A former standout player for the UTSA women’s golf program, Summer Batiste recently completed her ninth season as head coach.
During her time leading the program, Batiste has guided the Roadrunners to seven tournament titles — including a pair of conference championships — and six NCAA postseason team and or individual appearances. A two-time conference coach of the year, she has coached her student-athletes to three individual league crowns and 19 all-conference certificates. Under her leadership, Camryn Carreon became the first Roadrunner to advance to the NCAA Championships in 2022 and she repeated that feat in 2023 after claiming the NCAA San Antonio Regional individual crown.
UTSA also has taken care of business in the classroom with six College Sports Communicators Academic All-District selections and 15 Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar awards during her tenure. In fact, all six members of the 2024-25 roster received that honor. The program placed 37 student-athletes on the Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll over a six-year stretch while collecting a total of 14 C-USA Academic Medals for a 3.75-or-better cumulative GPA. Since joining the American Conference in 2023, the program has earned 14 selections to the league’s all-academic team. Additionally, the Roadrunners have posted a multiyear Academic Progress Rate of 1,000 three times during her tenure and that figure has been above 990 during each of her years overseeing the program.
Batiste guided the Roadrunners to a conference championship and an NCAA postseason appearance in her first season at the helm in 2017-18. UTSA captured the 2018 Conference USA team title with an 874 to finish 13 strokes ahead of runner-up UTEP behind a 1-2 finish from Julie Houston and Ana Gonzalez. The Roadrunners advanced to the NCAA Austin Regional, where they finished 12th with an 892 (298-295-299) behind a 29th-place tie from Gonzalez. Batiste, who led UTSA to four top-five finishes during the 2017-18 campaign, was voted Conference USA Coach of the Year by her peers. Houston collected first-team all-conference honors and Gonzalez was named the league’s Freshman of the Year and second-team all-conference. Additionally, Houston and Nikki Long garnered Conference USA All-Academic Team accolades.
Batiste led the Roadrunners to three team titles, including their second straight conference crown, and four additional top-five finishes in 2018-19. UTSA won the season-opening Lady Maxwell Invitational and also finished atop the leaderboard at the Texas State Invitational. The Roadrunners successfully defended their league championship in April, as Gonzalez fired a 9-under-par 207 (69-67-71) to win by five shots and give UTSA back-to-back conference medalists, while the team carded a 10-under 854 to finish 12 strokes ahead of runner-up Charlotte. The Roadrunners advanced to their second straight NCAA postseason, finishing 14th at the Norman Regional. Gonzalez garnered first-team all-conference honors and Houston picked up second-team accolades in addition to earning a spot on the Conference USA All-Academic Team for the second straight year.
In 2019-20, Batiste guided UTSA to a pair of tournament titles and an individual crown in a shortened season that saw Gonzalez collect third-team all-conference accolades. The Roadrunners captured their second straight Texas State Invitational championship behind individual medalist Hannah Holzmann in February. The following month, UTSA won the team title at its annual home tournament — the Maryb S. Kauth Invitational — behind a 2-3 finish from Carreon and Holzmann. That event was the last of the campaign, as all spring sport competition and championships were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In her fourth season, UTSA posted a pair of runner-up team finishes and earned an at-large berth to the NCAA postseason, where they finished 13th at the Louisville Regional. Carreon and Holzmann garnered second-team all-conference honors, while Gonzalez was voted to the third team.
In 2021-22, Batiste led UTSA to six top-five team finishes including the Chattanooga Classic title and runner-up showings at the Conference USA Championship and Maryb S. Kauth Invitational. The Roadrunners earned their fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA postseason with an at-large bid to the Franklin Regional in Tennessee, finishing a program-best sixth with an 875 (293-294-288). Four Roadrunners landed on the all-conference teams with Carreon and Gonzalez collecting first-team accolades and Hunter Nugent and Nicole Polivchak receiving third-team nods. Carreon was the league runner-up and she tied for fourth at the Franklin Regional to earn a spot in the NCAA Championships in Scottsdale, Arizona, becoming the first UTSA golfer to advance to that stage of the postseason.
In 2022-23, Batiste guided the Roadrunners to five top-10 team finishes, including a third-place showing at the Conference USA Championship. Individually, Carreon was named first-team all-conference and captured the NCAA San Antonio Regional individual title by six shots, firing a 10-under 206 (71-67-68) on TPC San Antonio's Oaks Course to earn a spot in the NCAA Championships for the second straight year. It was her second win of the spring, as the San Antonio native also claimed top honors at the Trinity Forest Invitational in March with a program-record 14-under 202 that was capped with a 7-under 65. Additionally, Daniela Abonce collected third-team all-conference accolades as a true freshman, while Morgan Ellison was named to the Academic All-District Team and joined Lauren Rios as WGCA All-American Scholars.
In 2023-24, Batiste guided UTSA to six top-five finishes and sent two individuals to the NCAA postseason for the first time in program history. Abonce became the sixth Roadrunner — and third in the Batiste era — to capture a conference title when she fired a 9-under 207 (66-72-69) to win the American Conference title. Abonce and Carreon, who both were named to the all-conference team, earned berths to the NCAA Bryan Regional where they finished 17th and 37th, respectively. The Roadrunners broke 15 school records during the 2023-24 campaign, including low round (-15/273), low 36-hole total (557) and low 54-hole total (837). Carreon broke or tied 10 UTSA standards in her final season, including low round (-8/64), single-season scoring average (71.19) and career average (73.12).
In 2024-25, Batiste led the Roadrunners to eight top-10 finishes, including a trio of top-five showings. UTSA opened the season by placing third at the Badger Invitational behind a third-place tie from Abonce. The Roadrunners closed the campaign with a seventh-place effort in the American Conference Championship on the strength of top-15 finishes from Ellison (T-15th) and Rios (T-13th).
In 2025-26, Batiste guided UTSA to seven top-10 team finishes, including a pair of third-place efforts. The Roadrunners claimed sole possession of third at the American Conference Championship, their highest placing since joining the league three years earlier, on the strength of a trio of top-seven individual finishes from Victoria Schuldt (T-5th), Abonce (T-7th) and Rios (T-7th). All three of those Roadrunners garnered all-conference honors following the season.
Batiste was named the third head coach in program history in July 2017 after a three-year tenure as an assistant coach.
In her third and final season as assistant coach in 2016-17, Batiste helped guide the Roadrunners to four top-five finishes. UTSA won the Texas State Invitational, finished second at the Hawkeye El Tigre Invitational, claimed third at the Conference USA Championship and took fifth at the BYU at Entrada Classic. Long and Aimee Ponte garnered second-team all-conference honors, while Houston was named to the third team.
In 2015-16, Batiste helped lead UTSA to five top-five finishes, including the Islanders Classic team title and a fourth-place effort at the Conference USA Championship. Houston, who was named Conference USA Freshman of the Year and second-team all-league, became the first Roadrunner to win back-to-back tournaments when she came out on top at the All There August Challenge and Islanders Classic in February. Long also was named second-team all-conference.
Batiste helped guide a young squad to four top-10 finishes in 2014-15, including a pair of third-place efforts in the final month of the campaign. Led by a sixth-place showing from Ponte and a tie for seventh by Long, the Roadrunners claimed the bronze at the Conference USA Championship. Brogan Townend earned third-team all-conference accolades for the second consecutive year.
Prior to her time as an assistant coach, Batiste was an assistant golf professional at San Antonio Country Club.
Batiste was a four-year letterwinner from 2007-12 and served as team captain her final two seasons. She earned second-team All-Southland Conference honors in both 2010 and 2011. She 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.
A native of Spring, Texas, Batiste was a four-year letterwinner at Klein Collins High School, where she was a three-time medalist, the district runner-up and an eighth-place finisher at the regional tournament as a senior.
Batiste earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from UTSA in May 2012.