Former UCLA Women’s Golf Coach Retires On Highest Note Possible
Longtime UCLA women's golf head coach Carrie Forsyth is stepping down from her post after a decorated 24-year career that includes two national championships (plus three runners-up), six Pac-12 titles and 106 All-American award winning golfers, and two ANNIKA Award winners in Alison Lee and Bronte Law. She's also coached five Pac-12 Golfers of the Year.
She'll be staying in the UCLA family, however. According to Arrman Kyaw of Diverse Education, Forsyth will now serve as special assistant to Martin Jarmond at The Alice and Nahum Lainer Family Director of Athletics.
Forsyth noted that despite her new gig, she hopes to continue to guide the women's golf program for years to come.
"I'm an old-timer. I've been around forever,” Forsyth said. “So I think I have some knowledge and some information and things that can be helpful to our younger generation of coaches that are coming up. Hopefully, my new role will allow me to be helpful in basically whatever way the department needs me to."
In May, UCLA announced that Alicia Um Holmes would become just the fifth coach in the program's history.
Forsyth, a former player on the team during her own NCAA tenure from 1989-1993, was named to the GCA Coaches Hall of Fame in 2011. She was also named the 2011 Golfweek National Coach of the Year and the WGCA’s 2004 National Coach of the Year.
“It's just a phenomenal place to be," Forsyth said. “The people that I've been able to work with, the athletes that have put their trust in me over all of these years, those people are really meaningful,” she continued. “Those relationships and those people, those are the things that really bring me joy and pride, more so than the wins and the accomplishments."
Forsyth's six Pac-12 and Pac-10 Coach of the Year awards rank as the most ever, per Thuc Nhi Nguyen of The Los Angeles Times.