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Head Coach | JoJo Robertson

Now in her 14th season as Texas Tech's head women's golf coach, JoJo Robertson has turned the Red Raiders into one of the top programs in the country and a consistent NCAA Tournament participant.

The Red Raiders have reached a NCAA Regional 11 times during Robertson’s tenure with two additional trips to the NCAA Championships. During her career as a player at Oklahoma State, as an assistant coach at Purdue, and as Texas Tech’s head coach, she has made it to the NCAA Tournament in all but one season, not including the 2020-21 campaign that was shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Possibly the highlight of Robertson’s tenure came at the end of the 2014-15 season when she led the Red Raiders to a fifth-place finish in the NCAA Championships, Tech’s highest finish ever nationally. The Red Raiders, who were making just their second all-time appearance in the NCAA Championships, used a strong final round to overcome a five-shot deficit and advance past the stroke play portion as one of the top eight teams.

Tech fell to Duke in the quarterfinal round of match play, ending a historic season in a tie for fifth place after the Red Raiders began the spring ranked as high as 68th nationally. Part of Tech’s success stemmed from its work on the greens where the Red Raiders led the country with 570 birdies that season.

Robertson led the Red Raiders back to the NCAA Championships again in 2017, making Tech one of just three Big 12 programs to advance past the regional round twice during that three-year span.  

Overall, Tech has advanced to NCAA Regional play in 10 of the 12 seasons since Robertson was named the fourth head coach in program history on June 25, 2009. Under her guidance, the Red Raiders have claimed 15 team titles, which is the most for a head coach in program history.

The Red Raiders have finished ninth or higher at a regional six times during Robertson's tenure, beginning in 2010 at the NCAA East Regional and then again in 2012 at the West Regional held in Colorado. Tech recorded its highest regional finish ever in 2015 when the Red Raiders ended in a tie for fifth place at the San Antonio Regional. The Red Raiders matched that finish in 2017, defending its home course to advance out of the Lubbock Regional. Tech most recently finished in seventh place at the 2019 Norman Regional and eighth at the 2021 NCAA Louisville Regional.

One of the most impressive facts about Robertson's success has been that the Red Raiders have succeeded while playing with relatively youthful rosters. During her first three seasons alone, Robertson had only two seniors – Rosalyn Kim in (2010) and Alex Gibson in (2011) – during that span.

In fact, Robertson did not boast a single senior during the 2011-12 campaign, arguably one of the best seasons early in her tenure. Tech managed to win tournament titles at both the Texas State Challenge and Mountain View Collegiate, marking just the fourth time in program history and the first time since the 1995-96 campaign where the Red Raiders claimed multiple team titles in a season.

The Red Raiders have won 11 team titles since then, including three during the 2012-13 campaign which tied the Tech single-season school record from 1993-94. Tech added two more tournament victories to Robertson’s total during the 2015-16 season with first-place finishes at the Henssler Financial Intercollegiate as well as the Red Raider Invitational.

Despite falling just shy of advancing to the NCAA Championships during the 2011-12 season, Kim Kaufman and Gabby Dominguez both qualified as individuals where they finished tied for eighth overall. The eighth place finish marked the highest individual finish for a Red Raider in school history. The two then-juniors joined Rosalyn Kim as the only individual qualifiers for the NCAA Championships after Kim advanced during Robertson's first season in 2010.

Dominguez and Kaufman were named honorable mention All-Americans by both the National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA) and Golfweek Magazine following the season. The pair also wrapped the year ranked among the top 50 individuals of the Golfweek poll en route to becoming the first Tech players to earn All-Big 12 accolades since Jamie Vannoy in 2000.

Kaufman, who currently stars on the LPGA Tour, earned All-Big 12 and WGCA All-America honors again following the 2012-13 season as she ended her career with the lowest stroke average in school history. Kaufman was a first team Academic All-American as well in 2013, marking the first time in program history a Red Raider has received the prestigious accolade.

Kaufman’s single-season mark has been snapped twice since then as Gabby Barker averaged 72.3 strokes per round en route to earning Big 12 Player of the Year and WGCA honor mention All-America honors as a sophomore in 2015. Sofia Garcia broke the record again a few years later with a 71.6 clip for the 2018-19 season.

The Red Raiders have rewritten the school record book under Robertson's tutelage with Garcia likely the next in line to own the career mark for scoring average. Barker currently sits atop the Tech all-time leaderboard with a 73.6 average that was set from 2009-13 followed by Kaufman (2019-13) at 74.0 and then Gabby Dominguez (2019-13) at 74.1.

As a team, Tech has posted 12 of the top 15 lowest 54-hole scores in school history under Robertson, most noticeably a pair of 856 totals carded first in the 2012 Westbrook Spring Invitational and then again at the 2015 Web.com Invitational.

During her tenure, Robertson has helped oversee a transformation of The Rawls Course as the $3.7 million clubhouse and team facility project was completed prior to the start of the 2012-13 season. Already one of the premier collegiate courses in the country, the clubhouse and team facility additions allow Texas Tech to host several of the top tournaments in the country, including the 2017 NCAA Lubbock Regional, while also giving the Red Raiders a state-of-the-art dressing and team areas. The Rawls Golf Course annually ranks as one of the nation’s top campus courses as well as one of the top courses in the state of Texas.

Prior to being hired at Texas Tech, Robertson, who has regional ties and played collegiate golf at Oklahoma State, helped lead Purdue to back-to-back Big Ten Championships. A native of Roswell, New Mexico, Robertson was also instrumental in Purdue's four-straight top-10 NCAA Championship finishes, including runner-up and fourth-place finishes in 2007 and 2008.

Under Robertson's tutelage, Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year and Purdue women's golfer Maria Hernandez won the 2009 NCAA Championship and the 2008 and 2009 Big Ten individual titles. In just her second season, the 2006 squad turned in one of the most successful seasons in program history that culminated in a NCAA Championship berth. The Boilermakers won a school-record six tournaments, including the Big Ten Championship and the NCAA West Regional Championship.

The 1995 and 1997 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links champion, Robertson enjoyed a distinguished collegiate career at Oklahoma State, which included three team conference championships. Her amateur career included a ranking of No. 11 in Golfweek Magazine's female amateur list in 1997 as well as being named one of the top 10 amateurs by Golf Digest. Robertson participated in the 1997 and 1998 U.S. Women's Opens, making the cut in 1998. Additionally, in 1998, she was a member of the United States Curtis Cup team.

Prior to joining the collegiate ranks as a coach, Robertson was an assistant professional at Spring River Golf Course in Roswell from 1999-00. While playing on the Futures Professional Tour from 2000-02, she was also an assistant professional at the New Mexico Military Institute Golf Course through 2004.

She and her husband John Weast reside in Lubbock.