Women's Golf
- Hometown:
- Radcliff, Ky.
- High School:
- North Hardin
- Last College:
- Florida State '17
- Position:
- Carolyn Macow Leatherwood Head Coach
| ABOUT LYDIA LASPRILLA | |
| Hometown | Radcliff, Ky. |
| College | Florida State '17 |
| Family | Husband – Austin Lasprilla |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
| Year | Team, Position |
| 2021 – | Houston Carolyn Macow Leatherwood Head Coach |
| 2018-21 | Houston Assistant Coach |
| 2018 | Louisville Volunteer Assistant Coach |
| POSTSEASON EXPERIENCE | |
| 2025 | NCAA Columbus Regional Head Coach – Houston |
| 2024 | NCAA Auburn Regional Head Coach – Houston |
| 2023 | NCAA Pullman Regional Head Coach – Houston |
| 2022 | NCAA Franklin Regional Individual Qualifier Head Coach – Houston |
| 2021 | NCAA Championships Individual Qualifier NCAA Baton Rouge Regional Assistant Coach – Houston |
| 2019 | NCAA Auburn Regional Assistant Coach – Houston |
| 2018 | NCAA Championships NCAA San Francisco Regional Assistant Coach – Louisville |
| 2017 | NCAA Championships NCAA Columbus Regional Assistant Coach – Louisville |
| 2016 | NCAA Championships NCAA Shoal Creek Regional Player – Florida State |
| 2015 | NCAA San Antonio Regional Player – Florida State |
| 2014 | NCAA East Regional Player – Florida State |
| PLAYING EXPERIENCE | |
| 2013-17 | Florida State |
| • Two-time All-ACC (2017, 2015) | |
| • 2016 Florida Challenge medalist | |
| • 2015 Western Amateur Championship runner-up | |
| • Four-time ACC Academic Honor Roll (2014-17) | |
| • Three-time All-ACC Academic Team (2015-17) | |
| • Four-year letterman | |
| 2003-13 | North Hardin High School |
| • Lettered a record 10 years | |
| • Earned All-State honors for 10 years | |
| • Named Miss Kentucky Golf six times | |
| • Set state record with most rounds in the 60s | |
| • Qualified for KHSAA State Tournament as a third grader |
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| • Featured in Sports Illustrated after shooting a 61 in Kentucky Invitational |
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| • Inducted into 5th Region Hall of Fame (November 2016) |
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After serving as an assistant coach for three seasons, Lydia Lasprilla became the second leader in Houston Women’s Golf history when she was named the Carolyn Macow Leatherwood Head Coach in June 2021.
In her time with the Cougars, Lasprilla – whose last name is pronounced Loss-Pree-Yuh – led Houston to five NCAA Regional team appearances, one NCAA Regional individual berth and helped guide Moa Svedenskiold to the 2025 NCAA Championships and All-American Karen Fredgaard to the 2021 NCAA Championships.
As the Carolyn Macow Leatherwood Head Coach, Lasprilla has guided the Cougars to team NCAA Regional appearances in each of the last three years with 19 Top-Five showings in tournaments, five All-Conference performers, two Big 12 Conference Championships All-Tournament Team members and 12 Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholars.
Lasprilla came to Houston after serving as a volunteer assistant coach at Louisville during the 2018 spring semester.
at HOUSTON
In 2024-25, Lasprilla led Houston to three tournament championships during the regular season, tying the school single-season record set by the 2018-19 team.
Moa Svedenskiold earned medalist honors at the Riverbend Intercollegiate and Veritex Bank Collegiate to become only the second student-athlete to win multiple individual tournament championships in a season.
Natalie Saint Germain tied for 10th to claim a spot on the Big 12 Conference Championships All-Tournament Team, the second straight season a Cougar received that recognition.
The Cougars stood at #27 in the final Scoreboard by Clippd national rankings and finished sixth at the NCAA Columbus Regional after earning a No. 5 seed in the NCAA postseason. That was the highest seeding for Houston in the NCAA postseason in school history.
In 2023-24, Lasprilla guided the Cougars to the program’s second straight NCAA Regional team berth. Houston tied for sixth at the NCAA Auburn Regional at University Club, the program’s best finish in the NCAA postseason and only two strokes shy of advancing to the NCAA Championships as team for the first time.
Her Cougars started the season in impressive fashion, sweeping the Sam Golden Invitational team and individual titles. Houston posted a score of 48-under 816 – thanks to a 20-under 268 score in the Final Round –for the third-lowest 54-hole total in NCAA history with freshman Ellen Yates earning medalist honors at 14-under 202 in her first collegiate event.
Svedenskiold led the Cougars and was named to the All-Big 12 Conference Team and to the Big 12 Championships All-Tournament Team. It was the second straight season in her second different league in which Svedenskiold collected those postseason accolades.
In 2022-23, Lasprilla led Houston to its first team appearance at NCAA Regional since 2021 with six Top-Four team finishes.
With a starting lineup featuring three true freshmen, Gumm’s Cougars finished second at the Trinity Forest Invitational with a score of 19-under 854, thanks to a Final Round 274, setting school records for low team round, low team round to par and low team tournament score.
Moa Svedenskiold captured medalist honors at the Jim West Challenge (Oct. 23-24, 2022) becoming the first freshman in school history to win a tournament title and was later named to the All-American Athletic Conference Team.
Fellow freshman Natalie Saint Germain fired a 64 in the Final Round of the Schooner Fall Classic (Sept. 26, 2022) to set the school record for low round.
Off the course, nine Cougars earned a place on the American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team, tying the school single-season record.
Following the season, she returned to her native Kentucky and won the championship at the Kentucky Women’s Open with a score of 9-under 135, thanks to a bogey-free 63 in the First Round at Elizabethtown Country Club in July 2023.
In her first season as head coach of the Cougars in 2021-22, Lasprilla guided the Cougars through a slow start to their best play of the year by season’s end.
Houston finished second at the American Athletic Conference Championships on Pinehurst No. 6 at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, N.C. Nicole Abelar, Maria Jose Martinez and Annie Kim earned All-American Athletic Conference honors while Kim joined Anna Economon and Ariana Saenz on the league’s All-Academic Team.
In 2020-21, Lasprilla helped lead the Cougars through a challenging season that saw the Fall 2020 season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Cougars earned three Top-Three team finishes during the season and qualified for NCAA Regional play for the seventh straight season.
Sophomore Karen Fredgaard captured the individual championship at the UCF Challenge for the first title of her collegiate career to open the spring season and went on to be named the American Athletic Conference Player of the Year and a First-Team All-American, a first in program history.
Away from collegiate competition, Fredgaard also tied for third at the prestigious Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
Zoe Slaughter was named the league’s Freshman of the Year and was joined on the All-American Athletic Conference Team by freshmen Anne Normann and Delaney Martin. It was the third straight season in which the Cougars had four All-Conference honorees.
The awards continued to come in from the classroom as well with nine student-athletes named to the American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team. It was the eighth straight season in which 4+ Cougars earned academic honors from the league.
In 2019-20, Lasprilla helped lead the Cougars to the Mason Rudolph Championship team title to open the fall season and saw Houston at No. 30 in the Golfstat national rankings before the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic abruptly canceled the remainder of the season in mid-March 2020.
In her first season with the Cougars, Lasprilla helped lead Houston to a pair of team championships, including the 2019 American Athletic Conference Championships team title and the ICON Invitational crown.
at LOUISVILLE
Lasprilla came to Houston after serving as a volunteer assistant coach at Louisville during the 2018 spring semester.
Joining the Cardinals in January 2018 after UL Head Coach Courtney Trimble went on maternity leave, Lasprilla helped lead Louisville to the team championship at the Anuenue Spring Break Classic in Hawai’i.
Qualifying for the NCAA San Francisco Regional, Louisville finished fourth and earned a place at the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2016.
Competing at the nation’s premier collegiate event, Lasprilla helped lead Louisville to the Final Round of stroke play, where the Cardinals finished 15th.
as a STUDENT-ATHLETE
Before entering the coaching ranks, Lasprilla was an award-winning star at Florida State from 2013 to 2017. She was a two-time All-ACC honoree (2017, 2015) and competed in the finals of two NCAA Championships during her collegiate career.
She was elected team captain by her teammates for her final three collegiate seasons.
Lasprilla was honored as the “Golden Nole” following her junior season. She posted a 72.04 scoring average through 30 rounds as a senior, the fourth-lowest average in FSU single-season history.
She finished her career at No. 57 in the World Amateur Golf rankings while leading the Seminoles to a No. 3 ranking as a senior.
By the time her FSU playing days were finished, Lasprilla had posted 12 Top-10 finishes and a 73.89 stroke average, which ranked fifth in school history. She finished her career ranked No. 57 in the World Amateur Golf rankings.
Lasprilla also enjoyed a stellar playing career as an amateur. She captured the 2014 Kentucky Amateur Championship and secured the 2016 Kentucky Open Championship title in a one-hole playoff.
in HIGH SCHOOL
Prior to her collegiate career, Lasprilla was a seven-time All-State selection at North Hardin High School in her hometown of Radcliff, Ky.
She earned the Miss Kentucky Golf Award a state-record five times, including becoming the youngest honoree at 12 years old in 2006. In 2012, she was named the Kentucky Golf Coaches Association Player of the Year.
As a sophomore, she fired an 11-under 61 at the Kentucky Invitational and was featured in Sports Illustrated following that accomplishment.
Lasprilla continues to hold the state’s high school record for most rounds counted in the 60s and earned national attention for qualifying for the Kansas High School Athletics Association State Championships as a third-grader.
At the end of her high school career, she had earned a school-record 10 letters.
PERSONAL
A three-time All-ACC Academic Team selection, Lasprilla graduated from Florida State with a bachelor’s degree in sport management in May 2017.
She is the daughter of Laura and Greg Gumm. Her father has been a high school baseball coach for 25 years, is inducted in the Kentucky Coaches’ Hall of Fame and was a National Coach of the Year finalist in 2011.
She married Austin Lasprilla in January 2024.
