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Elliot Gealy

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  • Hired in November of 2014 as the Director of Men's and Women's Golf
  • Entering his ninth full season at LR
  • Led the Bears to 14 team wins, six on the men's side and eight on the women's 
  • Led the 2017 women's team to the South Atlantic Conference Championship
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  • Led individuals to NCAA Regional appearances in 2017, 2019 and 2021
  • The 2018 women's team finished ranked No. 23 in the nation and advanced to the first NCAA postseason appearance since 2003
  • Women's team was also nationally ranked in 2020, 2021 and 2022 seasons
  • Men's team finished second at 2023 SAC Championship, their best finish since winning it in 2006
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  • Two players (Abbey Hartsell 2018 and Ainee O'Connor 2020) earned All-American accolades and Hartsell would participate in the 2018 US Women's Amateur
  • O'Connor would sweep all major SAC awards in 2020, earning Golfer of the Year, Elite 20 Award and Student-Athlete of the Year
  • O'Connor became the first women's golfer in program history to sweep all three major awards
  • O'Connor became the first golf student-athlete to ever earn CoSIDA Academic All-American honors when she earned Third Team honors in 2020
  • Gealy coached three players (O'Connor, Megan Robb, Beatriz Espelosin) to All-Conference accolades in 2020, the first time LR placed three on the All-SAC team since 2007
  • Has had at least one student-athlete be named WGCA All-American scholar in each of the past six years
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  • Spent two seasons as the Head Men's and Women's Golf Coach at Pfeiffer University
  • Also worked at the Mike Bender Golf Academy in Lake Mary, Florida and Seoul, South Korea in 2009 and 2010
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Career B
  • Four-year letterwinner at Clemson University where he won a pair of Atlantic Coast Conference Championships and was a three-year Academic All-ACC honoree (1996-98)
  • Was the leading money winner in 2004 on the Hooters Tour and won 11 events: five on the Hooters Tour, three on the Tar Heel Tour, two in the Hooters Winter Series and one on the Tear Trop Tour
  • Gealy won the 2004 Hooters and Tar Heel Tour Championship
  • Played on the Nationwide, Hooters, Tar Heel and Tear Drop Tours for 13 years (1999-2012)
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Personal B
  • Graduated from Clemson in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in marketing
  • Gealy's father Sam is the long-time men's and women's golf coach at conference rival Catawba
  • Gealy and his wife Julie have a daughter (Catherine) and son (Ethan)

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