Hall of Fame
Milkman is synonymous with the sport of women’s golf in the OVC. She began the Murray State program in 1993 (the year of the first OVC Women’s Golf Championship) and was the only coach the program knew during its tenure in the OVC prior to her retirement at the end of the 2021-22 season. She is the first full-time women’s golf coach to be enshrined into the OVC Hall of Fame.
She led Murray State to 12 OVC Women’s Golf Championships, which his doubled the amount of the second-place team in league history. On three different occasions her teams won three consecutive championships (1997-99, 2002-04 and 2017-19). In addition her teams finished as runners-up five times and placed outside of the top three only five times in 28 OVC championship appearances. MSU also made six NCAA Regional appearances during her tenure.
Milkman coached eight players who earned 10 total OVC Player of the Year awards, eight players who won OVC medalist honors and 55 players who were named All-OVC. Her teams also excelled in the classroom, with 35 players earning the OVC Academic Medal of Honor and her program earning four OVC Team Academic Achievement Awards. In addition, every four-year player that she coached graduated and won at least one OVC Championship.
She also helped grow the game of women’s game, serving a four-year term on the NCAA Women’s Golf Committee, including two years as Chair. Milkman also impacted the OVC by serving as Murray State’s Senior Woman Administrator (SWA), as well as leading the department as Interim Athletics Director from July 2018 through February 2019.