A former standout player for the UTSA women’s golf program, Summer Batiste is in her seventh season as head coach after spending the previous three years as an assistant coach.
During her time leading the program, Batiste has led the Roadrunners to seven tournament titles — including a pair of conference championships — and four NCAA Regionals. A two-time Conference USA Coach of the Year, she has coached two individual league champions and 12 all-conference performers. Under her leadership, Camryn Carreon became the first Roadrunner to advance to the NCAA Championships in 2022 and she repeated that feat in 2023 after claiming the NCAA San Antonio Regional individual crown.
UTSA also has taken care of business in the classroom, as the program placed 37 student-athletes on the Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll over a six-year stretch while collecting a total of 14 C-USA Academic Medals for a 3.75-or-better cumulative GPA. The Roadrunners have earned three spots on C-USA All-Academic Teams and nine Women's Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar awards during her tenure. They also have received three NCAA Public Recognition Awards for posting an Academic Progress Rate among the top 10 percent nationally within the sport.
Batiste guided the Roadrunners to a conference championship and an NCAA postseason appearance in her first season at the helm in 2017-18. UTSA captured the 2018 C-USA team title with an 874 to finish 13 strokes ahead of runner-up UTEP behind a 1-2 finish from Julie Houston and Ana Gonzalez. The Roadrunners then advanced to the NCAA Austin Regional, where they posted the best NCAA finish (12th) and scorecard (892) in program history.
Batiste, who led UTSA to four top-five finishes during the 2017-18 campaign, was voted C-USA Coach of the Year by her peers. Houston collected first-team all-conference honors and Gonzalez was named C-USA Freshman of the Year and second-team all-conference. Additionally, Houston and Nikki Long garnered C-USA All-Academic Team accolades.
Batiste led the Roadrunners to three team titles, including their second straight C-USA crown, and four additional top-five finishes in 2018-19. UTSA won the season-opening Lady Maxwell Invitational and also finished atop the leaderboard at the Texas State Invitational. The Roadrunners successfully defended their league championship in April, as Gonzalez fired a 9-under 207 (69-67-71) to win by five shots and give UTSA back-to-back C-USA medalists, while the team carded a school-record 10-under 854 to finish 12 strokes ahead of runner-up Charlotte. The Roadrunners advanced to their second straight and fifth overall NCAA postseason, finishing 14th at the Norman Regional.
Gonzalez garnered first-team all-conference honors and Houston picked up second-team accolades to become the fourth Roadrunner to earn all-league plaudits in each of her four seasons. Houston also earned a spot on the C-USA All-Academic Team for the second straight year.
In 2019-20, Batiste guided UTSA to a pair of tournament titles and an individual crown in a shortened season that saw Gonzalez collect third-team all-conference accolades. The Roadrunners captured their second straight Texas State Invitational championship behind individual medalist Hannah Holzmann in February. The following month, UTSA won the team title at its annual home tournament, the Maryb S. Kauth Invitational, behind a 2-3 finish from Carreon and Holzmann. That event was the last of the campaign, as all spring sport competition and championships were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In her fourth season, UTSA posted a pair of runner-up team finishes and earned an at-large berth to the NCAA postseason, where they finished 13th at the Louisville Regional. Carreon and Holzmann garnered second-team all-conference honors, while Gonzalez was voted to the third team to become the fifth Roadrunner to collect four all-conference certificates.
In 2021-22, Batiste led UTSA to six top-five team finishes including the Chattanooga Classic title and runner-up showings at the C-USA Championship and Maryb S. Kauth Invitational. The Roadrunners earned their fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA postseason with an at-large bid to the Franklin Regional, finishing a program-best sixth.
Four Roadrunners landed on the all-conference teams with Carreon and Gonzalez collecting first-team accolades and Hunter Nugent and Nicole Polivchak receiving third-team nods. Carreon was the C-USA runner-up and she tied for fourth at the Franklin Regional to earn an spot in the NCAA Championships in Scottsdale, Arizona, becoming the first UTSA golfer to advance to that stage of the postseason.
In 2022-23, Batiste guided the Roadrunners to five top-10 team finishes including a third-place showing at the C-USA Championships, the program's 15th consecutive top-four conference finish.
Individually, Carreon was named first-team all-conference and captured the NCAA San Antonio Regional individual title by six shots, firing a 10-under 206 (71-67-68) on TPC San Antonio's Oaks Course to earn a spot in the NCAA Championships for the second straight year. It was her second win of the spring, as the San Antonio native also claimed top honors at the Trinity Forest Invitational in March with a program-record 14-under 202 that was capped with a school-record 7-under 65. Carreon also broke UTSA's single-season marks for scoring average (72.54) and par-or-better rounds (19).
Additionally, Daniela Abonce collected third-team all-conference accolades as a true freshman, while Morgan Ellison was named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team and she joined Lauren Rios as WGCA All-American Scholars.
Batiste was named the third head coach in program history in July 2017 after a three-year tenure as an assistant coach.
In her third and final season as assistant coach in 2016-17, Batiste helped guide the Roadrunners to four top-five finishes. UTSA won the Texas State Invitational, finished second at the Hawkeye El Tigre Invitational, claimed third at the Conference USA Championship and took fifth at the BYU at Entrada Classic. Long and Aimee Ponte garnered second-team all-conference honors, while Houston was named to the third team.
In 2015-16, Batiste helped lead UTSA to five top-five finishes, including the Islanders Classic team title and a fourth-place effort at the C-USA Championship. Houston, who was named C-USA Freshman of the Year and second-team all-conference, became the first Roadrunner to win back-to-back tournaments when she came out on top at the All There August Challenge and Islanders Classic in February. Long also was named second-team all-conference.
Batiste helped guide a young squad to four top-10 finishes in 2014-15, including a pair of third-place efforts in the final month of the campaign. Led by a sixth-place showing from Ponte and a tie for seventh by Long, the Roadrunners claimed the bronze at the C-USA Championship. Brogan Townend earned third-team all-conference accolades for the second consecutive year.
Prior to her time as an assistant coach, Batiste was an assistant golf professional at San Antonio Country Club.
Batiste was a four-year letterwinner from 2007-12 and served as team captain her final two seasons. She earned second-team All-Southland Conference honors in both 2010 and 2011. She shared individual medalist honors with teammate Taylor Newlin at the 2012 Islander Classic after shooting a 75-74-71—220 and she posted four additional top-five finishes during her career. Batiste was a three-time winner of the UTSA Weight Room Warrior Award and her career scoring average of 77.64 ranks fourth on UTSA's all-time list.
A native of Spring, Texas, Batiste was a four-year letterwinner at Klein Collins High School, where she was a three-time medalist, the district runner-up and an eighth-place finisher at the regional tournament as a senior.
Batiste earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from UTSA in May 2012.