Marie Donnici - Women's Golf Coach - Ball State University Athletics

Marie Donnici

Title:
Graduate Assistant
Email:
mjdonnici@bsu.edu
Alma Mater:
Richmond, 2018
Phone:
765-285-4086
Years at Ball State:
1st season in 2018-19

Marie Donnici served as a graduate assistant coach for two seasons from 2018-20 after concluding a successful collegiate playing career at Richmond.

Donnici helped Ball State to seven top-3 tournament finishes, including a win at the 2019 Cardinal Classic. She also helped coach Manon Tounalom who graduated in 2020 with the second-best career scoring average in program history (76.89).

Before she began coaching, Donnici was a second-team All-Patriot League selection as a junior and finished tied for 10th at the league championships. She played in eight of her team’s nine events that year, registering a 78.09 stroke average. Her senior season the was sidetracked by injury the next year.

The Vancouver, British Columbia, native played her first two collegiate seasons at Hawaii, where she was a WGCA All-American Scholar, before transferring across the country to Richmond.

As a junior golfer, Donnici placed third at the 2013 CJGA Mizuno National Junior Championship and finished runner-up at the 2014 CN Future Links Western.

She was a member of Team British Columbia at the Northwest Pacific Ladies Matches and the Girls Junior America’s Cup in 2013, and she also competed that year for CJGA Team Canada at the North America Cup and the Aaron Baddeley International Junior Championship.