2012-13 NORTH TEXAS MEN'S GOLF FACT AND RECORDS BOOK men's golf North Texas Athletics Department 1301 S. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS Men’s Golf Quick Facts 2 PROFILES University Information Head Coach ................................................... 2 Location: Denton, Texas Founded: 1890 2012-13 Roster ............................................... 3 Enrollment: 35,754 Golfer Profiles ................................................ 4 Nickname: Mean Green Newcomer Golfer Profiles .................................11 Colors: Green and White Conference: Sun Belt President: V. Lane Rawlins 12 RECORDS Athletic Director: Rick Villarreal Home Facility: Various 2011-12 Statistics ...........................................12 Main Athletics Phone: 940.565.2662 2011-12 Individual Statistics ..............................13 School Website: MeanGreenSports.com History ........................................................15 Staff Information Tournament Championships ...............................16 Head Coach: Brad Stracke Scoring Leaders .............................................17 Alma Mater: UAB ‘93 Phone: 940.565.2668 All-Time Honors .............................................18 Best time to call: 9 am - 1 pm All-Time Letterwinners.....................................19 E-Mail: [email protected] North Texas Exes On The Pro Tour ........................20 Media Information Men’s Golf Media Contact: Steven Bartolotta Office Phone: 940.369.8329 Cell Phone: 817.300.1931 E-Mail: [email protected] 2012-13 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 Experience 2008-Present: Head Coach, North Texas 4 Fifth Year 2005-08: Assistant Coach, Florida Honors The return selected to play in the NCAA Men’s Golf Regional, 4 Won the 2012 Sun Belt Conference Cham- to national marking the first time in school history that two pionship and took the Mean Green to the NCAA prominence for individuals have advanced to a regional. Tournament for the second straight season. He North Texas golf Stracke’s freshmen competing at the regional puts is the first coach to lead North Texas to back- has been led by North Texas in elite company. North Texas is the only to-back NCAA Tournaments since 1974-75. fifth-year head coach Brad Stracke. When he arrived school in the nation that sent two freshmen to play at at North Texas in December of 2009, the Mean Green a regional in 2010. 4 Led North Texas to the NCAA Tournament was ranked 143rd in the nation; last season North for the first time since 2003 in 2011 Texas finshed the season ranked 28th. Cazaubon was named the Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year, the first-time in the program’s 4 Coached Rodolfo Cazaubon to the Sun Belt The Mean Green captured the 2012 Sun Belt storied history that has happened. He also posted Conference Freshman of the Year in 2009-10, Conference Championship, the first conference the lowest stroke average in seven seasons for North the first in school history. title since 2003 and another bid to the NCAA Texas and was an all-conference selection. Tournament. In 2010-11, Stracke led the Mean Green 4 Rodolfo Cazaubon and Carlos Ortiz com- to the first at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, Ortiz was also an all-conference pick and shot the peted in NCAA Regionals as freshman, first in and it marked the first time that North Texas had third-lowest round of golf with a 64 in the nation school history been in the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back this season. Along the way as a team, Stracke guided seasons since 1974-75. North Texas to the best stroke average since the 2002- 4 Four NCAA Championship appearances 03 season. North Texas had seven top-5 finishes or 1996-2005: Head Coach, Indian Hills He has coached back-to-back individual conference better this season. champions in Ty Spinella (2012) and Carlos Ortiz Community College (2011), a feat accomplished for only the second time In 2009, Stracke led North Texas to a third-place Honors in school history. In his four seasons, North Texas finish at the Sun Belt Conference Championship as has had nine players named to the All-Sun Belt team, they posted the lowest team score of the season. 4 Won a NJCAA National Championship, 2000 which is the same number of golfers named to the Stracke brings a wealth of experience and a 4 Nine NJCAA Championship appearances all-conference team from 2002-2009. championship pedigree to North Texas after spending 4 Finished 1st, 2nd or 3rd for six straight His first two recruits, Ortiz and Rodolfo Cazaubon time as a highly successful assistant coach and seasons are only the fifth and sixth players in school history head coach. Prior to North Texas, Stracke spent to earn three-straight all-conference seasonal honors. the previous three years as an assistant coach at Playing Career Florida and he was the head coach at Indian Hills The 2010-11 season saw Stracke lead North Texas to Community College for nine seasons from 1996-05, Professional Tournament Finishes its highest ranking in decades at No.3 in the country winning a NJCAA National Championship. 1997 - Won the Bos Landen Prairie Tour event after winning the UTA/Waterchase Invitational to 1996 - Won the Lake Bracken Pro Select begin the year. North Texas received an at-large bid At Florida, Stracke helped guide the Gators to to the NCAA Tournament, the first since 2003 and the NCAA Championship three straight seasons, Won the Fort Dodge Pro-Am only the second at-large selection in school history. culminating with a second-place finish in 2006. Top 10 in Player of the Year Points That year the Gators won the West Regional Stracke led the Mean Green to a top-5 finish in nine 1995 - US Open Sectional Qualifier Championship with a tournament record score of Top 10 in Player of the Year Points of the 11 tournaments last season. North Texas 37-under par. Florida finished ninth at the NCAA finished the season ranked in the top-40 in the Championship in 2007 and 11th in 2008. Top 10 finish in the Assistant’s nation, the highest end of the year ranking for the Championship Mean Green in decades. In three years at Florida, Stracke also coached six All-Americans, eight SEC All-Conference players, Won the Assistant’s Match Play Individually Carlos Ortiz won the 2011 Sun Belt and one Walker Cup player. At Indian Hills, his team Tournament Conference title with a score of 7-under par, won the national championship in 2000 and had six US Open Sectional Qualifier becoming the first North Texas player to win the straight seasons of finishing either first, second, or 1994 - Top 10 finish in the Assistant’s conference title since 2003. Ortiz and Rodolfo third at the national championship. Cazaubon both were named to the All-Sun Belt team Championship for a second straight season. He coached 21 All-Americans at Indian Hills and led them to its first number one ranking and national College Ortiz won three individual tournaments throughout title. UAB the year and Curtis Donahoe won the fourth 1993 - First-Team All-Conference Letterman individual tournament title of the year for the Mean Stracke earned an associate of arts degree in arts Green. and science at IHCC in 1990. He also earned a 1992 - Letterman bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama at The Mean Green posted the lowest stroke average as Birmingham in 1993, where he played for the Blazers. Indian Hills Community College a team in 2010-11 since 1994-95 and Ortiz had the lowest individual stroke average since 1993-94. After redshirting his junior year, Stracke won all- 1990 - Won Nebraska Wesleyan conference honors in 1993. As a professional player, Tournament Starting in 2010, Stracke has led North Texas golf Stracke was a sectional qualifier for the U.S. Open in Won conference tournament back onto the national scene. The Mean Green 1995 and earned a top-10 finish in Player of the Year 1989 - Won Nebraska Wesleyan captured its first tournament title in five seasons Points in 1995 and 1996. and had numerous individual accomplishments Tournament throughout the 2009-10 school year. He won the Lake Bracken Pro-Select in 1996, the Fort Finished second at regional Dodge Pro-Am in