Meet the Coach
Holly Vaughn enters her seventh season as the head women’s golf coach at Florida Gulf Coast University. One of the One of the first coaches to join FGCU, Vaughn began her tenure in November, 1999.
Under Vaughn’s tutelage the Eagles regularly place among the top Division II schools in each tournament played, winning 11 tournaments and finishing in the top-five in 27 tournaments in five years. In 2004-05, the Eagles placed among the top five in six of the eight tournaments they played, including a pair of runner-up finishes in the NIU Invitational and El Diablo Invitational.
This past season the Eagles placed in the top ten in every match and took second in the 2006 FGCU Invitational. Senior Heather Hagerman competed in the NCAA South Regional Tournament for the second straight year.
Vaughn led the Eagles in the first intercollegiate event in any sport in school history back in September 2000. In just their second event ever, they rallied from 10 strokes back to win the Nova Southeastern Invitational. In addition, she coached the first two four-year athletes, Holly Eaton and Adrian Seacrest, in school history.
Vaughn earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and physical education from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where she was a scholarship student-athlete and team captain of the women's golf team.
A finalist in the 1994 U.S. Women’s Open, Vaughn played on the Futures Golf Tour in 1987-88, and 1991-93, and later on the LPGA Tour. A member of the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Division, she now resides in Naples.
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