By Bret Strelow for App State Sports. BOONE, N.C. – Brittany Dabule, who has helped orchestrate record-setting team and individual performances during her first seven seasons leading college golf programs, has been named the head coach of App State Women’s Golf, Director of Athletics Doug Gillin announced Tuesday.
“We are thrilled to welcome Brittany to the App State family,” Gillin said. “Her goals align with our core values of academic integrity, competitive excellence, social responsibility and a world-class experience. Brittany is proven in her ability to help young women succeed and grow on and off the course. We are excited about the future of App State Women’s Golf.”
App State will hold a press conference Friday morning on the fifth floor of the Mark E. Ricks Athletics Complex to introduce Dabule (pronounced duh-BULE). The press conference is scheduled for 10 a.m., and the event is open to members of the public who would like to attend, with lunch provided afterward.
Dabule spent the previous four seasons in Farmville, Va., as the head coach at Longwood University, which competes in the Big South Conference, after serving as the head coach at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort for three seasons from 2017-19.
“I am grateful and excited to be the next head coach of App State Women’s Golf,” Dabule said. “I want to thank Doug Gillin, Spencer Bridges, Katie Pate, Erika Cheung and everyone involved in the search committee for trusting me with the future of the program. Together, we will build an environment that allows our student-athletes to excel both on and off the golf course. I am eager to get started and develop the team into an elite program within the Sun Belt Conference.”
Along with an individual setting Longwood’s program record for lowest 54-hole scoring total under Dabule’s watch, the Lancers posted both their lowest single-round team score and best team finish at the Big South Conference Championship tournament in the last decade.
Longwood placed fifth at the Big South tournament in April to cap a 2022-23 season in which it recorded four top-five team finishes. A year earlier, the Lancers had the Big South Freshman of the Year.
During her three years at USC Beaufort, the Sand Sharks produced six All-America performances and made three consecutive NAIA national championship appearances, including back-to-back top-four national finishes in 2017 and 2018.
A native of Hilton Head Island, S.C., Dabule enjoyed a standout playing career at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C., and as a professional on The Cactus Tour in Arizona. She earned All-Big South honors at Winthrop in 2006 and was a finalist for the NCAA’s “Freshman Impact” Award during a career in which she helped the Eagles achieve four straight top-three finishes in the Big South.
After earning a sports management degree from Winthrop in 2010, she broke into the coaching ranks as the volunteer varsity girls’ golf coach at Hilton Head High School, co-founded the Sea Pines Montessori School’s “Hooked On Golf” program and served as an assistant golf professional at the famed Harbour Town Golf Links.
From 2012-15, Dabule served as an assistant golf professional at Mirabel Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., during the winters and the Glenwild Golf Club & Spa in Park City, Utah, during the summers. She qualified for The Cactus Tour in 2015 and continued playing through November 2016.
In addition to coaching a pair of multi-time All-Americans at USC Beaufort from 2017-19, Dabule led the Sand Sharks to a top-10 national finish in the coaches poll in each of her three years. They placed third nationally in 2017 and fourth nationally in 2018.
