Email: lrastede@richmond.edu
Phone: 804-266-7805

Leighann Albaugh is in her third year as the University of Richmond women's golf coach.

Albaugh led the Spiders to a third-place finish at the 2006 Colonial Athletic Association Championship and, with three freshmen in the lineup, guided the 2006 squad to a fourth-place finish in the conference.

In her first year, Albaugh took the Spiders into the top-100 of Golfstat's national rankings for the first time in program history. Richmond posted seven top-10 finishes in 11 tournaments in 2005-06, including four top-five finishes, and three times taking third in a tournament.

In her second year, playing three freshmen in the lineup for much of the season, Albaugh led the Spiders to five top-10 finishes.

The former Methodist College All-American came to Richmond after serving as an assistant coach for Penn State. She is one of only a handful of female Class A PGA teaching professionals in the country.

At Methodist, the Sterling, Ill. native was co-captain of a squad which won the school's 15th national title in 2002. She tied for fourth-place and earned NCAA All-American honors. Albaugh's success at Methodist went beyond the golf course as she earned Academic All-American as a senior. Albaugh graduated Cum Laude with a double major in business administration and marketing, concentrating in professional golf management with a minor in accounting.

Albaugh joined the Penn State women's program as assistant coach in 2003. While at Penn State, Albaugh was an assistant under head coach Denise St. Pierre. She also served as a head instructor at the Penn State Golf Camps and as an instructor at the Penn State Alumni golf schools.

Before arriving at Penn State, Albaugh taught at the Dana Rader Golf School in Charlotte, N.C., a Golf Magazine Top-25 Golf School. Rastede Albaugh mentored under Dana Rader and Julie Cole, who are two of the top LPGA teaching professionals in the nation. She also served as a teaching assistant for Dr. Jim Suttie, who is ranked among Golf Digest's Top-15 Greatest Teachers and is the 2000 National PGA Teacher of the Year.

She and her husband, Jay, were married in the summer of 2006 in Seattle, Wash. They reside in Richmond with their two beta fish.