Women's Golf
Woodruff, Katie
Katie Woodruff
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- hkmitche@usc.edu
- Phone:
- (213) 740-3835
Katie (Mitchell) Woodruff, a standout collegiate golfer whose recent transition into coaching includes a 2019 West Coast Conference title, is in her third season as a USC women's golf assistant coach.
In 2021, she helped guide USC to a 2021 Pac-12 title among five tournament wins in nine events. USC boasted three All-Americans including a Golfweek first-team nod by Allisen Corpuz and honorable mention honors for Amelia Garvey and Alyaa Abdulghany. All three also earned All-Pac-12 first team honors. Six Trojans played in the second-ever Augusta National Women's Amateur while Corpuz rose to No. 1 nationally during the 2021 season.
In her first year at USC, she helped guide a Trojan squad that finished the shortened 2019-20 campaign with wins in its final two events at the Rebel Beach and Bruin Wave Invitationals as the Trojans ascended to the No. 1 ranking. Corpuz earned WGCA and Golfweek All-American first team honors while Abdulghany and Garvey were honorable mention selections. Troy posted four top 2 finishes in its seven events and five in the top 3.
Woodruff, a 2016 graduate from Louisville who played two years for the Cardinals, spent three seasons (2017-19) as an assistant coach at Pepperdine, where she helped lead the Waves to the West Coast Conference title in 2019 as well as an appearance at the 2017 NCAA Championships.
Pepperdine reached the NCAA Regional Championships in each season with Woodruff. In her 2017 debut campaign, the Waves finished third in the Regionals to advance to the NCAA Championships, where they placed 23rd. Pepperdine finished second at the WCC Championships in 2017 and 2018 before winning the title in 2019.
Woodruff graduated from Louisville in the spring of 2016 with a degree in communications and earned Atlantic Coast Conference All-Academic honors in her two seasons there (2015-16). She spent the 2013 and 2014 seasons at Florida after her first collegiate season at Central Florida in 2012.
As a senior at Louisville in 2016, her 73.97 scoring average was second-best on the team and sixth-best in program history. Woodruff recorded four top-10 finishes. She had a team-best 13th-place finish at the ACC Championships, and then tied for 42nd place at the NCAA Bryan Regional Championship. She won the 2015 Fall Kickoff tournament at the Atlanta Athletic Club. As a 2015 junior, Woodruff led the team with a 74.18 stroke average, had five top-10 results, tied for 17th at the ACC Championships and tied for 14th at the NCAA South Bend Regional.
After redshirting in 2013, Woodruff recorded a stroke average of 74.30 as a 2014 redshirt sophomore at Florida. That followed her first year of college at Central Florida, where she was the 2012 Conference USA Freshman of the Year and an All-Conference-USA second team selection.
During all four of her collegiate seasons, Woodruff never missed a tournament.
In amateur golf, Woodruff won First Coast Women's Amateur titles in both 2014 and 2015. In 2015, she placed 15th in stroke play at the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship and tied for 10th at the North & South Amateur Championship, advancing to match play in both. In 2014, she led Florida's team to a first-place finish at the Southeast Challenge, and she also competed at the U.S. Women's Amateur.
Woodruff has previous coaching experience working with the First Tee program in California and Kentucky and assisting at various camps and clinics throughout her college career. Woodruff is a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and attended Fernandina Beach High School, where she was a three-time all-state selection.
She married Blaine Woodruff, the Pepperdine men’s golf associate head coach, in the summer of 2020.
In 2021, she helped guide USC to a 2021 Pac-12 title among five tournament wins in nine events. USC boasted three All-Americans including a Golfweek first-team nod by Allisen Corpuz and honorable mention honors for Amelia Garvey and Alyaa Abdulghany. All three also earned All-Pac-12 first team honors. Six Trojans played in the second-ever Augusta National Women's Amateur while Corpuz rose to No. 1 nationally during the 2021 season.
In her first year at USC, she helped guide a Trojan squad that finished the shortened 2019-20 campaign with wins in its final two events at the Rebel Beach and Bruin Wave Invitationals as the Trojans ascended to the No. 1 ranking. Corpuz earned WGCA and Golfweek All-American first team honors while Abdulghany and Garvey were honorable mention selections. Troy posted four top 2 finishes in its seven events and five in the top 3.
Woodruff, a 2016 graduate from Louisville who played two years for the Cardinals, spent three seasons (2017-19) as an assistant coach at Pepperdine, where she helped lead the Waves to the West Coast Conference title in 2019 as well as an appearance at the 2017 NCAA Championships.
Pepperdine reached the NCAA Regional Championships in each season with Woodruff. In her 2017 debut campaign, the Waves finished third in the Regionals to advance to the NCAA Championships, where they placed 23rd. Pepperdine finished second at the WCC Championships in 2017 and 2018 before winning the title in 2019.
Woodruff graduated from Louisville in the spring of 2016 with a degree in communications and earned Atlantic Coast Conference All-Academic honors in her two seasons there (2015-16). She spent the 2013 and 2014 seasons at Florida after her first collegiate season at Central Florida in 2012.
As a senior at Louisville in 2016, her 73.97 scoring average was second-best on the team and sixth-best in program history. Woodruff recorded four top-10 finishes. She had a team-best 13th-place finish at the ACC Championships, and then tied for 42nd place at the NCAA Bryan Regional Championship. She won the 2015 Fall Kickoff tournament at the Atlanta Athletic Club. As a 2015 junior, Woodruff led the team with a 74.18 stroke average, had five top-10 results, tied for 17th at the ACC Championships and tied for 14th at the NCAA South Bend Regional.
After redshirting in 2013, Woodruff recorded a stroke average of 74.30 as a 2014 redshirt sophomore at Florida. That followed her first year of college at Central Florida, where she was the 2012 Conference USA Freshman of the Year and an All-Conference-USA second team selection.
During all four of her collegiate seasons, Woodruff never missed a tournament.
In amateur golf, Woodruff won First Coast Women's Amateur titles in both 2014 and 2015. In 2015, she placed 15th in stroke play at the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship and tied for 10th at the North & South Amateur Championship, advancing to match play in both. In 2014, she led Florida's team to a first-place finish at the Southeast Challenge, and she also competed at the U.S. Women's Amateur.
Woodruff has previous coaching experience working with the First Tee program in California and Kentucky and assisting at various camps and clinics throughout her college career. Woodruff is a native of Jacksonville, Florida, and attended Fernandina Beach High School, where she was a three-time all-state selection.
She married Blaine Woodruff, the Pepperdine men’s golf associate head coach, in the summer of 2020.
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