Shepherd Joins Ladies’s Golf as Assistant Coach

HARRISONBURG, Va. – Following an impressive beginner profession, Ivy Shepherd has joined the James Madison girls’s golf group as an assistant coach for the 2023-24 season, Head Coach Tommy Baker introduced on Wednesday morning.
 
“We’re very excited so as to add Ivy to this system,” Baker stated. “Her elite enjoying expertise and data of the sport will undoubtedly assist elevate this program to a different stage.”
 
Shepherd arrives in Harrisonburg after an impressive collegiate profession at Clemson and Kentucky, having spent 4 years with the Tigers earlier than transferring to Kentucky as a graduate switch for the 2022-23 season.
 
Initially hailing from Peachtree Metropolis, Ga., Shepherd was a two-time First Workforce All-Atlantic Coast Convention honoree at Clemson and holds three of the highest 9 single-season scoring averages in program historical past, having completed her profession there with a powerful 72.87 common.
 
She performed her manner inside the highest 40 of the Ladies’s World Beginner Rankings, incomes an invitation to the distinguished 2022 Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Beginner previous to her graduate season.
 
In her season at Kentucky, Shepherd was one in every of solely three gamers to play all 33 rounds for the Wildcats, main the trio with a 73.8 scoring common and tying for eighth place on the Clemson Invitational in a return to her undergraduate alma mater.
 
JMU, which opens its season subsequent week on the Boilermaker Traditional on Sept. 4-5, will return all however two gamers for the 2023-24 marketing campaign. The Dukes completed final season ranked No. 82 within the nation, its highest last rating since 2010.