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After 29 seasons, Coach Velvet Milkman is announcing her retirement from the Murray State women’s golf program, one that she founded in the fall of 1993 and has been the only coach the Racers have ever had.
Milkman is the all-time leader at Murray State with 12 OVC Championships as her longevity spanned an amazing 22 years between her first title in 1997 and the last in 2019. Her Racer teams dominated by winning the OVC championship three consecutive times on three different occasions. The Racers made seven NCAA appearances in team play regionals. In 2022, Payton Carter became the first MSU and OVC player to play as an individual when she competed in a NCAA regional.
Milkman served for 18 years as senior woman administrator for MSU Athletics and led the department as interim athletics director from July 2018-February 2019. She was one of the leaders in shaping women’s golf at the NCAA level and served a four-year term on the NCAA Women’s Golf Committee including two years as chair.