UWEC Athletics Hall of Fame
Meghan Sobotta, a four-time Coulee Conference medalist at Arcadia High School, had two different stints with the Blugold women’s golf program. The first was as a four-time All-Conference First Team and four-time WGCA All-Region player and the second was as a four-year highly-successful coach. Sobotta was a WGCA first-team All-American as a senior when she was also the WIAC’s conference tournament medalist and was an WGCA All-American second-team selection as both a sophomore and junior. As a player, she helped the Blugolds tie for third place in the 2005 NCAA championship and as the Blugold coach, led the team to a third-place finish in 2012 when the Blugolds’ Catherine Wagner was the NCAA national individual champion.
Sobotta is one of only four Blugold players to earn All-Conference first-team honors every season; the others being Kelly Harper, Maggie Loney and Catherine Wagner. She was the conference tournament medalist as a senior and never finished lower than fifth individually in the conference championship meets. The Blugolds won three conference team championships with Sobotta on the roster and appeared in four national tournaments as a team with three top seven finishes. Her best individual finish in the 72-hole NCAA championships was a fourth in 2008 when she fired four sub-80 rounds. During her career, Sobotta was the meet medalist five times in addition to winning the conference tournament. She averaged 80.8 for 82 career rounds as a Blugold. She was named to the WIAC’s All-Centennial team in 2012.
As the Blugold head coach from 2010 to 2014, Sobotta led the team to three conference championships and was named the WIAC co-Coach of the Year in 2011-12. She took three teams to the NCAA championships with two top 10 finishes including a third in 2012, which ranks as the best ever for a Blugold team, matching the tie for third she achieved as a player. Sobotta continued to play competitively after graduation. She participated in an open event in Canada in addition to the Wisconsin and Minnesota State Opens and a U.S. Open Qualifier. She also became the first female to compete in the Chippewa Valley Golf Association’s Tournament of Champions, going head-to-head against the men of the Chippewa Valley on the CVGA Tour. Sobotta served as the assistant golf pro for Wild Ridge and Mill Run Golf Courses from 2009-13 and the assistant food and beverage manager for Wild Ridge from 2014-17. A UWEC business management graduate, Sobotta was an Account executive with EO Johnson in 2017-18 and with Bill’s Distributing from 2018-22. At the time of her induction, she was a National Account Executive with Gator Garb Promotions. She and her husband Adam were the parents of three children.
