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QUICK FACTS Location .............................................Seattle, Washington Mailing Address ................Box 354080, Seattle, WA 98195 Enrollment ....................... 39,251 (25,469 undergraduate) Nickname .............................................................Huskies Mascot .....................................Spirit (Alaskan Malamute) School Song ...........................“Bow Down to Washington” Colors .................................................... Purple and Gold President ................................................Dr. Mark Emmert Director of Athletics ......................................Todd Turner Senior Associate Athletic Director .................. Marie Tuite Assistant Director of Olympic Sports .......... Karen Baebler Athletic Trainer ..................................... Rob Scheidegger Media Relations Director ............................................ TBA Media Relations Phone .............................. (206) 543-2230 Media Relations Fax .................................. (206) 543-5000 Home Courses ................................ Washington National, ....................... Overlake Golf Club, Broadmoor Golf Club, ..............Seattle Golf Club, Trophy Lake Golf and Casting, .........Inglewood Golf Club, Gold Mountain Golf Complex Conference ....................................................... Pacific-10 2005 Pac-10 Finish ........................................................1st 2005 NCAA West Regional Finish ................................ 3rd 2005 NCAA Championship Finish ............................... 3rd Total NCAA Appearances ..............................................18 On the cover: At the 2005 NCAA Championships, James Lepp hits Best NCAA Finish ............................................... 3rd, 2005 out of the rough on the ninth hole of the fourth round (his last hole of the Letterwinners Lost .......................................................... 1 round), a slick downhill shot that ended several feet from the cup and Letterwinners Returning ................................................ 6 allowed him to save par on the hole, thus preserving his course-record 7-under-63 and forcing a playoff with Pepperdine’s Michael Putnam. Lepp won the playoff with a three-foot par putt on the third playoff hole COACHING STAFF and became Washington’s first national champion. Head Coach ............................................. Matt Thurmond Alma Mater ......................................Brigham Young, 1999 TABLE OF CONTENTS Office Number ............................................ 206-685-7632 Table of Contents ...........................................................1 Year at Washington .................................................... Fifth 2006 Outlook ...............................................................2-3 Assistant Coach ........................................... Jon Reehoorn 2006 Schedule ................................................................2 Year at Washington ................................................Second 2006 Roster ....................................................................3 Husky Profiles ...........................................................4-15 www.gohuskies.com James Lepp .................................................................4-5 Erik Olson ...................................................................6-7 Credits: The 2006 Washington Golf Guide was written and Alex Prugh ..................................................................8-9 edited by Noah Cohan and Jim Daves. Layout and design Zach Bixler ...................................................................10 done in-house on desktop publishing applications by Jona- Sterling Clark ...............................................................11 Joe Panzeri ...................................................................12 than Soriano and Cohan. Cover design work by Soriano and Kellen Eakin .................................................................13 Chad Kent. Printing by the University of Washington Publi- John Wise .....................................................................13 cations Services (Judy Robertson). Photography by David Seth Yates .....................................................................13 Gonzales, Jim Daves, Joanie Komura and Bruce Terami. Head Coach Matt Thurmond ........................................14 Assistant Coach Jon Reehoorn ......................................15 Washington Coaching History ......................................15 2004-2005 Team Results/Statistics ................................16 2005 Fall Team Results/Statistics ..................................16 2004-2005 Individual and Team Bests ...........................17 2004-2005 Tournament Results ................................18-23 Husky Records ........................................................24-29 Letterwinners ...............................................................30 All-Americans and Pac-10 Honorees ............................31 Husky Golf Historical ..............................................32-33 Washington National & Husky Home Courses .........34-35 1 O U T L O O K H U S K I E S L O O K T O B U I L D O N 2 0 0 5 A C H I E V E M E N T S When nearly everything goes your way at the end of a season, what do you do for an encore? How do you follow up on the best postseason in a program’s history? Where do you set the bar for a returning NCAA champion? The Washington men’s golf team will get the chance to answer all of those questions in 2006, thanks to a 2005 spring season that saw the team rise to new heights. The hardware collection began when the Huskies took home the Pac-10 Championship trophy, winning the team title despite finding themselves in last place after the first round. The Huskies If ever there was a team capable of an spring. He’s got a chance to defend his were able to make up the difference by encore to a season of that magnitude, the championship. He knows Crosswater (site shooting a final round 350, the second 2006 Huskies are that team. Washington of the 2006 NCAA Championship) well. best single-round score of the tournament. returns all of last season’s postseason He’s also been a tremendous team leader. Leading the comeback was Erik Olson, contributors, including Olson and Lepp. So If you look at the success our team has, he who finished the tournament eight-under- the question facing the 2006 Huskies is not should get a lot of credit for being a leader, par to become the first purple and gold one asking whether they can they climb the somebody who everybody on the team Pac-10 medalist since O.D. Vincent won mountain, but how to do it again. looks up to. He really sets the tone with the title in 1988. “It’s a question I’m asking all the time,” who he is and the way he goes about his The spoils for the Huskies’ first Thurmond says. “How do you capture that work.” conference title since 1988 included same magic, not be complacent, not focus But Lepp should by no means have to Pac-10 Coach of the Year honors for head too much on the past but work towards the carry this loaded Husky squad. coach Matt Thurmond, first-team All-Pac- future? I don’t know that I can answer that “Alex Prugh and Erik Olson are 10 honors for Olson and James Lepp, question, but the good thing about last year both going to have a breakout spring,” second-team recognition for Alex Prugh, is that we know what our potential is. We Thurmond says. “They will really step up and an honorable mention nod for Zach know that we can beat anybody. We know and put themselves among the very top Bixler. that we have a lot of talent and that when players in the country.” But the season’s highlights were far we really get focused we can compete for Olson provided an encore to his Pac-10 from over. a national championship.” Championship win by helping the USA to By taking third place at the NCAA Leading the charge will be Lepp, who victory at the 2005 U.S. vs. Japan Collegiate West Regional, Washington qualified followed his NCAA win by winning the Golf Championships. He also finished 11th for its seventh straight trip to the NCAA stroke play portion of the U.S. Amateur at the Sahalee Players Championship. His Championships, a streak currently by four strokes, shooting a 5-under 135 in best round of the fall came at the Big 10/ matched by just four other programs. The the 36-hole event. He also helped Canada Pac-10 Challenge, where he shot a first- Huskies battled rain and the competition win the 2005 Copa de las Americas round 68. through three rounds of the NCAA title in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, won his “Erik really wants to become more Championship at Caves Valley Golf Club fourth-straight British Columbia Amateur consistent,” Thurmond says. “We’ve seen in Owings Mills, Md. When the rain let Championship and finished fourth at the flashes of brilliance and he knows what he up in round four, Lepp broke through the Sahalee Players Championship.. In the fall, can do when he’s on his game. The challenge field, rallying from a six-shot deficit with Lepp led the Huskies with a 72.08 stroke- for him is just to be able to do that more often. a course-record 7-under 63 to force a average in four events, and placed second Erik could and should be an All-American, playoff with Pepperdine’s Michael Putnam. at the Big Ten/Pac-10 Challenge in early should really make it tough for someone Lepp then saved par on the third playoff October. For his accomplishments, the to take his Pac-10 title