Amy West begins her fourth season as the head coach of the Missouri S&T women's golf program, as she was selected to head up the program when it began play in the fall of 2017.
In her first three seasons at the helm, she has led the Miners to 15 top-five finishes in tournament, including the program's first-ever tournament title at the Palm Springs Invitational in 2018 and a tie for the championship at the Drury Fall Classic later in that calendar year. S&T's top finish during the 2019-20 season was a second place showing in a 13-team field at the Southern Indiana Classic.
After a successful playing career, which included playing on two national championship teams at Daytona State College and earning all-Big East Conference honors, West moved into the coaching ranks in 2016 at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Among the team accomplishments was a fourth place finish by the women’s team at the Mountain East Conference’s Spring Invitational and a third place showing by the men’s squad at the Ohio Valley Highlands Cup Challenge.
In the 2011 national tournament, West recorded a score of 299 which currently ranks as the 12th-best 72-hole score in the history of the NJCAA Tournament. That included a round of 68, which was the second-best round ever at the national tournament; a year earlier, West shot a 70 during the national meet and would earn the first of her two All-America awards at Daytona State.
West went on to play two seasons at the University of South Florida, where she was part of a championship team in the Big East Conference in 2012 – the first for USF as a member of the league -- and earned all-conference and All-America honors as a senior the following year. In her prep career, she was named as the “Golfer of the Year” in Hillsborough County in 2008.
“I’m excited about getting started with the new program at Missouri S&T and working with Mark and Chad,” West said. “I want to be able to build a strong, competitive program and know there is some great competition in the conference.
“What I’m looking for are strong academic student-athletes first, but also ones with talent and the right attitude,” she added. “Attitude is a key as I want our players to be able to buy into my system to help make them better players.”
Following her collegiate career at South Florida, West went on to play professional golf in the Symetra Tour during the 2015 season after going through the Ladies Professional Golf Association’s qualifying school in 2014, prior to joining the West Virginia Wesleyan staff for the 2015-16 season.
“I am very excited to have Amy join our Miner family,” Mullin said. “She brings with her an exceptional background in women’s golf. Her personality and passion will not only be an asset to Miner women’s golf, but to the department, campus and community. She is highly motivated and will be an outstanding leader for the women’s golf program.”
Originally from Plant City, Fla., West graduated from South Florida with a bachelor’s degree in criminology in 2013.
