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2017 USC Men’s Golf Back Row (L-R): Andrew Levitt, Danny Ochoa, Rico Hoey, Sean Crocker, David Kim. Front Row (L-R): Jonah Texeira, Justin Suh, Kyle Suppa, Ryan Slater, Ing Ratanavadi, Cheng Jin. USC Golf 2016-2017 USC Men’s Golf Schedule DATE EVENT SITE Sept. 16-18 OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational Chicago, Ill. Oct. 2-4 Nike Swoosh Invitational Fort Worth, Texas Oct. 21-23 Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Alpharetta, Ga. Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Stanford Classic Monterey, Calif. Nov. 7-9 Gifford Collegiate Napa, Calif. Feb. 2-4 Amer Ari Invitational Waikoloa, Hawaii Feb. 27-28 Southwestern Jones Invitational Westlake Village, Calif March 6-8 UNLV Southern Highlands Collegiate Las Vegas, Nevada March 30-April 1 The Goodwin Palo Alto, Calif. April 8-9 Western Intercollegiate Santa Cruz, Calif. April 28-30 Pac-12 Championships (Utah Host) Boulder, Colo. May 15-17 NCAA Championships Regional TBD May 26-31 NCAA Championships Sugar Grove, Ill. Trojan Quick Facts @USCMens golf Location ..................................................................... Los Angeles, Calif. @USC_Athletics Founded ........................................................................................ 1880 Enrollment .......................................... 43,000 (undergraduates - 18,000) USC Trojans President .........................................................................C. L. Max Nikias Colors ....................................................................... Cardinal and Gold Nickname .................................................................................... Trojans Conference .................................................................................. Pac-12 Athletic Director..................................................................... Lynn Swann USC_trojans_golf Head Coach .......................Chris Zambri (11th season) -- (213) 821-3010 USC_Athletics Assistant Coach ................. Justin Silverstein (1st season) -- (213) 740-0687 Golf Office Phone/ FAX: ........................ (213) 740-0687/(213) 740-5777 Starters Returning/Lost....................................................................... 5/0 Sports Information Contact .................. Paul Goldberg ([email protected]) Sports Information Phone/Fax: ...... (213) 740-8480/(213) 740-7584USC M WWW.USCTROJANS.COM en's Golf URL ............................usctrojans.com/sports/m-golf/usc-m-golf-body.html USC Men's Golf Twitter/Instagram ...................@USCMensGolf/@USC_trojans_golf 2016-2017 USC Men’s Golf Roster Name Height Year Hometown (High School/JC/College) Sean Crocker 5-10 Junior Westlake Village, Calif. (Westlake) Rico Hoey 5-10 Senior Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. (Rancho Cucamonga) Cheng Jin 6-0 Freshman Beijing, China David Kim 6-1 RS Senior Redondo Beach, Calif. (Mira Costa/Illinois) Andrew Levitt 6-3 RS Senior Ladera Ranch, Calif. (Rancho Santa Margarita) Danny Ochoa 5-11 Senior San Diego, Calif. (Torrey Pines) Ing Ratanavadi 5-7 RS Freshman NIST International School, Thailand Ryan Slater 5-9 Sophomore Gilroy, Calif. (Monte Vista Christian) Justin Suh 5-8 Sophomore San Jose, Calif. (Evergreen Valley) Kyle Suppa 5-9 Freshman Honolulu, Hawaii (Punahou School) Jonah Texeira 5-11 Junior Porter Ranch, Calif. (Granada Hills Charter High) Men's Head Coach: Chris Zambri (11th year), USC 1993 Assistant Coach: Justin Silverstein (1st year), Arizona 2009 2016-2017 Trojan Men's Golf Media Guide — PAGE 1 USC Golf Chris Zambri Head Coach • 11th Year • 2008 GCAA/Pacific Region/Pac-10 Coach of the Year • 2015 GCAA West Region Coach of the Year • 2007 and 2011 Pac-10 Champions • Winner of 22 tournaments with 19 individual wins in first 10 seasons Chris Zambri, a former USC All-Pac-10 performer and longtime Paolucci earned 2014 GCAA All-West Region honors, Paolucci was All- Nationwide Tour veteran, is in his 11th year as USC's men's golf head Pac-12 second team and three others earned honorable mention honors. coach, establishing himself as one of the top coaches in the nation with Hoey also represented the U.S. on the 2014 Palmer Cup team. back-to-back NCAA Championships semifinal match-play appearances The Trojans won twice in 2012-13, and used a fourth-place NCAA among 10 straight trips to the NCAA Championships final week. Pullman Regional result to advance to their seventh straight NCAA final, Zambri's teams have won 22 events (as of the end of the 2015-16 where they tied for 23rd. The team won back-to-back titles mid-season at season), including Pac-10 titles in 2007 and 2011 and NCAA Regionals The Prestige at PGA West and at the North Ranch Intercollegiate. Senior in 2008 and 2012. His 2015 team was a program-best NCAA Cham- Sam Smith and freshman Yi Keun Chang both earned PING All-American pionships runner-up, followed up by an NCAA semifinal finish in 2016, honorable mention and All-Pac-12 second team honors and finished 1-2 while his 2008 team came within three strokes of first place at the NCAAs. in stroke average on the team. Trojan golfers have also won 19 individual crowns under Zambri (as of USC hosted the NCAA Championships at The Riveria in Palisades, the end of the 2014-15 season). Calif., in Zambri's sixth season at the helm in 2011-12. The Trojans punched USC's 2015-16 squad made its second straight deep run at the NCAA their ticket to the NCAA final after a win at the NCAA Ann Arbor Regional, Championships in Zambri's 10th season at the helm, reaching the match one of two victories on the year (the other at the Gifford Collegiate). The play semifinals, where it fell to Texas, 4-1, after a quarterfinal win over Trojans did not make match play, however, tying for 15th. Senior Steve Lim Vanderbilt by the same score. Troy, which won three regular season titles and sophomore Jeffrey Kang each earned PING All-American honorable for the second year in a row, reached the NCAA match play bracket after mention honors while Lim earned All-Pac-12 first team honors and Kang tying for fourth in the 72-hole stroke play. Junior Rico Hoey earned GCAA second team. The duo finished 1-2 in stroke average and also each won All-American second team honors while sophomore Justin Suh was a GCAA an event, Lim in the final fall event at the Gifford Collegiate, Kang to open honorable mention pick. Hoey joined sophomores Sean Crocker and Jo- the spring season at the Amer Ari at Waikoloa Beach. nah Texeira on the PING All-West Region team. Hoey was an All-Pac-12 The 2010-11 Trojans made their fifth trip in a row to the NCAA Cham- first teamer, Crocker and Texeira earned second-team notice, true senior pionships finals in Zambri's fifth year at the helm and won the Pac-10 title Andrew Levitt was an honorable mention selection and Suh was tabbed for the second time in five years. Zambri's squad won twice on the season, to the All-Pac-12 Freshman team. USC earned its 10th-straight trip to the getting hot in the spring. Troy claimed the ASU Thunderbird Invitational, NCAA Championships final field after a third at the NCAA Albuquerque took second at the Western Intercollegiate and then won the Pac-10 title (in regional, which followed a fifth at the Pac-12 Championships. a playoff). In addition to the conference crown, sophomore Martin Trainer In 2014-15, Zambri led the Trojans to a program-best NCAA runner-up won a seven-hole playoff for the individual title. USC finished second at finish during a season in which the Trojans won three times. USC's three the NCAA San Diego Regional to advance to the NCAA final. But the regular-season wins were among eight top 3 finishes and featured 2015 steam ran out and saw the Trojans tied for 12th, missing the top 8 cut for Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Crocker and All-Pac-12 first teamers sophomore the match play portion of the championships. Trainer earned All-Pac-10 Hoey and Crocker. The pair also earned PING All-West Region honors. first team honors while Lim, as a junior, and Kang, as a freshman, nabbed The Trojans qualified for the NCAA Championships final field of 30 teams second team notice. after finishing third at the NCAA Bremerton Regional. At the NCAAs, USC Zambri directed the 2009-2010 squad deep into the postseason finished fifth after 72 holes of stroke play to earn a spot in the eight-team despite fielding a team often relying on three freshmen and a sophomore match play final. USC, as the No. 5 seed, faced No. 4 seed and second- in many events. Junior Matt Giles (the team's only upperclassmen) and ranked Texas in the quarterfinals and upset the Longhorns, 4-1, Crocker freshman T.J. Vogel, a 2010 NGCA Freshman All-American and Pac-10 clinching the win on his first extra hole to complement victories by Hoey Co-Freshman of the Year, helped lead USC to seven top 5 finishes, in- and junior Bobby Gojuangco. The Trojans then downed No. 1 seed and cluding a third at the Pac-10 Championships and a second at the NCAA fourth-ranked Illinois, 3.5-1.5, in the semifinals. Gojuangco and Hoey Regional in Washington that sent USC to the NCAA Final for the fourth won again and senior Eric Sugimoto provided the clincher after winning year in a row. Following the season, Zambri served as head coach for the the 17th hole. USC, which had never finished better than third place in U.S. team that defeated Europe, 13-11, to claim the 2010 Palmer Cup, program history (something it had done seven times), then battled eventual America's first win since 2002. champion LSU deep into all five matches before ultimately falling, 4-1. In the 2008-2009 season, Zambri directed a squad that featured three The 2013-14 Trojans featured a pair of PING All-American third All-Americans in Giles, Tom Glissmeyer and Tim Sluiter. Giles was also the teamers in freshman Hoey and junior Anthony Paolucci, who led the 2009 Pac-10 Player of the Year. The Trojans, who won two tournaments on team to the eighth straight NCAA Championship final under Zambri.