Ryan Dagerman
Ryan Dagerman
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