Former Emory standout Johnathan Chen returns to the golf program as an assistant coach for the 2014-15 season.

Chen played for the Eagles from 2010-11 through 2013-14, earning All-America honors on two occasions while closing out his career in the No. 3 position on the school's all-time scoring average list with a mark of 74.94 strokes-per-round mark.  During his four-year stint at Emory, he logged 94 rounds of play and shot par on better on 20 occasions. 

As a junior, he turned in an outstanding performance at the NCAA D-III Championships where his final effort of 289 (75-70-73-71) established an individual school record at the national tourney, bettering the previous standard of 291 held by Charles Raindre (2011).  He concluded the NCAA Championships tied for third place out of the 210 players who started the event, the second-best showing ever by an Emory player, behind only Lee Palms' first-place performance in 1991. 

A three-time All-UAA honoree (two first-team berths and one second-team spot), Chen wound up his career with two of the program's top-10 seasonal scoring marks, with his 74.21 strokes-per-round effort in 2010-11 good for fourth place and his 74.91 performance his senior year ranking ninth.

Chen earned his bachelor's degree in business in the spring of 2014.