NSU women’s golf coach builds off last year’s success

As Heather Wall enters her eighth season as head coach of the NSU women’s golf team, her knowledge and love for golf has only grown since her first time swinging a golf club.

After participating in various junior golf tournaments, Wall brought her golf skills to Florida Southern College, where she won a national championship and set several school records. She was inducted into FSC’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

Post college, Wall played golf at a professional level from 2009 to 2015 before starting her coaching career.

“Coaching was always in the back of my mind because I know the game well and I love the idea of helping young people develop to prepare them for the real world,” Wall said.

COURTESY OF NSU ATHLETICS. Heather Wall is the NSU women’s golf coach.

Wall began coaching at the University of Arkansas Monticello, where she was head coach for both the men’s and women’s golf

programs. As a first-time coach, Wall encountered numerous difficulties, especially because she coached both teams with no assistants on staff. Wall said despite this, she persevered and improved both programs during her four-year coaching tenure at UAMONT.

Wall said she was appreciative of her time at UAMONT and excited to bring that extensive experience to NSU. She was hired as head coach for the NSU women’s golf team in 2016.

“All of my family is in Florida, so I was eager to get out of the cold and come back,” Wall said. “Having played at Florida Southern, I was familiar with NSU’s beautiful campus and great athletic program, so everything about this school was very appealing to me.”

Since 2016, she has led the program to regionals five times and nationals three times. She also holds 23 career wins, which places her as second all-time in total coaching wins at NSU.

Golf is as much a mental sport as a physical one, and Wall attributes part of her coaching success to the unique perspective she has on the mental aspect of the game.

“I think it is helpful that I still play competitive golf myself. I still play in tournaments and love to compete,” Wall said. “It helps me because I can relate to what [the players] are feeling while they are competing. I know exactly what they are going through, so I can help them through whatever they need.”

Coming off a second-place finish at the Division II National Championship last season, Wall is confident in her team’s capability to continue succeeding.

“The team has great chemistry, and the girls want to win this year. We just won our first tournament, so we are off to a great start, but it is a very long season,” Wall said. “There will be peaks and valleys, but we will get through them together. I am very excited about this year.”

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