Topeka, Kan., native Chris Gomez has been named head women's golf coach at Wichita State, Director of Athletics Jim Schaus announced June 18.
"Chris Gomez is a talented and energetic coach who is well served to lead our women's golf program," Schaus says. "He is a winner and will bring a winning attitude to our team." Says Gomez, "It's a pleasure to be back in Kansas and working at Wichita State. I plan to bring a championship program to Wichita."
For the past three years, Gomez, 39, has been the golf coach at Dakota Wesleyan University, where he guided the women's and men's golf teams to the best finishes in school history. DWU's women's golf team won the 2004 NAIA Region IV Tournament, its first such title, and finished 10th at the NAIA National Tournament, while the men's team saw its first postseason appearance in the 2004 Region IV Tournament.
In addition, he coached the women's program to its first-ever conference championships in both 2003 and 2004. In 2001-02, the women's team qualified for the regional championship for the first time in school history. In the past two seasons, two men and one women's golfer have been named Academic All-American.
Prior to coaching at Dakota Wesleyan, he played as both an amateur and competed on four professional tours. He has worked as a PGA professional for eight years in Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. As a club pro, he was part of a management team that helped build two professional shops.
A 1983 Topeka Haden High School graduate, he earned a bachelor's degree in business at Washburn University in Topeka. He played collegiate golf at Midland College, Houston Baptist and Kansas State. He won several collegiate tournaments and was named the Big 8 Golfer-of-the-Month in 1989. After his 1989 graduation, he began his professional tour, during which he won five professional tournaments and had numerous top-10 finishes over a 13-year span.
Gomez then began his career in education, coaching football, basketball and golf in public schools in Oklahoma and Texas.
— WSU Sports Information
