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2016-17 NORTH TEXAS MEN'S GOLF FACT AND RECORDS BOOK men's golf North Texas Athletics Department 1301 S. Bonnie Brae Denton, TX 76207 Office: (940) 565-2662 Shipping Address - Use this for overnight - FED EX / UPS 1251 South Bonnie Brae Shipping Dock Denton, TX 76207 Mailing Address - US Postal Service ONLY 1155 Union Circle #311397 Denton, TX 76203 www.meangreensports.com Credits: the North Texas Media Relations Department Photography: Rick Yeatts Mean Green Mission Statement * To Promote and monitor the educational achievement and personal growth of student-athletes, emphasizing that their education- al growth and development is the primary purpose of intercollegiate athletics * To conduct an athletics program that protects and enhances the physical and educational welfare of student-athletes * To provide fair and equitable opportunity for all student-athletes and staff participating in intercollegiate sport activities, regard- less of gender or ethnicity * To promote the principles of good sportsmanship and honesty in compliance with the University of North Texas, state, NCAA and conference regulations * To conduct a competitive athletics program that promotes faculty, staff, student and community affiliation with the University of North Texas * To serve the community through public service and outreach activities which positively reflect on the University of North Texas and promote good will in the community. TABLE OF CONTENTS Men’s Golf Quick Facts 2 PROFILES University Information Head Coach ................................................... 2 Location: Denton, Texas Founded: 1890 Assistant Coach ............................................... 2 Enrollment: 37,973 2016-17 Roster ............................................... 4 Nickname: Mean Green Golfer Profiles ................................................ 5 Colors: Green and White Conference: Conference USA President: Dr. Neal Smatresk 18 RECORDS Athletic Director: Wren Baker Home Facility: Various 2016-17 Fall Statistics ......................................18 Main Athletics Phone: 940.565.2662 2016-17 Fall Individual Statistics .........................19 School Website: MeanGreenSports.com 2015-16 Statistics ...........................................20 Staff Information 2015-16 Individual Statistics ..............................21 Head Coach: Brad Stracke History ........................................................23 Alma Mater: UAB ‘93 Tournament Championships ...............................24 Phone: 940.565.2668 Best time to call: 9 am - 1 pm Scoring Leaders .............................................25 E-Mail: [email protected] All-Time Honors .............................................26 All-Time Letterwinners.....................................27 Assistant Coach: Marco Scarola Alma Mater: North Texas ‘13 North Texas Exes On The Pro Tour ........................28 Media Information Men’s Golf Media Contact: Jordan Stepp Office Phone: 940.369.8329 Cell Phone: 805.551.8648 E-Mail: [email protected] 2016-17 NORTH TEXAS MEN'S GOLF FACT AND RECORDS BOOK 1 profiles 9 Head Coach Brad The Stracke File Stracke Hometown: Perry, Iowa Alma Mater: UAB ‘93 Head Coach Coaching Career 2009-Present: Head Coach, North Texas 4 Ninth Year 45 NCAA Appearances 2016 At-Large Bid 2015 Automatic Bid The return 2003 a North Texas coach has captured the award. 2013 Automatic Bid to national Stracke also brought out the best in Rodolfo 2012 Automatic Bid 2011 At-Large Bid prominence for Cazaubon. He ended his highly decorated career as North Texas golf the 13th All-American in school history. He was the 43 Conference Championships has been led by first North Texas golfer to be named an All-American 2015 Conference USA Championship Brad Stracke, who is in his ninth season with the since 1992. 2013 Sun Belt Conference Championship Mean Green. Since taking the reins of the program in 2012 Sun Belt Conference Championship December of 2009, Stracke has taken the Mean Green Cazaubon won three individual tournaments in 2012- golf program to heights it hasn’t seen in over 40 years. 13, the most in the modern era for an individual. 43 Individual Conference Champions Cazaubon was named to the all-conference team for 2015 - Juan Munoz In 2015-16, Stracke led the Mean Green to the a fourth straight season, becoming just the second 2012 - Ty Spinella Tucson Regional as an at-large selection to the player in school history to earn all-conference honors 2011 - Carlos Ortiz NCAA postseason. in four consecutive years. His teammate, Ortiz 42-Time Conference Coach of the Year The 2014-15 season saw the Mean Green program duplicated what Cazaubon did in his four seasons as 2015 Conference USA transform from one that was rebuilding into an he was just the third player in school history to earn 2013 Sun Belt Conference NCAA contender. all-conference honors in four straight years. 42 PGA Tour Professionals Stracke led North Texas to the Conference USA In addition Jason Roets was named to the all- Rodolfo Cazaubon, PGA Tour Championship in 2015 and was named the Coach conference team in 2013, giving North Texas three Carlos Ortiz, Web.com Tour players on the all-conference team for the second of the Year, after the team won the stroke-play 41 All-American straight season. Since taking over, Stracke has had 12 competition and then knocked off Charlotte and Rodolfo Cazaubon - 2012-13 UAB in match play to capture the program’s 30th players earn all-conference honors in six seasons. conference championship. The Mean Green captured the 2012 Sun Belt 2005-08: Assistant Coach, Florida Stracke coached his third individual conference Conference Championship, the first conference 1996-2005: Head Coach, Indian Hills champion in Juan Munoz in 2015. Munoz went on to title since 2003 and another bid to the NCAA Community College earn all-conference and all-tournament honors. Tournament. In 2010-11, Stracke led the Mean Green Honors to the first at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, 4 Won a NJCAA National Championship, 2000 NT made its 34th all-time appearance in the NCAA and it marks the first time that North Texas has been 4 Nine NJCAA Championship appearances Tournament in 2015 and the fourth under Stracke. in the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back seasons 4 Finished 1st, 2nd or 3rd for six straight He has led the Mean Green to conference titles in since 1974-75. seasons three of the last four seasons. He has coached back-to-back individual conference NT captured the Jim Rivers Intercollegiate title, Playing Career champions in Ty Spinella (2012) and Carlos Ortiz marking the fifth straight year that the Mean Green (2011), a feat accomplished for only the second time Professional Tournament Finishes has won a tournament title. 1997 - Won the Bos Landen Prairie Tour event in school history. In his five seasons playing in the 1996 - Won the Lake Bracken Pro Select Stracke also saw the rise of one of his first recruits in Sun Belt, North Texas has had 10 players named to Won the Fort Dodge Pro-Am Carlos Ortiz at the professional level. the All-Sun Belt team. Top 10 in Player of the Year Points 1995 - US Open Sectional Qualifier Ortiz, a four-time all-conference player from 2010- The 2010-11 season saw Stracke lead North Texas to Top 10 in Player of the Year Points its highest ranking in decades at No. 3 in the country 13, won three tournaments on the Web.com Tour Top 10 finish in the Assistant’s and was named the 2014 Web.com Player of the Year. after winning the UTA/Waterchase Invitational to Championship Ortiz is now playing on the PGA Tour full-time. begin the year. North Texas received an at-large bid to Won the Assistant’s Match Play the NCAA Tournament, the first since 2003 and only In 2013, the Mean Green won a second consecutive Tournament the second at-large selection in school history. US Open Sectional Qualifier Sun Belt Conference title and advanced to the NCAA 1994 - Top 10 finish in the Assistant’s Tournament for the third straight season. It marked Stracke led the Mean Green to a top-5 finish in nine Championship the first time that North Texas had captured back- of the 11 tournaments last season. North Texas to-back conference titles since 1974-75. It had been finished the season ranked in the top-40 in the College 30 years since North Texas made it to the NCAA nation, the highest end of the year ranking for the UAB Tournament in three straight years. Mean Green in decades. 1993 - First-Team All-Conference Letterman The Mean Green climbed into the top-25 rankings in Individually, Carlos Ortiz won the 2011 Sun Belt 1992 - Letterman the spring of 2013, which was the highest ranking in Conference title with a score of 7-under par, school history that late in the year since the modern becoming the first North Texas player to win the Indian Hills Community College ranking system began in 1998. conference title since 2003. Ortiz and Rodolfo 1990 - Won Nebraska Wesleyan Cazaubon both were named to the All-Sun Belt team Tournament Stracke was named the 2013 Sun Belt Conference for a second straight season. Won conference tournament Coach of the Year for the first time in his career. 1989 - Won Nebraska Wesleyan Tournament Stracke was just the fifth coach in school history to Ortiz won three individual tournaments throughout Finished second at regional tournament win Coach of the Year and it was the first time since the year and Curtis Donahoe won the fourth 2 2016-17 NORTH TEXAS MEN''S GOLF FACT AND RECORDS BOOK profiles 9 Head Coach individual tournament title of the year for the Mean Green. Championship as they posted the lowest team score of the season. The Mean Green posted the lowest stroke average as a team in 2010-11 since 1994- Stracke brings a wealth of experience and a championship pedigree to North Texas 95 and Ortiz had the lowest individual stroke average since 1993-94. after spending time as a highly successful assistant coach and head coach. Starting in 2010, Stracke led North Texas golf back onto the national scene.