Jenny Gleason

Jenny Gleason

Assistant coach Jenny Gleason spent three seasons (2016-19) under head coach Lisa Strom with the Texas State women's golf team.

Gleason joined Lisa Strom's Bobcat staff in 2016 with nine years of professional experience on the LPGA Tour, while also garnering three victories on the Symetra Tour.

The 2018-19 season was historic for the Bobcats. Gleason, in her third season at TXST, helped guide the Bobcats to several school records, including: average score (296.70), schore vs. par (+10.30), rounds at or below par (five), Par-4 scoring (4.24), Par-5 scoring (5.04), lowest team round (278, -10), and lowest 54-hole score (850, -14). The Bobcats also carded 365 birdies on the season to rank second in program history. Texas State finished with the highest national ranking to date under Strom/Gleason after closing the season at No. 84.

Texas State finished in the top-5 in five of the 10 tournaments the team competed in during the '18-'19 campaign, including a victory at the Cardinal Challenge and a runner-up finish at the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Championship. Under the tutelage of Strom and Gleason, Anne-Charlotte Mora won her first collegiate tournament at the UTRGV Invitational and would advance to the 2019 NCAA Auburn Regional as an individual.

During the 2017-18 campaign, the Bobcats claimed a team tournament title for the first time during Gleason's run as at Texas State. TXST won the UTRGV Invitational by 21 strokes over the second-place team, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. As a team, the Bobcats finished in the top-10 six tournaments, including a fourth place finish at the Sun Belt Championship.

Individually, Gleason helped guide both Anne-Charlotte Mora and Sasikarn Somboonsup to All-Sun Belt first team honors. Somboonsup took home individual championships at two events, the UTRGV Invitational and at The Dickson.

The 2016-17 campaign, Gleason's first at Texas State, was a successful one as the Bobcats finished the with a 299.58 scoring average, which ranked as the third-best in program history along with a final Golfstat ranking of 88th. The Bobcats carded seven top-10 tournament showings, including a third-place (tied) finish at the Sun Belt Championship.

With the help of Gleason, freshman Sasikarn Somboonsup earned a plethora of individual awards, including Sun Belt Conference Freshman and Newcomer of the Year, First Team All-Sun Belt and Sun Belt All-Tournament Team honors. Somboonsup won both the Web.com Intercollegiate and the Sun belt Championship, becoming just the fifth Bobcat in program history to win multiple event in the same season. In addition to Somboonsup, sophomore Anne-Charlotte Mora earned First Team All-Sun Belt and Sun Belt All-Tournament Team plaudits, while Raksha Phadke collected Second Team All-Sun Belt honors. 

Gleason won back-to-back titles at the 2005 Lima Memorial Hospital FUTURES Classic and Michelob FUTURES Charity Golf Classic before earning her third title in 2012 at the Northeast Delta International.
 
In 2013, Gleason knocked in a hole-in-one on 14th hole at the R.R. Donnelley Founder’s Cup. To see the shot, click here.
 
In addition to competing on Tour, Gleason was the Executive Director of the Angela Stanford Foundation from 2011 to 2015. Based out of Fort Worth, Texas, the Angela Stanford Foundation was created to provide scholarships to students whose parents could no longer send them to college due to the devastating burden of medical bills from cancer treatment. Two non-profits that the Angela Stanford Foundation benefits are Lena Pope Home and The First Tee of Fort Worth.
 
For the last three years, Gleason has also been an instructor for the Air Force Golf program held on bases around the world including in the United States, Korea, and Japan. Gleason traveled the world and performed clinics for our troops. 
 
Gleason attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she was an Academic All-American and All-Southern Conference player. While at UNCG, Gleason won three collegiate tournaments and was the team captain during the 2002-03 season. A native of Clearwater, Fla., Gleason graduated Cum Laude with a degree in finance from UNCG in 2003.