Taylor Riggs - Associate Head Coach - Staff Directory

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Taylor Riggs

Title:
Associate Head Coach
Email:
Phone:
515-294-5833

Taylor Riggs is in his fourth season as an assistant with the women’s golf program, having been promoted to associate head coach prior to the 2023-24 season.

In his first season in Ames, Riggs helped the Cyclones to another trip to the NCAA Regionals in 2021-22. Following up a fourth place finish at the Big 12 Championship, the Cyclones finished ninth at the NCAA Stanford Regional. Taglao Jeeravivitaporn and Ruby Chou made history for the Cyclones at the NCAA Regional, becoming the first two players in school history to earn individual bids to the NCAA National Championships. Jeeravivitaporn finished in a tie for 17th, becoming the second player in school history to finish the event in the top 20 with a 293 over four rounds.

Iowa State returned to the NCAA Regionals for the 13th-straight time in 2022-23. After a fourth-place finish at the Big 12 Championship, the Cyclonitas placed sixth at the NCAA Westfield Regional. Freshman sensation Karisa Chul-Ak-Sorn turned in a record-breaking season for Iowa State. She earned All-American honors from GolfWeek and the WGCA, while also being named the Big 12 Freshman of the Year and the WGCA National Freshman of the Year.

The Cyclones finished as the Big 12 Runner-Up in 2024 behind record-setting performances by Liyana Durisic and Chul-Ak-Sorn. The duo earned co-medalist honors, the first time in Big 12 history a pair of teammates shared the top spot on the leaderboard. They each shot a 207 for the championship, the lowest score by a Cyclone in conference championship history and the fourth-lowest in Big 12 history. Iowa State's 863 over 54 holes was the lowest at a conference championship in school history. Iowa State finished seventh at the NCAA Bryan Regional, led by Liyana Durisic's 12th place finish with a 217.

Prior to coming to Iowa State, Riggs was the head women's golf coach and the assistant men's golf coach at Cleveland State for two years. Riggs managed all aspects of the Viking women’s golf program since 2019, including recruiting, travel and scheduling. His 2019-20 Viking squad set the school record for lowest team scoring average and broke the single-round scoring mark of 290 at the 2019 Elon Invitational.

Prior to his time at Cleveland State, Riggs was the head men’s and women’s golf coach at the University of Cumberlands (2016-19), an NAIA school in Kentucky.

Under Riggs’ leadership, the Patriots won a combined five Mid-South Conference titles and appeared in three NAIA women’s national tournaments.

In 2019, the UC women’s team finished fifth at the NAIA national championship with four players earning NAIA All-America honors. His 2018 women’s team won the conference tournament by 28 shots and finished eighth at the NAIA national meet.

During his three years at the helm of the women’s program, Riggs had seven NAIA All-Americans. On the men’s side, Riggs won two conference crowns (2017 and 2018) and mentored a pair of NAIA All-Americans.

Prior to being named the head coach at the University of the Cumberlands, Riggs was a graduate assistant at his alma mater Eastern Kentucky for one season. Riggs was a four-year letterwinner at Eastern Kentucky and earned All-Ohio Valley Conference honors in 2015, while also serving as team captain in 2014 and 2015.

He earned both his bachelor’s degree (2015) and master's degree (2017) in sport management from Eastern Kentucky.

Riggs has a wife, Amanda.