With three national titles, Arizona has one of the most successful women’s golf programs in the country. Coach Laura Ianello has been a part of two of those three championships, as a player in 2000 and coach in 2018.
But she’s also experienced the lows of collegiate golf like last season, when the Wildcats failed to qualify for nationals for the first time since 2017. That was the third time in her 17 years coaching the program, the last 13 as head coach, and missing out last year helped frame her reaction to the UA getting back in this year.