Mariah Hopkins joined the Averett University men’s golf program as an assistant coach in June 2016.
Hopkins enjoyed a successful four-year career on the women’s golf team at Division I Western Carolina University, where she finished 15th on the Catamounts’ all-time strokes list and was a team captain her senior season. Hopkins had four top-five finishes and five top-10s with a 78.07 average over 107 rounds in 41 events. She finished third three times and had a fourth-place finish in the 2014 Southern Conference Championship, which earned her a spot on the SoCon All-Tournament Team.
In the classroom, Hopkins also succeeded at Western Carolina. Hopkins earned Women’s Golf Coaches Association Academic All-America honors in each of her final three seasons, and she was named to the SoCon honor roll all four years. Hopkins also was active in Western Carolina’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), serving as the philanthropy chair in 2014-15 and secretary in 2015-16.
Prior to Western Carolina, Hopkins played high school golf for North State, a homeschool golf team based out of North Carolina. She finished eighth in the national homeschool championship her senior year and helped the North State team win the national championship. Hopkins was also a top contender on the junior golf circuit’s Peggy Kirk Bell tour and a three-time North Carolina All-State Girls’ Second Team selection. In 2011, she qualified for the U.S. Junior Girls’ Championship, and in 2013, Hopkins won the prestigious Southwick Amateur Championship by three shots.
A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Hopkins graduated Cum Laude from Western Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in finance in 2016.
