SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Beth Lillie, who recently earned her master's degree at the University of Virginia after a five-year playing career with the Cavaliers, has been hired as an assistant coach by first-year Mustang head women's golf coach Courtney Roberts.
A three-year team captain, Lillie compiled a 73.51 career scoring average over 142 rounds at Virginia and earned a pair of individual victories at The Match at Spring Creek in March 2021 and The Landfall Tradition in October 2017.
She earned 16 top-10 finishes in her Cavalier career and carded 18 rounds in the 60s, including a 66 in the second round of the Moon Golf Invitational in February 2022 and three rounds of 67 -- one each at the 2019 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship, 2018 NCAA Regional and 2017 The Landfall Tradition.
Lillie competed in the NCAA Division I National Championships four times in her collegiate career, helping the Cavaliers to a 15th-place finish earlier this year along with a ninth-place finish in the 2021 nationals, 14th place in 2019 and 22nd place in 2018. The 2020 NCAAs were canceled due to the pandemic.
Individually, Lillie placed ninth in the 2021 and 2022 NCAA finals.. She was a three-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference team member, four-time ACC Honor Roll member and a Women's Golf Coaches Association Honorable Mention All-American in 2021.
Among her other accomplishments was participation in the 2022 Augusta National Women's Amateur, the 2015 U.S. Women's Open as a 16-year-old and working as a video intern with the Virginia football team. She was named an All-America Scholar by the WGCA five times and served on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee.
Lillie performed community service with Athletes for Hope, Special Olympics and Habitat for Humanity while studying at Virginia.
Lillie earned her bachelor's degree in political science with a concentration in government in 2021 and completed her master's degree in higher education with a concentration in intercollegiate athletic administration last spring.
Lillie is a 2017 graduate of Troy High School in Fullerton, Calif., where she led her team to the school's first CIF-Southern Section girls championship in 2013. She was Freeway League MVP as a junior and senior, won the CIF State individual championship in 2016 and was named Orange County girls golfer of the year by the Orange County Register, also in 2016.
Lillie's first day as an assistant coach at Cal Poly will be August 16.
