Sohosky Named Bloomsburg University's First Head Women's Golf Coach
Courtesy of Bloomsburg Sports Info
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. --- Bloomsburg University Director of Athletics
Dr. Michael McFarland announced on Tuesday morning that
Gary Sohosky has been hired as the first head coach of the newly-formed women's golf program.
"The Husky athletic family welcomes
Gary Sohosky as the first-ever head women's golf coach at Bloomsburg," McFarland said. "Gary's golf knowledge and understanding of the region, ensure we have the right coach in place to build the 22nd sport at BU. We look forward to the fall of 2020 and to meeting the student-athletes he recruits to enhance our overall program and to launch the golf team."
Sohosky takes over the inaugural women's golf program after serving as the head golf professional at Frosty Valley Resort while also serving as the head instructor, club technician, and club-fitter at Tee to Green Golf Center. Before his tenure at Frosty Valley, Sohosky was the head golf professional at Mill Race Golf and Camping Resort from 2017-18.
Throughout his career, Sohosky also had stints at the Hershey Pocono Resort (White Haven, Pa.), TPC of Scottsdale (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Stratton Golf School (Stratton, Vt.), Split Rock Resort (Lake Harmony, Pa.), Wilkes-Barre Golf Club (Bear Creek, Pa.), and White Deer Golf Club (Montgomery, Pa.). TPC of Scottsdale serves as the permanent site of the Phoenix Open on the PGA Tour. Sohosky has been a Class A PGA Golf Professional since 1980 and has worked at many PGA teaching clinics and workshops, throughout the country, since 1983.
At the collegiate level, Sohosky served as the head coach at Penn College of Technology, where he led the team to three conference titles from 1993-98.
"I would like to thank Bloomsburg University for the opportunity to coach the new women's golf team," Head Coach
Gary Sohosky said. "I'm eagerly looking forward to developing our program and imparting my experience and expertise to our new recruits."
Women's golf is the second female sport to be added at Bloomsburg in the last three years as the announcement of women's volleyball as a varsity sport was made in 2017. The Huskies' volleyball program concluded its second season of competition in November, shortly before women's golf was introduced as the school's 22nd varsity sport.
The Huskies' home course will be the Golf Course at Frosty Valley, which is located in Danville.
With the addition of the women's golf, Bloomsburg becomes the 11th institution in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) to offer the sport. The Huskies will join Cal U, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Gannon, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mercyhurst, Millersville, Seton Hill, and West Chester beginning next fall.
The 2020 PSAC Championship will be held at the Hershey Country Club from October 15 through October 17.