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Congratulations to Ross McGowan who secured his maiden European Tour win at the Madrid Open in October 2009. Ross graduated from Tennessee in 2005. And congratulations also to Martin Laird who became the first Scotsman to win on the PGA Tour for 23 years by winning the Justin Timberlake Open in Las Vegas the following week. Martin graduated from Colorado State in 2004.

Four of our former golfers Luke Donald, Robert Dinwiddie, Ross McGowan and Chris Devlin, all competed at the US Open Golf Tournament in the summer of 2008. Quite an accomplishment!

Many congratulations to former client Colette Murray who has been hired as Women’s Golf Coach at the University of Tennessee @ Chattanooga. Prior to that she was Assistant Coach at Jacksonville State University in Alabama from which she graduated in 2004

Congratulations to Camille Gandhi, a field hockey player from London. She is a sophomore at Stanford University where she was voted Nor-Pac Player of the Year and was a 3rd team All-American.

Alice Barnes hails from Cambridge and graduated from Stanford University where she won the NCAA Division I doubles title, reached the singles semi-finals, was part of the team that won the National Championship and was voted NCAA Player of the Tournament.

CPOA also assisted her brother Adrian who graduated from Cal Berkeley and her sister Ruth who graduated from Northwestern in Chicago.

Chris Mulvaney is from Cumbria and graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2004 where he was a multiple All-American in cross country, indoor and outdoor track.

In May 2004 he won the NCAA Division I 1500 meter title and in July he won the AAA’s 1500 meter title.

Luke Donald was a CPOA client who graduated from Northwestern in 2007 and is now firmly established on the US PGA Tour. In 1999 he was NCAA Division I National Champion.

He earned his US Tour Card in 2001, has won twice on the US PGA Tour, twice on the European Tour and was part of the victorious 2004 and 2006 Ryder Cup teams. In 2006 he was 3rd at the Masters, 3rd at the USPGA and is ranked in the Top 10 in the world. He is a member of CPOA’s National Board of Advisers.

Karen Stupples Karen Stupples won the British Open, one of the four Grand Slam events in 2004 and in 2005 represented Europe in the Solheim Cup.

She attended Arkansas State for a year before transferring to Florida State in 1993. She won her LPGA Tour Card in 1998 at her first attempt and won her first tour event, the Welch’s/Fry’s Championship in 2004. She is a member of CPOA’s National Board of Advisors.

Simon Earnshaw attended Georgia College and State before accepting the post of Head Men’s and Women’s tennis coach at Armstrong Atlantic in Georgia.

In 2005 his women’s team won the NCAA Division II National Championship and he was voted the Wilson/ITA National Coach of the Year.

Sam Winterbotham
CPOA client who was an NAIA tennis All-American at Oklahoma Christian University.

Sam was Head Men’s Tennis Coach at the Colorado University between 2002 and 2006. After budgetary constraints forced the cancellation of several sports at Colorado, including tennis, he has recently joined the University of Tennessee as Head Women's Coach.

Becky Morgan was placed at the University of North Carolina @ Greensboro in 1994.

While at University Becky won 10 NCAA div 1 medallist titles and was a three time All-American. Becky graduated in 1998. In 2001 she won her European Tour Card and in 2002 her US Tour Card. Although she is yet to win an LPGA title, she has numerous 2nds and 3rds. In July 2004 she was lying 13th of the LPGA Money List and was world ranked 28.

Matthew Thompson from Essex attended Slippery Rock University (PA) on a soccer scholarship.

He served as Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach at Robert Morris University (PA) before accepting the Men’s Head Coaching position at Slippery Rock in 2003

Kevin Ray from Kent spent four years at the University of Montevallo in Alabama and two years playing pro soccer in the US with the Louisiana Outlaws and the Palm Beach Pumas before accepting the Head Men’s Coaching job at Huntingdon College in Alabama, a highly regarded NCAA Division III college.

Richard and William Barker from the West Midlands, played for Rice University (TX) where they were ranked as the #1 doubles pair in college tennis for two years running.

Other successful CPOA golfing clients include Robert Dinwiddie (Tennessee State) who won twice on the Challenger Tour and is now a European Tour Player and Ross McGowan (Tennessee) who won twice on the Challenger Tour and is now a European Tour Player. Other players on the tour include Stuart Manley (West Florida) , Martin Laird (Colorado) and Ellie Pilgrim (Northern Arizona).

Lesley Irvine, whom CPOA placed at the University of Iowa where she was an All-American, is Head Field Coach at Stanford University, one of America's most prestigious universities. In 2007 she was Nor-Pac Coach of the Year.