Elizabethtown College Athletics

Amy Kreider, who played a major role in preparing Elizabethtown College's women's golf team for its inaugural season in 2018, was named head coach of the Blue Jays men's and women's programs on June 19, 2018.
 
"I am extremely pleased that Amy Kreider will be leading our golf programs," said director of athletics Chris Morgan. "Amy brings a wealth of knowledge and a strong passion for the game of golf. She is detail oriented and committed to the success of our student-athletes on and off the course. I look forward to working with her as our head coach."
 
Kreider is the 10th head coach in men's program history -- and first female to lead the Blue Jays. She follows Jim Reed as the second head coach of the women's program.
 
Kreider joined Reed's staff as an assistant coach last season and was instrumental in guiding the Blue Jay women, who collectively had never played a round of collegiate golf prior to the spring season, to a successful fifth-place showing at the Landmark Championship.
 
The Elizabethtown men recorded a pair of top five tournament finishes under Reed and Kreider's watch in 2017-18.
 
"I'm awed and humbled to be a part of the Elizabethtown College athletic department and leading its men's and women's golf teams," said Kreider. "To be following Jim Reed, whom I greatly admire and respect means a great deal to me. Elizabethtown is a nationally renowned institution of higher learning with a top-notch coaching staff and administration."
 
Kreider spent three seasons as an assistant under Scott Vandegrift at Millersville University from 2014-17. The Marauder women won 11 tournaments during that span and made history in the fall of 2015 by claiming their first Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) championship. Millersville knocked off defending champion California (Pa.) by a single stroke (313-319=632, +64) on Hershey Country Club's East Course.
 
Six of Millersville's top 10 single-season scoring averages were set during Kreider's time with the program, including Shannon Weber's school record 77.7 in 2015-16 –the first sub-80 scoring season in team history. Kreider worked with All-PSAC selections Danielle Freed, Danielle Greene, Jaimie Wharton and Weber, who combined for seven all-conference finishes. She received the Millersville Athletics Core Values Award in 2017.
 
Kreider is originally from the greater Harrisburg area and played scholastically for Cedar Cliff High School, where she qualified for the 1976 and 1977 PIAA state championship tournaments during her sophomore and junior years.
 
A Penn State recruit, Kreider spent her freshman season with the Nittany Lions before an injury cut her collegiate playing career short. She graduated from the University Park, Pennsylvania campus in 1982 with a B.S. in marketing.
 
Kreider twice qualified for the now-defunct United States Golf Association (USGA) sanctioned U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links, appearing in the 1999 tournament at Santa Ana Golf Club (Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico) and the 2001 edition at Kemper Lakes Golf Club (Kildeer, Illinois).

Updated 6/19/18