John Wurzer enters his eighth year as head coach of Pomona-Pitzer golf in 2025-26 after spending the majority of his career coaching at the elite Division I level at USC and Long Beach State.
Wurzer has led the Sagehen women's golf team to three SCIAC Tournament Championships in a four-year span, winning in 2022, 2023 and 2025. He also led the women's squad to its highest national finish in 2024 when the team finished third at the NCAA Championships. He has been named SCIAC Coach of the Year twice (2022, 2025) and coached three SCIAC Athletes of the Year (Abby Euyang, 2022; Katelyn Vo, 2024; Emily Chang, 2025). Under his tutelage, Vo was also named SCIAC Newcomer of the Year in 2022.
On the men's side, Wurzer has coached a pair of SCIAC Newcomers of the Year in John Kim (2023) and Nilay Naik (2025). Wurzer coached both Kim and Naik to individual NCAA Championship appearances.
Prior to his collegiate coaching career, Wurzer spent nine seasons (2000-08) building a premier girl's high school program in California at Torrance High School where he led the Tartars to the 2005, 2007 and 2008 California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Girls Golf Championships. Under his leadership, Torrance finished with 24 top-2 performances in CIF events (17 CIF championships and seven CIF runner-up finishes). His teams produced 2007 LPGA Rookie of the Year Angela Park, LPGA Tour members Jane Rah, Jenny Shin and Demi Runas as well as Futures Tour player Maria Ham.
Wurzer spent the last three years as the assistant men's golf coach at Long Beach State where he was in charge of recruiting and served as the tournament director for the 2016 Walker Cup Fundraiser. Prior to Long Beach State, Wurzer spent four years as the Director of Golf Operations and assistant coach at USC. During that time, the Trojans were consistently ranked inside the top-20 and finished third in the PAC-12 Championships in 2011.
Wurzer is a 2006 graduate from LBSU where he was a four-year letter winner on the men's golf team. During his career at Long Beach, Wurzer recorded seven top-10 performances and captured the 1996 CSUN Bill Cullum Invitational. Wurzer graduated with an Interdisciplinary Studies degree in Coach Education and Sport Development.
