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Women’s Golf Team
COACHING STAFF
SYLAS ELLIOTT, Men’s Head Coach (sylas.elliott@wallacestate.edu) Sylas Elliott enters his first season as Wallace State’s men’s head coach, after being elevated from the interim post, which he maintained during the 2018-19 season. Elliott led the Lions to a ninth-place finish at nationals last season.
A former Lion, Elliott earned 1st-team NJCAA PING All-American honors as a sophomore at Wallace State and was a 2016 Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year semifinalist --- one of only 30 players to earn the distinction. He was a two-time ACCC/Region 22 Tournament individual low medalist and a two-time champion of the Wallace State Fall Invitational. He went on to play at South Alabama, graduating in May 2018 with a degree in interdisciplinary studies.
J.J. ADAMS, Women’s Head Coach (jj.adams@wallacestate.edu) J.J. Adams enters his second season as Wallace State’s women’s head coach. Adams was named the 2019 Alabama Community College Conference (ACCC) Coach of the Year after leading the Lady Lions to a third consecutive ACCC/Region 22 tournament championship and a program-best 10th-place finish at nationals.
During the 2018-2019 season, Wallace State’s women won two fall tournaments and four spring titles under Adams’ guidance.
Adams, who previously served as a Wallace State assistant, played for the Lions from 1988-1990 before lettering at UNA. He previously owned Pro Golf of Cullman for nearly 20 years.
WSCC Golf Program Highlights: • 28 National Tournament Appearances (24 for Men, and 4 for Women) • 17 Alabama Community College Conference/Region 22 championships (13 for Men, and 4 for Women. Wallace Women have won the ACCC
Championship every year since program started in 2015.) • 3 NJCAA Division I national runner-up finishes (2014, 1996, 1993) • 2 PGA Tour players (Brett Wetterich and Fredrick Jacobsen) • 2 NJCAA Individual national champions (Aksel Olsen and Cooper
Brown)
Alabama Community College Conference (NJCAA Region 22) Golf Programs: Wallace State-Hanceville Calhoun Central Alabama (Men Only) Coastal Alabama-South (Men Only) Jeff State Marion Military Institute Northeast Alabama Snead State