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CONTENTS 04 - Big Blue Coaching Staff 04 - 2008-09 Preseason Roster 04 - Looking at 2009 05 - Returning Letter Winners 05 - MIllikin & NCAA Championships 06 - 2008-09 Returners and Newcomers 07 - 2007-08 in Review 07 - Golf Digest Touts Program 08 - CCIW History and Information IBC - Millikin Athletic Facilities BC - 2008-09 Schedule MEDIA INFO & PROTOCOL Press facilities: Please call the Sports Information Office if you plan on covering an event. Interviews: Media representatives are at liberty to find their own post-event interviews. Please contact Sports Information at 217.362.6429 or via e-mail at [email protected] to schedule player interviews at all other times. Coaches may be contacted directly. QUICK FACTS Location . Decatur, Illinois GOLF MAGAZINE CREDITS Founded/Opened . 1901/1903 The 2009 Golf Magazine was prepared by the Assistant Athletic Enrollment . Appx. 2,200 Director Bryan Marshall. Cover design by Michael Rauch. Nickname . Big Blue Colors . Royal Blue and White On the Cover (L-R) - Colby Burdick, Sean Liston, Sam Affiliation . NCAA Division III Osborne, Ed Kelly, J.B. Spillane, Cory Henry Conference . Illinois and Wisconsin Head Coach . Patrick Etherton Action photography - Kevin Krows Golf Office Phone . 217.424.3604 Letterwinners Returning/Lost. 8/1 Front cover photography - Thompson McClellan Photography 2008 CCIW Finish . 4th (Champaign, Illinois) Sports Information Director . Bryan Marshall Sports Information Phone . 217.362.6429 Printing by - O S P (Bloomington, Illinois) Athletic Department Fax . 217.362.6414 College Conference Of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) website - www.cciw.org MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY MEDIA OUTLETS newspapers: wire service: Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Tribune Decatur Herald & Review Decatur Tribune Associated Press ph: 800.572.7003 ph: 312.222.3474 ph: 217.421.6979 ph: 217.422.9702 ph: 800.572.2585 fax: 312.321.3084 fax: 312.828.9392 fax: 217.421.7965 fax: 217.422.7320 fax: 312.781.1989 television: radio: WAND-TV WCIA-TV WJMU US101 WSOY/WDZ ph: 800.252.1601 ph: 800.252.3349 ph: 217.424.6377 ph: 217.428.4487 ph: 217.877.5371 fax: 217.424.2583 fax: 217.373.3663 2008-09 big blue men’s golf - 3 BIG BLUE COACHING STAFF Head Coach Patrick Etherton E-mail: [email protected] Office phone: 217.424.3604 Patrick Etherton was named the head men's golf coach at Millikin in the summer of 2004 and is in his fifth season heading the program. Etherton is also an assistant coach for the Big Blue football program and teaches in the Exercise Science & Sport curriculum. Prior to coming to Millikin, his most recent coaching position was as Division III Washington & Jefferson's Special Teams Coordinator, defensive backs coach and Strength and Conditioning Coordinator. He has also served as the Offensive Coordinator at Division III University of Puget Sound, was the defensive backs coach at Division III Allegheny College and was a student assistant for the offensive line and linebackers at Millikin from 1998-00. He wore a Big Blue uniform as a defensive back for Millikin from 1996-98. Etherton recently completed his Masters in Educational Leadership from the University of Illinois Springfield. Assistant Coach Kurt Rogers Former Millikin standout golfer Kurt Rogers is joining the Big Blue coaching staff for the 2008-09 year as an assistant coach for men’s golf program. Rogers is the golf pro at Decatur’s Red Tail Run golf course. During his career he has also served as the assistant pro at Fairies Golf Course and Hickory Point Golf Course. Last fall, Rogers, Millikin class of 1983, was inducted into the Millikin Athletic Hall of Fame for his excellence in collegiate and professional golf. Rogers played four years of golf at Millikin, serving as the team’s captain during his junior year and co-captain as a senior. Rogers was named most valuable player all four years of his college career: The entire team shared the honor his freshman year, he was named sole MVP his sophomore and senior years, and he shared co-MVP honors with Brad Kay ’85 his junior year. He placed fourth his junior year and eighth his senior year on the All-CCIW team. During his sophomore and junior years, he made the cut for the Illinois State Amateur tournament. In 1985, Rogers joined the Professional Golf Association and went on to play in 21 Illinois Open Tournaments, placing third in the 1998 Illinois Open and finishing ten times in the top 15. In the United States Golf Association U.S. Open, he advanced to the sectional tournament five times and twice was the medalist at the local qualifying tournament with a score of 69 in both 2002 and 2006. Rogers played on the PGA tour 1991 and 1994 Hardee’s Classic tournaments, as well as the Hogan Tour, the Nike Tour, the Nationwide Tour, the Golfweek/Callaway Pro Scratch National Finals in Las Vegas, the Hawkeye Classic in Iowa, the Greater Cleveland Open, the St. Louis Open, the Greater Wichita Classic and the Highland Springs Country Club-Ozarks Open in various cities around the Midwest. In the Illinois Professional Golf Association of America, Rogers won the Assistants Championship in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2001; the Chapter Championship in 1997 and 1999; and the Match Play Championship in 1998. He was also five-time consecutive Assistant Player of the Year, from 1998-2002 and Chapter Player of the Year in 1997 and 1999. Rogers holds the current course records for Decatur’s Hickory Point Golf Course with 61, Scovill Golf Course with 59 and the new Red Tail Run Golf Course with a 67. To date, he has hit fourteen holes in one. Rogers earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education, secondary teaching, from Millikin. LOOKING AT 2009 Millikin Head Coach Patrick Etherton has high hopes for his young Big Blue men’s golf squad in 2009. Millikin returns eight letter winners and its top 12 golfers from last season. The team is young with three freshman, 10 sophomores and two juniors. Etherton believes his talented players will overcome their lack of collegiate experience. Returners Cory Henry, Sean Liston, Sam Osborne and J.B. Spillane all had stroke averages of 80 or below last season and are expected to continue to improve this season. Millikin is also counting on Ed Kelly who finished tied for 20th at last year’s conference tournament. Etherton has a deep squad with each of the 15 golfers capable of turning in a low round each time out on the course. The Big Blue played well in the 2008 fall season winning at Blackburn and taking second at the Big Blue Classic. Millikin is ready to improve on its fourth place finish at the 2008 CCIW Championships and based on their play in the fall several Millikin golfers are ready to compete for spots in the conference tournament’s top ten. 2009 big blue men’s golf - 4 RETURNING LETTER WINNERS Colby Burdick, Sophomore 1 varsity letter Decatur, Illinois (Mount Zion H.S.) 2007-08: Played in 8 tournaments with a 81.31 18-hole average…Low 18-hole score of 76 at McNaughton Classic (4/7/08)…Low 36-hole score of 157 at Big Blue Classic (9/28-29/07) and Big Blue Spring Opener (3/14-15/08). Personal: Physical Education major. Cory Henry, Sophomore 1 varsity letter Algonquin, Illinois (Dundee-Crown H.S.) 2007-08: Played in 9 tournaments with a 79.64 18-hole average…No. 19 all-time in freshman scoring list…Low 18-hole score of 71 and Low-36 hole score of 147 at Big Blue Classic (9/28-29/07)…Tied 8th overall at CCIW Championships. Personal: Biology major...2008 Spring CCIW Academic All Conference Ed Kelly, Sophomore 1 varsity letter Oak Brook, Illinois (Hinsdale Central H.S.) 2007-08: Played in 10 tournaments with a 81.35 18-hole average…Low 18-hole score of 74 and Low-36 hole score of 153 at Gorlok Spring Invitational (3/30-31/08)…Tied 20th overall at CCIW Championships. Personal: Accounting major. Tim Leonard, Sophomore 1 varsity letter Ellisville, Missouri (Lafayette, Mo. H.S.) 2007-08: Played in 4 tournaments with a 86.53 18-hole average…Low 18-hole score of 82 twice (9/28/07 at Big Blue Classic) and 4/11/08 at Big Blue Classic…Low 36-hole score of 165 at Big Blue Classic (9/28-29/07). 2006-07: Played in 5 tournaments with a 82.33 18-hole average…Low 18-hole score of 79 (9/29/06) and Low 36-hole score of 162 at Big Blue Classic (9/29-30/06)…Finished 23rd at CCIW Championships with a 168 (85-83). Personal: Communication major. Sean Liston, Sophomore 1 varsity letter St. Charles, Missouri (Orchard Farm H.S.) 2007-08: Played in 10 tournaments with a 79.08 18-hole scoring average...Low 18-hole score of 75 twice (at McNaughton Invitational on 4/7/08 and at CCIW Round 2 on 4/19/08)…Low 36-hole score of 152 at Springfield College Invitational (4/14/08)…Tied 16th overall at CCIW Championships. Personal: Accounting major... 2008 Spring CCIW Academic All Conference Sam Osborne, Junior 2 varsity letters Forsyth, Illinois (Maroa-Forsyth H.S.) 2007-08: Played in 9 tournaments with an 80.0 18-hole average…Low 18-hole score of 73 (4/29/07) and Low 36-hole score of 149 at Big Blue Classic (4/28-29/07)…Placed 24th overall at CCIW Championships. 2006-07: Played in 5 tournaments with a 79.45 18-hole average…Low 18-hole score of 73 twice (4/9/07 at Bulldog Invite and 4/20/07 at first round of CCIW Championships)…Low 36-hole score of 149 at Bulldog Invite (4/9/07).