Julie Church is a Lyon
College alumna and is in her seventh year as head golf coach and assistant
women's basketball coach at Lyon.
Church, a Blytheville,
Ark. native, graduated from Lyon in 2004 with a B.A. in Mathematics and
received a master's degree in Kinesiology from the University of Central
Arkansas.
She was an assistant
women's golf coach at UCA from 2004-06 where she coached two NCAA Division II
All-Americans and two academic All-Americans. The women's golf team ranked No.
4 in the nation among NCAA Division II squads and won seven consecutive
tournaments in 2005, including the Gulf South Conference championship.
Church was a four-year
letter winner in both golf and basketball at Lyon from 2000 to 2004 and was a
Winnie Marable Award winner for the school's most outstanding female athlete.
In basketball, Church
captained the team and led the squad in 3-point shooting percentage her senior
year.
The Blytheville
native was the first scholarship women's golfer at Lyon, where she was a
three-time All-TranSouth Conference selection, made an All-Region team, was
selected to the All-National Tournament team and was a NAIA Honorable Mention
All-American. She also participated in three NAIA National Tournaments -- with
a high finish of sixth place in 2003 - and was a member of three TranSouth
Conference Championship teams and one regional championship team.
