Brooke Burkhammer

Biography

Brooke Burkhammer enters her seventh season in 2022-23 in charge of the Marshall women’s golf team. She first took over as the interim head coach in the summer of 2016 and because of the team’s performance in the fall of 2016, the interim tag was removed and coach Burkhammer was in full charge of the program on November 29, 2016. Burkhammer has led Marshall to four tournament victories and six runner-up finishes over her career. She has had a player honored as all-conference twice, one all-academic team member (Kerri Parks, twice), one all-tournament team honoree and one freshman of the year. Her players have starred in the classroom as well with 13 different student-athletes honored a total of 33 times on the Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll (GPA of 3.00 or better) and 10 receive of the Conference USA Academic Medal for maintaining an overall GPA of 3.75 or better a total of 23 times. Torren Kalaskey was honored with the prestigious Jim Castaneda Postgraduate Scholarship award from C-USA in 2022. Burkhammer's players have been involved off the course as well in the community as she had two players honored by Conference USA with the Spring Spirit of Service Award (Torren Kalaskey - 2021, Jackie Schmidt - 2022). In 2021-22, the Herd was able to return to a normal schedule, after having two abbreviated seasons, competing in 10 events. Her players totaled two top 10 finishes, and nine in the top 20. The team’s best finish of the season was fourth overall at the Pirate Co