Jenny Brunn Named Memphis Women's Golf Coach

Jenny Bruun

The University of Memphis has recommended Jenny Bruun for the Head Women’s Golf Coach. Bruun will replace Sheryl Maize at the helm of the Lady Tiger program. Bruun has spent the past two seasons as the Assistant Golf Coach at Campbell University, where she has helped the Campbell men’s and women’s golf teams to four tournament victories, including the 2004 Atlantic Sun Women’s Championship.

“We are very pleased to have Jennifer Bruun join the University of Memphis athletic family,” said Athletic Director R.C. Johnson. “She has an outstanding resume as both a player and young coach and I’m sure she will have the same success at Memphis that she has had at Campbell.”

Bruun, a former University of Minnesota standout, spent the last two seasons at Campbell assisting with both the men’s and women’s teams. The 2004 women’s team won the Atlantic Sun Championship and qualified for their second straight NCAA Regional, finishing 14th in the team competition and having an individual golfer finish 12th overall.

During Bruun’s first year with the Fighting Camel program, Campbell won four tournament titles, had six players earn all-conference honors and had senior Sharon O’Neill named the A-Sun Conference Women’s Golfer of the Year. In 2004, eight CU golfers were named all-conference while head coach John Crooks was tabbed as the A-Sun Women’s Coach of the Year.

Bruun was a three-year starter on the Golden Gopher golf team and played in 32 events during her collegiate career. She earned Minnesota’s Patty Berg Academic Award in each of her four years and was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree. She was the team’s low player in four tournaments in 2001, including the NCAA Central Regional. Named Minnesota’s Outstanding Female Athlete in 2001, Bruun earned her B.S. in kinesiology that same year, before graduating from Minnesota with an M.Ed. in physical education in July of 2002. Also a solid prep basketball player, Bruun chose a golf scholarship at Minnesota over a basketball scholarship at Iowa State.

Bruun takes over a Memphis women’s golf program that last appeared in the NCAA Regionals in 2001-02. The Lady Tigers finished in eighth place at the Conference USA Championships in April, where senior Jennifer Jaszek capped her Lady Tiger career tied for 16th.

“The Lady Tiger golf program has had a history of participating in the NCAA Tournament and I am certain that Coach Bruun will return the team to that lofty status,” Johnson said.

Bruun is anticipated to begin at the U of M, June 1st.