Golf Coaching Staff
Richard Warren
Head
Men's & Women's Golf Coach
warr0773@pacificu.edu
Richard Warren is in his sixth year as Pacific's Director of Golf. He enters his seventh season as the head coach of the Boxer women's program and his sixth as the coach of the men's team.
Warren has masterminded a resurgence of the winning tradition of Pacific golf that was first planted under Marsh Lee in the 1990s. The success has been most apparent on the women's side, where the Boxers won conseuctive Northwest Conference championship in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
During that 2006 season, Pacific posted the back-to-back-to-back crowns despite changes to the scoring system that decided the conference championship. In third place after the fall season in the system that counts the NWC Fall and Spring Classics in addition to the NWC Championship, the Boxers recovered to win the NWC Spring Classic and NWC Championships to claim the season title.
In April 2005, the Pacific women's team celebrated its second consecutive Northwest Conference championship, the first for Pacific in any sport since 1998. The year before, Warren's Boxer captured the first NWC women's golf championship since 1997, winning by an incredible 30 strokes. In each year that the Pacific women won, Warren was selected as NWC Women's Golf Coach of the Year.
In his seven years, Warren has had the pleasure of coaching a number of All-Northwest Conference performers, including Kilah Sime, Molly Lindbloom, Noah Horstman and others. In 2006, Warren saw one of his men's golfers, Dan Cashmere, selected to the All-West Region Team.
A self-described "golfaholic," Warren started the high school program at Banks in 1995 and served as its head coach before leaving in May 2000 to take the Pacific position. Between the fall and spring seasons, Warren will return to the basketball sidelines as an assistant men's basketball coach under Jason Lowery.
Married with two children, Warren attended Cleveland High School in Seattle, Wash., Central Oregon Community College and Portland Community College. He has also served as volleyball coach at Yamhill-Carlton (Ore.) High School and Banks, and as a basketball coach at Banks and Scappoose (Ore.) High Schools.
In addition to his golf duties, Warren is an assistant coach for the Pacific men's basketball team and works as a night security guard for Merix in Forest Grove. In his free time, Warren and his clubs can be found on a variety of local golf courses.