Jay Woodward was elevated to assistant coach in July 2017 after spending the 2016-17 season as the team’s graduate assistant.

Woodward helped the Mountaineers to a record-breaking season in 2016-17 as WVU claimed its first tournament win in more than 30 years at the East Carolina Intercollegiate in April. The Mountaineers set records for lowest team round (277) and 54-hole total (849) at the Seminole Intercollegiate in March. Individually, Alan Cooke lowered his own program record for 54 holes with a 206 at the Seminole Intercollegiate and joined Max Sear in tying the program’s low round of 66 last season.

A four-year member of the golf team at Penn State, Woodward played 73 rounds for the Nittany Lions as a three-year letterwinner. He earned PING All-Region honors in 2011 and was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree. In his collegiate career, Woodward placed fourth at the 2013 Colleton River Intercollegiate and registered top-20 finishes at the Inverness Intercollegiate, Minnesota Intercollegiate, Pinehurst Intercollegiate and Baylor Intercollegiate. In 2011, he took ninth at the Big Ten Championships, held at Purdue.

Woodward qualified for the United States Amateur in 2011 at Erin Hills and in 2012 at Cherry Hills. He also participated several other notable amateur events including the Mid-Atlantic Amateur, Rice Planters, Southeastern Amateur, North & South Amateur and the Northern Amateur.

A native of Bridgeport, West Virginia, Woodward was the 2006 West Virginia Junior Amateur Champion (18 and under) and the 2006 West Virginia Player of the Year. He was a 2009 all-state selection and was also selected as the Exponent Telegram Athlete of the Year that season. In addition, Woodward has posted a pair of top-10 finishes at the West Virginia Amateur in 2011 and 2012.

Woodward earned a degree in business management from Penn State in 2013, earning Dean’s List honors. Jay and his wife, Megan, welcomed a son, Daniel, in the fall of 2016 and reside in Morgantown.