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With the support of the Thunderbird Golf Society, the UBC Thunderbirds first entered the NAIA conference in 1999 and the women’s golf team immediately earned a 2nd place finish. Coach Ann Holmes knew the team was capable of improving to win the title the next year and implemented innovative strength training as well as introduced mental performance to their program.
Ann stated: “And so we did lots of little things and that team of athletes should be congratulated for all their hard work and all the interesting and new and different things we had instilled in the 2000-01 program. They had so much confidence. The air and atmosphere of the team was just about taking it low. They had a lot of success that day and the next day they did the practice round and then the final national championship started right after that.”
The team’s dedication and focus on winning the title paid off and the T-Birds won the 2001 NAIA National Golf Championship by 34 strokes and earned a place in the record books as the first Canadian golf team to win a NAIA golf title and Ann was recognized as the first Canadian program coach to win Coach of the Year honours. This group of young student-athletes was exceptional because they did everything asked of them that season.
This historic win set off a string of trophies for UBC women’s golf with titles in 2001, 2004, 2010, 2012 and 2019, making the program the 2nd most decorated team in NAIA history.
2000/01 Roster: Katie Duke, Lindsday (Jackson) MacDermott, Jill McAuley, Liz Ream, Kelly Reid, Sarah (Moodie) Stewart, Jackie (Hays) Touchet
Assistant Coach: Maija (McCauley) Salmon
Head Coach: Ann Holmes
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