Three straight years of last-place finishes in Big 12 Conference women’s golf have cost Kansas University coach Nicole Hollingsworth her job.
KU athletic director Al Bohl announced Wednesday that Hollingsworth had been fired.
An Indiana University grad and a member of the IU golf team from 1993-95, Hollingsworth came to Kansas in 1999 after spending three years as coach at Ohio University.
However, Hollingsworth, 30, never could lift the Jayhawks out of the conference cellar. In this spring’s Big 12 championships at Colbert Hills in Manhattan, Kansas finished 125 strokes behind league champ Oklahoma State and 20 strokes back of 11th place Colorado.
During her stint at KU, Hollingsworth’s teams have excelled in the classroom. Her 2001 team set a school grade-point average record with an overall mark of 3.41.
Janelle Martin, the KU athletic department’s senior woman administrator, will be in charge of the search process for a new coach.
