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SAN ANTONIO —UTSA head women's golf coach Summer Batiste has named Daniel Park as assistant coach.
"I'm thrilled to have Daniel join the Roadrunner Family," Batiste said. "With experience in international junior golf and working for the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour, Daniel will help bolster our recruiting efforts. His passion for the game of golf and developing student-athletes is unmatched, and he shares similar core values as our program and athletics department. He will be a great addition to our staff."
"Having been presented the opportunity to work with Coach Batiste and be a coach of such a talented and competitive team, I cannot wait to get started," Park said. "The philosophies behind UTSA academics and athletics resonate strongly with me, and I hope to help in all aspects of UTSA women's golf achieving its program goals."
Park comes to San Antonio from Auburn, Ala., where he held dual roles as a golf coach at Auburn High School since February 2017 and a marketing and tournament director for the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour since August of last year.
While at Auburn High, he helped the Tigers to three tournament titles in 2018 and helped tutor NCAA Division
I signees and prospects.
Park also was a tournament services intern with Global Golf Management in Opelika, Ala., where he helped promote event opportunities and assisted with general operations during PGA Tour's Barbasol Championship in 2017.
Park also was a public speaking instructor with Auburn University's Communication Department from 2015 to 2017 while he completed his master's degree in communication.
A former standout collegiate golfer for Alabama State, Park helped the Hornets to three consecutiveconference championships in 2013-15. He collected first-team all-conference honors and was a Cleveland/Srixon All-American Scholar as a senior in 2015.
Park was a President's Award recipient and a member of the Dean's Honor Roll each year of college. He graduated summa cum laude with a 3.94 GPA and a bachelor's degree in communication with a minor in finance in May 2015 from Alabama State.
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