Berkeley, and Jason, a sophomore at Foothill High School, and reside in Pleasanton, Calif.