Former Cortland All-American and subsequent professional golfer Rebecca Schimenti joined the Red Dragons’ coaching staff in 2020-21.
During her senior season with the Red Dragons in 2013-14, Schimenti (formerly Rebecca Studin) earned honorable mention All-America honors and was an individual qualifier for the NCAA Division III Championships. Cortland’s first-ever women’s golf All-American and NCAA qualifier, Schimenti tied for 22nd place out of 110 competitors at the national tournament. She also earned All-East honors in both her junior and senior years.
Schimenti received the NCAA Elite 89 Award as the golfer at the NCAA tournament with the highest overall grade point average. Also during her senior year she earned College Sports Information Directors of American (CoSIDA) first-team Academic All-America honors in the at-large category and was named a Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-America Scholar.
The Ithaca native won the Syracuse Post-Standard Women’s Amateur after her graduation in 2014 and competed as an amateur in the LPGA Symetra Tour’s Credit Union Classic. She went on to compete on the Suncoast Professional Golf Tour (now Eggland’s Best) in 2014-15, participating in six events as an amateur and seven as a professional. She posted two top-10 finishes. Schimenti also previously had placed second in 2013 and fifth in 2014 at the New York State Women’s Amateur tournament.
From 2011-16, Schimenti worked as a golf shop assistant at the Country Club of Ithaca. She also was an assistant golf professional at the Windermere Country Club in Florida from October 2014 through February 2016 and at the Isleworth Golf and Country Club, also in Windermere, from February through May of 2016.
