Coach Pat Weis head coach from 1957-1993

Coach Pat Weis is to golf what Coach Royal is to football. The Legendary Hall of Fame coach has passed away. The link below link in red font is a interview done by Ant Geronimo with Coach Weis.

https://www.facebook.com/antgeronimo/videos/10158135568406974/

Weis joined the University of Texas in 1957 and served as an associate professor in the department of physical education. Coach Weis is celebrated as the first head coach of the Longhorn women’s golf program and for directing the team to great success from 1973-1993.

Honors

• Weis was inducted into the Women’s Golf Coaches Association Coaches Hall of Fame in 1987 and, in 1991, was awarded the Gladys Palmer Award, the highest honor bestowed by the National Golf Coaches Association.  In 2001 Coach Weis was inducted into the Longhorn Hall of Honor.

• She was honored as National Coach of the year in 1987, and 1988 and as SWC coach of the year 5 times.

• Weis’ teams won seven Southwest Conference titles and finished in the top-10 nationally 11 times.

• Weis coached 11 All-Americans, 21 all-conference golfers, four Southwest Conference Players of the Year.

• In November 2008, UT dedicated the practice tee at the University of Texas Golf Club in Weis’ name.  The Pat Weis Endowed Presidential Scholarship was created to support a student-athlete in the Women’s Golf program who maximizes her potential and emulates the dedication, caring and class demonstrated by Coach Weis.

 

She cared deeply about her student-athletes and the University of Texas.  

Under Weis, Texas won seven championships in the Southwest Conference. She coached 11 All-Americans, one AIAW champion (Debbie Petrizzi), and one NCAA champion (Charlotta Sorenstam). 

Other great golfers that Weis coached included, Michiko Hattori, Susan Watkins, Nancy Ledbetter, Sherri Steinhauer, Sue Ginter, and Kate Golden, 

 

Comments 

 “Coach Weis loved The University of Texas and the Women’s Golf team,” Kate Golden, UT Associate Head Women’s Golf Coach, said. “Although she hadn’t played golf for a while, she always enjoyed hearing about how the current team was doing. She was a pioneer in collegiate women’s golf, and we will all miss her dearly. Thank you, Coach, for all you have done for the game. RIP.”  

“Coach Weis was an anchor for Texas Women’s Athletics in its first two varsity decades. She loved taking her teams across the country to compete and promote the University of Texas. In the mid-80s, one Eastern golf writer told me Texas had the classiest, best-playing, best-dressed women’s golf team in America. Pat started our great fan base for women’s golf,” UT Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director Chris Plonsky said. UT officials said details regarding a celebration of life and funeral services are pending and will be shared once finalized. “It’s a very sad day for Texas Women’s Golf and collegiate golf in general,” current UT coach Ryan Murphy said in a statement. “Coach Weis meant so much to so many people, and she was a giant within our sport. Everything we have today can be largely attributed to Coach. She started a program that would ultimately impact hundreds of lives over four-plus decades. Coach will be sorely missed and will be in our thoughts and prayers as we continue through this season.” Coach Jody Conradt, the former Texas basketball coach and director of women’s athletics, said: “The changes that had occurred in college athletics over her career are indescribable, but there is one common thread: athletics department staff, donors, fans and her student-athletes respected and loved Pat. For having grown up in Arkansas, there was no more loyal and vocal Longhorn. She often reminded us she came to UT the same year as Darrell Royal [1957].”

Dena Reneau – I told Doctor Reneau of Coach Weis’s passing, and he remembered her fondly. They both were part of the UT system together and friends at our Great Hills Country Club for many years. Pat was special to the whole club, but especially to the golfing women, was our WGA President in 1995, and played with our group for many years until her health declined.

 

OBITUARY

Patricia A Weis

May 16, 1930 – February 9, 2020

Patricia A. “Pat” Weis, age 89, of Austin, died February 9, 2020, at St. David’s North Austin Medical Center. Pat was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 16, 1930, a daughter of the late Richard and Polly Weis. She is survived by her sister Rosmary Kercheval of Sugarland, TX; her sister-in-law Helen Weis of Collierville, TN; twelve nieces and nephews, and twenty-one great-nieces and great-nephews, all of whom she loved very much. She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Francis Weis, Richard K. Weis and wife Julia, and Donald Weis.

Pat grew up in Brinkley, Arkansas where she graduated from high school in 1948. She graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1952 with a BS degree in Education. She taught health and physical education in Houston at Reagan High School (1952-1954) and Houston Lamar High School (1954-1955). She attended the University of Colorado with a teaching fellowship (1955-1957) where she received a Master’s Degree in Biological Science.

In 1957 she came to the University of Texas at Austin as an instructor in the department of Health and Physical Education, until 1973 when she became the first women’s intercollegiate athletic golf coach until she retired in 1993.

Visitation will be held from 3:00-5:00pm on Sunday, February 16, 2020, followed by a rosary service at 5:00pm in the Colonial Chapel of Cook-Walden Funeral Home, 6100 N. Lamar Blvd, Austin. Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10:00am on Monday, February 17, 2020 at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, 4311 Small Dr, Austin, 78731. 

Chuck & Joyce Hartenstein

February 13, 2020

Pat was a true Longhorn and great friend to us. For years, We always enjoyed talking to her at football games when we had season tickets behind her. She was a great and respected coach who will be remembered and missed by all who loved her.
Chuck & Joyce Hartenstein

Jean Collard

February 12, 2020

Enjoyed our several brief chats at the Renaissance when I visited you there during my visit with another resident. The UT family has lost a remarkable coach, teacher, scholar, and friend. You will always be a Longhorn lady.

David Cody

February 11, 2020

Coach we spent so many hours together and you left having provided so many memories . Sorry I cost ya that Georgia recruit in the 80’s when Kate, Lisa D and I tore up the town in Kate’s little sportscar. Not sure you ever found out about that but didnt land the recruit.
Love you always Coach, thanks for signing a copy of your book ! Hope the Weis Cup reunions continue

Bari Brandwynne

Pat Weis; Lost our mentor: our coach; a woman who changed lives; who gave me a spot on a team that became my sisters and forever family; who gave me a chance to compete against the best players in the world; who taught me to never give up; work hard at your craft ,honour your team , and as fate would take it : shaped my happy life , allowing me to end up in golf as a coach and instructor at an amazing place to work for 30 years; I know she knew how she shaped lives; and what she meant to all of her longhorn girls—we will have forever memories of this amazing coach/woman/friend : We will be telling coach, team and Texas stories forever; they seem to never end….Isn’t that what it’s all about: ..? Check out the pics of Beautiful Jackie and Piper: I know the 3 of them are together: Rest in peace Coach Weis:: forever in our hearts: hook em’

 

Mickie Edwards

Memories of what Pat Weis meant to me, Mickie Edwards, are my best comfort. She shared her world with me and trusted me in everything. I never deserved it except that Coach Pat Weis said I did! From then on I believed it myself. Now, how special is that? I hope no one minds that I’m sharing photos of many special moments in her career. This is only a sample, believe me.

Jamie Fischer

Tears are rolling down my face as I write these words. My college Coach Pat Weis has left us on earth today for a permanent tee time somewhere else…somewhere that every putt will get to the hole ???? Cannot even begin to try to share the impact she has had on my life because she gave me the opportunity to be a member of the University of Texas Longhorn Golf Family. Coach was tough but caring, fair and honest (brutally so sometimes), funny but stern, and above all respected by her players and colleagues. Life lessons learned, lifelong friendships made – all because of her. Coach, we are ALL are better for having known you, played for you, worked with you, and for being your friend. Thank you Coach and Godspeed. https://texassports.com/news/2020/2/9/pat-weis-legendary-womens-golf-coach-passes-away.aspx

Carrell Grigsby

February 15, 2020

Pat changed my life. As a freshman Plan II Pre Law student at the University of Texas at Austin, my favorite class was physical education. Pat, not the instructor but passing by the gym, saw me and waited until after class. She began talking about how much I loved athletics, and kept coming by to see me. She talked me into changing my major to Physical Education! Well, she and Dot Lovett ganged up on me. I loved being a PE major and ended up getting my Masters in PE at UT. I just missed her starting the golf team or I’d have been an enthusiastic participant. I followed her entire coaching career. After my PE teaching career I became a professional photographer, running into Pat at various golf events. My final connection with her was when she came to me for a portrait several years ago. She loved it and said it would be her parting shot. The portrait on this obituary is that one. My signature can be seen in the bottom left corner. I am proud to have given her the image she wanted to be remembered by. Rest in peace Pat.