Women's Golf
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- page_marsh@ncsu.edu
- Phone:
- (919) 513-4169
- 19 NCAA Regional Championship appearances, including four NCAA Championship team berths and one NCAA Championship individual appearance
- 14 players competing in the professional circuit, including two LPGA players
- 26 WGCA All-American Scholar honors
- 17 All-ACC Academic Team selections
- 11 team tournament wins, 11 medalist honors from nine players
- 13 All-ACC Team selections
- Two NGCA/WGCA Honorable Mention All-America selections
- Two NGCA All-Region selections
- One ACC Rookie of the Year
- 2014 ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Brittany Marchand
- 2023 NCAA Elite 90 Award Winner: Natalie Armbruester
- 2002 ACC Coach of the Year
NC State women's golf head coach Page Marsh, who has built the Wolfpack into a national contender, completed her 23rd season in 2022-23. Since the program's reinstatement in 2000, Marsh has made great strides in establishing a consistently competitive program in one of the toughest conferences in the nation.
The Pack is coming off a historic 2022-23 campaign that culminated with the team’s first NCAA Championships Berth since 2015. The team secured its best regional finish (2nd place) in program history on its home course, setting a postseason program record with a team score of 282 in the first round of regional action. The squad also tied its highest ACC Championships finish since 2017. During the regular season, Marsh guided NC State to a pair of 18-hole program records (278, -10) and a 54-hole tournament record (847, -17) at the ICON Invitational and coached Lauren Olivares Leon to a win at the Briar’s Creek Invitational, the first individual victory for a member of the Pack in five years.
Marsh’s 2021-22 squad returned to postseason play with a NCAA Regional at-large berth after earning six top-10 tournament finishes. The team’s regular season slate was highlighted by a season-best seventh-place showing at the Briars Creek Invitational against some of the top competition in the nation. The program made its 18th team appearance at the national tournament in the last 21 seasons. During the year, Marsh saw Olivares Leon break the program's freshman scoring average record with a 73.19 clip in 27 rounds played.
In the 2021 spring season (there was no competition in the fall of 2020 due to COVID-19), Marsh saw Monika Vicario earn a berth as an individual to the NCAA Columbus Regional after turning in one of the best careers ever by an NC State player with a 74.42 scoring average and nine top 20 finishes. Additionally, a program-best five players were named WGCA Scholar All-Americans that year for their success on the course and in the classroom.
Despite the 2019-20 season being cut short to the COVID-19 pandemic, Marsh led a squad that consisted of seven underclassmen to four top-10 finishes, including a sixth-place finish at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate in what proved to be the final tournament of the season.
She was named the 2020 Kim Moore Spirit Award winner after exemplifying a great spirit toward the game of golf and showing mental toughness in facing challenges. At the Golfweek Conference Challenge in Colorado on Sept. 25, 2019, Marsh had to leave the final round of the tournament when her husband, George Tarantini (former head men's soccer coach at NC State), unexpectedly passed away. Marsh returned in January, ready to be back with her team, as she needed them as much as they needed her. Despite the grief she felt from losing her husband, she chose hope and joy, and continued to bring a positive mindset every day to her program.
In 2018-19, Marsh led the Wolfpack to its 17th NCAA Regional appearance in the last 18 years, as the squad posted the second-lowest 18-hole (285) and 54-hole (881) scores in program history at an NCAA Regional.
In 2017 and 2018, her squads captured tournament titles at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic and Ocean Course Invitational, respectively, marking the first team wins since 2013. Additionally in 2017, Marsh saw All-ACC selection India Clyburn turn in a 72.60 stroke average with 16 rounds of ever par or better in her sophomore season, breaking the single season school record.
In the 2015-16 season, NC State posted a score of 279 on the final day of play at the 2015 Landfall Tradition, making the lowest 18-hole team round posted in program history. Marsh additionally led Rachael Taylor and India Clyburn to medalist honors and a combined 12 rounds of even par or better. The team additionally finished in the top-seven of the tournament standings in seven of eight events contested on the season.
The women's golf program not only has a strong reputation on the course but also in the classroom, as the team has had 14 players earn a combined 26 WGCA All-America Scholar honors and has had at least one player land on the All-ACC Academic Team every year since 2006.
Under Marsh's tutelage in 2015, the team qualified for the program's second-straight and third overall NCAA Championship team appearance after earning top-10 finishes in four tournaments during the regular season. Lindsay McGetrick was named to the 2015 All-ACC team while Cecily Overbey earned Academic All-America honors during her rookie season.
In 2014, Marsh coached NC State to its best finish ever. After spending the entire season in the national rankings, the Wolfpack tied for 10th at the NCAA Championship in Tulsa, Okla. In addition, NC State placed third at both the ACC Championship and the NCAA East Regional.
NC State qualified for the NCAA Championship as a team for the first time in program history in 2012. The Wolfpack rewrote the record book during the season, setting records at the time for team round (282), team three-day total (858), most wins in a season (3), highest regional seeding (No. 8), most All-ACC performers (2), highest regional finish (7th) and highest national ranking (No. 13). Brittany Marchand became the school's winningest golfer, and Augusta James represents State's first ACC Freshman of the Year.
In the spring of 2008, the Wolfpack missed qualifying for the NCAA Championships by one stroke at the NCAA Central Regional in Austin, Texas. In the process, however, Lauren Doughtie became the first women's player in school history to compete at the NCAAs when she qualified as an individual.
Under Marsh's tutelage, NC State has won nine tournament team titles, seven individuals have captured medalist honors on nine separate occasions and Marsh earned ACC Coach of the Year honors in 2002.
Marsh has coached two players to the LPGA tour, as Lauren Doughtie earned a spot on the tour in 2013 and Briana Vega was the winner of The Golf Channel's "The Big Break VII" in 2006, which earned her a spot on the tour. Additionally, 12 former Wolfpackers have competed on various professional circuits, including the Symetra Tour.
Marsh has served in a variety of roles within the golf world, including as associate director of the Women's Western Golf Association and a committee member for the USGA Women’s Mid-Amateur and the North and South Amateur Championship.
On Sept. 17, 2007, Marsh was part of an 11-member group inducted into the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame after a decorated amateur playing career. In May of 2001, Marsh was one of six people inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame for her contributions to golf in her home state.
A native of Jamestown, N.C., and a graduate of North Carolina, Marsh is familiar with the high level of competition that is associated with the Atlantic Coast Conference. As a four-year starter and MVP for the Tar Heels, Marsh enjoyed much success in her early playing career. She recorded 15 top-10 finishes, including wins at the 1981 and 1982 Duke Invitational and the 1982 Pat Bradley Invitational. Her stellar play in the conference championships in 1984 and 1985 placed her on the All-ACC teams for the respective years and more recently earned her a spot on the conference's 50th Anniversary Team.
Marsh then enjoyed an illustrious professional career after her college playing days. Following her graduation from UNC in 1985, she moved to Orlando, Fla., and played professionally in Future Tour events and the Women's Florida Golf Tour in 1986 and 1987. She participated in the LPGA Tour School in 1986.
Following her time in Florida, she returned to North Carolina to resume her amateur career. Marsh competed in the US Women's Open three times and the US Women's Amateur 12 times during her career. She was the North-South Amateur Champion in 1989. Marsh has also earned impressive amateur wins in Mexico, International Women's Four Ball and at the North and South, defeating LPGA star Donna Andrews 4&3. She was a Curtis Cup alternate in 1990 and 1992 and a US Women's Mid-Amateur finalist in 1989 and 1990. Golf Digest twice ranked Page as a top-10 player in the nation. She represented her home state 13 times in the Carolinas-Virginias team matches, serving as team captain from 1994-98.
Prior to her turn to coaching, Marsh was a North Carolina Women's Amateur Champion. She won the prestigious event six times — 1983, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1997 and 1999. Marsh is also a five-time Women's Carolina Amateur Champion — 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989 and 1996.
Marsh comes from a golfing family. Her sisters Sheree Crane and Amber Marsh both played collegiate golf and still continue to compete. Her mother, Linda, was very involved in amateur golf, playing senior amateur events and serving on the Women's Committee of the USGA.
Aside from her responsibilities in the golfing world, Marsh is the mother of twins, Emma and Rachel.
