TAMPA, Fla (December 26, 2024) – The South Florida women's golf team bolstered their roster for the 2025-26 season with the signing of Holly McLean, a transfer from the University of Oklahoma. McLean, a Cayman Islands native, brings an impressive resume to Tampa, highlighted by 12 international wins.
 
During her freshman year, McLean posted a top-10 finish at the Kyle Blaser Invitational. She recorded a low round of 70 at the 2023 Schooner Fall Classic while also setting her personal best 54-hole score of 213. Prior to beginning her collegiate career, McLean won the 2022 and 2023 Caribbean Amateur Golf Championship. She was also a member of both the Cayman Islands Junior and Women's National Team.
 
This Bulls' roster is filled with talent and international experience making South Florida the perfect place for Holly McLean to succeed.
 
ABOUT USF WOMEN'S GOLF
Tampa native AJ Newell, a former LPGA Tour Player and NCAA All-American, was named head coach of USF women's golf by Vice President for Athletics Michael Kelly on June 3, 2024.
 
Newell will look over leadership of the Bulls' program following a successful three-year stint as assistant coach at the University of Michigan, where she helped lead the Wolverines to three-straight NCAA Regional appearances, a 2022 Big Ten title, and the 2022 NCAA Championship Finals.
 
 In the record-setting 2023-24 campaign, the Bulls won three times and finished in the top four in nine of 10 events. The three wins are the most in a season since four 2011-12. USF finished third in the American Athletic Conference Championship, which equals the best finish in the tournament in program history. In 2022-23 and 2023-24, the Bulls played in back-to-back NCAA Regionals for the first time since 2001-02. Senior standout Melanie Green, the AAC Conference Player of the Year in 2023-24, an all-conference performer in each of her four seasons, was named to the WGCA 2023-24 Division I All-American second team. Green qualified for the 2022 NCAA Regional as an individual and was named a 2023 All-American Honorable Mention. Green and the Bulls reached the NCAA Regional as a team in 2023, marking the program's first postseason appearance in 11 years. Follow @USFWGolf on Twitter for the latest information concerning the program.
 
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