Karen Mayson Bahnsen (born October 11, 1960) is a former college
golf
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coach and player from the United States.
Early years
Bahnsen was born in
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile ( , ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 187,041 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, down from 195,111 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 cens ...
. She attended
McGill-Toolen Catholic High School in Mobile.
College career
Bahnsen was the first women's golfer to receive an
athletic scholarship to attend LSU in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana's most populous parish—the equivalent of counties i ...
, where she played for the Lady Tigers golf team from 1980 to 1983.
[LSUsports.net, Women's Golf, Coaches]
Karen Bahnsen
Retrieved June 9, 2011. As a Tiger, she participated in two
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was founded in 1971 to govern collegiate women's athletics in the United States and to administer national championships (see AIAW Champions). It evolved out of the Commission on Interc ...
(AIAW) and one
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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(NCAA) nation championship tournaments.
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Coaching career
Bahnsen was head coach of the Lady Tigers from 1985 to 2018. Her teams recorded twenty-eight team titles and twenty-eight individual titles. Her 1992 Lady Tigers won the 1992 SEC championship, and have qualified for the NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...
Championship Tournament eleven times, including 1986, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Bahnsen's 2011 team finished third in the NCAA national championship tournament, and golfer Austin Ernst won the NCAA individual championship.[National Golf Coaches Association, Honors & Awards]
Coaches Hall of Fame
Retrieved June 10, 2011.
On May 25, 2018, it was announced that Bahnsen was stepping down as LSU women's golf coach and was taking a position in the Tiger Athletic Foundation
The Tiger Athletic Foundation (TAF) is a private, non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting Louisiana State University (LSU) and its athletics program. It is the primary source of private funding for LSU athletics and contributions to TAF ...
.
Personal
She is married to David "Bo" Bahnsen, a senior associate athletic director
An athletic director (commonly "athletics director" or "AD") is an administrator at many American clubs or institutions, such as colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and ...
at LSU. They have a son and a daughter.
References
External links
LSU Lady Tigers bio
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LSU Lady Tigers golf coaches
Sportspeople from Mobile, Alabama
Golfers from Alabama
1960 births
Living people