Staten Island, NY – Wagner College has announced the hirings of Morgan Kauffman and Cole Buck and to head up the Seahawk golf programs. 
 
Kauffman, who will serve as head women's coach for the Green & White, is a former standout at Austin Peay State University where she was both an academic and athletic scholarship recipient. The Tennnessee native brings a wide and varied golf background to Wagner. In addition to being a Dean's List student and three-time Academic Honor Roll member, Kauffman was a three-time Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) qualifier and a member of the 2016 All-OVC Tournament team after earning a fifth-place finish in the conference tourney.
 
This past summer, Kauffman served as Head Golf Instructor in Massachusetts at the Country Club of Pittsfield where she coordinated all golf-related functions,, events and practices, in additoion to providing golf instruction for more than 150 male campers ages 7-16.
 
A 2017 graduate of Austin Peay, Kauffman will purse a Master's of Business Administration in addition to her coaching duties at Wagner.

Buck, who will serve as head coach of the Seahawk men's team, arrives on Grymes Hill from Texas Christian University where he was a two-year member of the Frogs' golf team. His golf experience includes a stint as internal operations director for the Jim McLean Golf Center in Arlington, TX, one of the nation's top instructional facilities.
 
He has also served as the Associate Director of Junior Camps at Brentwood Golf Course in Kenne, NH, where his responsibilties included serving as coordinator and instructor at junior golf clincis. Prior to his tenure there, Buck served as head men's and women's junior varsity golf coach at Trinity Valley High School in Fort Worth, TX.
 
A 2017 graduate of TCU, Buck, in addition to his coaching duties at Wagner, will pursue a Master's of Business Administration.

Kauffman and Buck are replacing Christopher Fourman, who held the dual titles of Head Men's and Women's Golf Coach at Wagner for the past seven years. Fourman, who guided the men's team to the 2016 Northeast Conference (NEC) title and helped produce the Seahawks' first-ever male NEC Player of the Year in Anton Frondelius, was a three-time NEC Golf Coach of the year (two Women, one Men). Fourman remains at Wagner in his full-time role as Senior Major Gifts Officer, Institutional Advancement.
 
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