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Sheils, Madeleine
Madeleine Sheils
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Madeleine Sheils, NCAA champion coach and former tour professional, is in her second season as the head coach of the University of Colorado women's golf program.
Sheils is in her fourth season overall at Colorado, as she joined the Buffaloes on July 1, 2022, as the associate head coach under long-time head coach Anne Kelly, who retired at the end of the 2023-24 season. She officially became the third full-time head coach in program history on July 1, 2024.
Sheils has had an immediate impact on the program in just two seasons. Last season she helped the Buffaloes record the fourth-best overall stroke average in team history at 75.35, a number which included a school-record 73.60 average during the fall season. The Buffaloes improved their average by 1.56 strokes from the 2022-23 season.
Sheils helped guide graduate senior Sabrina Iqbal and sophomore Morgan Miller to individual appearances at the 2024 NCAA Regional in Cle Ellum, Wash. It marked the first time in team history the Bufflaoes sent two individuals to an NCAA event in the same season.
Prior to joining Colorado, Sheils teed off her collegiate coaching career with three successful seasons as an assistant coach at Pac-12 Conference rival Stanford (2019-22). Sheils helped Stanford to the 2022 NCAA Championship, its second in program history. She assisted the Cardinal to NCAA Finals appearances in both of her seasons a championship was completed (2019-20 was canceled due to COVID) as the team earned the top seed into the final eight teams of match play, following 72 holes of stroke play, on both occasions.
The Cardinal won the 2021 NCAA Stanford Regional and tied for second in the 2022 regional on its home course. Sheils helped guide the Cardinal to back-to-back runner-up finishes at the 2021 and ’22 Pac-12 Championships.
In 2021-22, the Cardinal was the unanimous No. 1 team in the country from start to finish, defeating No. 8 Georgia, No. 5 Auburn and No. 2 Oregon in match play to claim the national title. Stanford freshman Rose Zhang won the NCAA Individual title, capping off a season in which she recorded an NCAA record 69.68 scoring average. Zhang followed in the footsteps of her teammate Rachel Heck, who won the 2021 NCAA Individual National Championship and also broke the NCAA scoring average record during her own freshman campaign. Both Zhang and Heck were named the ANNIKA Award winner, WGCA Golfer and Freshman of the Year, Honda Sport Award winner for Golf, Pac-12 Golfer and Freshman of the Year, and first team All-American and All-Pac-12.
During Sheils’ three seasons on The Farm, Stanford won 11 stroke-play events and Cardinal players captured 13 individual titles. Sheils coached five WGCA All-Americans, two back-to-back NCAA Players of the Year and NCAA Individual Champions, two World #1 Ranked Amateur Golfers, 10 Augusta National Women’s Amateur invitees, and five Arnold Palmer Cup Participants. In March of 2022, the Cardinal set an NCAA 54-hole record with a team score of 50-under at the Gunrock Invitational (Del Paso Country Club, Sacramento, Calif.).
A professional golfer on the LPGA and Epson, previously known as Symetra, Tours, Sheils retired following the 2018 season. She played on the LPGA Tour in 2017 and ‘18, teeing it up in 24 total events. During her four seasons on the Epson Tour (2013-16), Sheils earned one victory at the 2015 FireKeeper’s Casino Hotel Championship in Battle Creek, Mich. and seven top-10 finishes.
Sheils played four years collegiately at Nebraska (2008-12), earning All-Big Ten Conference honors as a senior in 2011-12 and advancing as an individual to the NCAA Central Regional for the Huskers. She notched one victory at the 2011 Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational and racked up 18 career top-25 finishes. She was a four-time National Golf Coaches' Association Scholastic All-American and Nebraska Student-Athlete HERO Leadership Award winner. Sheils graduated from Nebraska in 2012 with a degree in Philosophy.
A native of Boise, Idaho, Sheils is a former Idaho Women’s Amateur and Idaho Junior State Champion. Sheils resides in Boulder with her husband, Steven Moser, and their daughter.
Sheils is in her fourth season overall at Colorado, as she joined the Buffaloes on July 1, 2022, as the associate head coach under long-time head coach Anne Kelly, who retired at the end of the 2023-24 season. She officially became the third full-time head coach in program history on July 1, 2024.
Sheils has had an immediate impact on the program in just two seasons. Last season she helped the Buffaloes record the fourth-best overall stroke average in team history at 75.35, a number which included a school-record 73.60 average during the fall season. The Buffaloes improved their average by 1.56 strokes from the 2022-23 season.
Sheils helped guide graduate senior Sabrina Iqbal and sophomore Morgan Miller to individual appearances at the 2024 NCAA Regional in Cle Ellum, Wash. It marked the first time in team history the Bufflaoes sent two individuals to an NCAA event in the same season.
Prior to joining Colorado, Sheils teed off her collegiate coaching career with three successful seasons as an assistant coach at Pac-12 Conference rival Stanford (2019-22). Sheils helped Stanford to the 2022 NCAA Championship, its second in program history. She assisted the Cardinal to NCAA Finals appearances in both of her seasons a championship was completed (2019-20 was canceled due to COVID) as the team earned the top seed into the final eight teams of match play, following 72 holes of stroke play, on both occasions.
The Cardinal won the 2021 NCAA Stanford Regional and tied for second in the 2022 regional on its home course. Sheils helped guide the Cardinal to back-to-back runner-up finishes at the 2021 and ’22 Pac-12 Championships.
In 2021-22, the Cardinal was the unanimous No. 1 team in the country from start to finish, defeating No. 8 Georgia, No. 5 Auburn and No. 2 Oregon in match play to claim the national title. Stanford freshman Rose Zhang won the NCAA Individual title, capping off a season in which she recorded an NCAA record 69.68 scoring average. Zhang followed in the footsteps of her teammate Rachel Heck, who won the 2021 NCAA Individual National Championship and also broke the NCAA scoring average record during her own freshman campaign. Both Zhang and Heck were named the ANNIKA Award winner, WGCA Golfer and Freshman of the Year, Honda Sport Award winner for Golf, Pac-12 Golfer and Freshman of the Year, and first team All-American and All-Pac-12.
During Sheils’ three seasons on The Farm, Stanford won 11 stroke-play events and Cardinal players captured 13 individual titles. Sheils coached five WGCA All-Americans, two back-to-back NCAA Players of the Year and NCAA Individual Champions, two World #1 Ranked Amateur Golfers, 10 Augusta National Women’s Amateur invitees, and five Arnold Palmer Cup Participants. In March of 2022, the Cardinal set an NCAA 54-hole record with a team score of 50-under at the Gunrock Invitational (Del Paso Country Club, Sacramento, Calif.).
A professional golfer on the LPGA and Epson, previously known as Symetra, Tours, Sheils retired following the 2018 season. She played on the LPGA Tour in 2017 and ‘18, teeing it up in 24 total events. During her four seasons on the Epson Tour (2013-16), Sheils earned one victory at the 2015 FireKeeper’s Casino Hotel Championship in Battle Creek, Mich. and seven top-10 finishes.
Sheils played four years collegiately at Nebraska (2008-12), earning All-Big Ten Conference honors as a senior in 2011-12 and advancing as an individual to the NCAA Central Regional for the Huskers. She notched one victory at the 2011 Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational and racked up 18 career top-25 finishes. She was a four-time National Golf Coaches' Association Scholastic All-American and Nebraska Student-Athlete HERO Leadership Award winner. Sheils graduated from Nebraska in 2012 with a degree in Philosophy.
A native of Boise, Idaho, Sheils is a former Idaho Women’s Amateur and Idaho Junior State Champion. Sheils resides in Boulder with her husband, Steven Moser, and their daughter.
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