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DAVID TAEBEL
Head Coach
David Taebel starts his fifth season as UW-La Crosse head women's golf coach in 2022-23. Named the Eagles' head coach on March 14, 2018, Taebel led UWL to nine invitationals in 2018-19, its first varsity season since 1982-83. Women's golf was a varsity sport at UWL from 1970-71 through 1982-83. It was suspended at the conclusion of the 1982-83 season and became a club sport.
UWL has placed second at the last two Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Championships. The Eagles finished sixth at the league championships in 2019 and seventh in 2018. The 2020 championships were held from April 30-May 2, 2021 due to the COVID-19 public health threat. The 2021 league meet was held October 9-10.
Four golfers finished in the top-12 at the 2020 championships for UWL. Grace Ellison placed seventh overall while Molly Larsen and Andrea Schleeper tied for ninth and Maija Tanberg tied for 11th. In 2021, four golfers recorded top-20 finishes with Larsen (fifth), Schleeper (tied for seventh), Tanberg (13th) and Sophie Denure (tied 18th).
UWL won three meets during the 2021-22 season, including the UWL Invitational, Viterbo University (Wis.) Invitational and UWL Eagle Invitational. The Eagles were second at the UW-Oshkosh Invitational and Northfield (Minn.) Challenge.
The Eagles captured four team titles during the spring 2021 season, including the Valley High Golf Invitational, Trempealeau Mountain Invitational, Turtleback Invitational and UWL Invitational. Along with finishing second at the 2021 WIAC Championships, UWL placed second at the UW-Whitewater Spring Invitational.
The Eagles competed in six invitationals during the fall 2019 season, including placing sixth at the WIAC Championships. UWL captured the 2019 Saint Mary's University (Minn.) Invitational featuring six teams. The team was second (six teams) at the 2019 Luther College (Iowa) Invitational, third (six teams) at the UWL/Viterbo University (Wis.) Invitational as well as fourth at the UW-Oshkosh and UW-Stout Invitationals.
UWL's spring 2020 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 public health threat.
UWL placed seventh at the 2018 WIAC Championships. The team finished second at the 2018 Viterbo (Wis.) Invitational and third at the 2019 Saint Mary's (Minn.) Spring Invitational.
Taebel was head girls' golf coach at Holmen (Wis.) High School in 2017 while creating a large junior golf program. He also serves as a sixth grade science teacher in Holmen (Wis.).
Prior to coaching at Holmen (Wis.), Taebel was the head girls' and boys' golf coach at Stoughton (Wis.) High School. He served as boys' head coach from 2000-17, leading the team to a fifth-place finish at the 2013 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) Division I State Tournament. Taebel started the Stoughton (Wis.) girls' golf program in 2002, leading the Vikings until 2017. He served as an assistant boys' golf coach at Stoughton (Wis.) from 1997-2000.
A member of the WIAA Golf Advisory Board and past board member of the Golf Coaches Association of Wisconsin, Taebel had numerous golfers from Stoughton (Wis.) compete at the collegiate level. He started the Stoughton (Wis.) Fairway Club, a non-profit junior golf organization. Stoughton (Wis.) High School maintained one of the largest rosters in the state under Taebel's tutelage. He also served as a science teacher at Stoughton (Wis.).
He was a golf instructor at Coachman's Golf Resort in Edgerton, Wisconsin from 1998 to 2017. Taebel earned his bachelor's (1993) and master's (2008) degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A native of La Crosse, he graduated from La Crosse Central High School in 1988.
JAY FARMER
Assistant Coach
Jay Farmer is in his fourth season as an assistant women's golf coach at UW-La Crosse in 2022-23. He served as an assistant golf professional at Kohler Co. Whistling Straits in Sheboygan, Wisconsin from 2000-02. Farmer was the Decatur Lake Country Club General Manager and Head Golf Professional in Brodhead, Wisconsin from 1998-99.
He has also worked as the tournament coordinator at Coyote Ridge Golf Club in Peoria, Arizona (1997-98) and the assistant golf professional at Painted Mountain Golf Club in Mesa, Arizona (1996-97).
Farmer has worked at Gundersen Healthcare as the Child and Adolescent Social Worker in Outpatient Behavioral Health since 2018. He also worked at La Crosse County as a Social Worker on the Children with Special Needs Unit from 2014-16. Farmer worked work at Inclusa as a Managed Care Social Worker for the frail and elderly from 2016-18.
He earned his bachelor's degree from UWL in 2005 and his certification in social work from Upper Iowa University in 2011. Farmer earned his associate in applied business management from The Golf Academy of Arizona.