{"id":13374,"date":"2025-07-21T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13374\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:09:15","slug":"womens-golf-adds-barnak-as-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13374\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Golf adds Barnak as assistant coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{6df07f5a-6955-4a30-bcda-c0eccb93e39f}{49}\" paraid=\"1468932814\">HUNTSVILLE \u2013 Sam Houston head golf coach <a href=\"https:\/\/gobearkats.com\/sports\/womens-golf\/roster\/coaches\/brandt-kieschnick\/1113\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1113\" target=\"_blank\">Brandt Kieschnick<\/a> has announced the hiring of Rosa Barnak as an assistant coach for the upcoming 2025-26 season.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are extremely excited to have Rosa Barnak join the Bearkat Golf Program,&#8221; Kieschnick said upon the hiring. &#8220;Rosa was a very good collegiate player and has already made a great impact in the coaching ranks. She helped coach both men and women at ULM to success and will bring a great work ethic and passion to our golf program.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barnak has spent the last three seasons on staff at ULM and will take over as the Assistant Men&#8217;s and Women&#8217;s Golf Coach for the Bearkats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{6df07f5a-6955-4a30-bcda-c0eccb93e39f}{121}\" paraid=\"440837005\">&#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled to be joining Sam Houston Golf and honored to become part of such a successful program,&#8221; Barnak said. &#8220;I look forward to contributing to the continued growth and success of the team, both on and off the course. I&#8217;m incredibly grateful to Coach Kieschnick and Coach Leroux for believing in me and giving me the opportunity to become a Bearkat.&#8221; \u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBarnak played collegiately at FAU where she saw tremendous success as a player. She left her mark on the Owls&#8217; program as its all-time leader in rounds played (107.5) and is second all-time in birdies (207) along with closing her career sixth all-time in scoring average.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After her playing days in Boca Raton, Barnak served as the graduate assistant coach at ULM from August 2023 \u2013 December 2024. She transitioned to the program&#8217;s golf analyst in January 2025 and served in this role until June of 2025. In her role at ULM, Rosa served the team in its development, strategy and team performance.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{6df07f5a-6955-4a30-bcda-c0eccb93e39f}{213}\" paraid=\"446711194\">Barnak&#8217;s efforts helped the ULM Women&#8217;s Golf team win the 2024 Great River Cup and helped coach the Warhawks to back-to-back match-play appearances and two straight semifinal appearances (2024, 2025) in the Sun Belt Conference Championship. \u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIn her stint in Monroe, Daniela Campillo qualified individually for the NCAA Gold Canyon Regional in 2024. That season the Warhawks finished No. 82 in the country with two players &#8211; Campillo and Anna Andrysove &#8211; receiving All-Sun Belt first and second team honors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{c2126541-aec8-4092-aafe-247c25c917a2}{38}\" paraid=\"725684465\">In her role as analyst, Barnak also, served the men&#8217;s team and helped ULM win two titles in the 2024-25 season. Individually, Louis Anceaux was selected to the All-Sun Belt first team before earning an individual to the NCAA Auburn Regional.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{c2126541-aec8-4092-aafe-247c25c917a2}{100}\" paraid=\"795748219\">A native of Humlebaek, Denmark, Barnak holds a marketing degree from Florida Atlantic University and is on schedule to receive a graduate degree from ULM in Business Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; HUNTSVILLE \u2013 Sam Houston head golf coach Brandt Kieschnick has announced the hiring of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-13374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}