Glen Millican Named Head Men’s Golf Coach at Missouri
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. –– After leading the New Mexico men’s golf program to great success over the past 22 years, Glen Millican was named the head men’s golf coach at Missouri on Friday.
“I have spent my whole life at the University of New Mexico and only a special opportunity would cause me to leave a place that is so near and dear to my heart,” said Millican. “Megan and I have a lot invested in this community and we can’t thank the university and the people of Albuquerque enough for what they have done for our golf program and for our family. We are going to miss a lot of things about Albuquerque, but we feel great about our time here and what the program accomplished over the last two decades. I will always be a Lobo and will be wishing the program success in the future.”
In his 22 years leading the program, Millican led the Lobos to eight NCAA Championship appearances and 20 NCAA Regional appearances. UNM had two top-five NCAA finishes during his tenure, in 2005 and in 2013, when the Lobos made the quarterfinals of match play. A five-time Mountain West Coach of the Year, he guided UNM to eight conference titles, while coaching six conference individual medalists and 10 All-Americans. Millican’s teams won 39 tournament titles, including multiple wins in each of the past two seasons.
“it’s going to be hard not seeing Glen coaching our men’s golf program,” said UNM director of athletics Eddie Nuñez. “I’m excited for him, Megan and their family on their decision to take on this new opportunity and I wish them all the best. With that said, our process has already begun with the hope of having the new leader of our men’s golf program very soon. What we have always known is that success is contagious within Lobo Athletics. That success makes our coaches attractive to other institutions with more resources. When you add that they are high character individuals who are all about the greater good of the department, they are hard to keep.”
Millican played for the Lobos from 1994-98, earning Academic All-American honors in 1997. He graduated in 1998 from UNM with degrees in general management and human resources before earning his MBA from UNM’s Anderson School of Management in 2000. From 1998-01, he spent three seasons as an assistant coach for the Lobos before being named the head coach in the summer of 2001.
This past season, New Mexico set the program scoring record with a stroke average of 283.14, breaking the previous record by more than two strokes per round. The Lobos had three of the five lowest 54-hole scores in school history last season, including a UNM-record 42-under at the NCAA Salem Regional to advance to the NCAA Championship for the first time in six years.