The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Women's Golf
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Ash begins his second season with Texas women's golf in the 2025-26 season.
In his first season in Austin in 2024-25, Ash helped Texas to three tournament victories and back to the NCAA Championship for the 33rd time in program history. The Longhorns qualified for match play at the NCAA Championship. Farah O’Keefe and Lauren Kim earned All-America honors from the Women’s Golf Coaches Association and Golfweek. O’Keefe, Kim and Cindy Hsu earned All-SEC honors. Each of the nine student-athletes on the team earned placement on the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Ash joined Ianello in Arizona for the 2023-24 season after serving as head coach for the men’s and women’s golf programs at his alma mater, Pacific University in Oregon.
In his first season as part of the program, the Wildcats picked up a handful of team and individual tournament victories that included a sweep of the titles at the Gator Invitational en route to an NCAA Regionals appearance. Arizona won the event as a team by 16 strokes as sophomore Nena Wongthanavimok picked up her first collegiate victory. Arizona also picked up an individual title in record-breaking fashion from Gile Bite Starkute in the 18-hole Match in the Desert event. Starkute’s 64 tied the lowest round in school history while the Cats’ 14-under performance.
Arizona had a trio of postseason conference award winners in 2023-24 led by Carolina Melgrati and Gile Bite Starkute’s inclusion on the Pac-12 All-Conference Team and Nena Wongthanavimok earning All-Conference Honorable Mention. Starkute and Wongthanavimok joined freshman Charlotte Back as Pac-12 Golfers of the Week for the Wildcats. Back went on to shoot a 64 at the Pac-12 Championships to tie Starkute for the lowest round in program history as well as matching USC’s Catherine Park for the best round ever at the Pac-12 Championships.
Ash was a member of the men’s golf team at Pacific from 2016 to 2020, being selected team captain in three of his four seasons for the Boxers. His instruction experience includes time with Griffin Golf and US Sports Camps and he was a caddy for three years at Chambers Bay Golf Course, the site of the 2015 U.S. Open Championship.
Ash earned his bachelor’s degree from Pacific in Business Administration, Management and Operations in 2020. He is a PGA Associate and progressing towards his PGA Class A membership.
