Hobart and William Smith Colleges Athletics

Lynn Quinn's coaching career with the William Smith golf program has come full circle. She spent one season as an assistant coach for the Herons and then spent the next nine season as the head coach. In 2020-21, she will serve as a volunteer assistant coach allowing her to continue to share her love of the sport while giving her more time to play golf.

After previously serving as the team’s assistant coach, Lynn Quinn was hired to serve as the head coach of William Smith golf for the 2011-12 season.

In her first year at the helm, Quinn guided the Herons to their first tournament victory as a varsity program, winning the William Smith Invitational by one stroke over Division II Le Moyne. The Herons showed marked improvement in their second season under Quinn’s leadership, lowering the team’s scoring average by more than seven strokes.

In 2014-15, Quinn's team posted a William Smith season record scoring average, more than 30 strokes better than her first Heron team. In fact, four of the top six team scoring averages have come during Quinn's eight seasons as head coach.

Individually, four of the top five career scoring averages in William Smith history have occurred under Quinn's tutelage.

Quinn's student-athletes have excelled in the classroom as well, earning 20 Liberty League All-Academic awards over the past eight seasons.

An accomplished golfer, Quinn won the 2011 Finger Lakes Women's Association championship by 14 strokes thanks to rounds of 79 and 80. Quinn also captured the 2010 Women's Rochester District Golf Association senior championship and the 2009 New York Women's Senior Amateur Low Gross Flight A.

A proven leader as well, Quinn has been a member of the board of directors at Clifton Springs Country Club, the Herons' home course, since 2001, serving as board president from 2005 through 2007. Since 2007, she has also led the Women's Finger Lakes Golf Association as president.

A retired transition specialist for Monroe County BOCES, Quinn earned a bachelor's degree in special education from SUNY Geneseo and a master's degree in special education from Nazareth College.