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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Women's Golf
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Year at Ole Miss:
- Fourth
- E-mail:
- zhsiefer@olemiss.edu
- Phone:
- 662-816-5849
- Alma Mater:
- Clemson (2008)
| CAREER HIGHLIGHTS |
| • 2024 NCAA Bermuda Run Regional Championship • Career Tournament Wins (Team): 8 • Career Tournament Wins (Individual): 6 • All-American Honorees: 3 • All-SEC Honorees: 5 |
Zack Siefert enters his fourth season as assistant women’s golf coach at Ole Miss in 2025-26.
Year three with Siefert saw Ole Miss return to the NCAA Championships for the third consecutive season and the sixth time in program history. The Rebels earned two team wins including a sweep at the Mary Fossum Invitational. Ole Miss reached its seventh straight NCAA Tournament appearance and fifth straight regional in which the team has earned a No. 4 seed or better. Five players tallied at least one top 10 finish. Caitlyn Macnab became the first player in program history to win the SEC Championship individual title. Siefert helped Macnab, Nicole Gal and Kajsalotta Svarvar to All-SEC honors. Macnab also earned All-American nods for the second consecutive year. Siefert was also on the bag for Macnab at the 2025 Augusta National Women's Amateur. The conclusion of the 2024-25 campaign saw Siefert be promoted to Associate Head Coach.
Season two was a monumental year for Siefert as he helped lead Ole Miss to secure its first NCAA regional championship in program history in Bermuda Run, North Carolina. He also helped blaze the team to three tournament titles and seven team finishes in the top 5. In the first tournament of the 2023-24 year, Siefert assisted the Rebels in shattering the program record for lowest tournament score, shooting 36-under at the Cougar Classic. Under Siefert’s guidance, Caitlyn Macnab saw a successful first run with the Rebels, earning All-American and All-SEC Second Team honors, and participating in the Arnold Palmer Cup and Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Additionally, Sophie Linder earned two SEC Freshman of the Week recognitions in her first collegiate season.
After joining the team in the fall of 2022, Siefert made an immediate impact in Oxford. In his first season with the Rebels, Siefert saw the team to three team titles with wins at the Cougar Classic, The Ally, and the Clemson Invitational, including seven total top 5 team finishes. He assisted the Rebels to its fourth NCAA Women’s Golf Championship appearance in program history. Siefert helped coach Chiara Tamburlini and Andrea Lignell to SEC Women’s Golfer of the Week honors and All-America accolades by both Golfweek and WGCA. Tamburlini and Lignell also earned SEC All-Conference honors while Ellen Hutchinson-Kay was named to the SEC Community Service Team.
In 2021, Siefert served as the assistant men's golf coach for Wisconsin, before which he served eight seasons as the as the head coach of the Limestone men’s and women’s golf teams (2014-21). During his tenure leading the Saints, Siefert managed all aspects of the successful Division II programs and saw his teams earn nine conference championships and qualify to the NCAA regionals 12 times with four national championship appearances. Siefert coached 11 All-Americans and five players of the year in the Carolinas Conference, while earning Coach of the Year honors in the league a notable eight times. Siefert’s teams also earned a 100 percent graduation rate.
Prior to his time at Limestone, Siefert crafted a solid career as a collegiate coach at the NCAA Division I level, a professional golfer and a course pro. Most recently he served as the assistant men's golf coach at Division I Charleston Southern during the 2013 season, and was the assistant golf professional and swing instructor at Dunes West Golf Course in Charleston, S.C.
An accomplished golfer in his own right, Siefert followed his time at Clemson with a three-year professional playing career on the NGA Hooters Tour, EGolf Tour and Carolina's Mountain Tour. While on tour he was mentored by US PGA Tour Accredited coaches Dale Lynch and Dick Harmon and claimed a Carolina Mountain Pro Tour victory.
He began his collegiate career in 2003 at Clemson after earning the prestigious Jay Haas Award as South Carolina's top golfer. While with the Tigers, Siefert was a three-year varsity letterman and helped lead the team to the 2004 ACC Championship and was an Academic All-American. He earned the 2007 Ricketts Family Award for Most Improved and was voted the 2008 recipient of the Larry Wallace Dyar Captain's Award for Outstanding Leadership and Commitment.
Siefert is a 2008 graduate of Clemson with a degree in Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management with a minor in Business Management. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Siefert and his wife, Laura, have two sons – Hayden and Hampton.
