Now in his seventh season as the head golf coach at Whitworth, Warren Friedrichs has taken the experience of more than 20 years coaching college basketball and applied it to his lifelong avocation on the greens. One of the most successful basketball coaches in Whitworth history, Friedrichs has now made the Pirate men's golf program a regional power and is working toward putting the women's team on the map. Since its resurrection in 2003-04, Whitworth has finished second in the men's conference standings twice and won the men's NWC title three years in a row (2005-07). He was the NWC Coach of the Year each of those three seasons. In 2009, Whitworth's women shared the first Northwest Conference title.

Friedrichs was the men's basketball coach at Whitworth for 16 seasons. During that time the Pirates won five Northwest Conference titles and made three national tournament appearances. He was Northwest Conference Coach of the Year five times and was the 1996 NAIA Division II men's Coach of the Year.

Friedrichs has played golf his entire life. He was a two-year letter winner at Concordia College in Indiana (in addition to four letters in basketball and two letters in baseball). He has been an active player locally, participating in many area amateur tournaments. He also serves as the treasurer of the Wandermere Golf Course men's club.

Assistant Coach, Shelly Cardenas
Shelly Cardenas is in her first season as an assistant coach with the Pirates. Cardenas is currently a teaching instructor at Pine Acres Par Three and Driving Range. She went to Shadle Park High School, where she finished as state runner-up as a senior, then went on to attend Eastern Washington University.

Cardenas is excited about moving into the collegiate coaching arena.

"It will be exciting to get back into the competitive aspect of our sport with these girls," she said. "I enjoyed that part of the game as a player, and I am sure I will as a coach also."