Quinnipiac University Women's Golf

O’Connor enters his 17th season as Quinnipiac’s women’s golf head coach in 2025-26. O’Connor guided Quinnipiac to six Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championships, including two back-to-back reigns in 2016 and 2017, and three straight from 2021-2023. The Bobcats returned to the NCAA Tournament in 2025, capturing the MAAC Title for the sixth time. O’Connor has been at the helm of the Bobcats’ women’s golf program from its inception after previously coaching the Quinnipiac men’s golf team for three years. O'Connor has received four conference coach of the year awards, most recently in 2025. Since joining the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) in 2013, O'Connor has recruited five MAAC Rookies of the Year in Nicole Scola (2014), Luciana Tobia-Palza (2016), Alexandra Sazhin (2017), Samantha Galantini (2024), and Sophia Fujita (2025), as well as the five MAAC Players of the Year in Tobia-Palza, Sazhin, Leeyen Peralta, Fuge Zhang, and Sophia Fujita. Most recently, the Bobcats saw four golfers named to the All-MAAC Teams in Sophia Fujita, Samantha Galantini, Vaidehi Shah, and Marisa Flores. In the classroom, the team earned APR Public Recognition Awards from the NCAA, has featured more than 60 MAAC Academic Honor Roll selections in four seasons, and has committed hundreds of hours to community service. Prior to two-straight MAAC Championships, O’Connor’s 2013-14 campaign saw the Bobcats finish second in their first Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship in program

Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC is a registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer, journalist, nutrition and fitness consultant and author of 9 cookbooks. Dana is the sports dietitian and associate clinical professor of Athletic Training and Sports Medicine at Quinnipiac University. She has been practicing as a dual credentialed certified athletic trainer and registered dietitian for nearly 20 years. She is a member of the USOC Sports Dietitian Registry and National Athletic Trainers' Association liaison to the Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness nutrition subgroup of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Dana is the nutrition expert for FoodNetwork.com and has served on advisory boards for Verywell, Greatist, Applegate, Chobani and has worked as a spokesperson for Gatorade, National Honey Board, National Mango Board and Cooking Light Magazine. She has made appearances on Good Day Street Talk, Food Network.com, Access Hollywood, ABC Nightly News, NBC Connecticut, GMA Health, New York Live and Better Connecticut. Dana's work has been featured on Food Network.com, Verywell.com, Cooking Light.com, Today's Dietitian, SHAPE, SEVENTEEN, Prevention, Muscle & Fitness, Men's Health, Men's Fitness, and Maxim. Dana earned her master's degree in nutrition education from Teachers' College-Columbia University and bachelor's degree in Sports Medicine from Quinnipiac.

Devin Markle, Psy.D., M.Ed joined the Quinnipiac Athletic department in the fall of 2021 as the Clinical Sports Psychology Coach. She is responsible for all of the athletic programs and works to create individual, team and coaches workshops related to sports psychology. Markle comes to Quinnipiac with over seven years of experience with working with all athletes, ranging from professional to youth. She most recently was a psychological assistant for the Fulton Psychological Group where she specialized in working with 4 to 18 year olds, counseling for mental health concerns as well as performance psychology. In 2018, she started her own private practice which specialized in helping athletes and business people to reach their highest level of performance. From August 2015 to 2018, Markle served as the Co-Director of Mindset Development at the Mamba Sports Academy. She was responsible for training athletes of all ages and levels and implementing mental skills training with individuals. In addition, she helped design the NBA and NFL Pre-Draft Training Program while working with the Mamba Sports Academy. Markle earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and English at the University of Vermont in 2010. She then went on to earn her Master's in Education in Counseling and Sport Psychology from Boston University in 2013. By 2020, Markle had also earned her PsyD in Clinical Psychology from California Southern University.

Quinnipiac women's golf head coach John O'Connor announced the hiring of former student-athlete Julia Kemmling, who will serve as the team's assistant coach....

Meg Collins enters her first season as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Quinnipiac in June 2021. Collins originally started at Quinnipiac in January 2021 as a strength and conditioning assistant before earning her promotion in June. Collins is responsible for developing and track the athletic performance for field hockey, women's golf, women's track and field, men's and women's cross country and men's and women's tennis. She also has spearheaded the strength and conditioning department's social media initiatives. Prior to arriving at Quinnipiac, Collins spent five months as a strength and conditioning coach intern at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She assisted in developing athletic performance of all student-athletes as well as collecting and analyzing data. Collins spent one year as a graduate fellow and strength and conditioning coach at Merrimack College during the 2019-20 school year. She worked primarily with women's soccer, men's tennis and throwers and assisted with women's basketball, men's lacrosse and football. She also assisted in mentoring the interns through an extensive and comprehensive coach and development curriculum and assisted in the development of the graduate fellowship manual. Collins spent her senior season at Trinity College as a strength and conditioning coach intern. She worked directly with the head coach and was responsible for first year, injury and modified programs as well as assisting with delivering training

Patrick Kraemer was promoted to Assistant Director of Athletic Communications in February of 2024. He was a Graduate Assistant of Athletic Communications from August 2022 to February 2024. Kraemer also worked as a student worker with the Athletic Communications office from September 2018 to May 2022 as he pursued his Bachelor of Science in Business Management with a minor in sports studies. Kraemer currently serves as the primary contact for Women's Basketball, Women's Soccer, Women's Volleyball, Women's Golf, and Baseball. Kraemer oversees the teams' social media accounts and updates the website with various stories. Kraemer assists in the video production of Quinnipiac's various home events throughout the year. Prior to his time as a Graduate Assistant, Kraemer worked as a work-study student at Quinnipiac University. During his time as a student at Quinnipiac, Kraemer has volunteered at numerous tournaments, including the 2019 NCAA Women's Ice Hockey Frozen Four in Hamden, CT and the 2019 Big East Field Hockey Championships where he inputted live stats. He also volunteered and computed statistics at the ECAC Men's Hockey Championship Weekend (2022-2023) in Lake Placid, NY, a 2021 NCAA Men's Hockey Regional in Albany, NY, and the CIAC Boy's Hockey Championships at M&T Bank Arena (2022-2023). The Long Island native graduated from Quinnipiac University in 2022 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management degree. He is currently working toward a Master's Degree in Business