Chico State Athletics

2014-2015 Highlights:
Earned All-America honors for Chico State...Averaged 72.55 strokes per round...2014-2015 Division II PING All-West Region honoree...Claimed CCAA Championship medalist honors, netting his first collegiate title...Netted 10 top-10 finishes in 13 events, finishing outside top 20 only twice...First Team All-West Region.

2013-14 HIGHLIGHTS:
GCAA/PING First Team All-America selection…Also named All-CCAA and All-West Region…Led Wildcats with a 72.4 strokes per round average…Notched nine top 10 finishes in 12 tournaments…Tied for fifth place in stroke play (71-73-73-217) at the NCAA Championship Tournament…Placed seventh (74-73-73-220) May 5-7 at the NCAA Super Regional…Finished fourth with a season-low score of 70-69-75-214 Feb. 24-25 at the Coyote Classic…Carded a season-best 67 Mar. 31 in the opening round of the Buccaneer Invitational…Enters 2014-15 season with a career average of 73.3 strokes per round.
 
2012-13 HIGHLIGHTS:
Notched four top-20 finishes in 11 events, including a trio of top-10s...Boasted a stroke average of 73.81...Finished in a 10th-place tie at the CCAA Championships...Matched his season-low round of 70 in the CCAA Championships and NCAA Super Regional...Finished second at the Robert Hunter Invitational with a 1-over par 73...Finished 9th at the Tukwet Canyon Intercollegiate...Sank a pair of hole-in-ones at the Coyote Classic.

PRE-CHICO HIGHLIGHTS:
Won the 2013 Oregon Public Links Championship, firing a 67-72...Finished 11th at the 2013 California State Fair Amateur at 8-under par…Finished fifth at the 2012 State Championships and won his second straight district title while leading Union High School to consecutive league and district titles…All-Conference Player of the Year in 2011 and 2012…Named 2012 All-Region Player of the Year by Clark County newspaper The Columbian…Winner of the 2011 Oregon Junior State title…Represented Oregon during the 2011 Junior Americas Cup and Eddie Hogan Cup…Union High team MVP as a junior and senior.
 
PERSONAL:
Born 3/20/94 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada…Son of Lindsay and Andrea…Has one younger sister, Keira…Sports heroes are PGA golfers Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth…Biggest sports thrill was winning the Oregon Amatuer Open this past summer…Biggest non-sports thrill was jumping off a 60-foot barge into the Columbia River…Enjoys being out on the water…Has always wanted to hang glide…Best advice ever received: “Don’t be someone who ‘had potential’”…Always has golf tees in his right pocket when he’s out on the course…Born in Canada, he played ice hockey for nine years...Would most like to meet hockey great Wayne Gretzky and Tiger Woods…Kinesiology major…Plans a career as a professional golfer.