Ashley Biffle returns for her fourth season at the head of the University of Hawai`i women's golf program and is already starting to see results.
Last season, the Rainbow Wahine competed in the program's first NCAA Regional following a third place showing at the Western Athletic Conference Championship. Biffle has also coached two golfers that earned a total of five all-WAC honors, including 2007 WAC Golfer of the Year Dale Gammie.
Biffle is a graduate of Arizona State, where she was a part of five national championships in her 10 year relationship with the Sun Devils. As a player, Biffle was a member of two national championship teams, 1993 and 1994. She then served as an administrative assistant during the 1994095, when ASU won its third consecutive title. As an assistant coach, she has been part of the 1997 and 1998 national crowns.
Biffle began her collegiate career at Pepperdine where she was the team's top player as a sophomore. She won medalist honors at the Wyoming Invitational that year and placed second at the West Coast Conference Championship. She completed her final two collegiate seasons at Arizona State under its legendary coach Linda Vollstedt, who retired in 2001.
Biffle graduated from ASU in spring 1994 with a BA degree in political science and player that following fall semester as an amateur on the Players' West Mini-Tour, which is now called the Futures Tour. biffle then joined Vollstedt as an assistant in 1995. Her coaching role increased greatly two years later, as she acted as the interm head coach during fall 1997 play while Vollstedt recovered from a broken leg.
Under Biffle's guidence, the team captured the GolfWorld Palmetto Dunes Invitational, successfully maintaining its No. 1 ranking at the conclusion of the fall season. In the fall of 1998, Biffle led the Sun Devils to a first-place finish at the Japan TOPY Cup and sophomore Grace Park took medalist honors, winning in a playoff. Biffle kept intact ASU's streak of three wins and three medalists in three TOPY Cup appearances.
A member of the ASU Golf Academy since 1992, she was involved in coaching, teaching and course management. She also served as the directore of the PING/ASU Invitational and helped run the team's major fundraiser, The Thunderbird Pro-Am.
A native of Dallas, Texas, she boasts two holes-in-one in her career - the first coming on the 12th hole at Desert Highlands Golf Club in 1991, and the second was on the 6th hole of Sun Lakes during the ASU's annual fundraiser in May 1995.
The former Ashley Adleta was married on Dec. 17, 2005, in Dallas, Texas, to Gary Lynn Biffle, a navigator on the Navy's nuclear submarine, USS La Jolla. THe couple have an infant daughter, Lila Grace.
