Women's Golf
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Kailin Downs enters her sixth season as an assistant coach with the Oregon State women’s golf team.
Downs has been part of some of the best individual performances in Oregon State history, including the single-season scoring average record by Seshia Telles in 2012-13 and two of the lowest three-round scores during that same season. Student-athletes have garnered Pac-12 All-Academic honors 13 times in her first five years.
Downs helped lead the Oregon State women’s golf team to one of their best seasons in school history in 2011-12 that included four top-five and six top-10 finishes in their 12 tournaments to earn its first trip to the NCAA Regionals in six years. The Beavers shot school-record 2-under 282 in the second round of the Stanford Intercollegiate in Stanford Calif., and equaled their second-best round in school history with an even-par 288 in the final round of the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate in Half Moon Bay, Calif.
Downs arrived at Oregon State in April 2008 after spending two years competing on the LPGA’s developmental tour and the Cactus Tour after a very successful college career at the University of New Mexico where she was a two-time All-American, two-time Mountain West Conference Player of the Year and a four-time All-Mountain West Conference selection.
She also excelled in the classroom and received the Edith Cumming Munson Award given annually to the All-American with the highest GPA. She earned NGCA All-American Scholar honors three times, was named to the All-Mountain West Conference All-Academic team four times and was twice named the Female Athlete of the Year. She graduated from New Mexico in 2005 with a degree in Business-General Management.
Downs won the Women’s Western Junior Amateur in 2001, the Oregon Women’s Amateur, Oregon Women’s Stroke Play and Pacific Northwest Women’s Amateur in 2002 and the Women’s Trans Amateur in 2003. She also advanced to the round of 16 at the 2004 U.S. Women’s Amateur and 2005 U.S. Women’s Public Links.
She won 24 tournaments at Mountain View High School in Bend, Ore., and was named to the All-State First Team two times.
