Lake Forest College

The 2024-25 season was the eighth for Sean O'Malley as the Foresters' head women's golf coach and 11th year as a member of the Lake Forest College Department of Athletics.

Under O'Malley's direction, the 2024-25 Foresters repeated as runners-up at the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships and, for the third year in a row, broke the team's 54-hole scoring record at the conference tournament. Individually, Ashlyn Bhatia, Sydney Foulon, and Libby Hearst tied for 12th at the conference tournament to earn Second Team All-SLIAC honors with the program's third-lowest three-round total (241). 

Nine of the top 18 rounds in school history were posted by members of the 2024-25 team and Gabrielle Krebs scoring average of 79.08 was easily the best by a Forester. In addition, Alijah Campbell was named Academic All-District® by College Sports Communicators and was one of three Lake Forest players named SLIAC All-Academic.

The Foresters' 328.18 scoring average in 2024-25 was the lowest in team history by more than nine strokes and they turned in the program's top five rounds, as well as five of the next 10.

O'Malley's teams have now posted the program's top seven performances at the conference meet and individual players on the team have been named all-conference 16 times with 21 conference all-academic team honors during his tenure. 

O'Malley has been an avid golfer throughout his life. After participating in numerous junior tournaments, he went on to play varsity golf at Cleveland Saint Ignatius High School, where he helped lead the Wildcats to a pair of top-four finishes in the state of Ohio.

Following his high school career, O'Malley attended the College at Brockport, where he played hockey and graduated in 2010 with a degree in criminal justice. Throughout his college years and early hockey coaching career, he remained involved in the game of golf by developing and teaching youth in the central New York area.

O'Malley came to Lake Forest as an assistant men's hockey coach in 2014 and was named the team's head coach in 2021.

He resides in Lake Forest.