In June of 2009 Skip Steffey was named the head men’s golf coach in addition to his duties as head women’s golf coach.
Steffey led the Flyers to the 2010-11 Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship. The victory was the program's sixth GLVC Championship. Casey Pyne and Logan Watts earned All-GLVC honors for their second and fourth place finishes, respectively. The performance earned Lewis a berth in the NCAA Midwest/South Central Regional. Following the season Casey Pyne was named the GLVC Golfer of the Month for April. He also took home GCAA All-Midwest Region honors for his play throughout the season. In the fall of 2010, sophomore Brandon White was victorious in the Phoenix Fall Classic defeating two other opponents in a playoff hole.
During Steffey’s first season as men’s golf coach in 2009-10 the Flyers won the St. Joseph’s Players Championship, St. Francis Fall Classic and Lewis Mixed Fall Classic. Junior Casey Pyne finished second among 93 golfers at the NCAA Division II Preview on Sept. 28-29. Pyne was just one shot off the lead. The Spring began with another victory, this time in the Shootout at Aguila. Lewis finished seventh at the GLVC Championship. Senior Paul Dagys was selected to the participate as an individual in the Midwest/South Central Regional. Pyne earned All-GLVC honors.
Steffey, who has six years at Lewis as the women’s golf head coach, was named the 2008-09 GLVC Women’s Golf Coach of the Year.
During the season two Flyers finished in the top 10 at the GLVC Championship. Amy Sachs earned All-GLVC honors while Jamie Siedlaczek missed all-conference accolades by just one stroke, tying for eighth.
Sachs was then selected to compete as an individual in the super regional. Siedlaczek, who won Lewis’ first women’s golfer of the month award in October of 2008, took home a special Lewis honor at the end of the school year. She earned Lewis’ Female Senior Student-Athlete Award.
The annual honor goes to the student-athlete with the best overall grade-point average.
In 1971, Steffey earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education (English minor) and K-12 teaching accreditation at Texas Christian University. He was a member of the golf team, dormitory council president in 1970 and a graduate assistant golf instructor in 1971.
A resident of Mokena, Steffey and his wife, Karen, who is a 1997 Lewis graduate and played two seasons for the Flyer women’s golf team and was a two-time Academic All-GLVC selection. She is a reading specialist at Liberty Junior High School in Burbank.
The Steffeys are parents of a son, Tres, and a daughter Kim. Tres is a 2004 sport management graduate of Lewis where he played four years on the Flyers’ men’s golf team and twice earned All-American Scholar recognition from the Golf Coaches Association of America. He is a practicing attorney working in real estate tax reduction. Kim is a 2006 graduate of Western Illinois University where she was a Summa Cum Laude graduate in exercise science and kinesiology. She is a co-owner and instructor/coach at Gym Kinetics Gymnastics located in Mokena, Ill.
