Jenny Gleason
School: UNCG (SoCon member 1997-present)
Sport: Women's Golf
Years Competed: 1999-2003
Major/Degree: 2003, Finance/Insurance and Real Estate
Relevant Statistics
- Won three collegiate tournaments
- Still holds five of the top 20 36-hole scores in UNCG history; holds two spots in the top 15 on the Spartans' 54-hole score list
Conference Honors/Awards
- SoCon 100th Anniversary team
- Four-time first-team All-SoCon selection (2000-03); only four-time All-SoCon selection in UNCG women's golf history
- Posted four top-10 finishes at the SoCon Championship in her career, including a runner-up finish as a freshman in 2000; also finished eighth at the SoCon tournament in 2001, fourth in 2002 and seventh in 2003
- SoCon Golfer of the Week (March 13, 2002)
National Honors/Awards
Played in the 1999 and 2003 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship and the 2003 U.S. Women’s Public Links Championship; Invited to 2003 NCAA East Regional
Academic Awards/Honors
Academic All-SoCon (2002-03)
Professional Career
- Turned professional in 2003, qualifying for the LPGA Tour on her first attempt
- Spent nine years on the LPGA Tour
- Played in the U.S. Open in 2004 and 2010
- Earned three victories on the Symetra Tour, winning 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.
Other Notable Information
- Served as an assistant coach at Kent State from 2019-21, helping the Golden Flashes win nine tournaments, including the program’s 22nd consecutive Mid-American Conference title
- Spent three years (2016-19) as an assistant at Texas State after the conclusion of her professional playing career
- Helped recruit and coached three All-American Scholars, one Sun Belt Conference Golfer of the Year, one Sun Belt Freshman of the Year, three first-team all-conference players and two second-team all-conference honorees
- Was the Executive Director of the Angela Stanford Foundation in Fort Worth, Texas, from 2011-15; Foundation was created to provide scholarships to students whose parents could no longer send them to college due to the burden of medical bills from cancer treatment
- Prior to working at Texas State, served as an instructor for the Air Force Golf program held on bases around the world including in the United States, Korea, and Japan; traveled the world and performed clinics for troops