Faith Hopkins

Faith Hopkins enters her second season as the women's golf head coach in 2025.

In Hopkins first season as the head coach, Drury earned a third place finish in the GLVC, along with a bid to the NCAA-II East Regional, the program's first since 2015. Hopkins and the Panthers won one tournament during the 2024-25 season, Bearcats Dual Gender Invitational.

Hopkins has produced one all-GLVC selection over her tenure, Isabelle Thrall.

Hopkins played three seasons for Missouri State after starting her collegiate career at Oklahoma State. She spent last year as an assistant coach for the Evangel University men's and women's golf teams.
 
A native of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Hopkins was part of Missouri State's 2023 Missouri Valley Conference championship and NCAA Regional qualifying team during her senior year. She had a second place finish and a sixth place during her sophomore season, and she played in four tournaments as a freshman at Oklahoma State in 2018-19.
 
As an assistant coach with Evangel, she helped the Valor women's team to one tournament win and two second place finishes during the regular season, in addition to a fourth place finish at the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference championship.
  
Hopkins had an accomplished high school career in Oklahoma as she was named the 2018 Golf Athlete of the Year by the Tulsa World and won the individual class 6A Oklahoma state championship as a senior at Bartlesville High School. She was a four-time state qualifier, was a medalist in the 2017 USGA Four-Ball Qualifier, and finished third at the AJGA Junior Oak Tree tournament. 
 
Hopkins was on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll at Missouri State for three years, was named to the Academic All-Big 12 Team as a freshman, and earned a place on the Women's Golf Coaches Association NCAA All-Scholar Team. She graduated from Missouri State with a degree in Business Administration and Marketing Research, and she earned a Master's degree in Business Administration from MSU in 2023.
  
Hopkins' high school coach was Katie (Wilburn) Wilson, who played for Drury from 2006-10, and Hopkins' cousin, Natalie Sago, played softball for the Panthers and is a current official in the National Basketball Association.