Chelsea Carroll - Assistant Coach - Staff Directory - Grand Canyon University Athletics

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PHOENIX, AZ - February 16, 2023: Grand Women's Golf practices at the GCU Golf Course. (Photo by: Garrett Ohrenberg/GCU)

Chelsea Carroll

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Assistant Coach
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Chelsea Carroll enters her third season as assistant coach of the women's golf team in 2025 and first under head coach Brent Nicoson.

Carroll returns to GCU after two seasons in the same role in 2022-23 and 2023-24.

Carroll helped coach a Lopes program to a historic season in 2023-24. GCU broke the Division I program record for top-three finishes in a single season (9) and most top three finishes in a row (6). Three Lopes earned All-WAC honors, including two first team recipients in Leighton Shosted and Ryan Flynn along with second team player Constanza Guerrero. As a team, GCU won five team titles, including three of its first five tournaments played, and finished third out of 11 schools at the WAC Championship.

In 2022-23, GCU placed in the top-three six times with five straight tournaments ending in the top three. The Lopes broke a Division I program best for all conference honorees, totaling six awards with Flynn winning WAC Freshman of the Year. GCU won two team titles throughout the season and placed in the top-five in seven of its nine spring competitions.

Prior to GCU, Carroll spent three seasons as South Mountain Community College's women's golf coach. In addition, she was named interim head coach of the men's team during the 2021-22 season and made history, becoming the first female head coach to guide a men's team to a NJCAA National Championship.

Carroll helped restart the women's golf program at SMCC prior to the start of the 2020 season. She coached two players to the NJCAA National Championship tournament in 2021 and coached Kylie Rehberger to All-ACCAC, All-Region and All-District honors and a 52nd-place showing at the championship.

During her one season as interim coach of the men's team at SMCC, the team placed first at Twin Hills Golf and Country Club in Joplin, Missouri, defeating two teams tied for second by 19 strokes. She helped Cecil Belisle to his second straight National Championship and the NJCAA Jack Nicklaus Award. The men's side had three All-Americans and won seven tournaments during the regular season. Carroll also received the GCAA Dave Williams National Coach of the Year award for NJCAA Division II.

Carroll is a graduate of Rogers State in Claremore, Oklahoma, where she was a four-year member of the women's golf team. She placed in the top five twice and in the top 10 five times over her final two seasons. Carroll totaled 66 rounds in 33 events played and was a member of the Heartland Conference President's Honor Roll multiple times. She spent the 2016-17 season as an assistant coach for her alma mater.