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Carroll returns as women's golf assistant coach
6/10/2025 11:13:00 AM | Women's Golf
Former juco national champ coach elped lead GCU to 18 top-5 finishes from 2022-24
Grand Canyon head coach Brent Nicoson announced the hiring of Chelsea Carroll as assistant coach of the women's golf program.
Carroll returns to the Lopes in the same role she held during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. GCU totaled 18 top-five finishes and seven team titles during that span, including five in 2023-24. During Carroll's previous year at GCU, the team earned a program-best eight consecutive top-five placements between the fall and spring seasons. Â
"I'm very pleased that Coach Carroll is returning to GCU," Nicoson said. "She is a national championship coach who shares the same vision I have as the head coach. We both want to do what it takes to get our program to a new level, one the program has never seen, all while doing things the right way. She adds to our desired culture and vision perfectly, and I can't wait to work alongside her."
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During the 2022-23 and 2023-24 campaigns, the Lopes claimed eight All-WAC individual honors, including four first-team selections and a Freshman of the Year accolade for Ryan Flynn, who was the first Lopes golfer to win the award since Payton Fehringer in 2019.
Prior to GCU, Carroll spent three seasons as South Mountain Community College's women's golf coach in Phoenix. In addition, she was named interim head coach of the men's team during the 2021-22 season and made history, becoming the first female head coach to guide a men's team to a NJCAAÂ national championship.
Carroll restarted the women's golf program at South Mountain prior to the start of the 2020 season. She coached two players to the NJCAA National Championship tournament in 2021 and coached Kylie Rehberger to all-conference, all-region and all-district honors before placing 52nd nationally.
During her one season as interim coach of the men's team at South Mountain, the team placed first at Twin Hills Golf and Country Club in Joplin, Missouri, finishing 19 strokes ahead of second place. She helped Cecil Belisle to his second straight national championship and the NJCAA Jack Nicklaus Award. The men's side had three All-Americans and won seven tournaments during the regular season. Carroll also received the Dave Williams National Coach of the Year award for NJCAA Division II.
Carroll is a graduate of Rogers State in Claremore, Oklahoma, where golfed four seasons. She placed in the top five twice and in the top 10 five times over her final two seasons. Carroll competed in 33 events and was a repeat member of the Heartland Conference President's Honor Roll. She began her collegiate coaching career in the 2016-17 season as an assistant coach for her alma mater.
GCULopes.com featured Carroll in this 2023 article.
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Carroll returns to the Lopes in the same role she held during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons. GCU totaled 18 top-five finishes and seven team titles during that span, including five in 2023-24. During Carroll's previous year at GCU, the team earned a program-best eight consecutive top-five placements between the fall and spring seasons. Â "I'm very pleased that Coach Carroll is returning to GCU," Nicoson said. "She is a national championship coach who shares the same vision I have as the head coach. We both want to do what it takes to get our program to a new level, one the program has never seen, all while doing things the right way. She adds to our desired culture and vision perfectly, and I can't wait to work alongside her."
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During the 2022-23 and 2023-24 campaigns, the Lopes claimed eight All-WAC individual honors, including four first-team selections and a Freshman of the Year accolade for Ryan Flynn, who was the first Lopes golfer to win the award since Payton Fehringer in 2019.
Prior to GCU, Carroll spent three seasons as South Mountain Community College's women's golf coach in Phoenix. In addition, she was named interim head coach of the men's team during the 2021-22 season and made history, becoming the first female head coach to guide a men's team to a NJCAAÂ national championship.
Carroll restarted the women's golf program at South Mountain prior to the start of the 2020 season. She coached two players to the NJCAA National Championship tournament in 2021 and coached Kylie Rehberger to all-conference, all-region and all-district honors before placing 52nd nationally.
During her one season as interim coach of the men's team at South Mountain, the team placed first at Twin Hills Golf and Country Club in Joplin, Missouri, finishing 19 strokes ahead of second place. She helped Cecil Belisle to his second straight national championship and the NJCAA Jack Nicklaus Award. The men's side had three All-Americans and won seven tournaments during the regular season. Carroll also received the Dave Williams National Coach of the Year award for NJCAA Division II.
Carroll is a graduate of Rogers State in Claremore, Oklahoma, where golfed four seasons. She placed in the top five twice and in the top 10 five times over her final two seasons. Carroll competed in 33 events and was a repeat member of the Heartland Conference President's Honor Roll. She began her collegiate coaching career in the 2016-17 season as an assistant coach for her alma mater.
GCULopes.com featured Carroll in this 2023 article.
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