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2016 - 2017 BALL STATE MEN’S & WOMEN’S GOLF BALLSTATESPORTS.COM • @BALLSTATESPORTS • @BallStateMGolf • @BALLSTATEWGOLF 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS QUICK MEDIA NOTES 2016 - 2017 Cardinals BALL STATE UNIVERSITY: 4 Men’s Schedule Location Muncie, IN 47306 Founded 1918 5 Women’s Schedule Enrollment 21,196 6 Men’s Roster Nickname Cardinals 8 Women’s Roster Colors Cardinal and White Facility Deleware Country Club & The Players Club 10 Men’s Coaches Conference Mid-American Conference 12 Women’s Coaches Interim President Terry King Athletics Director Mark Sandy Courses MEN’S GOLF COACHING STAFF 14 Delaware Country Club & Players Club Head Coach Mike Fleck Alma Mater Ball State, 1993 Career Tournament Wins 17 Tradition Graduate Assistant Coach Tyler Ostrom 17 Remembering Coach EY Alma Mater Ball State 2016 17 The Support WOMEN’S GOLF COACHING STAFF 17 Travel Head Coach Katherine Mowat 18 Championship Titles Alma Mater Louisville, 2001 Career Tournament Wins 15 19 BSU Golf at the NCAAs Assistant Coach Zach Davis 20 Record Book Alma Mater Ball State, 2011 Ball State MEDIA INFORMATION Assistant Director/Golf Contact: Tyson Mathews 23 The University Office Phone: 765-285-8227 25 Board of Trustees E-Mail: [email protected] Associate A.D.: Mike Clark 26 Athletics Assistant Director: Brad Caudill Assistant Director: Paula Haughn Assistant Director: Kelly Barock Broadcast & Multimedia: Joel Godett Graduate Assistant Morgan Young Website: ballstatesports.com Twitter: @ballstatemgolf, @ballstatewgolf, @ballstatesports 2017 CARDINALS SCHEDULE • ROSTER • COACHING STAFF 2 BALL STATE GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 2016 - 2017 BALLSTATESPORTS.COM • @BALLSTATESPORTS • @BallStateMGolf • @BALLSTATEWGOLF 3 3 2017 SPRING SCHEDULE 2017 SPRING SCHEDULE MEN’S SPRING SCHEDULE WOMEN’S SPRING SCHEDULE MONDAY, FEB. 13- TUESDAY, FEB. 14 FRIDAY, APR. 14- SATURDAY, APR. 15 FRIDAY, FEB. 10- SATURDAY, FEB. 11 FRIDAY, MAR. 31- SATURDAY, APR. 1 EARL YESTINGSMEIER EARL YESTINGSMEIER BALL STATE SUNSHINE EKU COLONEL MATCH PLAY MEMORIAL INVITATIONAL INVITATIONAL CLASSIC Dade City, Fla. | Lake Jovita Country Muncie, Ind. | Delaware Country Club | Port St. Lucie, Fla. | St. Lucie Trail Richmond, Ky. | The University Club Club - South Course | All Day All Day Golf Club | All Day at Arlington | All Day FRIDAY, MAR. 10- SUNDAY, MAR. 12 SATURDAY, APR. 22- SUNDAY, APR. 23 SATURDAY, APR. 8- SUNDAY, APR. 9 PINEHURST ROBERT KEPLER FRIDAY, FEB. 24- SUNDAY, FEB. 26 INTERCOLLEGIATE INTERCOLLEGIATE INDIANA SPRING Village of Pinehurst, N.C. | Columbus, Ohio | OSU Golf Club-Scarlet RIO VERDE INVITATIONAL INVITATIONAL Rio Verde, Ariz. | Rio Verde Pinehurst No. 8. | All Day Course | All Day Bloomington, Ind. | Indiana University Country Club | All Day Golf Course | All Day FRIDAY, MAR. 31- SUNDAY, APR. 2 FRIDAY, APR. 28- SATURDAY, APR. 30 MASON RUDOLPH MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE FRIDAY, APR. 21- SUNDAY, APR. 30 CHAMPIONSHIP CHAMPIONSHIPS Nashville, Tenn. | Vanderbilt Legends Nashport, Ohio | The Virtues Golf Club | TUESDAY, MAR. 14- WEDNESDAY, MAR. 15 MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE Club | All Day All Day DR. DONNIS THOMPSON CHAMPIONSHIPS Silver Lake, Ohio | Silver Lake Country Club | INVITATIONAL All Day Kailua, Hawaii | Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course | All Day MONDAY, MAR. 27- TUESDAY, MAR. 28 KINGSMILL INTERCOLLEGIATE Williamsburg, Va. | Kingsmill Resort River Course | All Day 4 BALL STATE GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 2016 - 2017 BALLSTATESPORTS.COM • @BALLSTATESPORTS • @BallStateMGolf • @BALLSTATEWGOLF 5 2016 - 2017 MEN’S ROSTER 2016 - 2017 MEN’S ROSTER 2016-17 BALL STATE MEN’S GOLF 6 BALL STATE GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 2016 - 2017 BALLSTATESPORTS.COM • @BALLSTATESPORTS • @BallStateMGolf • @BALLSTATEWGOLF 7 2016 - 2017 WOMEN’S ROSTER 2016 - 2017 WOMEN’S ROSTER 2016-17 BALL STATE WOMEN’S GOLF 8 BALL STATE GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 2016 - 2017 BALLSTATESPORTS.COM • @BALLSTATESPORTS • @BallStateMGolf • @BALLSTATEWGOLF 9 2016 - 2017 MEN’S COACHES 2016 - 2017 COACHES golfer to win the MAC since 2008 and the first freshman to win the league since 2005. He was the first Ball State player to claim the title since 1997 and just the third ever. Fleck was named the Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year for the 2010-11 season after a year that included a win at the Yestingsmeier and a second-place finish at the MAC Championships. He has had 19 All-MAC selections at Ball State, and the Cardinals’ three in 2012-13 — Merkel on the first team plus Joe Gasser and Alex Stinson on the second team — marked the most for the program since 1982. He also coached Broce, an All-American and the MAC Golfer of the Year, in his first year on the job in 1998-99. In addition to the on-course success, Ball State men’s golfers have been named Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholars Mike Fleck, who was a member of the Ball on 33 occasions under Fleck’s watch. In 2012- State University men’s golf team from 1988 13, Ball State tied for the most All-America GRADUATE ASSISTANT COACH through 1992, was named the third head Scholars in the country with four — Gasser, coach in the program’s history Aug. 20, 1998. Tony Lazzara, Merkel and Stinson. In 2005-06, He replaced Earl Yestingsmeier, who was Ball Ball State was the only school in the nation TYLER OSTROM State’s head coach for the previous 36 years. with five selections -- Brandon Boomsma, The 2015-16 season was Fleck’s 18th Patrick Wilkes-Krier, Wayne Denger, C.D. EXPEREINCE: FIRST YEAR Hockersmith and Andy Skillman. leading the Cardinals. His teams have won 17 ALMA MATER: BALL STATE ‘16 tournament titles, most recently Ball State’s Additionally, Fleck has had 22 Academic All-MAC selections and a pair of CoSIDA own Earl Yestingsmeier Memorial Invitational Tyler Ostrom, a four-year letterwinner for in 2016. The Cardinals have won at least one Academic All-Americans (Broce in 1999 and Dan Witt in 2002). In 2012-13, Ball State the Ball State men’s golf team, became a tournament in seven of the past eight years. graduate assistant coach for the program Two of those wins came during a 2012- accounted for four of the seven spots on the Academic All-MAC Team — the most in in August 2016. 13 season that was one of Fleck’s finest in A native of Warsaw, Indiana, Ostrom Muncie. The Cardinals competed in the NCAA league history under the current selection format — with Gasser, Lazzara, Merkel and graduated from Ball State in May 2016 tournament for the first time since 1991 and with a degree in finance and accounting. advanced in a playoff out of the Pullman Stinson. Fleck, who graduated from Ball State in As a player, he was co-medalist at the HEAD COACH Regional to reach the NCAA Nationals for the Butler Spring Invitational as a sophomore first time since 1986. 1993, served as an assistant coach with the Cardinals for the 1993-94 season. He then and finished runner-up at Toledo’s Rocket That year’s team, ranked as high as No. Individual Classic as a senior. 27 in the nation by Golfweek, claimed became the head pro at Hickory Hills Golf Club in Farmland, Ind., for four years before Ostrom was heavily involved with tournament titles at the Firestone Ball State’s Student-Athlete Advisory Invitational and Pinehurst Intercollegiate returning to lead the men’s golf program at his alma mater. Committee and attended the Mid- in addition to runner-up finishes at the American Conference Leadership Pinetree Intercollegiate and the Mid- TOURNAMENT TITLES Symposium as a senior. He was honored MIKE American Match Play. 2016 Earl Yestingsmeier Memorial Invitational by the men’s golf program with the Earl The win at Firstone was the second for the 2014 Mid-American Match Play Yestingsmeier Student-Athlete Award in 2013 Pinehurst Intercollegiate Cardinals under Fleck, as the team also won his final season. there in 2006. His teams have won Ball State’s 2012 Firestone Invitational 2012 Mid-American Match Play Ostrom was a standout golfer at own Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational a total of 2011 Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational Warsaw High School, where he was a seven times. 2009 Dayton Flyer Invitational three-time all-state selection. He won FLECK While 2012-13 marked Ball State’s return 2009 Cardinal Collegiate the 2011 Indiana state championship, 19TH SEASON AS HEAD COACH to the NCAA tournament as a team, Fleck 2006 First Energy Intercollegiate setting the tournament record for ALMA MATER: BALL STATE ‘93 previously coached three individual NCAA 2005 Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational lowest round with a 63. Regional participants — Jamie Broce in 1999, 2004 Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational 2003 Bullock Collegiate Classic Eric Steger in 2011 and Tyler Merkel in 2012. EXPERIENCE 2001 Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational 1998-Present: Head Men’s Golf Coach at Ball State He added another in 2015 when Johnny Watts qualified for the Ball State-hosted 2000 Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational 1994-98: Head Golf Professional at Hickory Hills Golf 1999 Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational Noblesville Regional by winning the MAC Course in Farmland, Ind. 1999 St. Louis Billiken Invitational Championships. 1999 Morehead State Eagle Classic 1993-94: Assistant Men’s Golf Coach at Ball State Watts became the first non-Kent State 2010-2011: MAC Coach of the Year Led Ball State to the 2013 NCAA Championships 10 10 BALL STATE GOLF MEDIA GUIDE 2016 - 2017 BALLSTATESPORTS.COM • @BALLSTATESPORTS • @BallStateMGolf • @BALLSTATEWGOLF 11 2016 - 2017 WOMEN’S COACHES 2016 - 2017 COACHES Mowat has tutored Hague (2012, 2013 coach Meghan Bolger. As a team, Ole Miss and 2014), Brittany Kelly (2009, 2010 and registered six top-five finishes in 2003- 2011), Kirsty O’Connor (2008), Kallie Harrison 04. The Lady Rebels placed first in the (2006) and Sundberg (2005) to all-conference Waterlefe Invitational for the school’s first honors, and she has also coached six MAC All- tournament title since the 2001-02 season. Tournament selections. In addition, Mowat helped tutor former Ole Hague (2014) and Kelly (2011) were each Miss golfer Bernadette Luse, who qualified selected to compete as individuals in the for the 2005 LPGA Tour and won the 2008 NCAA Regionals.