Lyndsey Hunnell is in her third season as assistant golf coach at Campbell University in 2021-22. She joined the Fighting Camel program in August 2019 after working as a communications intern for the American Junior Golf Association.
In her first two full seasons with the Camels, she has helped lead Campbell to back-to-back Big South Conference championships and NCAA regional berths.
The 2021-22 Camels won six times, capped by a sixth-straight Big South title. Hunnell helped lead CU to wins at the Golfweek Fall Challenge, White Sands Bahamas Invitational, Sea Best Intercollegiate, Briar’s Creek Invitational and Babs Steffens Invitational in addition to the league tournament title.
She helped develop the 2022 Big South golfer of the year (Emily Hawkins) and scholar-athlete of the year (Tomita Arejola) and the league’s individual champion (Anna Nordfors) in addition to all-conference performers Patricia Garre Munoz and Sanna Lundmark.
The Campbell women opened the 2021 season with a victory at the Lady Bison Bay Point Classic and capped the regular year with Big South stroke and match play titles.
Nordfors was named 2021 Big South golfer of the year and joined on the all-conference team by Isabell Ekstrom and Hawkins. Garre Muñoz was named to the all-freshman team. Ekstrom was also named to the Big South all-academic team.
Six Camels – Arejola, Ekstrom, Garre Muñoz, Lundmark, Emily Mollard and Alice Sundberg – were named All-America Scholar by the WGCA, and all nine members of the team earned a place on the Big South Conference Presidential Honor Roll.
In her first year with the program, Hunnell helped lead a team that faced one of the toughest schedules in program history before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down NCAA sports in March 2020.
Nevertheless, all eight members of the Campbell team earned a place on the Big South Conference Presidential Honor Roll, while Stacey White and Alice Sundberg were named All-America Scholar by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association. White was named Big South women’s golf scholar-athlete of the year.
A 2018 graduate from the University of Virginia, Hunnell competed as a graduate transfer last year at Xavier University, where she posted a top-10 finish in the Big East Championship and led the Musketeers to their first-ever Big East title and NCAA Regional appearance.
A participant in the 2016 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship, Hunnell was a four-year member of the UVA women’s golf team that won Atlantic Coast Conference championships in 2015 and 2016. She earned ACC Academic Honor Roll status twice and graduated with a B.A. in media studies.
While earning her M.Ed. in sports administration from Xavier, Hunnell earned Big East All-Conference honors and posted four top-10 individual finishes while helping the Musketeers win four team titles.
In addition to competing as a student-athlete, Hunnell was involved as a volunteer with Special Olympics golf and National Girls in Sports Day during her undergraduate career. She also worked with UVA game day marketing and promotions.
A native of Troutville, Va., Hunnell was a four-time Roanoke Valley girls player of the year and finished fourth in the Virginia state high school championship as a senior.
