ATLANTA, GEORGIA | She’s no stranger to this event or this position. Anne Walker of the Stanford Cardinal is the only coach to have gotten teams into all four editions of the East Lake Cup. Quite a feat when you consider the criteria. This three-day event at East Lake Golf Club is limited to the final four teams from the previous year’s men’s and women’s NCAA Championships.
To get here, you’ve made it to the semifinals of the biggest college tournament out there. So you’ve done something special. To get here every year makes people whisper words like “dynasty.”
Throw in the fact that this year and last Stanford women won individual title at the East Lake Cup (Albane Valenzuela with a dramatic eagle at the final hole on Monday and Andrea Lee a year ago in a playoff with teammate Casey Danielson) and that Stanford has been the No. 1 seeded team after stroke play three out of four years and the first question seems obvious: How does Walker do it?
