Nicole Antonucci rejoined the Suffolk women’s golf program in 2021-22 as the team’s first-ever assistant coach on Jay Parker’s staff. She begins her fourth season in the position in 2024-25. 

Antonucci was a vital part in assembling a successful women’s golf team as she joined the squad as a player in just the second-year of its existence in 2017-18. Over the next four years, she would make Suffolk’s name known amongst conference counterparts and in New England. 

The Belmont, New Hampshire native aided to back-to-back New England Intercollegiate Golf Association (NEIGA) titles and a pair of Empire8 runner-up showings, as a freshman and sophomore, respectively. In the spring of 2019, when Suffolk switched to the Northeast Women’s Golf Conference (NWGC), Antonucci anchored the Rams to bring home more hardware with the league’s inaugural title. On the championship course, she became the conference’s first individual medalist.  That accolade was a part of a decorated career, which saw her take home a pair of All-NEIGA first-team nods and a spot on the All-NWGC team, twice. 

Academically, her awards were just as plentiful as her athletic accomplishments. The member of Suffolk’s Sawyer Business School Class of 2021 garnered NWGC Academic All-Conference in the fall of 2019 and was a three-time Empire 8 President’s List honoree. 

As a coach in 2021-22, she saw Suffolk recapture the NEIGA Title, its third in program history, all of which Antonucci has been a part of as either a player or coach. At regionals, she coached a trio of Rams to All-NEIGA honors in Isabel Smith, Ellie Yarbrough and Madison Scheinberg. At the NWGC Championship, she saw the blue-and-gold put together a runner-up finish with a pair of players Yarbrough and Smith secure a spot on the All-NWGC Secnod-Team. 

A year later, Suffolk was dethroned as NEIGA Champs as the Rams turned in an eighth-place performance in an 11-team field. At NWGCs, the blue-and-gold saw Ellie Yarbourgh turn in a top-3 finish. Behind her performance she earned All-NWGC First-Team status, the third all-league honor of her career, which makes her the most decorated Ram via NWGC in program history. 

The 2023-24 campaign was one for the history books. Suffolk won the NWGC Championship to earn the league's automatic berth to the NCAA Championship, the Rams first in progrma history. Ellie Yarbrough shot a NWGC Championship best of 152 at the two-day event at Edison Club in Rexford, New York en route to NWGC Individual Medalist honors and NWGC Player of the Year. She was one of four players to pick up All-NWGC alongside Isabel Smith, Ella Torsleff and Brooke Bugajewski, who was also named NWGC Rookie of the Year. 

Off the course, the foursome of Bugajewski, Sophie Kiley, Smith and Torsleff were named WGCA All-American Scholars and the Rams were named WGCA Academic Top 25 team in 14th with a combined 3.713 GPA.

Academically, Isabel Smith became the first member of Suffolk's women's golf history to pick up a College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District At-Large distinction in 2022-23, which is awarded to the most accomplished student-athletes for combined academic and athletic achievements each year since 1952. It is the longest-running and most prestigious academic and athletic award for student-athletes to receive. Smith repeated as an all-district honoree in 2023-24 and Kiley and Torsleff picked up same feat for the first time in their collegiate careers. 

Antonucci, who graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Finance in 2021, is continuing her education with remote work at St. John’s this fall.