UNLV’s Bush-Herzer joins Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame

Amy Bush-Herzer was an important portion of the Las Vegas play assemblage adjacent earlier she took implicit arsenic the UNLV women’s play caput manager successful 2010. She served arsenic the Southern Nevada Chapter, Southwest Section, PGA of America programme coordinator from 2005-07 earlier becoming the UNLV adjunct manager for 3 years.

Now she is portion of the Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame, the radical announced this week.

“It’s specified a immense honor, and erstwhile I archetypal moved to Las Vegas, I ne'er imagined I’d beryllium present this long,” Bush-Herzer said. “It has genuinely go my home, and present to beryllium portion of the past of the play manufacture present is incredibly special.

“It is inactive hard for maine to judge since I was notified astir being an inductee this year. To beryllium recognized alongside truthful galore unthinkable radical and names is conscionable wonderful.”

Bush-Herzer volition beryllium joined astatine the Oct. 9 induction ceremonial astatine South Point by LPGA Tour prima Natalie Gulbis, longtime LVCVA enforcement Julian Dugas and inferior play advocator Sylvia Hooks. Tickets are disposable astatine LasVegasGolfHOF.com.

Bush-Herzer has guided UNLV to six Mountain West titles, 12 NCAA Regional appearances and 2 NCAA Championship appearances. Additionally, she has coached her student-athletes to 2 Mountain West idiosyncratic titles, 5 Mountain West Golfer of the Year awards, six Mountain West Freshman of the Year awards, 36 All-Mountain West selections, 37 WGCA Scholar All-America honors, 3 idiosyncratic NCAA Regional bids, 1 idiosyncratic NCAA Championship quality and 2 All-America honors. She is the archetypal inductee from the UNLV women’s play team.

Bush-Herzer said her induction and occurrence person lone been imaginable due to the fact that assemblage enactment and the UNLV administration.

“All I tin accidental is, ‘Thank you’ for welcoming maine and allowing maine to go portion of this community,” Bush-Herzer said. “The play assemblage successful Las Vegas is truthful close-knit that it genuinely feels similar a family. It’s been unthinkable to beryllium portion of it. I couldn’t person accomplished what I person without the outstanding play professionals and radical successful this community. I couldn’t person done the things we’ve done astatine UNLV without their support.

“What galore radical don’t recognize is however overmuch this assemblage has contributed to our program. They’ve helped america pull apical student-athletes by opening their facilities to us, welcoming our recruits, and making our players consciousness astatine home. It’s a full-circle narration wherever everyone helps each other, and that’s what makes Las Vegas truthful special.”

An illustration of that assemblage committedness is the UNLV Women’s Golf Excellence Center astatine the historical Las Vegas Country Club, on with different courses and clubs that unfastened their facilities for play and practice.

“There’s a batch of pridefulness successful being a UNLV Rebel,” Bush-Herzer said. “There’s a beardown contented and a batch of hard enactment down it. I honestly wouldn’t privation to beryllium anyplace else. UNLV is home, and being a Rebel means being portion of the UNLV family.”

Previous Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame inductees see Butch Harmon, Deborah Vidal, Stephanie Louden, Jim Colbert, Robert Gamez, Craig Barlow, Charley Hoffman, the 1998 UNLV play squad and Chris Riley.