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Assistant Coach Donnie Darr

In his second season as a member of the OSU staff, Donnie Darr will once again serve both the men’s and the women’s programs as the assistant coach after serving as the head men’s golf coach at Akron in 2005-06.

He spent the 2004-05 academic year as an assistant men's golf coach at Oklahoma and the following three months as an assistant golf professional at Shady Hollow Country Club in Massillon, Ohio, before taking the head coaching position with the Zips.

Prior to those stints, Darr coached for three seasons under head men's golf coach Herb Page at Kent State, Darr’s alma mater. He was an assistant on both the men and women's staffs at Kent State during his first 18 months before being elevated to associate head coach for both sports in September of 2002.

Darr has had a hand in all facets of collegiate golf at his four prior coaching stops. In addition to devising practice schedules and recruiting at Oklahoma, he recruited, coordinated travel and equipment budgets, and served as tournament director for the Lou Telerico Pro-Am Classic, an annual fund-raising event for the Kent State golf program.

A standout golfer with the Golden Flashes, Darr was a four-time all-Mid-American Conference first-team team selection (1993-96) and was chosen as the MAC Sportsman of the Year in 1996. He earned third-team All-America honors as a junior in 1995 and also received the Merle Wagoner Award in 1996, which is given to the outstanding senior male athlete at the school.

Darr was elected to represent the United States in the USA/Japan Matches in 1996. He still ranks No. 5 on the Kent State career stroke average chart (74.74).

After college, Darr toured as a professional golfer for one season (1997-98) before serving four years as an assistant golf professional in northeast Ohio at Windmill Lakes Country Club in Ravenna and Lakewood Country Club in Westlake.

Darr was inducted into Kent State's prestigious Varsity "K" Hall of Fame in 2004.

He and his wife, Tina, also a Kent State graduate, are the parents of two-year-old triplets: Allie, Anna and Leo as well as a one-year-old daughter, Lucy.