Jesse Lawley - Women's Golf Coach

Jesse Lawley

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
jelawley@uab.edu
Phone:
256-613-6123

UAB Director of Athletics Mark Ingram announced the hiring of Jesse Lawley as the new head coach of the UAB Women’s golf program on Aug. 23, 2022.

A former Blazer student-athlete from 2013-2015, Lawley comes back to the southside after five seasons as head coach of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. Lawley was the UAB team captain in the 2014-2015 season and earned multiple C-USA Academic Awards along with being named to the UAB President’s list multiple times. She was also the recipient of the Collat School of Business Outstanding GPA in Management Award.

Lawley coached Lipscomb to top five finishes at the ASUN Golf Championship with a fourth place finish in 2021 and a third place finish in 2022. Throughout her five seasons, Lipscomb won three tournaments along with two individual wins.

Under her guidance, Lipscomb had four golfers named ASUN golfer of the week, one golfer named to the 2018 ASUN All-Academic Team, one golfer named to the 2018 ASUN All-Freshman Team, and coached eleven WGCA All-American Scholars. This past season, Lipscomb recorded the 13^th best team GPA in the country, five academic All-Americans, two golfers named ASUN All-Conference team and the ASUN Freshman of the Year.

Prior to her arrival at Lipscomb, Lawley spent two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Berry College in Georgia.

Lawley is also actively playing golf as well. She won back-to-back Tennessee Women’s Mid-Amateur Golf Championship titles in 2019-2020 and won the 2020 Tennessee Women’s Four-Ball Championship. In 2021, she was named to the Tennessee Ryder Cup Event as well as the Simmons Bank Cup.