A former standout player for the UTSA women’s golf program, Summer Batiste is in her second year as assistant coach after spending the previous 14 months as a volunteer assistant coach for the Roadrunners.
In her first year with the program, Batiste helped tutor UTSA to a pair of top-five finishes in Spring 2014. Led by Fabiola Arriaga’s league-record-tying and UTSA-record 9-under-par 207 (68-69-70), the Roadrunners carded an 866 to take runner-up honors at their first-ever Conference USA Championship. UTSA established a program record for team scoring average (298.64) and finished 57th in the final Golfstat rankings. Arriaga became the first Roadrunner to collect first-team all-conference honors in all four seasons when she was named to the C-USA First Team, while Taylor Newlin and Brogan Townend both were picked for the third squad.
Last season, Batiste helped guide a young squad to four top-10 finishes, including a pair of third-place efforts in the final month of the campaign. Led by a sixth-place showing from Aimee Ponte and a tie for seventh by Nikki Long, the Roadrunners claimed the bronze at the C-USA Championship, their second-straight top-three performance. Townend earned third-team all-conference accolades for the second consecutive year.
Batiste was a four-year letterwinner in 2007-12 and served as team captain her final two seasons. She earned second-team All-Southland Conference honors in both 2010 and 2011. The Spring, Texas, native shared individual medalist honors with teammate Taylor Newlin at the 2012 Islander Classic after shooting a 75-74-71—220 and she posted four additional top-five finishes during her career. Batiste was a three-time winner of the UTSA Weight Room Warrior Award and her career scoring average of 77.64 ranks fourth on UTSA’s all-time list.
Batiste was a four-year letterwinner at Klein Collins High School, where she was a three-time medalist and the district runner-up and an eighth-place finisher at regionals as a senior.