Since taking over as head women’s golf coach at Idaho State University, Dallen Atkins has built a program that has improved year in and year out.
Each year players have recorded record scores the team has finished with some of the best scores in program history.
Atkins, who took over the reins of the program in August of 2017, his teams have the fifth and sixth best scores for a round in program history with a 307 and 308 at the Rose City Collegiate in 2019 and 2017.
Under Atkins the Bengals also have the third, sixth and seventh best tournament scores in school history with a 949 at the Red Rocks Invitational in 2019, a 957 at the Rose City Collegiate in 2019 and a 958 at the Big Sky Championships in 2019.
The Bengals have four of the top 10 scores for a round since 2017 as Tya Seth’s 71 at the Big Sky Championships ties for first and three players have recorded a 73, good for the 10th best score in a round.
Atkins has also seen five of the top 10 tourney scores recorded under his watch. Seth’s 227 at the 2019 Big Sky Championships ranks second while Seth’s 228 in 2019 at the Red Rocks Invitational and Kylie Martens 228 at the Rose City Collegiate is tied for fourth.
Lexi Wilson’s 232 in 2019 at the Rose City Collegiate and Abby Kadrmas’ 232 at the Red Rocks in 2019 tie for the 10th best tournament score in program history.
Atkins also serves as the head PGA golf pro at Juniper Hills Country Club in Pocatello that has over 400 members. He is the golf pro shop manager and annually he oversees over 60 golf tournaments a year at Juniper Hills.
In 2013 Atkins was named the Rocky Mountain Section PGA Assistant Golf Professional of the Year recipient. In 2014 he was elected to the PGA Class A membership and he is a graduate of the PGA-PGM Program.
Atkins is a local as he graduated from Century High School and Idaho State.
