| NCCGA National Champions (*Fall/^Spring) |
| 2023*, 2024^, 2024* |
| NCCGA Desert Regional Champions (*Fall/^Spring) |
| 2022^, 2023^, 2023*, 2024^, 2024*, 2025^ |
Yes, it’s only his 4th full year (and 5
th overall) overseeing the GCU Men’s and Women’s Club Golf teams, but Ryan Woodworth’s resume’ as a coach and leader on several levels at GCU is extensive… and extensively successful. Taking over the Lopes’ Club Golf teams in January of 2022, Woodworth’s first national stage as a head coach was a stellar one as the Lopes’ Men’s Club Golf team took 4
th at NCCGA Nationals that April. That was only a foreshadowing of the success Woodworth has brought to the team, since highlighted by a national runnerup finish at the 2023 NCCGA Spring National Championships, then an unprecedented clean sweep of the NCCGA Fall and Spring national titles last year.
It was natural for Woodworth to take over the squad when he did, since Woodworth has been an assistant golf pro at the GCU Golf Course for the past seven years and had worked with several of the student-athletes over that span. Before that, Woodworth was entrenched in GCU Athletics – but indoors this time – as a seven-year assistant coach for Lopes’ Men’s Volleyball, having the rare distinction of working for every head coach in that program’s history: Chad Speer, Jeremy Price and current head coach Matt Werle. Â
Woodworth’s coaching resume’ doesn’t stop there, since he was also an assistant volleyball coach at Phoenix College, Horizon High School in Scottsdale, and USA Volleyball High Performance.
So where did the love of golf come from for Woodworth? From moving from his southern California hometown of Sierra Madre to the Valley of the Sun when he was five years old and taking up the game two years later. Woodworth has refined his craft ever since and looks to do the same with his new club golf student-athletes in 2023-24. Woodworth and his wife of nine years, Brynn, reside in the Phoenix area.
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