Height: | 6-0 |
Weight: | 175 |
Year: | Sr. |
Hometown: | Dallas, TX |
High School: | Plano West |
Major: | Finance & Accounting |
Parents: | Leon & Pam |
Career:
Finished off an excellent four-year career as the school's
all-time leader in scoring average with a 74.38 strokes per-round
average ... Holds the school's top-two seasonal scoring averages
... Just one of two players in school history to garner
All-America acclaim on three occasions ... Named UAA Golfer of
the Week ten times.
Senior (2011-12):
Hit the course in all ten of the team's tournaments and totaled 26
rounds of play ... Brought home First Team All-America honors after
a seventh-place finish at the NCAA D-III Championships with his
72-hole score of 294 (72-73-74-75) tying the school's second-best
effort at the event ... First Emory golfer since Mike Lebow (2006)
to earn first team All-America recognition ... Set a school
seasonal mark with a 73.0 strokes-per-round average, topping his
previous effort of 73.48 set during the 2010-11 season ... First
Team All-UAA after helping the Eagles to the team championship with
his 36-hole runner-up performance of one-under 143 (72-71) tying
Emory's second-lowest individual performance tourney ... Named as
the UAA Golfer of the Week on five occasions ... Shot par or better
in 11 rounds including a pair of a career-best 68s, one of which
came during the first round of the Jekyll Island Invitational
and the other during the second round of the Marine Federal Credit
Union Championship ... Georgia Cup First Team All-State honoree ...
Earned a spot on the Ping All-South Region Team ... Named UAA
Golfer of the Week after earning all-tournament honors at the Royal
Lakes Oglethorpe Fall Invitational (Oct. 22) following a runner-up
showing out of 99 players with a 36-hole effort of even-par 142
(73-69) with his final total tying the 10th-best two-round score in
school history ... Strong effort at the Jekyll Island Invitational
(Mar. 16-18), landing all-tournament recognition after an
eighth-place finish out of 150 entries with a three-round score of
one-under par 215 (68-75-72), then tying Emory's third-lowest score
for a 54-hole tournament ... Tabbed as the league's Golfer of the
Week after leading the squad and finishing 12th out of 80 hopefuls
at the Marine Federal Credit Union Championship with a
school-record 54-hole mark of two-under 212 (72-68-72) ...
Recipient of a 2012 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, just the second
Emory player in program history of claim the honor ... Capital One
Second Team Academic All-American (at-Large Team) ... Cleveland
Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar ... Capital One Academic First Team
All-District ... Ranked as Emory's top scorer in seven of 10
tournaments.
Junior (2010-11):
Played in all 10 of the team's tournaments and registered
25 rounds of play ... Captured Third Team All-America Honors after
tying for 20th place at the NCAA Championships ... Set a school
seasonal record for best scoring average with a mark of 73.48
strokes per round ... Shot or bettered par a team-high eight times
... Carded a personal-best score of 69 on three occasions (1st
Round of Greensboro Gordin D3 Preview, 3rd Round of Jekyll Island
Invitational and 1st Round of the Scarlet Course Championship) ...
Registered Emory's top score in three tournaments ... Was the
Eagles' No. 1 performer and tied for sixth positionin the 90-player
field at the Greensboro Gordin D3 Preview with a 36-hole score of
three-over par 147 (69-78) ... Best 36-hole effort was an even-par
144 (70-74), good for seventh place out of 109 entries at the
Chick-fil-A Invitational(Oct. 4-5) ... Opening-round mark of 70 at
the NCAA Championships tied for the team's best score during the
four-day event ... Three-round scores of 215 at the Scarlet Course
Championship (Mar. 25-27) and the Jekyll Island Invitational (Mar.
18-20) stands as the third-best performance in Emory history for a
54-hole tourney ... Earned a spot on the Georgia Cup All-State Team
... Named UAA Golfer of the Week after finishing as the top Emory
scorer and placing 19th overallat the Royal Lakes Fall Invitational
(Oct. 18-19) ... Named UAA Golfer of the Week after his effort at
the Wynlakes Wynter Nationals (Feb. 21-22) ... First Team All-UAA
after tying for fourth place as the conference championships ...
Member of the Ping All-Southeast Region Team ... Fine student who
earned a berth on the Capital One Academic All-District Second Team
(At-Large) ... Cleveland Golf/Srixon Academic All-American.
Sophomore (2009-10)
Played in 10 tournaments and logged 24 rounds of action
... Led the squad in scoring average with a 75.3 per-round
average (13th on Emory's seasonal list) ... Earned second team
All-America honors after finishing in 13th place at the NCAA D-III
Championships ... His 72-hole score of 294 at nationals tied the
school record (Timothy Hamm, 2004) for low score at the NCAAs ...
Captured All-UAA First Team honors for the second straight campaign
and was named the UAA Player of the Year following his
medalist-winning performance (74-73--147) that saw him beat NYU's
Mike Liebfried on the third hole of a playoff ... Was Emory's top
performer in six tournaments including the Rhodes College
Invitational (Sept. 20-21) where he totaled a 36-hole score of
even-par 144 (71-73), placing him third out of 108 competitors ...
Low round of the campaign was a 71 at the Rhodes Invitational ...
Named UAA Golfer of the Week on two occasions (Sept. 28 & Mar.
8) ... Paced the Emory contingent and registered a 12th-place
finish out of 85 players at the Callaway Collegiate Invitational
(Mar. 1-2) with a 151 (75-76).
Freshman (2008-09):
Earned All-UAA First Team honors after a third-place
finish (76-76--153) at the conference championships ... Finished
first on the team with an average of 76.5 strokes per round ...
Best 18-hole effort was a two-under 70 on the first day of the NCAA
Division III Championship which tied the school record for an
individual low score ... Was Emory's top performer and finished
16th out of 81 players at the Macdonald Cup with a 54-hole mark of
221 (75-71-75) ... His second-round 71 at the Macdonald Cup was his
second-lowest round of the year and tied for the team's
fourth-lowest showing of the campaign ... Team's No. 2 shooter at
the NCAA Division III Championships with a 72-hole showing of 305
that tied him for 51st place out of 120 finishers.
Prior to Emory:
Was a four-year member of the Plano West High School golf team ...
Was coached by Rick Hardison ... Took home second place in the
state of Texas 5A championship as a senior ... Averaged 74.5
strokes per round his final season ... Tabbed as a first team
all-state selection ... Earned all-district acclaim three times ...
Dallas Morning News All-Area First Team selection ...
Finished first in the 2007 TJGT Fall Invitational... In 2008, was
second in the AJGA's EFW Defense for America Classic... Was top-20
in three AJGA's.
Personal: Born December 28, 1989 ... Did volunteer
work at the Dallas-area Scottish Rite Hospital.
Quote: "I chose Emory because of
the great balance between academics and athletics. The golf program
is competitive with the best teams in the nation
year-after-year."
Stats
Year | Rounds | Strokes | Average | Low Round |
2011-12 | 26 | 1898 | 73.00 | 68 |
2010-11 | 25 | 1837 | 73.48 | 69 |
2009-10 | 24 | 1808 | 75.33 | 71 |
2008-09 | 17 | 1300 | 76.50 | 70 |
Totals | 92 | 6843 | 74.38 | 68 |