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2015-16 NORTH TEXAS MEN'S GOLF FACT AND RECORDS BOOK men's golf 2015-16 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 2015-16 Roster ............................................... 4 Enrollment: 36,216 Golfer Profiles ................................................ 5 Nickname: Mean Green Newcomer Golfer Profiles .................................12 Colors: Green and White Conference: Conference USA President: Dr. Neal Smatresk 13 RECORDS Athletic Director: Rick Villarreal Home Facility: Various 2014-15 Statistics ...........................................13 Main Athletics Phone: 940.565.2662 2014-15 Individual Statistics ..............................14 School Website: MeanGreenSports.com History ........................................................16 Staff Information Tournament Championships ...............................17 Head Coach: Brad Stracke Scoring Leaders .............................................18 Alma Mater: UAB ‘93 Phone: 940.565.2668 All-Time Honors .............................................19 Best time to call: 9 am - 1 pm All-Time Letterwinners.....................................20 E-Mail: [email protected] North Texas Exes On The Pro Tour ........................21 Media Information Men’s Golf Media Contact: Steven Bartolotta Office Phone: 940.369.8329 Cell Phone: 817.300.1931 E-Mail: [email protected] 2015-16 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 Eighth Year 44 NCAA Appearances 2015 Automatic Bid 2013 Automatic Bid The return the 13th All-American in school history. He was the 2012 Automatic Bid to national first North Texas golfer to be named an All-American 2011 At-Large Bid prominence for since 1992. North Texas golf 43 Conference Championships Cazaubon won three individual tournaments in 2012- 2015 Conference USA Championship has been led by 13, the most in the modern era for an individual. Brad Stracke, who enters his eighth season with the 2013 Sun Belt Conference Championship Cazaubon was named to the all-conference team for 2012 Sun Belt Conference Championship Mean Green. Since taking the reins of the program in a fourth straight season, becoming just the second December of 2009, Stracke has taken the Mean Green player in school history to earn all-conference honors 43 Individual Conference Champions golf program to heights it hasn’t seen in over 40 years. in four consecutive years. His teammate, Ortiz 2015 - Juan Munoz 2012 - Ty Spinella The 2014-15 season saw the Mean Green program duplicated what Cazaubon did in his four seasons as 2011 - Carlos Ortiz transform from one that was rebuilding into an he was just the third player in school history to earn NCAA contender. all-conference honors in four straight years. 42-Time Conference Coach of the Year 2015 Conference USA Stracke led North Texas to the Conference USA In addition Jason Roets was named to the all- 2013 Sun Belt Conference Championship in 2015 and was named the Coach conference team in 2013, giving North Texas three of the Year, after the team won the stroke-play players on the all-conference team for the second 42 PGA Tour Professionals competition and then knocked off Charlotte and straight season. Since taking over, Stracke has had 12 Carlos Ortiz, PGA Tour UAB in match play to capture the program’s 30th players earn all-conference honors in six seasons. Rodolfo Cazaubon, Web.com Tour conference championship. The Mean Green captured the 2012 Sun Belt 41 All-American Stracke coached his third individual conference Conference Championship, the first conference Rodolfo Cazaubon - 2012-13 champion in Juan Munoz in 2015. Munoz went on to title since 2003 and another bid to the NCAA earn all-conference and all-tournament honors. Tournament. In 2010-11, Stracke led the Mean Green 2005-08: Assistant Coach, Florida to the first at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, NT made its 34th all-time appearance in the NCAA 1996-2005: Head Coach, Indian Hills and it marks the first time that North Texas has been Tournament in 2015 and the fourth under Stracke. Community College in the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back seasons He has led the Mean Green to conference titles in Honors since 1974-75. three of the last four seasons. 4 Won a NJCAA National Championship, 2000 He has coached back-to-back individual conference 4 Nine NJCAA Championship appearances NT captured the Jim Rivers Intercollegiate title, champions in Ty Spinella (2012) and Carlos Ortiz 4 Finished 1st, 2nd or 3rd for six straight marking the fifth straight year that the Mean Green (2011), a feat accomplished for only the second time seasons has won a tournament title. in school history. In his five seasons playing in the Stracke also saw the rise of one of his first recruits in Sun Belt, North Texas has had 10 players named to Playing Career Carlos Ortiz at the professional level. the All-Sun Belt team. Professional Tournament Finishes 1997 - Won the Bos Landen Prairie Tour event Ortiz, a four-time all-conference player from 2010- The 2010-11 season saw Stracke lead North Texas to 1996 - Won the Lake Bracken Pro Select 13, won three tournaments on the Web.com Tour its highest ranking in decades at No. 3 in the country Won the Fort Dodge Pro-Am and was named the 2014 Web.com Player of the Year. after winning the UTA/Waterchase Invitational to Top 10 in Player of the Year Points Ortiz is now playing on the PGA Tour full-time. begin the year. North Texas received an at-large bid to 1995 - US Open Sectional Qualifier the NCAA Tournament, the first since 2003 and only In 2013, the Mean Green won a second consecutive Top 10 in Player of the Year Points the second at-large selection in school history. Sun Belt Conference title and advanced to the NCAA 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 Won the Assistant’s Match Play to-back conference titles since 1974-75. It had been finished the season ranked in the top-40 in the Tournament US Open Sectional Qualifier 30 years since North Texas made it to the NCAA nation, the highest end of the year ranking for the 1994 - Top 10 finish in the Assistant’s Tournament in three straight years. Mean Green in decades. Championship The Mean Green climbed into the top-25 rankings in Individually, Carlos Ortiz won the 2011 Sun Belt the spring of 2013, which was the highest ranking in Conference title with a score of 7-under par, College UAB school history that late in the year since the modern becoming the first North Texas player to win the 1993 - First-Team All-Conference ranking system began in 1998. conference title since 2003. Ortiz and Rodolfo Letterman Cazaubon both were named to the All-Sun Belt team Stracke was named the 2013 Sun Belt Conference 1992 - Letterman for a second straight season. Coach of the Year for the first time in his career. Stracke was just the fifth coach in school history to Ortiz won three individual tournaments throughout Indian Hills Community College win Coach of the Year and it was the first time since the year and Curtis Donahoe won the fourth 1990 - Won Nebraska Wesleyan 2003 a North Texas coach has captured the award. individual tournament title of the year for the Mean Tournament Green. Won conference tournament Stracke also brought out the best in Rodolfo 1989 - Won Nebraska Wesleyan Tournament Cazaubon. He ended his highly decorated career as Finished second at regional tournament 2 2015-16 NORTH TEXAS MEN''S GOLF FACT AND RECORDS BOOK profiles 9 coaching staff 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. The Prior to North Texas, Stracke spent the previous three years as an assistant coach Mean Green captured its first tournament title in five seasons and had numerous at Florida and he was the head coach at Indian Hills Community College for nine individual accomplishments throughout the 2009-10 school year.