Jenny Gleason Named Women’s Golf Assistant Coach
8/5/2019 2:56:00 PM | Women's Golf
KENT, Ohio- Kent State University women's golf coach Lisa Strom announced the addition of Jenny Gleason as the assistant coach of the Golden Flashes' golf team on Monday.
Gleason spent the previous three seasons as the assistant coach under Lisa Strom with the Texas State women's golf team.
She helped recruit and coached three All-American Scholars, one Sun Belt Conference Golfer of the Year, one Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year, three First Team All-Conference players, and two Second Team All-Conference honorees.
Gleason was instrumental in Texas State's recent success. The 2018-19 season was historic for the Bobcats. In her third season at TXST, Gleason helped guide the Bobcats to several school records, including: average score (296.70), score vs. par (+10.30), rounds at or below par (five), Par-4 scoring (4.24), Par-5 scoring (5.04), lowest team round (278, -10), and lowest 54-hole score (850, -14). The Bobcats also carded 365 birdies on the season to rank second in program history. Texas State finished with the highest national ranking to date under Strom/Gleason after closing the season at No. 84.
Gleason comes to Kent State with nine years pf professional experience on the LPGA Tour, while also garnering three victories on the Symetra Tour. Gleason won back-to-back titles at the 2005 Lima Memorial Hospital FUTURES Classic and Michelob FUTURES Charity Golf Classic before earning her third title in 2012 at the Northeast Delta International.
In addition to competing on Tour, Gleason was the Executive Director of the Angela Stanford Foundation from 2011 to 2015. Based out of Fort Worth, Texas, the Angela Stanford Foundation was created to provide scholarships to students whose parents could no longer send them to college due to the devastating burden of medical bills from cancer treatment. Two non-profits that the Angela Stanford Foundation benefits are Lena Pope Home and The First Tee of Fort Worth.
Prior to joining Strom at Texas State in 2016, Gleason served as an instructor for the Air Force Golf program held on bases around the world including in the United States, Korea, and Japan. Gleason traveled the world and performed clinics for our troops.
Gleason attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she was an Academic All-Southern Conference player. While at UNCG, Gleason won three collegiate tournaments and was the team captain during the 2002-03 season. A native of Clearwater, Fla., Gleason graduated Cum Laude with a degree in finance from UNCG in 2003.
