University of Notre Dame Women's Golf

Holt has found equal success mentoring her charges in the classroom, with Fighting Irish players collecting 19 NGCA/WGCA All-Scholar Team citations, 41 conference all-academic team certificates and the first three Academic All-America honors in program history (Ashley Armstrong in 2013, 2014 and 2015). In addition, Notre Dame earned a pair of BIG EAST Team Academic Excellence Awards (2011 and 2012) and has posted the highest combined grade-point average among all 26 Notre Dame athletics teams in nine of Holt's first 19 semesters under the Golden Dome, most notably a school-record 3.776 GPA in the spring of 2012. Under Holt's leadership, the Fighting Irish once again sparkled in 2015-16, posting a 297.16 stroke average (a mere half-stroke shy of the program's current single-season record of 296.60 in 2014-15) and earning a berth in the NCAA Birmingham Regional. What's more, Notre Dame won two tournaments in the fall of 2015 and finished second at the high-powered Landfall Tradition, defeating 11 ranked opponents (including four top-20 teams) along the way. The Fighting Irish also posted two of the four lowest 54-hole team scores and lowest single-round scores (all relative to par) in school history, and their 30-stroke win at Nebraska's Chip-N Club Invitational was the program's largest margin of victory in more than a decade. Thanks to their hot start, the Fighting Irish were rated as high as No. 20 in the Golfstat rankings (March 9). Notre Dame's expectation of excellence during the Holt era rose to new heights in 2014-15, as the Fighting Irish registered the aforementioned best single-season stroke average in program history (296.60), more than two full strokes better than the previous school record (298.70 in 2012-13). Notre Dame also placed in the top 10 in all 10 tournaments it played, including four top-five finishes (three in a row midway through the year, a first for the program since the fall of 2008) and the title at Michigan State's Mary Fossum Invitational. after a strong performance at its first-ever Atlantic Coast Conference Championship. Notre Dame recorded the third-best score on day three of the tournament to put the team in a tie for fifth place with a 905 (+33) total (306-303-296). A season earlier in 2012-13, Holt was a part of a Fighting Irish squad that posted the program's top team stroke average (298.70). Notre Dame also claimed its third BIG EAST Championship in a six-year period during its final season in the league. The Fighting Irish qualified for the NCAA East Regional with their automatic bid, and were strong contenders to advance to the NCAA finals through the first two rounds of the event. Also in the 2012-13 season, Holt coached the Fighting Irish to their highest mid-season ranking in the history of the program at No. 14, according to Golfstat's Nov. 14 report and remained steady in the Golfstat Top 25 the majority of the year. Thanks to Holt's leadership, then-freshman Lindsey Weaver was tabbed the BIG EAST Player and Freshman of the Year and named to the all-BIG EAST team. Armstrong collected her second straight all-BIG EAST accolade with Talia Campbell joining her after taking co-medalist honors with Weaver at the conference tournament.

Demeter remains the driving force behind the annual Notre Dame Clover Cup tournament, which was held for the fifth year in March 2016 and is rapidly emerging as one of the top tournaments on the college golf scene. Played at the Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, Arizona, with the considerable support of the Longbow community as well as Visit Mesa (the local convention and visitor's bureau), Demeter remains one of the tournament's annual organizers and coordinates the majority of tournament operations. The Fighting Irish are coming off yet another successful campaign in 2015-16, registering a 297.16 stroke average (a mere half-stroke off the program's current single-season record of 296.60 in 2014-15) while earning a bid to the NCAA Birmingham Regional. What's more, Notre Dame won two tournaments in the fall of 2015 and finished second at the high-powered Landfall Tradition, defeating 11 ranked opponents (including four top-20 teams) along the way. The Fighting Irish also posted two of the four lowest 54-hole team scores and lowest single-round scores (all relative to par) in school history, and their 30-stroke win at Nebraska's Chip-N Club Invitational was Notre Dame's largest margin of victory in more than a decade. As a result, Notre Dame rose to a season-high No. 20 in the Golfstat rankings on March 9. The tradition of success followed on the heels of a record-setting 2014-15 season, as the Fighting Irish compiled the best single-season stroke average in program history (296.60), more than two full strokes better than the previous school record (298.70 in 2012-13). Notre Dame also placed in the top 10 in all 10 tournaments it has played, including four top-five finishes (three in a row midway through the year, a first for the program since the fall of 2008) and the title at Michigan State's Mary Fossum Invitational. after a strong performance at their first-ever Atlantic Coast Conference Championship. Notre Dame recorded the third-best score on day three of the tournament to put the team in a tie for fifth place with a 905 (+33) total (306-303-296). A season earlier in 2012-13, Demeter was a part of a Fighting Irish squad that posted the program's top team stroke average (298.70). Notre Dame also claimed its third BIG EAST Championship in a six-year period during its final season in the league. The Fighting Irish qualified for the NCAA East Regional with their automatic bid, and were strong contenders to advance to the NCAA finals through the first two rounds of the event. Under Demeter's guidance, then-freshman Lindsey Weaver was tabbed the BIG EAST Player and Freshman of the Year and named to the all-BIG EAST team. Ashley Armstrong collected her second straight all-BIG EAST accolade with Talia Campbell joining her after taking co-medalist honors with Weaver at the conference tournament. Demeter also was instrumental in the recruiting of two of the nation's top junior golfers in Campbell and Weaver for the 2012-13 season.