Tommy Baker

Background

About Tommy Baker

In just four seasons with the Dukes, Baker has reformed the women’s golf program, rewriting the record book and leading a team that finished seventh at the Colonial Athletic Association Championships the year prior to his arrival to the fifth CAA title in program history in 2020-21. That season, Baker was named CAA Coach of the Year after guiding a roster without any juniors or seniors to a historic 16-shot, final-round comeback to claim the title as the Dukes earned their third-ever bid to NCAA Regionals. As he enters just his fifth season at JMU in 2022-23, Baker’s teams have already broken the program’s single-season scoring record three times, while various players have set every individual record tracked at JMU. Baker has also already coached six all-conference selections and a conference Player of the Year, despite no conference honors being awarded following the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season. In 2021-22, Baker led the Dukes to new scoring heights, with players carding four of the five lowest single-season scoring averages ever recorded at JMU. As a team, the Dukes shattered every single-season record, setting a new lowest scoring average (293.03) by more than eight strokes and posting nine team rounds of par or better, having recorded just four such rounds in all of JMU history prior to the season.