Athletics of Florida State University

Tallahasee-Lydia rubber was so excited that one day her women's golf team of the University of Houston was to bring her to the Match in Florida State in the Seminole Legacy Golf Club that when she issued her schedule 2024-25, she took the matter into her own hands.

The Florida State Alumnus and the two-time all-ACC selection called Florida State Head coach Amy Bond I hope to get an invitation. Before she could speak the words on her cell phone, Bond expanded an invitation for rubber and her cougars to play as one of the 13 teams in the 2025 game that begins on Friday and runs in the Seminole Legacy Golf Club until Sunday.

“I said right away,” said Gumm, who was an outstanding player in Florida from 2014 to 17. “I really wanted to return to Tallahasee and play in the FSU match. I am very excited that the Cougars are at such a great course in such a prestigious event. I am happy to see Seminole for the first time since the repeat.”

In 2017, rubber ended in Florida State with a degree in sports management and occupied 14^TH In school history with a career stroke -average of 73.89. She played 131 career rounds in a school record, earned 10 top 10 individuals and won the individual championship of the Florida Challenge 2016 with a thread tournament number from Three.

Rubber anchored the seminols during one of the most successful four -year periods in the history of the program. After Gumme won the seminols with nine tournament championships in the line -up, four NCAA regional championships and two NCAA championship final played. Rubber led the seminols in the Shoal Creek Regional Championship 2016 to second place and to a third place in the Columbus Regional Championship 2017.

“I have so many great memories of my career in the state of Florida,” said rubber. “We had such a good team and we were all so close. I loved all my coaches and my teammates. The year that will always be noticed is my senior season. We have won seven times and were in first place in the nation. It was a special run we were.”

Gumm returns to Tallahassee in her fourth season as head coach in Houston. She started her career as a voluntary assistant in Louisville and became an assistant coach in Houston in 2018. Gumm (now Lasparilla) rose in the head coaching position of the Cougar program in 2021.

“The best thing about being a head coach is the ability to influence my players' life,” said rubber. “I hope that I can have a sustainable influence on the life of any of my players who come through my program. I take a lot of responsibility for players who are 18 to 22 years old, which is an important part of their lives. It is difficult to be gone for these girls, and I want us to be the best experience at the University of Houston at the University of Houston.

“We spend so much time in the course and in training with you, but in reality it is important to get to know you from the course. I would like to help you become the best player you can be while you can be with UH, and at the same time to help you become the best person you can be and prepare you for life after college.”

The return to the Florida State campus to play in the Florida State Match Up has a special meaning for rubber.

She was a member of Two Match -Up teams (2016 and 2017) and earned two top -12 individuals. She ended 11^TH Place in the individual overall ranking with a 3 -over -PAR score from 219 in 2016 and took second place in 2016 with an eight under the Nar -Score of 208.

Gumm has achieved three top 20 positions in four phenomena in the Florida State Match Up.

For rubber. Is the participation of her team on 2025 Florida State -Match only for the third time that she will return to campus since 2017. In 2019 she worked in Florida State's Golf Camp and was married in Tallahassee when team -mate Carlton Kuhlo (Warren) was married.

“I'm definitely excited,” said rubber. “I am excited to be back on the campus, excitedly on seminols. I have not seen the course since the end of the renovation. I am looking forward to so many known faces, and above all I am excited to see my girls in a place that is so special for me.”

As a member of the Seminole Golf Team, Gumme is number 1 in the nation and stormed the soccer field as a historical Doak Campbell Stadium after the football team of the Seminoles Notre Dame in 2014 defeated her greatest memories of her career in Florida State.

“I never really thought that this day would come,” said rubber. “In College golf you have no idea what the future is doing. I wanted to play professionally, and if not, I knew that I would like to be a coach. But I was never sure whether it would happen. I would never have expected one of my team as head coach to TallaHassee.”

The match in Florida State in the Seminole Legacy begins on Thursday with a practice round and each of the three rounds of the championship begins on Friday at 8:45 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday at 8:00 a.m. Gumms Cougars start their training round on Thursday at 10:00 a.m. on hole No. 1.

Entry and parking are free of charge on each of the four days of the event.