Daniel Park is in his first season as Oklahoma State’s associate head coach after successful stints at Houston (2021-25) and UTSA (2018-21).

 

Head coach Annie Young announced the hire on June 11, 2025, stating:

 

“I am thrilled to have Daniel join our coaching staff. He is one of the best in the business. We’re excited to have him and his family in Stillwater.”

 

Park spent a portion of his summer working with some of the world’s best men’s and women’s collegiate golfers at the 2025 Arnold Palmer Cup, a Ryder Cup-style competition played at Congaree Golf Club in Ridgeland, S.C. He served as an assistant coach for Team International, which outscored the United States, 35-25, to claim its first win since 2022 and first on U.S. soil since 2020.

 

At Houston (2021-25):

 

Park helped coach the Cougars to three NCAA Regional appearances in four years under head coach Lydia Lasprilla. During his tenure, the team racked up four tournament titles along with the two highest postseason finishes in program history. The 2025 Cougars placed sixth at the Columbus Regional (just three strokes shy of an NCAA Championship berth) after tying for sixth at the 2024 Auburn Regional (two strokes back).

 

Five of Park’s Cougars earned all-conference honors and two more made the Big 12’s all-tournament team. UH student-athletes also excelled off the course, combining for 15 conference all-academic honors and nine WGCA All-American Scholar Athlete nods.

 

Park was promoted to associate head coach ahead of the 2024-25 season, during which the Cougars tied a school record with three team titles and finished 27th in the final Scoreboard by Clippd national team rankings. In addition, junior Moa Svedenskiold was a two-time medalist and advanced to the NCAA Championship as an individual.

 

In 2023-24, Park helped Houston make a successful leap from the American Athletic Conference to the Big 12. Svedenskiold became the program’s first All-Big 12 recipient and set a new single-season school record for stroke average (71.47).

 

The Cougars opened their season with the third-lowest 54-hole tournament total in NCAA history (-48, 816) at the Sam Golden Invitational, helped by a school record 268 (-20) in the final round, and a brilliant debut from freshman Ellen Yates, who fired a 14-under, 202 to finish atop the leaderboard.

 

A trio of Houston freshmen enjoyed similar success in 2022-23 helping the Cougars return to the NCAA Regionals for the first time since 2021. Svedenskiold became the first Houston rookie to win a tournament title, capturing medalist honors at the Jim West Challenge, and later landed on the American Athletic Conference’s all-league team. Fellow freshman Natalie Saint Germain tied the school’s low-18 record with a 64 in the Final Round of the Schooner Fall Classic.

 

In Park’s debut season (2021-22), the Cougars played some of their best golf by season’s end, finishing runner-up at the AAC Championship in Pinehurst, N.C. Three Cougars earned all-conference honors — Nicole Abelar, Maria Jose Martinez and Annie Kim – with Kim landing a spot in the NCAA Franklin Regional field.

 

At UTSA (2018-21):

 

Prior to Houston, Park spent three seasons at the University of Texas at San Antonio working with head coach Summer Batiste. The pair led the Roadrunners to five tournament titles, including the 2019 Conference USA crown, as well as two NCAA Regional appearances.

 

Park coached four different UTSA golfers to all-conference honors, including 2019 CUSA medalist Ana Gonzalez.

 

The Roadrunners also performed well in the classroom under his watch, earning 16 CUSA Commissioner’s Honor Roll spots, four CUSA Commissioner’s Academic Medals and one WGCA All-American Scholar nod. The program twice earned NCAA Public Recognition Awards after posting perfect Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores in 2019 and 2020.

 

UTSA earned only the second at-large berth in program history in 2021 and went on to secure a 13^th place finish at the Louisville Regional.

 

The 2020 squad was on a similar trajectory, winning two of its last three tournaments before the season was shut down in mid-March by COVID-19.

 

During the pandemic, Park used his downtime to complete Level 2 certification from the Titleist Performance Institute.

 

In 2018-19, Park helped lead UTSA to three team titles, highlighted by a 12-stroke win at the CUSA Championship. The Roadrunners set the program’s 54-hole record with a 10-under, 854 to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Norman Regional.

 

In Auburn, Ala. (2015-17):

 

Park came to San Antonio from Auburn, Ala., where he held dual roles as marketing and tournament director for the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour and as a golf coach at Auburn High School.

 

Park also served as a tournament services intern with Global Golf Management in Opelika, Ala., where he helped promote event opportunities and assisted with general operations during PGA Tour’s 2017 Barbasol Championship.

 

As a Student-Athlete:

 

A former standout collegiate golfer for Alabama State, Park helped lead the Hornets to three consecutive Southwestern Athletic Conference championships from 2013-15. As a senior, he earned First Team All-SWAC honors and was a Cleveland/Srixon All-American Scholar.

 

Education:

 

Park graduated summa cum laude from Alabama State with a 3.94 GPA while majoring in communications and minoring in finance. He was a President’s Award recipient and made the Dean’s Honor Roll in every year of college.

 

From 2015-17, Park worked as a public speaking instructor with Auburn University’s Communications Department while completing his master’s degree in communication.

 

Personal:

 

Park is a native of Kendall, England. He and his wife, Shanon, were married in 2017 and have a son, Lucas David, born in May 2024.

 

 

The Park File:

 

Coaching Experience:

2025-Pr. – Oklahoma State, Associate Head Coach

June 2025 – Arnold Palmer Cup, Assistant Coach (Team International)

2024-25 – Houston, Associate Head Coach

2021-24 – Houston, Assistant Coach

2018-21 – UTSA, Assistant Coach

2017-18 – Auburn HS, Varsity Assistant/JV Head Coach

 

Postseason History:

2025 – NCAA Championship Individual Qualifier (Moa Svedenskiold, Houston)

2025 – NCAA Columbus Regional (Houston)

2024 – NCAA Auburn Regional (Houston)

2023 – NCAA Pullman Regional (Houston)

2022 – NCAA Franklin Regional Individual Qualifier (Annie Kim, Houston)

2021 – NCAA Louisville Regional (UTSA)

2019 – NCAA Norman Regional (UTSA)

 

Playing Experience:

2012-15 – Alabama State

3x SWAC Team Champions (2013, 2014, 2015)

First Team All-SWAC (2015)

Cleveland/Srixon All-American Scholar (2015)

3x Letterman (2013, 2014, 2015)

 

Personal:

Hometown: Kendall, England

Education: Alabama State (2015), Auburn (2017)

Wife: Shanon

Son: Lucas David

The Southeastern Conference is proud to recognize two of its communications staff members, Jill Skotarczak and Tammy Wilson, who have been honored by College Sports Communicators (CSC) with the prestigious 25-Year Award. The award is presented to CSC members who have completed 25 years in the athletics communications profession and is vetted and voted on by the organization’s Special Awards Committee.

DANBURY, Conn. — ECAC Hockey unveiled its 2025-26 women’s league schedule, setting the stage for another thrilling season of collegiate hockey battles. The quest for the ECAC Hockey regular season title will take place over the league’s traditional 132-game slate, beginning on October 24 and concluding with the ECAC Hockey Women’s Championships from February 20 […]

Originally Published: June 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM EDT

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – The Union College men’s hockey team unveiled its 2025-26 schedule on Wednesday afternoon, highlighted by 18 regular-season games and one exhibition contest at the brand-new M&T Bank Center as well as the program’s second trip across the pond for the annual Friendship Four in Belfast.

“We are incredibly excited for the 2025-26 season and cannot wait to be back in front of our fans at our new home,” said head coach Josh Hauge. “The M&T Bank Center is a huge step forward for the future of Union Hockey, and we look forward to getting into the building and taking to the ice for the first time. We also have an incredible opportunity to head to Northern Ireland for the Friendship Four, which will be a great experience for our student-athletes and staff as well as our fans.”  

 

The 2025-26 schedule comprises 34 regular-season games and two exhibitions, with the team’s 22 ECAC Hockey matchups complemented by 12 competitive non-conference contests – including seven of the 12 to be played in Schenectady.

The new season gets underway on October 3 with an exhibition at Colgate University, followed the next day by the first men’s game at M&T Bank Center against Army West Point on Saturday, October 4 at 5 p.m.

 

Following a weekend series at Mercyhurst University on October 10-11, Union will not leave the Capital Region for over a month thanks to seven home games and the back-end of a weekend home-and-home with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The home stretch starts with two games against Niagara University on October 17-18 before a home date with RPI to end October and an away matchup in Troy to start November. ECAC play continues the following weekend with North Country rivals Clarkson University and St. Lawrence University on November 7-8 before closing out the time at home with non-conference games against UMass Lowell (November 14) and the University of New Hampshire (November 15).

 

The Garnet Chargers will be away from home for the next two weekends, albeit with greatly varying distances from Schenectady. The team heads to Cornell University and Colgate University on November 21-22 before crossing the pond to take part in the annual Friendship Four event in Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 28-29. Union will battle with Sacred Heart University, Miami (Ohio) University and Rochester Institute of Technology for control of the Belpot Trophy, as Union looks to become the first team to win the event twice since its inception in 2015.

 

Union closes out 2025 with four more games on home ice, getting back into conference play on December 5-6 against Princeton University and Quinnipiac University before a pair of non-conference games against the University of Alaska Fairbanks on December 12-13.

 

After a bevy of home games in the opening half of the season, the Garnet Chargers will play only seven games in Schenectady over the season’s final two months. The second half kicks off with an exhibition against the Royal Military College of Canada on January 3, followed by a road weekend at Quinnipiac and Princeton on January 9-10.

 

The team plays its first games of the year with Brown University and Yale University at home on January 16-17, followed by a season-long stretch of five straight games away from home. A tentatively scheduled Monday night matchup at Harvard University on January 19 would finish a busy stretch of three games in four days, followed by the annual Mayors’ Cup game against RPI on January 24, as the Garnet Chargers look for a fifth-straight win in the annual matchup in Albany. A solo game at Dartmouth College comes up next to end the month of January, and February begins with a trip to the North Country to face St. Lawrence and Clarkson on February 6-7.

 

The team finally returns home for two against Colgate and Cornell on February 13-14. The squad then closes out the home portion of the regular season with games against Harvard (February 20) and Dartmouth (February 21), highlighted by Senior Day on Saturday against the Big Green. The regular season finishes up at Yale and Brown on February 27-28.

 

Season tickets for the 2025-26 season are available now by visiting UnionAthletics.com/tickets. Benefits of season tickets include the ability to renew the same seats on an annual basis; tickets to the Women’s Ice Breaker Tournament in October and the annual Mayors’ Cup games at MVP Arena; access to special events only for season ticket holders, including a preseason meet-and-greet with the men’s and women’s teams at M&T Bank Center; as well as other perks. Single-game tickets will be made available for purchase later in the summer.