The 2025-26 season marks Ross Cash's fourth season at the helm of the UNC Asheville Women's Golf program.

During the 2024-25 season under Head Coach Ross Cash, the Bulldogs advanced to match play at the Big South Conference Championship for just the second time in program history. Asheville earned seven postseason awards, highlighted by Caroline Patterson being named Big South Newcomer of the Year.

The Bulldogs recorded six top-five team finishes during the season, while Patterson became just the third individual tournament champion in program history with her victory at the Velvet Classic in September.

Morgan Guepet tied the school record for most Freshman of the Week honors in a single season, earning the distinction four times.

The program also achieved its highest national team ranking in school history (No. 156) and secured the best conference tournament seed in program history (No. 2). Following the team’s success, Cash was rewarded with a multi-year contract extension.

Asheville posted four top-five finishes in 2023-24, with Phoebe Carles becoming Asheville's second-ever individual tournament champion at William and Mary's Kingsmill Invite in September. Asheville totaled five Big South Conference Women's Golfer of the Week awards, with Beryl Gilietti and Madyson Gold each winning the honor twice and Carles also earning it after her individual win. At the conclusion of the Big South Conference Championships, Gold and Claudia Salvador were named All-Conference Second Team, while Gold also was named to the Big South Conference All-Academic Team.

The Bulldogs recorded eight top-five finishes in Cash's first season, including a run of five straight. Cash coached Asheville's first-ever individual tournament champion and Second Team All-Conference selection Madyson Gold, who currently holds several program records. Under Cash's leadership, the team turned the program record book upside down, setting a new season scoring average record (304.97), improving its best national ranking in program history 50 spots (147) and also set a new single-season birdies record (246). The team also set a new low round record (286) in the third round of the Jupiter Women's Invitational, and also set new program records in par five scoring (5.2124), par four scoring (4.3715) and par three scoring (3.300). The team also tied the program record for eagles in a single-season (three) and set a new program record for finish percentage in a season at 61.4 percent, breaking the previous record by more than 17 percent. The team also improved its win loss record from 40-74-1 last year to 82-53 this year. Cash also had four players receive Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar honors.

UNC Asheville Director of Athletics Janet R. Cone announced the hiring of Ross Cash as the Head Women's Golf Coach on June 20, 2022.

"We are so excited to have Ross join our Bulldog Team," Cone stated. "Ross has a proven track record of success on the course and in the classroom at both the Division I and II levels, and we believe he will continue to elevate our already-rising women's golf program to even greater achievements."

Cash comes to Asheville from Tusculum where he oversaw both the men's and women's teams for the last four years.

"I would like to thank Director of Athletics, Janet Cone, and the search committee for being selected as the next Head Women's Golf Coach at UNC Asheville," Cash said. "It is hard for me to put into words how excited I am about the future of the program. Everything needed to be successful on a national level is already in place here at UNC Asheville and I plan on casting a big vision for my team and what I think we can accomplish. Quite frankly, I can't wait to get to work."

Prior to coaching at Tusculum, Cash was the men's golf head coach at Florida Atlantic, where he helped the Owls improve 97 spots in the Golfstat team rankings in just one season.

A University of Virginia graduate (1994), Cash served as a club professional at Villa Del Ray Golf Club (2004-16) before getting into coaching with the Lake Worth Christian boys' team. Cash, who was an instructor for two AJGA Champions, 12 ranked junior golfers and the No. 7-ranked junior golfer in the world, would move on to The King's Academy (High School) in 2013 where he would post a 138-24-1 record before being named head coach at Florida Atlantic.

This past season at Tusculum, Cash guided the Pioneers' men's golf squad to five top-5 finishes, including victories at the Matt Dyas Invitational and the Tusculum Invitational, with a program-best 54-hole score at the South Atlantic Conference Championship. On the women's side, the Pioneers were victorious at the King Invitational, the CBU Buccaneer Invitational and the Agnes McAmis Memorial, as two Pioneers finished their careers with top-10 career scoring averages at Tusculum (Olivia Cunningham, Hannah Brown).

Cash and his wife, Heather Lynn Cash, live in east Tennessee with their son Colby.

Name	Title	Phone	Email Address
Ross Cash	Head Coach	255-7074	rcash1@unca.edu
Laura Smith	Assistant Coach		lsmith26@unca.edu
Dr. Shawn Stewart	Volunteer Assistant Coach

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