University of North Dakota Women's Golf

UND Hall of Famer Todd Schaefer enters his seventh season as North Dakota's head men's golf coach in the 2025-26 season. He was named the head golf coach in August 2019. A Grand Forks, N.D., native, Schaefer was a Hall of Fame golfer for UND in the 1980s and has remained a fixture in the golf scene in this area ever since. It was another year, another group of records that fell under Schaefer's guidance, as he helped the Fighting Hawks match the program record for a team score at the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate that was set in 2023-24 on the final day of the Summit League Men's Golf Championships -- a score that bested the previous mark by 17 strokes.  The 2024-25 squad also two medalist finishes and saw Nathan Peyerl and Grayson Wetch become the first pair of UND men's golfers to earn Summit League weekly honors.  Records have continued to fall under Schaefer, with the Fighting Hawks once again rewriting the record book in 2023-24 at the Summit League Championships. As a team, UND shot s 276 (-8) to shatter the previous school record by eight strokes and finished the event with an overall team score of 863 (-1) to demolish the school record by a whopping 17 stokes.  After a record-breaking year in 2021-22, Schaefer and the Fighting Hawks were at it again with another shattering year for the program since moving to the Division I level. Sophomore Lucas Feterl shined on the individual course with a 67 (-4) in the second round of the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate to post the third-lowest score by a UND men's player in the DI era.  UND also broke the program's Division I era record for the lowest total team score in a round on a pair of occasions, firing a 284 in the final round of play at the Zach Johnson Invitational on Sept. 27 and then matching the feat in the second round of the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate on Oct. 24.  The 2022-23 squad continued to set records on the team side, finishing with the lowest 54-hole score since the program moved to Division I with an 881 at the Stampede at the Creek in Omaha, Neb. (Apr. 10-11, 2023). As a team, the Fighting Hawks also finished with a 301.79 scoring average, the lowest since moving to the Summit League.    Schaefer led the Fighting Hawks to a record breaking year in the 2021-22 season. He coached sophomore Brandon McGarry as he recorded the second lowest individual score in the Division I era by securing a 66 in the second round of the Stampede at the Creek on Oct. 4-5, 2022 in Omaha, Neb. Along with that feat, he coached the rest of the team as they secured the lowest total team score in the Division I era by carding a 287 in the second round of Stampede at the Creak on Oct. 4-5, 2022. Not only did they achieve this feat, but the men's golf team also recorded the second lowest total team score in the Division I era (2009-2022) with a 908 in the Summit League Championships in Newton, Kan. This team score of 908 resulted in them also recording the lowest team score since the Fighting Hawks entered the Summit League. They continued to etch their names in the record books as they secured the second lowest team score average per round in the Division I era with a team average of 306.   Schaefer helped lead the Fighting Sioux to three North Central Conference (NCC) championships (1981-83). He played in three NCAA Division II national tournaments, earning honorable mention all-America honors as a sophomore and was a second teamer as a senior.   He was the NCC Medalist in 1984 and during his amateur golf career won four Grand Forks All-City Tournament, a pair of North Dakota Open Amateur titles, 11 North Dakota Sttae Championships, two Birchmont Mid-Amateur crowns and was honored to compete nationally in the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Mid-Amateur and three USGA team events.  He is an inductee of three halls of fame, going into UND's Hall of Fame in 2000, before being inducted to the North Dakota Hall of Fame in 2003 and most recently into Red River High School's Hall of Fame.     Recently, Schaefer has sat on numerous athletics boards, including a 25-year stint as a North Dakota Golf Association member to help promote golf and events in the state. He also served terms on the Grand Forks Country Club board and the UND Letterwinner board and is currently on the NDGA Hall of Fame board.

Martinson continued to see her team's overall scores improve in 2014-15 as UND was by Martin, who put together a pair of top-five finishes. The squad capped the season with an eight-stroke improvement from the previous season at the Big Sky Championship. UND shot a then DI-low 310 at the UAB Fall Beach Classic in October. In 2013-14, her squad posted four top-five finishes. UND improved its team score by 20 strokes from its first Big Sky Championship to its second on the same layout at the Octillo Resort in Chandler, Ariz., and placed ninth last season. During UND's first year in the Big Sky, Martinson's squad had six top-10 team finishes and three of her golfers were named to the team was recognized for the second-consecutive year by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) with a  for its most recent multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR). Juniors and were named to the 2011-12 WGCA Division I All-American Scholar Team. Martinson spent her first three seasons back at UND as an assistant coach with both North Dakota's mens' and women's programs and played a significant role in the both program's transition to Division I competition. In 2010-11, she helped mentor a team that excelled not only in competition, but also in the classroom and in the community. UND earned its second straight fourth-place finsih at the 2011 Great West Conference Championship, where the Sioux placed a pair of golfers in the top 11 individually, including senior was named to the GWC All-Tournament second team. The program enjoyed a highly successful season in the classroom, with four student-athletes earning 2011 GWC Winter/Spring All-Academic honors. UND also received public recognition from the NCAA for its outstanding multiyear Academic Progress Rate (APR). UND's APR ranked in the top 10 percent of all Division I women's golf programs, which accounts for the 2006-07 through 2009-10 academic years. The women's golf program also received UND's Female Team Community Service Award after logging 298 hours of community service over 32 events in 2010-11, an average 27 hours per student-athlete. In 2009-10, Martinson coached a pair of all-conference performers in senior and junior . Lucken and Job also earned GWC Winter/Spring All-Academic honors, while Lucken was named to the 2010 Academic All-District VII At-Large first team. In 2008-09, Martinson's first season on the staff, she helped the Sioux usher in the Division I era in with a fifth-place conference finish in UND's debut season in the GWC. Martin landed on the All-GWC second team, while senior Amanda Kaler earned Academic All-America honors and an NCAA postgraduate scholarship. Kaler became the first UND women's golfer to earn either academic achievement. Additionally, four student-athletes landed on the GWC All-Academic Winter/Spring team. Prior to joining UND's coaching staff, Martinson was a four-year letterwinner for the Sioux from 2004-08, and earned All-North Central Conference first team honors in 2007-08 after placing fourth at the NCC Championship. She also participated in the NCAA Division II regional championship in three of her four years with the Sioux. Martinson, a native of Minot, N.D., was a three-time member of the NCC Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll and graduated from UND in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a minor in sociology. Martinson and her husband, Erik, who is the director of facilities and operations, were married in June 2011 and have one daughter, Blair.