Women's Golf Head Coach - John Rawdon

John Rawdon

John Rawdon enters his third season as the head women's golf coach at UW-Eau Claire and his first as the head men's golf coach. Rawdon helped guide the Blugolds to a 73-16 overall record in 2002-03 and fifth place finish at the NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championships-the highest finish by a UW-Eau Claire women's golf team in school history. Rawdon inherits a men's program that has qualified for the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championship six consecutive seasons, winning the national championship in 2001.

Individually the Blugolds are looking for big things in 2003-04 with the return of Jennifer Prock and Maggie Loney. Prock earned Honorable Mention All-American honors in 2003 and Loney was named the 2003 National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) Division III Freshman of the Year.

Since 1998 Rawdon has served as a teaching professional at Mill Run Golf Club in Eau Claire. Prior to Mill Run Rawdon served five years as the head professional at the Princeton Valley Golf Course in Eau Claire. Rawdon was elected to membership in the PGA in 1991 and currently holds an A6 rating.

A Missouri native, Rawdon graduated from Plattsburg High School and then played golf for two years at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. He and his wife Tammy, whom he met as a UWEC student on an exchange program in England, both graduated from Northwest Missouri State. Rawdon's degree was in elementary education with a minor in coaching.

After his graduation, Rawdon worked three years in Smithville, Missouri at the Paradise Pointe Golf Course and then spent about a year and half at both the Chillicothe Country Club in Chillicothe, Missouri and the Timber Ridge Park golf complex in Kansas City.

Rawdon and his wife Tammy have two daughters, Jessica (b. 1/22/89) and Whitney (b. 1/21/91). The Rawdon's run a golf marketing business out of their home.

Updated 8/24/03