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Texas Tech's head women's golf coach, JoJo Robertson, completed her 16th season at the end of the 2024-25 campaign. The Red Raiders continued its streak of appearing in the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships each year since Robertson's hire, June 25, 2009, as a team participant or having an individual participant, solidifying itself as one of the premier programs in the country.

The Red Raiders have reached an NCAA Regional 12 times as a team during Robertson’s tenure, with two of the past seasons featuring a Red Raider individual selected to participate in a regional as an at-large selection. 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 those three years. And again, reached the NCAA Championships in 2023 with a trip to Greyhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz.

The Red Raiders have finished ninth or higher at a regional eight 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 their home course to advance out of the Lubbock Regional. Tech finished in seventh place at the 2019 Norman Regional, eighth at the 2021 NCAA Louisville Regional, and seventh at the 2022 Stanford Regional before its 2023 run. Texas Tech finished fifth at the Pullman Regional to earn its third trip to the NCAA Championships under Robertson.

Under her guidance, the Red Raiders have claimed 20 team titles, which is the most for a head coach in program history.

The Red Raiders did not wait long to start winning under Robertson, winning their first team title in Robertson's second-ever tournament, leading the Red Raiders in her inaugural season, Oct. 5-6, 2009, at the Colorado Heather Farr Memorial Invitational at the Colorado National Golf Club in Erie, Colo.

In fact, Texas Tech has only played two seasons under Robertson without winning a team title, which was during the 2014-15 campaign and the 2019-20 COVID-shortened season.

Robertson did not boast a single senior during the 2011-12 campaign, arguably one of the best seasons early in her tenure that saw Tech boast multiple tournament wins, coming at 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 following season, 2012-13, marked another milestone season as Tech tied the single-season school record from 1993-94 with three tournament wins in a single season. Since having just three multi-win seasons in program history before Robertson's hire, the Red Raiders matched that during her first five seasons at Texas Tech. The Red Raiders have added three more multiple-win seasons since then, most recently the 2024-25 season.

Despite falling just shy of advancing out of the NCAA West Regional during the 2011-12 season, Kim Kaufman and Gabby Dominguez both qualified as individuals. At the NCAA Championships, both finished tied for eighth overall, marking 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 earned All-Big 12 and WGCA All-America honors again following the 2012-13 season as she ended her career as one of the most decorated women's golfers at Texas Tech.

Kaufman’s single-season scoring record in the 2012-13 season (72.51) has been snapped several times since then, starting with Gabby Barker, who averaged 72.27 strokes per round en route to earning the 2016 Big 12 Player of the Year and WGCA honorable mention All-America honors. Sofia Garcia broke the record again a few years later with a 71.56 clip for the 2018-19 season; Garcia snapped her own record the following season, albeit the 2019-20 COVID-shortened season, posting a 71.18 scoring average over eight events.

The Red Raiders have rewritten the school record book under Robertson's tutelage with golfers like Kaufman, Barker and Garcia. As a team, Texas Tech has posted each one of the Top 10 lowest 54-hole scores in school history under Robertson, topping out at a 29-under-par 835 in the fall of 2023 at the Jim West Challenge. The Red Raiders' record book also features each of the Top 10 lowest single-round scores under Robertson, a 17-under-par 271 in the spring of 2022, which was carded at the Mountain View Collegiate, steered by a pair of All-Big 12 golfers in Gala Dumez and Amy Taylor.

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 a pair of NCAA regionals in 2017 and 2025, 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 an 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, and tied for 59th as an amateur with her brother Greg as her caddie. 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.

The Robertson File:

Hired: June 25, 2009
Alma Mater: Oklahoma State ('99)
Family: John Weast (husband)

NCAA Championships Appearances (3)

2015: The Concession Golf Club/Bradenton, Fla.
2017: Rich Harvest Farms/Sugar Grove, Ill.
2023: Greyhawk Golf Club/Scottsdale, Ariz.

NCAA Regional Appearances (12)

2010
2011
2012
2013
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023

Wins

Team tournament titles: 20
Individual medalists: 21

All-Americans

Gabby Dominguez: 2012
Kim Kaufman: 2012, 2013
Gabby Barker: 2016
Sofia Garcia: 2019, 2020

All-Big 12 Golfers

Kim Kaufman: 2012, 2013
Gabby Dominquez: 2012
Gabby Barker: 2016
- Big 12 Golfer of the Year
Sofia Garcia: 2019
Gala Dumez: 2021
Amy Taylor: 2022

Academics

50 WGCA All-America Scholar Selections
46 Academic All-Big 12 First Team Selections
Three Big 12 Scholar Athletes of the Year
- Kim Kaufman (2013)
- Amy Taylor (2022)
- Anna Dong (2023)

Alumnae in the Pros

Elin Arvidsson: Symetra Tour (joined 2015), LET (joined 2022)
Sofia Garcia: Epson Tour (joined 2021), LPGA (joined 2023)
Kim Kaufman: LPGA (joined 2024)
Gabby Lemieux, formerly Gabby Barker: Epson Tour (joined 2018)
Shannon Tan: LET (joined 2024)
Amy Taylor: LET (joined 2022)

Coaching History

Texas Tech (head coach): 2009-present
Purdue (associate head coach): 2008-2009
Purdue: (assistant coach): 2005-2008
West Lafayette HS: 2004

Playing History

Oklahoma State: 1994-99
First-Team All-Big 12: 1999
Big 12 All-Tournament Team: 1998
U.S. Women's AM Public Links Champion: 1995, 1997
U.S. Women's Open Participant: 1997, 1998
U.S. Curtis Cup Team: 1998

Name	Title	Phone
JoJo Robertson	Head Coach
Anna Dong	Manager of Sports Operations	(806) 834-6971
Nathan Weant	Assistant Coach

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