Michigan State University Women's Golf

Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll has established the Michigan State women’s golf program as a perennial regional and national power and the 2025-26 season will mark her...

Former Michigan State women's golf All-American and assistant coach Caroline Powers Ellis rejoined the program in August 2025. Powers Ellis, who spent the la...

Dan Kalchik is in his third year as a full-time member of the Spartan football equipment staff. Kalchik previously spent four seasons as a student assistant ...

Dr. Jeff Kovan has served as the Director of Athletic Medicine for Michigan State since March 2022. He had served as the Director of Primary Care Sports Medicine since 1996 and also represents the University as the Athletic Health Care Administrator, representing MSU at the Big Ten and NCAA level. Dr. Kovan is an associate professor in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Orthopedics. He is Board certified in Family Medicine and has completed his Certificate of Added Qualifications in Sports Medicine. A 1987 graduate of MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, he returned to MSU in 1995 to direct the school’s Sports Medicine program. His family includes wife, Jessica, daughters, Brianna and Sarah, and son, Zachary.

Dr. Tom Mackowiak has been a member of the Michigan State University Athletic Training staff since August 1987. Currently, he is the graduate Athletic Traini...

Dustin Steider joined the Spartans’ Athletics Performance staff on September 5, 2023, and serves as an Assistant Director, overseeing Men’s Soccer and Women’...

Former Michigan State women’s golf standout Leila Raines returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach on May 27, 2025. Raines, who played for the Spartans from 2021-24 and graduated from MSU in May 2024, spent the 2024-25 season as an assistant coach at Grand Canyon University. While in Arizona, Raines helped to guide the Lopes to seven top-5 finishes, including two team wins last year. The Lopes had four golfers earn All-Western Athletic Conference postseason honors, the most of any team in the league. Grand Canyon, ranked No. 79 in the NCAA rankings, finished in sixth place in the Western Athletic Conference tournament. Raines, the first MSU player to compete in four-straight NCAA Championships, had a stellar career in the Green and White, finishing her career among the all-time leaders in program history. She is the only Spartan to ever qualify for the NCAA Division I National Championship in all four years played, including once as an individual (2022) and three times with the team (2021, 2023-24). During her playing career, she set the school record for the low 54-hole tournament score in program history, firing a 13-under par 203 (69-69-65) at the Moon Golf Invitational in 2023. As a senior in 2024, she set a program record for the low 54-hole score in an NCAA Regional (East Lansing), finishing in fourth place with a 6-under par 210 (73-68-69). In 2021, her 6-under par 66 at the Briar’s Creek Invitational set a record for the lowest round ever by a freshman and in 2

Melissa Tallant is in her 17th year at SASS as an Associate Director and Academic Coordinator for baseball, ice hockey, women's golf, softball and liaison for former student-athletes. All of her sports have shown improvement in team GPAs, with women's golf maintaining the top team GPA for all MSU sports for the past six years at 3.56. She coordinates the George Webster Memorial Scholarship for former student-athletes and has taught KIN 171 Athletics in Higher Education for sixteen years. Tallant designs the Student-Athlete Handbook and Planner and coordinated SASS rebranding in 2015. She manages education abroad programs including partnerships with Australian institutions and Northumbria University in England. She holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Akron and a master's degree in Athletic Counseling from Springfield College. A Cleveland native, she has previously worked at the University of Illinois, Cleveland State University, Texas State University, and NACDA.

Mike "Mex" Carey joined the Michigan State Athletics Department in September 2017 and is in his eighth year as the associate director of athletic communications for men's basketball. In his role at Michigan State, Carey serves as the primary media relations contact for the men's basketball program and Hall of Fame Head Coach Tom Izzo. During his time at State, Carey has coordinated media activities for the 2019 Final Four team, seven NCAA Tournament appearances, four Big Ten titles and All-American guard Cassius Winston. In addition to his duties with the men's basketball team, Carey works with the men's and women's golf program. Prior to his arrival in East Lansing, Carey spent 12 years at Georgetown University, first as the sports information director (2005-08) and then as the associate athletics director for communications from 2008-17, overseeing media relations for the University's 29 intercollegiate sports. Carey coordinated media activities for the men's basketball team and Head Coach John Thompson III, including two Big East Championships, the 2007 Final Four and All-American forward Otto Porter, Jr. He joined the staff after a six-year stint as the Associate Director for Athletic Communications at St. John's University in New York City. Carey was the sports information director at Siena College in 1999, spent two years with in the editorial and marketing offices of Professional Sports Publications in New York City and was the communications director for the College G

Rob Masterson, RD, CSSD, joined Michigan State University in 2016 and serves as the athletic department’s Director of Performance Nutrition overseeing the nutrition operations for all varsity teams. In this role, Masterson serves the nutritional needs of Spartan student-athletes by providing science-based nutrition intervention, education, counseling, information and guidance, with the goal of optimizing overall health and athletic performance. He is a 2009 graduate of Michigan State’s dietetic program. Prior to returning to his alma mater in East Lansing, he served as a clinical dietitian in the greater-Detroit area as well as a sports nutrition fellow at the University of South Carolina.