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Colorado Roster Buffalo Bits Player Ht. Wt. Class Exp Hometown (High School/Previous College) Jason Burstyn 6- 0 170 Sr. 3L Miami, Fla. (Palmetto) CU QUICK FACTS Location: Boulder, Colo. Tyler Engel 5-11 160 Fr. RS Castle Pines, Colo. (Regis) Population: 102,000 Derek Fribbs 6- 0 160 Sr. 3L Castle Rock, Colo. (Douglas County) Enrollment: 29,882 Conference: Pac-12 Johnny Hayes 5-10 165 Jr. TR Cape Elizabeth, Maine (Cape Elizabeth) : Buffaloes Nickname Philip Juel-Berg 5- 8 150 Fr. HS Vedbaek, Denmark (HHX Knord Lyngby) Colors: Silver, Gold & Black President: Bruce Benson (Colorado ’64) Kraig McLeod 5-11 165 Fr. HS Pebble Beach, Calif. (Carmel) Chancellor: Dr. Phil DiStefano David Oraee 5-11 165 So. 1L Greeley, Colo. (Greeley West) (Ohio State ’68) Faculty Representative: Dr. David Beau Schoolcraft 5- 9 170 Sr. 1L Englewood, Colo. (Kent Denver/UCLA) Clough (Case Institute ’68) Ross Thornton 6- 3 180 Fr. HS Leawood, Kan. (Blue Valley North) Athletic Director: Mike Bohn (Kansas ’83) Drew Trujillo 5-10 175 Fr. RS Montrose, Colo. (Montrose) HOME COURSES Colorado National Golf Club (Par 72; 7,676 yards) Boulder Country Club (Par 70; 7,043 yards) 2012-13 Schedule Flatirons Golf Course (Par 70; 6,765 yards) Fall Dates Tournament Site Host The Heritage At Westmoor Sept. 4 BALLYNEAL CHALLENGE Holyoke, Colo. COLORADO (Par 72; 7,420 yards) Omni Interlocken Golf Club Sept. 9-10 Air Force-Gene Miranda Falcon (Par 72; 6,945 to 7,040 yards) Invitational USAFA, Colo. Air Force CU also has use of virtually every course Sept. 24-25 MARK SIMPSON-COLORADO in the Denver metro area. INVITATIONAL Erie, Colo. COLORADO Sept. 28-29 New Mexico-William H. Tucker GOLF PROGRAM Intercollegiate Albuquerque, N.M. New Mexico INFORMATION Head Coach: Roy Edwards (Kansas ’00) Oct. 8- 9 Pac-12 Preview North Plains, Ore. Oregon State Season at Colorado: 7th Oct. 16-17 Alister Mackenzie Invitational Fairfax, Calif. California (named July, 2006) 303/492-4653 Office Telephone: Spring Dates Tournament Site Host Office Fax: 303/492-4647 Cell Phone: 303/917-4538 Feb. 6- 8 Amer Ari Invitational Waikoloa (Big Island), E-mail: [email protected] Hawai’i Hawai’i-Hilo Assistant Coach: Jon Levy (Iowa State ’98) Feb. 18-20 The Prestige At PGA West La Quinta, Calif. UC-Davis Admin. Asst.: Gabbie Pelloni Mar. 8-10 Bandon Dunes Championship Bandon, Ore. Gonzaga 2011-12 NCAA Finish: N/A 2011-12 Pac-12 Conference Finish: 8th Mar. 25-26 Cal-Irvine Anteater Invitational Laguna Niguel, Calif. Cal-Irvine 4/3 Lettermen Returning/Lost: Mar. 28-30 U.S. Intercollegiate Palo Alto, Calif. Stanford SPORTS INFORMATION April 8- 9 Wyoming Cowboy Classic Scottsdale, Ariz. Wyoming Sports Information Director/ April 29-M1 Pac-12 Championships Los Angeles, Calif. Pac-12 Conference Golf Contact: David Plati Office Telephone: 303/492-5626 May 16-18 NCAA Regionals *—six sites *—assorted Office FAX: 303/492-3811 May 28-J2 NCAA Championship Finals Atlanta, Ga. Georgia Tech Home Telephone: 303/494-0445 E-mail: [email protected] Official CU Athletics Website: *—Regional sites: East—Tallahassee, Fla. (Florida State); South—Baton Rouge, La. (LSU); www.CUBuffs.com Midwest—Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State); Central— Fayetteville, Ark. (Arkansas); Southwest— Tempe, Ariz. (Arizona State); West—Pullman, Wash. (Washington State) SUPPORT STAFF Academic Counselor: Chris Howlett Equipment Manager: Dave Adamczyk Sports Medicine: Yolanda Hinton CREDITS: The 2012-13 University of Colorado golf media guide was written by Dave Plati, Strength & Conditioning: Troy Ramsey Associate AD/Sports Information. Design and layout by Linda Hall of Whirlwind Graphics. Printed by Pioneer Press, Greeley, Colo. Copyright 2013. 1 administration Bruce Benson Phil DiStefano President Chancellor 2012-13 University of Colorado Board of Regents Back row: Joseph Neguse, Tilman “Tillie” Bishop, James E. Geddes, Steve Bosley, Stephen Ludwig. Front row: Irene Griego, Michael Carrigan, Kyle Hybl and Sue Sharkey. Russell L. Moore David Clough Jeff Lipton Mike Bohn Provost Faculty Rep Director of Business Athletic Director Planning Gail Pederson Ceal Barry Matt Biggers Kurt Gulbrand Cory Hilliard Julie Manning Tom McGann David Plati Chief of Staff Associate AD/SWA Chief Marketing Associate AD Associate AD Associate AD Associate AD Associate AD Officer Jim Senter Kevin Fenton Kris Livingston Scott McMichael J.T. Galloway Jamie Guy Megan Eisenhard Lindsay Lew Associate AD Assistant AD Assistant AD Assistant AD Director of Director of BSP General Director of Equipment Sports Video Manager Strategic Sales SID Prema Khanna Dr. Eric McCarty Sheila Ridley Miguel Rueda Deric Swanson Jason DePaepe Jeff Hoskin Jo Marchi Director of Director of Director of Student Head Athletic Director of Athletic Turf IT Professional Compliance/SAAC Marketing Sports Medicine Athlete Wellness Trainer BuffVision Manager David Adamczyk Curtis Snyder Chris Howlett Troy Ramsey Yolanda Hinton Gabbie Pelloni Golf Equipment Associate Sports Academics Strength & Trainer Administrative Manager Info Director Conditioning Assistant 2 University of Colorado Founded in 1876 at the foot of the Flatirons, 136 years has transformed the University of Colorado from a lone building on a bleak, windswept hill to one of the nation's leading public research institutions. Established in 1861, the University was formally founded in 1876, the year Colorado became a state. The Boulder campus encompasses almost 800 acres on the main campus, east campus (which includes a research park), Williams Village and the Mountain Research Station north of nearby Nederland (which supports ecology, chemistry and geology). In 1996 the Board of Regents purchased 308 acres of land in unincorporated Boulder County, now informally known as the south campus, in an effort to insure the growth of the University well into the 21st century. While 30,000 students are educated on the main campus, another 13,000 study at the University of Colorado at Denver, the University of Colorado Anschutz Campus (Aurora) and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Nine elected Regents and President Bruce Benson lead the four-campus system, while each cam- recipient in 1992. Faculty member Thomas Cech, a distinguished pus has a Chancellor who serves as the chief academic and adminis- professor of chemistry and biochemistry, won the 1989 Nobel Prize in trative officer. Dr. Phil DiStefano is in his fourth year as the chancel- chemistry. Other notable alumni include former United States Supreme lor of the Boulder campus. Court Justice Byron “Whizzer” White, former big band leader Glenn Miller and actors Robert Redford and Chris Meloni, the latter starring for Students can enter any of 10 schools and colleges offering more than years on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and the creators of South 2,500 courses in 150 fields, representing a full range of disciplines in the Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. humanities, social sciences, physical and biological sciences, the fine and performing arts, and the professions. CU-Boulder is regularly ranked If the aphorism, “Somewhere between the Rockies and reality,” among the best of the United States’ public universities by the Fiske seems too good to believe, then come for a visit. Start with a walk on Guide to Colleges, and a 2010 USA Today/Princeton Review survey rated the historic Pearl Street Mall, a downtown pedestrian mall that is the the University of Colorado as the fifth-best value among American ceremonial heart of the city actually that works despite the efforts of public colleges. its street theatre. CU-Boulder has played a major role in NASA space programs, Visitors may be so taken in by the scenery, the mall, Tudors and designing and building many scientific instruments flown in outer Victorians they may forget the University that put it all together. From space, and graduated 18 men and women who became astronauts, Pearl, Broadway leads directly onto campus where the University of including the late Jack Swigert, one of the three astronauts in the Colorado Museum and the CU Heritage Center, in the original Old Main crippled Apollo 13 mission who made it dock to Earth safely from the building, which introduces the University’s past and present. The moon. When the Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, it was recently completed ATLAS building is one of the most state-of-the-art carrying seven major instruments, including a high-resolution structures on any college campus. spectrograph to study the evolution of stars and designed and built by an international science team led by astronomer Jack Brandt of CU- Take in the fresh mountain air on any part of 100 miles of trails and Boulder. Since Hubble has been up, CU-Boulder faculty and students 30,000 acres of open space. Climb the Flatirons or in Eldorado Canyon have been among the top users of Hubble of any institution in the State Park. Swim or board sail at the Boulder Reservoir while elite world. CU- Boulder is the only university in the country where runners sprint around it. Take in a pro sporting event down the road in undergraduate students have operated a NASA satellite. Denver, just one of 13 cities with teams in all four pro leagues. The University has produced 19 Rhodes Scholars, five of which were Rest assured, like the prophesy of an Arapaho Indian Chief, “If you leave Boulder, you will return.” former football student-athletes at CU, with Jim Hansen the most recent 3 Head Coach RoY EDWARDS Roy Edwards is now in his Colorado National Golf Club in March of that year and now serves seventh season as head coach of as the official home for the university’s men’s and women’s golf the University of Colorado men’s teams. In 2012, construction was completed on a state-of-the- golf team, having been named to art practice facility at the course that matches any in the nation.