Alejandra Heinen completed her ninth season in 2024-25 as the assistant coach for the Wichita State women’s golf team. Heinen has instructed Wichita State golfer's to individual and team success, helping Taryn Torgerson collect the 2018 American Athletic Conference Individual title and helping Kate Tilma to a seventh-place finish at the American Championship in 2025.
In Heinen's first season as an assistant coach, she guided the team to second place at the Missouri Valley Conference tournament in 2017.
Heinen (Arellano) played for the Shockers from 2013-15 and finished her career as the career stroke leader with a 77.175 average and the career 54-hole average leader with a 232.529 average.
She led the Shockers to their second-straight Missouri Valley Conference championship in 2014-15 when she became just the second golfer in school history to earn medalist honors alongside all-conference honors for the second straight season.
In 2013-14, she also led the Shockers to the MVC Championship where she finished second individually, earning all-conference honors for her performance. She finished her career at Wichita State with six top-10 finishes and 10 top-20 finishes.
The Orizaba, Mexico, native graduated with a bachelor's degree in international business from Wichita State in 2016 and finished her master's degree in sport management at WSU in 2018. She is married to Alec Heinen.
