Alyssa Gaudio '11/M '13 Guss returned to North Central College in summer 2022 as the head coach for the Cardinals' men's and women's golf programs.
Guss is the most decorated student-athlete in the history of the North Central women's program and brings nearly a decade of NCAA Division I coaching experience to the position.
Guss was most recently head coach of the women's golf program at Oakland University (Michigan), after helping launch the Golden Grizzlies' program in 2014. Guss directed Oakland to its first conference championship and its first NCAA Division I Championship appearance while also coaching the program's first individual conference champion. Guss was voted Horizon League Coach of the Year four times.
Guss' first head coaching position was at Chicago State University in 2013-2014. The team set new tournament scoring records for 18 and 54 holes while placing second at the 2014 PGA Minority Championship.
As a student-athlete at North Central, Guss was the women's golf program's first College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) individual champion and individual national championship qualifier in 2008. As a senior in 2011, Guss returned to the national championship with the entire Cardinal team, which qualified for the event for the first time. Guss earned the Cardinals' first-ever All-America award in the sport and was the first North Central player to sink a hole-in-one in competition.
Guss was inducted into the North Central Athletic Hall of Fame and presented with the College's Cleo Tanner Award for contributions to women's sports in 2018.
