Maren Crowley is in her eighth season as head women's golf coach at her alma mater in 2015-16.
Crowley, a 2008 graduate of Hofstra, was a four-year letterwinner on the women's golf team and competed in 25 events during her tenure. She posted four top 20 finishes during her career, including a 10th-place showing at the 2005 Hofstra Spring Invitational.
In her seven seasons as head coach Crowley has seen her team post 20 top five finishes, including wins at the 2011 Monmouth Invitational and the 2012 Delaware State University Hornets Invitational.
During the 2011-12 season four golfers - Lauren Petty, Jenna Masnyk, Cynthia Cheng and Erika Barnes - averaged 83 strokes or better, led by Lauren Petty's 79.0 average, besting Masnyk's 83.05 average from 2010-11. That had been the best mark since Ali Hanlon averaged 83.17 in 2007-08. Petty's 79.0 scoring average was the best in the 12-year history of the program. Petty also became the first Pride women's golfer to earn All-ECAC accolades after a fourth place finish at the ECAC Championship.
Under Crowley's tutelage in 2011-12 the team set a new program record for team scoring with a 301 at the Richmond Spider Invitational. Crowley has also coached six players - Masnyk, Cheng, Amy Hoffmann, Morgan Heyrman, Victoria Snak and Andrea Neilson - who have earned National Golf Coaches Association Scholar All-America accolades.
Crowley is currently enrolled in the PGA Program to become a Class A PGA Professional. In addition to her coaching duties at Hofstra, she also serves as the assistant golf professional at the Huntington Country Club.
Since 2004 Crowley has been a staff member for the Metropolitan PGA, working as an assistant manager on the Long Island Junior Golf Tour. Crowley assists in the running of nearly 40 tournaments per season throughout the metropolitan New York area. This includes registration, scoring, starter duties, as well as serving as a rules and pace of play official. In addition, she also assists with the management of several Metropolitan PGA professional tournaments, qualifiers and the New York State Open. She has also assisted with several PGA Tour events.
A Dean's List student at Hofstra, Crowley was a four-year recipient of the Colonial Athletic Association Commissioner's Academic Award and was a Hofstra Presidential Academic Scholarship recipient.
Crowley, a native of Sayville, New York, holds a degree in business from Hofstra with specializations in finance and economics. She earned her MBA in sports and entertainment management from Hofstra in May 2011. Her senior master's thesis, entitled "The Odyssey of Attaining a PGA Tour Card", dealt with what it takes to make it onto the PGA Tour.
