Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll
2024 MWGA HOF Profile
Stacy has won more Golf Association of Michigan Championships than any other man or woman in the history of the organization. She is also the winningest Michigan State University Women's Coach. Stacy has won 25 GAM Championships that span from her junior career to being the reigning GAM Women's Senior Amateur Champion. This includes two Michigan Women's Amateur Titles, a GAM Women's Championship title along with 11 GAM Mid Am titles. She has several USGA Women's Mid-Amateur appearances and has qualified for both USGA Senior Amateurs that she has been eligible for, making to the round of 32 in 2022 and the round of 16 in 2023.
Stacy was the speaker at the MWGA High School Girls Golf Programs. She is a great ambassador for Michigan Girls and Women's Golf in Michigan and the USA. Stacy has established the Michigan State women’s golf program as a perennial regional and national power and the 2023-24 season will mark her 27th as head coach. In her 26 seasons as head coach, Slobodnik-Stoll has led the Spartans to 23 NCAA Regional appearances (1999-2014, 2016-19, 2021-23), 13 trips to the NCAA Championships (2000-03, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012-14, 2017, 2021, 2023) and eight Big Ten titles (2001, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021). Additionally, Michigan State has won 43 tournaments during her tenure, including the 2023 NCAA Palm Beach Regional, the program’s first-ever NCAA Regional win.
Slobodnik-Stoll is a five-time Big Ten Coach of the Year (2001, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2018) and was named the Midwest Region Coach of the Year in 1999. The driven former Spartan player was named head coach on June 20, 1997, and immediately began assembling the talent necessary to annually contend for Big Ten Championships and succeed at the national level. In 2017, Slobodnik-Stoll was inducted into the Women’s Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame and the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame.
Slobodnik-Stoll had the opportunity to gain international coaching experience during the summer of 2002 as she served as the head coach for Team USA in the USA-Japan Matches at the Glen Club in Glenville, Illinois. In June 2017, Slobodnik-Stoll joined fellow Spartans Mary Fossum (2002), Joyce Kazmierski (2003), Joan Garety (2005) and Sue Ertl (2010) in the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame.
The Spartan coach also continues to hone her own golf game, winning Michigan State Amateur titles in 1996 and 1998 en route to earning Golf Association of Michigan Player of the Year, an award she won for the third time in 2007. In addition, she has won a record 11 Golf Association of Michigan (GAM) Mid-Amateur Championships, including six in a row and seven in an eight-year span (2005-2010, 2012). She has also won the GAM Tournament of Club Champions on three occasions (2004, 2007, 2009). For all of her efforts on the course, Slobodnik-Stoll was named the GAM Women's Player of the Decade in 2010.
Slobodnik-Stoll has qualified for the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship four times (1994, 1996, 1998, 2001) and in 1997, she participated as an amateur at the LPGA Oldsmobile Classic at Walnut Hills Country Club in East Lansing and fired a 77-73, missing the cut by just four strokes.
In 1996, Slobodnik-Stoll finished fourth among amateurs at the Michigan Women's Open Tournament and in 1998, she won the Golf Association of Michigan Women's Stroke Play Championship. She was the top amateur finisher at the 2004 Michigan Women's Open Championship. During the summer of 2022, she made the cut at the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur in Alaska – reaching the round of 16 – and won the GAM Women’s Senior Championship.
Born Sept. 8, 1971, Slobodnik-Stoll earned her master's degree in sports administration from Michigan State in 1999. She resides in Haslett with her husband Jim Stoll and daughter Olivia, who plays on the women’s golf team at Grand Valley State University where she is ranked 12th in the nation and has led her team where she has lead her team to two NCAA Championships appearances.