Associate Head Coach Lauren Harling Named Head Coach at Yale
6/18/2019 1:30:00 PM | Women's Golf
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana – After being part of the last three NCAA Championship appearances for the Indiana women's golf team, associate head coach Lauren Harling has been named the head coach for women's golf at Yale University.
Harling spent 10 seasons as a coach at Indiana, including the last nine years as an assistant/associate head coach and recruiting coordinator. The Hoosiers have appeared in an NCAA Regional in three of the last four years thanks to her energy and effort on the recruiting trail – domestically and internationally - to get some the best women's golfers in IU history to come to Bloomington.
"Indiana women's golf owes a huge debt of gratitude to Coach Harling," Indiana head coach Clint Wallman said. "She has been a fixture of the program over the past 12 years first as a player then as a coach. We would not be where we are without her efforts and talents. Yale University is getting one of the best young coaches in the country and I am excited to follow the progress of Bulldog Golf for years to come."
The Hoosiers made NCAA Regional appearances in 2013, 2016 and 2019 as a team with Harling on staff and Elizabeth Tong (2015) and Erin Harper (2018) earn postseason bids as individuals.
Among the individual accomplishments that Harling has helped IU golfers accomplish in her time as a coach include the four best individual season scoring averages. Erin Harper set a new IU record for career scoring average (74.29) and became the only IU golfer in program history to play more than one year and have a scoring average under 75.00. She also helped recruit rising junior Mary Parsons, whose 73.74 scoring average through her first two seasons is on pace to re-establish the career scoring average. The three-person freshman class in 2017-18 of Angela Aung, Parsons and Priscilla Schmid ranked third in the country according to GolfStat.
As a student-athlete, she played her first two seasons at N.C. State before transferring to Indiana to play her final two seasons. In her first year at IU in 2006-07, she was instrumental in helping the Hoosiers to an appearance in the NCAA Championship, the first for IU since 1998. On the way to the NCAA Postseason in 2007, she finished tied for 21st at the Big Ten Championship and tied for 21st at the NCAA Central Regional. In her senior year at IU, she won the 2008 Mountain View Invitational for her first-ever collegiate win and was named Big Ten Golfer of the Week on two occasions.
Harling holds two degrees from Indiana, receiving her undergraduate degree in Business from the prestigious Kelley School of Business in 2008. In 2018, she completed her Master's in Public Affairs from the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Harling spent 10 seasons as a coach at Indiana, including the last nine years as an assistant/associate head coach and recruiting coordinator. The Hoosiers have appeared in an NCAA Regional in three of the last four years thanks to her energy and effort on the recruiting trail – domestically and internationally - to get some the best women's golfers in IU history to come to Bloomington.
"Indiana women's golf owes a huge debt of gratitude to Coach Harling," Indiana head coach Clint Wallman said. "She has been a fixture of the program over the past 12 years first as a player then as a coach. We would not be where we are without her efforts and talents. Yale University is getting one of the best young coaches in the country and I am excited to follow the progress of Bulldog Golf for years to come."
The Hoosiers made NCAA Regional appearances in 2013, 2016 and 2019 as a team with Harling on staff and Elizabeth Tong (2015) and Erin Harper (2018) earn postseason bids as individuals.
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Among the individual accomplishments that Harling has helped IU golfers accomplish in her time as a coach include the four best individual season scoring averages. Erin Harper set a new IU record for career scoring average (74.29) and became the only IU golfer in program history to play more than one year and have a scoring average under 75.00. She also helped recruit rising junior Mary Parsons, whose 73.74 scoring average through her first two seasons is on pace to re-establish the career scoring average. The three-person freshman class in 2017-18 of Angela Aung, Parsons and Priscilla Schmid ranked third in the country according to GolfStat.
As a student-athlete, she played her first two seasons at N.C. State before transferring to Indiana to play her final two seasons. In her first year at IU in 2006-07, she was instrumental in helping the Hoosiers to an appearance in the NCAA Championship, the first for IU since 1998. On the way to the NCAA Postseason in 2007, she finished tied for 21st at the Big Ten Championship and tied for 21st at the NCAA Central Regional. In her senior year at IU, she won the 2008 Mountain View Invitational for her first-ever collegiate win and was named Big Ten Golfer of the Week on two occasions.
Harling holds two degrees from Indiana, receiving her undergraduate degree in Business from the prestigious Kelley School of Business in 2008. In 2018, she completed her Master's in Public Affairs from the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
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