Women's Golf Head Coach - John Rawdon

John Rawdon

John Rawdon enters his fourth season as the head women's golf coach at UW-Eau Claire. Rawdon was named the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) and National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) Region 3 Coach of the Year in 2003-04.

The Blugolds qualified for their fourth consecutive NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championships in 2004, the last three all under Rawdon's tutelage. The 2004 Blugolds posted their best team finish in school history placing fifth out of 10 teams.

Individually the 2003-04 season featured WIAC championship medalist Susan Karlman and NGCA honorable mention All-American Maggie Loney. In all, Rawdon has coached three All-Americans and eight first team All-WIAC performers.

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 8/20/04