2017-18 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 BUILDING CHAMPIONS and PREPARING LEADERS through the pursuit of perfection in academics, athletics, and life. 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 2017-18 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: Maridoe Golf Club 2017-18 Fall Statistics ......................................18 Main Athletics Phone: 940.565.2662 2017-18 Fall Individual Statistics .........................19 School Website: MeanGreenSports.com 2016-17 Statistics ...........................................20 Staff Information 2016-17 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: Adam Boedeker Cell Phone: 972.742.2304 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 Stracke was named the 2013 Sun Belt Conference 2013 Automatic Bid to national Coach of the Year for the first time in his career. 2012 Automatic Bid prominence for Stracke was just the fifth coach in school history to 2011 At-Large Bid win Coach of the Year and it was the first time since North Texas golf 43 Conference Championships 2003 a North Texas coach has captured the award. has been led by 2015 Conference USA Championship Brad Stracke, who is in his ninth season with the Stracke also brought out the best in Rodolfo 2013 Sun Belt Conference Championship Mean Green. Since taking the reins of the program in Cazaubon. He ended his highly decorated career as 2012 Sun Belt Conference Championship December of 2009, Stracke has taken the Mean Green the 13th All-American in school history. He was the golf program to heights it hasn’t seen in over 40 years. 43 Individual Conference Champions first North Texas golfer to be named an All-American 2015 - Juan Munoz In 2016-17, Stracke saw a career first as he had since 1992. 2012 - Ty Spinella three players - Ian Snyman, Thomas Rosenmueller Cazaubon won three individual tournaments in 2012- 2011 - Carlos Ortiz and Cory Churchman - qualify for the NCAA 13, the most in the modern era for an individual. 42-Time Conference Coach of the Year Tournament as individuals. Cazaubon was named to the all-conference team for 2015 Conference USA In 2015-16, Stracke led the Mean Green to the a fourth straight season, becoming just the second 2013 Sun Belt Conference Tucson Regional as an at-large selection to the player in school history to earn all-conference honors 42 PGA Tour Professionals NCAA postseason. in four consecutive years. His teammate, Ortiz Rodolfo Cazaubon, PGA Tour duplicated what Cazaubon did in his four seasons as The 2014-15 season saw the Mean Green program Carlos Ortiz, Web.com Tour he was just the third player in school history to earn transform from one that was rebuilding into an all-conference honors in four straight years. 41 All-American NCAA contender. Rodolfo Cazaubon - 2012-13 In addition Jason Roets was named to the all- Stracke led North Texas to the Conference USA conference team in 2013, giving North Texas three Championship in 2015 and was named the Coach 2005-08: Assistant Coach, Florida players on the all-conference team for the second of the Year, after the team won the stroke-play straight season. Since taking over, Stracke has had 12 1996-2005: Head Coach, Indian Hills competition and then knocked off Charlotte and players earn all-conference honors in six seasons. Community College UAB in match play to capture the program’s 30th Honors conference championship. The Mean Green captured the 2012 Sun Belt 4 Won a NJCAA National Championship, 2000 Conference Championship, the first conference 4 Nine NJCAA Championship appearances Stracke coached his third individual conference title since 2003 and another bid to the NCAA 4 Finished 1st, 2nd or 3rd for six straight champion in Juan Munoz in 2015. Munoz went on to Tournament. In 2010-11, Stracke led the Mean Green seasons earn all-conference and all-tournament honors. to the first at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, NT made its 34th all-time appearance in the NCAA and it marks the first time that North Texas has been Playing Career Tournament in 2015 and the fourth under Stracke. in the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back seasons Professional Tournament Finishes He has led the Mean Green to conference titles in since 1974-75. 1997 - Won the Bos Landen Prairie Tour event three of the last four seasons. 1996 - Won the Lake Bracken Pro Select He has coached back-to-back individual conference Won the Fort Dodge Pro-Am NT captured the Jim Rivers Intercollegiate title, champions in Ty Spinella (2012) and Carlos Ortiz Top 10 in Player of the Year Points marking the fifth straight year that the Mean Green (2011), a feat accomplished for only the second time 1995 - US Open Sectional Qualifier has won a tournament title. in school history. In his five seasons playing in the Top 10 in Player of the Year Points Sun Belt, North Texas has had 10 players named to Top 10 finish in the Assistant’s Stracke also saw the rise of one of his first recruits in the All-Sun Belt team. Championship Carlos Ortiz at the professional level. Won the Assistant’s Match Play The 2010-11 season saw Stracke lead North Texas to Ortiz, a four-time all-conference player from 2010- Tournament its highest ranking in decades at No. 3 in the country US Open Sectional Qualifier 13, won three tournaments on the Web.com Tour after winning the UTA/Waterchase Invitational to 1994 - Top 10 finish in the Assistant’s and was named the 2014 Web.com Player of the Year. begin the year. North Texas received an at-large bid to Championship Ortiz is now playing on the PGA Tour full-time. the NCAA Tournament, the first since 2003 and only College In 2013, the Mean Green won a second consecutive the second at-large selection in school history. UAB Sun Belt Conference title and advanced to the NCAA Stracke led the Mean Green to a top-5 finish in nine 1993 - First-Team All-Conference Tournament for the third straight season. It marked of the 11 tournaments last season. North Texas Letterman the first time that North Texas had captured back- finished the season ranked in the top-40 in the 1992 - Letterman to-back conference titles since 1974-75. It had been nation, the highest end of the year ranking for the 30 years since North Texas made it to the NCAA Indian Hills Community College Mean Green in decades. Tournament in three straight years. 1990 - Won Nebraska Wesleyan Individually, Carlos Ortiz won the 2011 Sun Belt Tournament The Mean Green climbed into the top-25 rankings in Conference title with a score of 7-under par, Won conference tournament the spring of 2013, which was the highest ranking in 1989 - Won Nebraska Wesleyan Tournament becoming the first North Texas player to win the school history that late in the year since the modern Finished second at regional tournament conference title since 2003. Ortiz and Rodolfo ranking system began in 1998. Cazaubon both were named to the All-Sun Belt team 2 2017-18 NORTH TEXAS MEN'S GOLF FACT AND RECORDS BOOK profiles 9 Head Coach for a second straight season. Stracke brings a wealth of experience and a championship pedigree to North Texas after spending time as a highly successful assistant coach and head coach. Ortiz won three individual tournaments throughout the year and Curtis Donahoe won the fourth individual tournament title of the year for the Mean Green. Prior to North Texas, Stracke spent the previous three years as an assistant coach at Florida and he was the head coach at Indian Hills Community College for nine The Mean Green posted the lowest stroke average as a team in 2010-11 since 1994- seasons from 1996-05, winning a NJCAA National Championship. 95 and Ortiz had the lowest individual stroke average since 1993-94. At Florida, Stracke helped guide the Gators to the NCAA Championship three Starting in 2010, Stracke led North Texas golf back onto the national scene. The straight seasons, culminating with a second-place finish in 2006. That year the Mean Green captured its first tournament title in five seasons and had numerous Gators won the West Regional Championship with a tournament record score of individual accomplishments throughout the 2009-10 school year. 37-under par.