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2011-12 ROSTER Name Yr. Hometown Rounds Strokes Avg. Low 18 Low 54 Top 10 Top Finish Duncan Croudis So. Dunedin, New Zealand 31 2386 76.96 71 220 - T27 Sam Daley Fr. Wynnum, Austrailia 40 2971 74.28 67 214 1 T3 Scott Fernandez Fr. Granada, Spain 40 2927 73.18 66 205 6 1 (VCU Shootout) Collin Foster Fr. Waukee, Iowa - - - - - - Nate McCoy Sr. West Des Moines, Iowa 43 3081 71.65 65 202 8 1 (Twice) Andrew Peter Fr. Decorah, Iowa 3 230 76.67 76 230 - Zach Steffen So. Des Moines, Iowa 12 928 77.33 71 219 - T35 Borja Virto Jr. Gorraiz, Spain 22 1657 75.32 70 213 1 9 Blake Waller Fr. West Des Moines, Iowa 15 1148 76.53 72 228 - T27 2011-12 SCHEDULE FALL QUICK STATS September Name Rounds Strokes Avg. Low 18 Low 54 Top 10 12-13 Wolverine Intercollegiate, Ann Arbor, Mich. Duncan Croudis 14 1054 75.29 71 220 - 290-293-289=872 8/11 Sam Daley 14 1022 73.00 67 214 1 Scott Fernandez 14 1016 72.57 66 205 2 26-27 VCU Shootout, Richmond, Va. Collin Foster - - - - - - 280-284-290=854 4/15 Nate McCoy 14 999 71.36 68 210 3 Andrew Peter 3 230 76.67 76 230 - October Zach Steffen 9 693 77.00 71 219 - 3-4 Rees Jones Invite, Daufuskie Island, S. C. Borja Virto - - - - - - 298-296-306=900 T3/13 Blake Waller 2 149 74.50 74 - - 10-11 Firestone Invite, Akron, Ohio 284-292-283=859 3/17 29-30 Bridgestone Collegiate, Gresnsboro, N.C. SPRING QUICK STATS 297-285=582 1/15 Name Rounds Strokes Avg. Low 18 Low 54 Top 10 February Duncan Croudis 17 1332 78.35 73 231 - 4 Big Four Match, Phoenix, Ariz. Sam Daley 26 1949 74.96 69 216 - 2/4 Scott Fernandez 26 1911 73.50 66 211 4 13-14 San Antonio Invite, San Antonio, Texas Collin Foster - - - - - - 302-289-301=892 T12/15 Nate McCoy 29 2091 72.10 65 202 5 25-26 Desert Shootout, Palm Desert, Calif. Andrew Peter - - - - - - 293-292-300=885 12/24 Zach Steffen 3 235 78.33 75 235 - March Borja Virto 22 1657 75.31 70 213 1 16-17 Border Olympics, Laredo Texas Blake Waller 13 999 76.85 72 228 - 296-305-292=893 4/16 31-1 LSU National Invite, Baton Rouge, La. 298-293-291=882 4/12 April 9-10 Missouri Tiger Intercoll., Columbia, Mo. CYCLONE QUICK HITTERS 288-300-288=876 2/15 • The Iowa State men’s golf team made its fi rst school’s fi rst tournament title since 2007. 14-15 Hawkeye Invite, Iowa City, Iowa 283-279-280=842 2/11 NCAA Regional appearance since 1999 by earn- • Senior Nate McCoy, an All-Big 12 First-Team 27-29 Big 12 Champ., Trinity, Texas ing a spot in the NCAA BG Regional, May 17-19. pick, became the fi rst Cyclone to qualify for the 307-299-299-299=1204 7/10 • It was Iowa State’s seventh NCAA Regional NCAA fi nals since 1980. May appearance in school history (1991, 1992, 1995, • McCoy, who ended the season ranked 42nd 17-19 NCAA Regional, Bowling Green, Ky. 1996, 1997, 1999, 2012). nationally, had eight top-10 fi nishes, two tourna- 305-288-293=886 T9/14 • The Cyclones ended the season ranked 58th ment wins and posted a 71.65 stroke average to nationally by Golfweek and fi nished in the top- rank fi rst all-time in Iowa State history. fi ve in eight of 13 tournaments. • Freshman Scott Fernandez broke Iowa State’s • Iowa State fi nished seventh at the Big 12 rookie scoring mark with a 73.18 stroke average. Championships, the second-best fi nish since the • Fernandez posted six top-10 fi nishes and won league was formed in 1997. the VCU Shootout in the fall, the fi rst Cyclone • Iowa State won the Bridgestone Collegiate, the rookie to win a tournament since 2002. Contact Rachel Gerdes, Student Assistant Iowa State University Athletics Jacobson Athletic Building Ames, IA 50011-1140 515-294-3372 cyclones.com Head Coach Andrew Tank RECAPS Wolverine Intercollegiate (Ann Arbor, Mich.) Andrew Tank, a native The Iowa State men’s golf team fi nished eighth at the Wolverine Intercollegiate in the season-opening tourna- of Des Moines who ment for the Cyclones. Iowa State fi red rounds of 290-293-289 for an 872 tally. Iowa State had four golfers assisted the University competing in their fi rst Division I tournament. of Minnesota men’s golf program to a pair of top Leading the pack for the Cyclones was senior Nate McCoy, who carded a 213 (71-71-71) to fi nish in a four-way 10 fi nishes at the NCAA tie for 10th. It is McCoy’s seventh top-10 fi nish of his career. Zach Steffen tied for 35th, tallying a 223 in his fi rst Championships, was named Iowa State’s men’s competition with the Cyclones. Sam Daley and Scott Fernandez tied for 40th, respectively, at 224 in their fi rst golf coach in July of 2010. showing of their college careers. Fernandez carded a team-low 69 in the fi nal round. In his fi rst season as the VCU Shootout (Richmond, Va.) Cyclone mentor, Tank’s For the second year in a row, an Iowa State golfer claimed medalist honors at the VCU Shootout. Cyclone fresh- sqaud tallied a school-record 838 at the man Scott Fernandez answered Nate McCoy’s victory last season by winning the individual crown by a shot Desert Shootout, four strokes better than (205) to help the Iowa State men’s golf team place fourth (854) as a team in Richmond, Va., this afternoon. No. the previous mark. Two of the best 18- 22 Virginia placed fi rst at 837. ISU’s 854 tally ties for the eighth-best 54-hole score in school history. hole team scores in school history were also recorded in Tank’s fi rst season. Fernandez, a native of Granada, Spain, birdied the fi nal two holes for a 2-under 70 this afternoon to help him sneak past Adam Stephenson (East Carolina) by one shot at 11-under (66-69-70=205). Fernandez’ 205 score Tank also helped mentor Nate McCoy, who claimed medalist honors at the VCU ties for the second-best 54-hole total in school history, one stroke shy from the school-record 204 set by Joe Shootout in 2010, the fi rst Cyclone to win Cermak in 2006. a tournament title since 2004. Fernandez’ 6-under 66 in the fi rst round tied the school record for lowest 18-hole round in relation to par- it was Tank was the captain of Minnesota’s the 14th time a Cyclone was 6-under in 18 holes- and he became the fi rst Cyclone freshman to win a tourna- 2002 NCAA Championship team and ment since Drew Dalziel did it in 2002. Dalziel carded a 205 to win the 2002 Nestle Purina Classic (St. Louis, has spent the last eight seasons as an Mo.), as Fernandez joins Dalziel with the lowest 54-hole tournament score ever by a Cyclone rookie. Another assistant to Brad James on the Gophers Cyclone freshman, Sam Daley, had a solid tournament. Daley tied for 28th at 217, carding rounds of 70-72-75. men’s golf staff, including the last three McCoy, the defending medalist, fi red a 71 this afternoon to help him move up into a tie for 34th at 218. as an associate head coach. During his time in Minneapolis, Tank helped mentor 10 All-America selections and 16 All-Big Rees Jones Invitational (Daufuskie Island, S.C.) Ten picks. Iowa State senior golfer Nate McCoy captured his second career title in grand fashion. The West Des Moines, Iowa native shot a fi nal-round 72 to run away with medalist honors at the Rees Jones Invitational by a whopping UM solidifi ed itself as a northern golf nine shots (210). power in Tank’s eight years with the program, winning Big Ten titles in 2003 Iowa State fi nished tied for third as a team, carding a 54-hole 900 tally. Kennesaw State won the team title at and 2007, and fi nishing runner-up at the 894, six shots better than Iowa State. conference meet in 2006, 2008 and 2009. The Gophers made six NCAA McCoy, who won his fi rst title last year at the VCU Shootout, was locked in all week. He hit 47 of 54 greens in Regional berths and advanced to the regulation en route to his 210 (68-70-72) total, tying for the 13th-best 54-hole score in school history. NCAA Championships three times, fi nishing third in 2006 and ninth in 2007. It was the second tournament in a row where a Cyclone was the medalist. True freshman Scott Fernandez won Tank has proved to be an outstanding the VCU Shootout last week, marking the fi rst time Iowa State had back-to-back medalists since 1996 (Jason instructor and considered by many to Knutzon, Billiken Intercollegiate; Chris Peterson, Shocker Classic). McCoy is the fi rst Cyclone to have multiple be one of the top young coaches in the tournament titles since Jeremy Lyons (2000-04). Sam Daley aided the Cyclone effort by tying for 15th with country. He worked as an instructor rounds of 74-75-76 (225). Fernandez tied for 26th at 229.