Ivy Shepherd - Women's Golf Coach - Indiana University Athletics

Ivy Shepherd

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
ivshep@iu.edu

Indiana women’s golf head coach Brian May completed his coaching staff with the addition of assistant coach Ivy Shepherd, the program announced on July 2, 2024. The 2025-26 season will be Shepherd's second in Bloomington.

During the 2024-25 campaign, her first with the Hoosiers, May helped guide Indiana to four top-5 finishes, including three-straight tournaments to close out the regular season. Indiana broke the program record for lowest round with a 276 (-12), earned the second-lowest 36-hole tally (569), and tied for the fourth-lowest 54-hole mark (860) in a historic week at the Illini Women’s Invitational. Redshirt senior Caroline Smith and junior Madison Dabagia each punched a ticket to the NCAA Lexington Regional, IU’s second-straight season with NCAA postseason play. Smith, who tied for ninth in Lexington, broke the school’s single-season stroke average record (73.09) and finished her career second in team history in career stroke average (73.49) in 67 rounds. Dabagia slotted into the second spot in single-season stroke average (73.12) during her debut season with the Hoosiers.

After a highly successful five-year collegiate playing career, Shepherd joined the coaching ranks as an assistant coach at James Madison. The Dukes finished top-3 in five total tournament in her debut coaching season, including an outright team title at the River Landing Classic. She helped lead Kendall Turner to a t-24th finish as an individual at the NCAA Bermuda Run Regional.

She spent her final season of eligibility at Kentucky and helped guide the Wildcats to the NCAA Pullman Regional. UK broke four school records during her fifth season. Shepherd concluded the season with a 73.85 scoring average across 33 rounds.

Prior to joining her lone season in Lexington, Shepherd played four seasons at Clemson and was twice selected to the All-ACC First Team. She was a mainstay in the Tiger lineup in all 27 tournaments of her career and finished with 79 rounds played. Her four-year run at Clemson ended with a stroke average of 72.77 before sitting out her spring season while preparing to transfer to Kentucky.

She played her way inside the top 40 of the Women’s World Amateur Rankings, earning an invite to the prestigious 2022 Augusta National Women’s Amateur prior to her graduate season.

The Peachtree City, Ga., native was the top-ranked women’s golfer according to Junior Golf Scoreboard and the AJGA Rolex rankings coming out of high school in the state of Georgia. She was also a consensus top-15 recruit nationally. She earned medalist honors in the Georgia Junior Girls championship in 2017 and finished third in 2018. As a junior, Shepherd won the GSGA Girls Championship by six shots and was a member of the winning Georgia team in the Georgia-South Carolina Girls Team Match Play. She also won the Lady’s club championship at Braelin Golf club at age 12.