ORLANDO, Fla. - Assistant coaches have been named for the 2025 Arnold Palmer Cup at Congaree Golf Club. Laura Ianello of Texas, Trey Jones of Florida State, Mikayla Tatman of Arizona State, and Chris Williams of Auburn will help lead Team USA with head coaches Kalen Anderson and Nick Clinard, while Puerto Rico’s Janice Olivencia, England’s Daniel Park, Canada’s Brennan Webb, and England’s Matt Whall will work with head coaches Stew Burke and Aaron O’Callaghan to lead Team International. The Ryder Cup-style competition, which features men’s and women’s collegiate golfers from the United States versus their International counterparts, will be played June 5-7. USA leads the all-time series 15-12-1.
Ianello has led Texas to seven top-three team finishes, including three victories and an individual medalist, and qualified for the 2025 NCAA Championship in her first season in Austin. The Longhorns have been led on the course by 2025 Palmer Cup participants Farah O’Keefe and Lauren Kim. Ianello was announced on the 2025 Jackie Steinmann WGCA National Coach of the Year Presented by Golf Pride Watch List on May 13. The Charleston, Ill., native was head coach at Arizona, her alma mater, the previous 14 seasons, guiding the Wildcats to the 2018 national championship and 2015 Pac-12 Championship. Arizona qualified for the NCAA Championship nine times, becoming the nation’s only program to reach the semifinals of match play each year from 2018 to 2021, and won the 2023 NCAA Raleigh Regional with Ianello at the helm. The 2019 Pac-12 Co-Coach of the Year, Ianello’s players earned 29 WGCA All-American Scholar, 24 All-Pac-12, 24 Pac-12 All-Academic Team, and nine All-America honors. As assistant coach at Arizona (2007-10), she helped the Wildcats compile three NCAA Championship appearances, the 2010 Pac-10 Championship, and the 2010 NCAA West Regional title. While playing as a Wildcat (1998-03), Ianello was a member of the 2000 national championship team and three Pac-10 Championship teams (2000-02). She was a 2002 NGCA (now WGCA) Honorable Mention All-American, three-time All-Pac-10 selection, and was team captain in 2002-03. The 2000 U.S. Women’s Amateur runner-up, Ianello competed in three U.S. Women’s Opens (2001-02, 2004), the 2002 Curtis Cup, and as a Team USA member at the 2000 and 2002 World Amateur Team Championships.
Jones is in his 22nd year as head men’s coach and Director of Golf for both programs at Florida State. Florida State was the only school to win both of their 2025 NCAA Regionals (W: Lexington, M: Tallahassee), and Jones’ men have captured three other team victories this season. They have been led on the course by 2025 Palmer Cup participant Tyler Weaver and Mark H. McCormack Medal recipient Luke Clanton. The Seminoles have competed in a program-record 19 consecutive NCAA Regionals, including qualifying for the NCAA Championship five straight years, and were the 2024 NCAA Runner-Up for the best NCAA Championship finish in program history. Jones, a Cullman, Ala., native, has earned ACC Coach of the Year honors three times (2008, 2015, 2024) and coached the most team victories (41) in program history, 39 All-America honors, and seven Palmer Cup alumni. As head coach at Georgia State (1995-2003), Jones led the Panthers to their first conference championship (1998 Trans America Athletic), first NCAA Regional appearance (2003), and highest national ranking (20th in 2000). He had responsibilities that encapsulated the entire Georgia State men’s golf program while coaching, including budgeting, public relations, strength and conditioning, scheduling, and recruiting. Jones was an assistant coach at Wallace State Community College (1992-95) and North Alabama, his alma mater (1991).
Tatman was hired as assistant coach at Arizona State on July 10, 2023, and elevated to associate head coach on April 3, 2025. The Sun Devils have won three tournaments and finished runner-up four times this season, including in the program’s first Big 12 Championship and the 2025 NCAA Gold Canyon Regional. They have been led on the course by four golfers ranked inside the top 40 via Scoreboard powered by Clippd and 2025 Big 12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year Grace Summerhays. Arizona State has qualified for the NCAA Championship in both seasons and won twice in 2023-24, being led by two All-Pac-12 members and four WGCA All-American Scholars. Tatman, a Longmont, Colo,. native, was an assistant coach at Tulsa for three seasons (2020-23), helping guide the Golden Hurricane to their first NCAA Championship appearance (2023) in 15 years and the eventually-cancelled 2021 NCAA Baton Rouge Regional. Five players earned All-AAC honors, including 2021 U.S. Women’s Open participant Lorena Tseng. Before that, Tatman was an assistant coach at Denver (2018-20), where the Pioneers won the 2019 Summit League Championship and qualified for NCAA Regionals each season. She also worked event management for the annual Ron Moore Women’s Intercollegiate while at Denver. Tatman averaged the 10th-best stroke average in Colorado State history while playing for the Rams (2011-16). She was named WGCA All-American Scholar three times (2013, 2015-16).
Williams is the fourth person to play and coach in the Arnold Palmer Cup, joining Phil Rowe, David Inglis, and Ryan Hybl. He went a combined 5-1-2 in the 2011 and 2012 Palmer Cups, winning with Team USA in 2011. With LSU’s Latanna Stone, Garrett Runion, and Alexis Rather in 2024, Auburn and Team USA’s Carson Bacha, Josiah Gilbert, and Jackson Koivun will be the second tandem where at least one player will be playing in the Palmer Cup coached on the same team by their university team’s head and assistant coaches. Williams, a Moscow, Idaho native is in his fourth season at Auburn and first as associate head coach after being assistant coach since 2021. The top-ranked Tigers have followed up their historic 10-win 2023-24 national championship with five wins in 2024-25, including the 2025 NCAA Auburn Regional where they were two strokes shy of tying the NCAA regional record for margin of team victory. The record is 29, set by Washington in 2010, with freshman Williams finishing second in the West Regional. Auburn has won 22 tournaments since Williams arrived on the Plains, receiving six PING All-America, nine PING All-Southeast Region, and 11 All-SEC honors. Williams spent two seasons as assistant coach at Marquette (2019-21), where the Eagles received three PING All-Midwest Region and three All-BIG EAST honors. He was instrumental in the development of upperclassmen Hunter Eichorn and signing two top-60 national recruits. Eichhorn won three times, including the 2021 BIG EAST Championship, and finished with the lowest career scoring average in program history (71.60) with Williams on staff. Receiving accolades that included two PING All-Midwest Region and the 2021 BIG EAST Player of the Year, Eichhorn became Marquette’s first All-American since 2009 in 2020 as a PING Honorable Mention All-American. Williams was a four-time PING All-American while playing at Washington (2009-13) and received the 2013 Ben Hogan Award, 2010 Phil Mickelson Award, and 2010 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year. He earned the 2012 Mark H. McCormack Medal before spending 46 weeks as the top-ranked men’s amateur in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR®). Williams also represented the United States in the 2011 Walker Cup, 2012 World Amateur Team Championship, and 2013 Copa de las Americas before competing professionally on the Mackenzie Tour and PGA TOUR Latinoamérica.
Olivencia is the first Puerto Rican selected (player or coach) for the Arnold Palmer Cup. The Caguas, Puerto Rico native completed her third season as head women’s golf coach at Miami at the 2025 NCAA Lexington Regional. The Hurricanes won back-to-back tournaments in the fall, the Mercedes Benz Collegiate and Hurricane Invitational, before qualifying for their second straight NCAA Regional. They were led on the course by Olivia Grønborg, one of Miami’s two upperclassmen (also a junior). Olivencia guided Miami back-to-back tournaments in the fall of 2023-24 and were led by 2024 Palmer Cup alumna Sara Byrne. Byrne was a 2024 WGCA Second Team All-American and qualified for the 2023 NCAA Championship as an individual. Olivencia was an associate head coach (2018-22) and assistant coach (2012-18) at Florida before that, where the Gators won 25 tournaments, including the 2017 SEC Title, and qualified for nine NCAA Regionals and six NCAA Championships. She helped lead Florida players to nine All-America and 26 All-SEC honors, including 2017 WGCA First Team All-American and 2016 SEC Individual Champion Maria Torres. Olivencia was an assistant coach at USF (2011-12) when the Bulls won their first Big East Championship and advanced to the 2012 NCAA Central Regional. They were guided by Christina Miller, the program’s first Big East Player of the Year. Olivencia played at Texas (2000-04), where she was the 2002 Big 12 Player of the Year and WGCA All-American in 2002 (Second Team) and 2003 (Honorable Mention). She recorded two wins, 15 top-10 finishes, and two top-10 finishes at NCAA Championships while receiving three-time All-Big 12 selections (2002-04). She also was the 2002 Women’s Western Amateur Champion, a 2002 U.S. Women’s Open Qualifier co-medalist, and three-time Caribbean Women’s Amateur Champion. Olivencia represented Puerto Rico on their national team (1998-2004), competing in two World Amateur Team Championships.
Park completed his fourth season with Houston women’s golf and first as associate head coach after being assistant coach (2021-24). The Cougars tied the single-season program record for wins (three) and finished inside the top three three other times while qualifying for their third straight and ninth NCAA Regional in the program’s 12-year history as a No. 5 seed, the highest in program history. They were led by 2025 NCAA Championship qualifier and two-time All-Conference Moa Svedenskiold. Houston was represented by Annie Kim in the 2022 NCAA Franklin Regional. Three Cougars and Svedenskiold have earned All-Conference honors with Park on staff. A Kendal, England native, Park was previously an assistant coach at UTSA women’s golf (2018-21), where the Roadrunners won five times, including the 2019 Conference USA Championship, and made two NCAA Regionals. They earned an NCAA Public Recognition Award in 2019 and 2020 for having perfect academic progress rate (APR) scores (1,000). Park’s coaching career began as assistant varsity coach and head JV coach at Auburn High School in 2017-18, where he also was the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour marketing and tournament director. He played collegiately at Alabama State, helping the Hornets win three consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) titles (2013-15). He was First Team All-SWAC and a GCAA All-America Scholar in 2015 as a senior. Graduating summa cum laude with a 3.94 GPA in communications with a minor in finance, Park graduated from Alabama State in 2015.
A 2023 Palmer Cup Assistant Coach, Webb is in his seventh year as head men’s golf coach at Tennessee. The Volunteers finished inside the top five five times this season, including third at the 2025 NCAA Amherst Regional to qualify for their second straight and third NCAA Championship under Webb. The last time Tennessee qualified for consecutive NCAA Championships was in 2010-11. They have been led on the course by top-50 golfer and Knoxville native Lance Simpson. Webb, a Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada native, guided the Volunteers to their highest regional seed in program history (No. 1) last season and their highest finish at the NCAA Championship since 1981 (10th), concluding the season ranked seventh. Three Tennessee golfers received All-America honors for the first time in program history, including PING Honorable Mention All-Americans Jake Hall and Bryce Lewis. While becoming the first coach in program history to coach three triple-win seasons, Webb’s teams have won 11 tournaments and he’s had eight individual medalists, including 2023 SEC Individual Champion and 2023 Palmer Cup alum Caleb Surratt, the first PING First Team All-American in program history. Prior to being hired at Tennessee on June 28, 2018, Webb was head coach at Middle Tennessee State, guiding the Blue Raiders to the first Conference USA Championship victory in school history, four tournament titles, and back-to-back NCAA Regional appearances in three seasons. The 2018 Conference USA Coach of the Year also coached conference Freshman of the Year recipients in back-to-back seasons while at Middle Tennessee State. Webb spent three seasons at Georgia Tech as their assistant and associate head coach, helping lead the Yellow Jackets to two ACC Championships and multiple appearances in match play at the NCAA Championships. His coaching career began at USF as an assistant coach in 2011-12, when the Bulls grabbed seven top-10 and three top-five finishes. Webb played collegiately at East Tennessee State, winning three Southern Conference championships and helping the Bucs finish third at the 1996 NCAA Championship. He then competed professionally in 11 different countries and as a fully-exempt member on the Web.com Tour.
Whall is in his first season as associate head coach of both golf programs at Florida State, his alma mater. The Seminole men have won the 2025 NCAA Tallahassee Regional and three other tournaments this season, qualifying for their fifth consecutive NCAA Championship. They have been led on the course by 2025 Palmer Cup participant Tyler Weaver. The women have won eight of their last nine tournaments, including the program’s first ACC Championship. They won the 2025 NCAA Lexington Regional for their third regional title in the last four years. The women have been led on the course by Division I PING WGCA Player of the Year Watch List members and 2025 Palmer Cup participants Mirabel Ting and Lottie Woad. Florida State has both 2024 Mark H. McCormack Medal recipients (Luke Clanton and Woad). Whall, a Lincolnshire, England native, was the head men’s coach at UAB the previous three years (2021-24), where the Blazers won five team and four individual titles and competed in the 2021 NCAA Stockton Regional. He coached 2024 AAC Freshman of the Year Seb Cave. Whall was assistant coach for both Florida State programs previously (2018-21), where he recruited and developed 2020 Palmer Cup alum and 2021 national player of the year award sweeper John Pak. Pak graduated with the best scoring average in school history. Whall has coached a combined nine Palmer Cup alumni while at Florida State, including 2021 Palmer Cup aluma and 2021 WGCA First Team All-American Beatrice Wallin. She finished her Florida State career with the second-lowest scoring average in program history.
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About the Arnold Palmer Cup
The Arnold Palmer Cup was co-founded by Arnold Palmer and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) and began at the Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Fla., in 1997. The event is a Ryder Cup-style tournament featuring the top men’s and women’s university/college golfers matching the United States against a team of International players. The Palmer Cup has been played at some of the world’s greatest courses, including The Old Course at St. Andrews, The Royal County Down, Royal Portrush, Baltusrol, The Honors Course, Cherry Hills, and Lahinch. Beginning with the 2018 matches at Evian Resort Golf Club, the Palmer Cup is the only major tournament that features men and women playing side-by-side as partners.
Since its inception, over 245 former Arnold Palmer Cup alumni have gone on to earn cards on the PGA, DP World, or LPGA Tours; 46 have represented Europe/International or the USA in the Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, or Solheim Cup and more than 95 have claimed over 435 victories on the PGA, DP World, LPGA, or Ladies European Tours. The United States leads the Palmer Cup series 15-12-1.
More than a showcase of golf skill, the Palmer Cup acknowledges and rewards character as well, in line with the principles of its founder and the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation. Arnold and Winnie Palmer championed causes that were not just about golf, but possible because of golf. They devoted their time away from the game to philanthropy — focused especially on young people — and created a model for other modern athletes to use their influence in service to others. The Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation continues the Palmer tradition of impactful philanthropy by uniting the generosity of golfers and fans everywhere to make a difference.
The Arnold Palmer Cup is part of the foundation’s missions to promote youth character development and foster the growth of amateur/collegiate golf. For more information, please visit arnoldpalmercup.com.
About the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation
The Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation continues the Palmer family’s mission to champion youth health and development. By continuing their efforts to ensure every child gets the opportunity to live a life well played — through support for nature-focused well-being and character development through golf — the foundation is committed to keeping the Palmer legacy at the forefront of the global conversation of golf and society at large. Learn more at palmerfoundation.org.
Rolex and the Arnold Palmer Cup
Through an unwavering commitment to the game of golf for more than 50 years, Rolex has developed one of the broadest and longest-standing relationships between brand and sport. These strong ties date back to 1967 when Rolex partnered with legendary golfer Arnold Palmer, making him the first official Rolex Golf Testimonee. The charismatic American holds a special place in golf history thanks as much to his natural talent and successful playing career as to his pioneering role in the sport. Since that pivotal bond began, Rolex has gone on to establish partnerships at every level of the sport, including with the governing bodies responsible for advancing the sport and with the finest players, from The Big Three to the New Guard who lead today’s rankings. The decision to partner with the Arnold Palmer Cup was thus a natural progression for the Swiss watchmaker and a tribute to Arnold Palmer’s inspiring legacy.
About Rolex
Rolex is an integrated and independent Swiss watch manufacturer. Headquartered in Geneva, the brand is recognized around the world for its expertise and the quality of its products – symbols of excellence, elegance, and prestige. The movements of its Oyster Perpetual and Cellini watches are certified by COSC, then tested in-house for their precision, performance, and reliability. The Superlative Chronometer certification, symbolized by the green seal, confirms that each watch has successfully undergone tests conducted by Rolex in its laboratories according to its own criteria. These are periodically validated by an independent external organization.
The word “Perpetual” is inscribed on every Rolex Oyster watch. But more than just a word on a dial, it is a philosophy that embodies the company’s vision and values. Hans Wilsdorf, the founder of the company, instilled a notion of perpetual excellence that would drive the company forward. This led Rolex to pioneer the development of the wristwatch and numerous major watchmaking innovations, such as the Oyster, the first waterproof wristwatch, launched in 1926, and the Perpetual rotor self-winding mechanism, invented in 1931. In the course of its history. Rolex has registered over 500 patents. At its four sites in Switzerland, the brand designs, develops, and produces the majority of its watch components, from the casting of the gold alloys to the machining, crafting, assembly, and finishing of the movement, case, dial, and bracelet. Furthermore, the brand is actively involved in supporting the arts and culture, sport, and exploration, as well as those who are devising solutions to preserve the planet.
About Nike
The exclusive footwear, apparel, headwear, and glove supplier of the Arnold Palmer Cup, our mission is what drives us to do everything possible to expand human potential. We do that by creating groundbreaking sport innovations, by making our products more sustainably, by building a creative and diverse global team, and by making a positive impact in the communities where we live and work.