Lisa Cornwell

Lisa Cornwell was born and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas.  She attended Butterfield Elementary and Woodland Junior High before moving to Fayetteville High School. Lisa was very active in school activities, but her main interest was in basketball and golf.  Lisa played basketball at Woodland and golf on the high school boys’ golf team.  In high school, Lisa continued her basketball career where she earned All-Conference and All-State during that time.  Lisa continued to play on the high school boys ‘golf team, coached by Coach Kyle Adams.  In 1992, Lisa was named the Arkansas Female Athlete of the Year by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for her accomplishment on the golf course and the basketball court. One of Lisa’s proudest achievements in sports was being a three-year starter for Coach Mary Frances Kretschmar’s Lady Bulldog basketball team. After high school, Lisa played collegiate golf at the University of Arkansas.  She was very instrumental in helping to get a women’s golf team established at the University.  She was also a three-time All-American junior golfer and four-time Arkansas Women’s State Amateur champion. Lisa was the youngest man or woman to win both junior and women’s titles in the same year in state history.  Lisa qualified to compete every year in the Wyndham Cup for the nation’s top junior golfers. After graduation, Lisa won the fourth and final Arkansas women’s amateur golf title at the age of twenty-four.  She then pursued a career in sports broadcasting.  She joined the Golf Channel in 2014 as a host for Golf Central. Prior to joining the network, she served as a studio host, reporter and play-by-play announcer for the Big Ten Network.  She has also worked as a sports anchor and reporter for NBC, CBS and ABC affiliated in Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio. Lisa is the daughter of Thomas and Eva Cornwell and sister to Tracy Simpson.

Lisa Cornwell was very active in school activities, but her main interest was in basketball and golf.  Lisa played basketball at Woodland and golf on the high school boys’ golf team. In high school, Lisa continued her basketball career where she earned All-Conference and All-State during that time. Lisa continued to play on the high school boys golf team, coached by Coach Kyle Adams. In 1992, Lisa was named the Arkansas Female Athlete of the Year by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for her accomplishments on the golf course and the basketball court. After high school, Lisa played collegiate golf at the University of Arkansas.  She was very instrumental in helping to get a women’s golf team established at the University.  She was also a three-time All-American junior golfer and four-time Arkansas Women’s State Amateur champion.