Caroline O'Connor Head coach Caroline O'Connor enters her 14th year at the helm of the Stanford women's golf program, which has become a perennial postseason presence under her guidance. O'Connor has guided her teams to numerous tournament victories during her tenure. In 2000, she led the Cardinal to a second-place finish at the NCAA Championships- the school's best national finish in program history. Stanford captured the 1999 Pac-10 Championship and posted back-to-back runner-up finishes over the next two seasons. The 2006-07 campaign was one of the most memorable during O'Connor's tenure, as Stanford advanced to the NCAA Championships for the 19th consecutive season. The Cardinal finished fifth overall, representing the club's first top-10 finish since a ninth-place effort back in 2001. Stanford qualified for the NCAA Championships after tying Oklahoma State for first place at NCAA Regionals. The Cardinal finished sixth at Pac-10 Championships and also captured team titles at the Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational and Peg Barnard Collegiate. O'Connor was named head coach of the Stanford women's golf program on an interim basis on February 1, 1996, and took over as head coach at the outset of the 1996-97 season. O'Connor was a member of the NCAA Women's Golf Committee from 2000 through 2004 and was voted the 2000-01 West Region Coach of the Year by the NGCA (National Golf Coaches Association). She was a Co-Chair of the NCAA Regional Advisory Committee for five years and has been a member of the Golf World collegiate rankings committee, College Golf Foundation rankings committee and the NCGA fundraising committee. Before coming to Stanford, O'Connor was a golf instructor at the Academy of Golf in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., for three years. She also played on the Futures Professional Women's Golf Tour for two years. In 1990, O'Connor earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from St. Francis College, where she was also the school's student body president. She enjoys skiing, water sports, traveling, reading and playing the piano. She resides in Santa Clara.