STILLWATER — The phone call was hard to make for Melissa Luellen and a shock to receive for Courtney Jones.
More than 15 years later, the two can look back and laugh about the day they were on the phone with each other, both crying, after Luellen — then Melissa McNamara — broke the news that she was leaving her position as the golf coach at the University of Tulsa.
“It was the very last week in July, and I was supposed to come to Tulsa in about three weeks,” said Jones, the Oklahoma State coach who Luellen had recruited to Tulsa from Lake Quivira, Kansas.