Emory University

Career:
Finished off an excellent four-year career as the school'sall-time leader in scoring average with a 74.38 strokes per-roundaverage ... Holds the school's top-two seasonal scoring averages... Just one of two players in school history to garnerAll-America acclaim on three occasions ... Named UAA Golfer ofthe Week ten times. 

Senior (2011-12):
Hit the course in all ten of the team's tournaments and totaled 26rounds of play ... Brought home First Team All-America honors aftera seventh-place finish at the NCAA D-III Championships with his72-hole score of 294 (72-73-74-75) tying the school's second-besteffort at the event ... First Emory golfer since Mike Lebow (2006)to earn first team All-America recognition ... Set a schoolseasonal mark with a 73.0 strokes-per-round average, topping hisprevious effort of 73.48 set during the 2010-11 season ... FirstTeam All-UAA after helping the Eagles to the team championship withhis 36-hole runner-up performance of one-under 143 (72-71) tyingEmory's second-lowest individual performance tourney ... Named asthe UAA Golfer of the Week on five occasions ... Shot par or betterin 11 rounds including a pair of a career-best 68s, one of whichcame during the first round of the Jekyll Island Invitationaland the other during the second round of the Marine Federal CreditUnion Championship ... Georgia Cup First Team All-State honoree ...Earned a spot on the Ping All-South Region Team ... Named UAAGolfer of the Week after earning all-tournament honors at the RoyalLakes Oglethorpe Fall Invitational (Oct. 22) following a runner-upshowing out of 99 players with a 36-hole effort of even-par 142(73-69) with his final total tying the 10th-best two-round score inschool history ... Strong effort at the Jekyll Island Invitational(Mar. 16-18), landing all-tournament recognition after aneighth-place finish out of 150 entries with a three-round score ofone-under par 215 (68-75-72), then tying Emory's third-lowest scorefor a 54-hole tournament ... Tabbed as the league's Golfer of theWeek after leading the squad and finishing 12th out of 80 hopefulsat the Marine Federal Credit Union Championship with aschool-record 54-hole mark of two-under 212 (72-68-72) ...Recipient of a 2012 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, just the secondEmory player in program history of claim the honor ... Capital OneSecond Team Academic All-American (at-Large Team) ... ClevelandGolf/Srixon All-America Scholar ... Capital One Academic First TeamAll-District ... Ranked as Emory's top scorer in seven of 10tournaments.

Junior (2010-11):
Played in all 10 of the team's tournaments and registered25 rounds of play ... Captured Third Team All-America Honors aftertying for 20th place at the NCAA Championships ... Set a schoolseasonal record for best scoring average with a mark of 73.48strokes per round ... Shot or bettered par a team-high eight times... Carded a personal-best score of 69 on three occasions (1stRound of Greensboro Gordin D3 Preview, 3rd Round of Jekyll IslandInvitational and 1st Round of the Scarlet Course Championship) ...Registered Emory's top score in three tournaments ... Was theEagles' No. 1 performer and tied for sixth positionin the 90-playerfield at the Greensboro Gordin D3 Preview with a 36-hole score ofthree-over par 147 (69-78) ... Best 36-hole effort was an even-par144 (70-74), good for seventh place out of 109 entries at theChick-fil-A Invitational(Oct. 4-5) ... Opening-round mark of 70 atthe NCAA Championships tied for the team's best score during thefour-day event ... Three-round scores of 215 at the Scarlet CourseChampionship (Mar. 25-27) and the Jekyll Island Invitational (Mar.18-20) stands as the third-best performance in Emory history for a54-hole tourney ... Earned a spot on the Georgia Cup All-State Team... Named UAA Golfer of the Week after finishing as the top Emoryscorer and placing 19th overallat the Royal Lakes Fall Invitational(Oct. 18-19) ... Named UAA Golfer of the Week after his effort atthe Wynlakes Wynter Nationals (Feb. 21-22) ... First Team All-UAAafter tying for fourth place as the conference championships ...Member of the Ping All-Southeast Region Team ... Fine student whoearned a berth on the Capital One Academic All-District Second Team(At-Large) ... Cleveland Golf/Srixon Academic All-American.

Sophomore (2009-10)
Played in 10 tournaments and logged 24 rounds of action... Led the squad in scoring average with a 75.3 per-roundaverage (13th on Emory's seasonal list) ... Earned second teamAll-America honors after finishing in 13th place at the NCAA D-IIIChampionships ... His 72-hole score of 294 at nationals tied theschool record (Timothy Hamm, 2004) for low score at the NCAAs ...Captured All-UAA First Team honors for the second straight campaignand was named the UAA Player of the Year following hismedalist-winning performance (74-73--147) that saw him beat NYU'sMike Liebfried on the third hole of a playoff ... Was Emory's topperformer in six tournaments including the Rhodes CollegeInvitational (Sept. 20-21) where he totaled a 36-hole score ofeven-par 144 (71-73), placing him third out of 108 competitors ...Low round of the campaign was a 71 at the Rhodes Invitational ...Named UAA Golfer of the Week on two occasions (Sept. 28 & Mar.8) ... Paced the Emory contingent and registered a 12th-placefinish out of 85 players at the Callaway Collegiate Invitational(Mar. 1-2) with a 151 (75-76).

Freshman (2008-09):
Earned All-UAA First Team honors after a third-placefinish (76-76--153) at the conference championships ... Finishedfirst on the team with an average of 76.5 strokes per round ...Best 18-hole effort was a two-under 70 on the first day of the NCAADivision III Championship which tied the school record for anindividual low score ... Was Emory's top performer and finished16th out of 81 players at the Macdonald Cup with a 54-hole mark of221 (75-71-75) ... His second-round 71 at the Macdonald Cup was hissecond-lowest round of the year and tied for the team'sfourth-lowest showing of the campaign ... Team's No. 2 shooter atthe NCAA Division III Championships with a 72-hole showing of 305that tied him for 51st place out of 120 finishers.

Prior to Emory:
Was a four-year member of the Plano West High School golf team ...Was coached by Rick Hardison ... Took home second place in thestate of Texas 5A championship as a senior ... Averaged 74.5strokes per round his final season ... Tabbed as a first teamall-state selection ... Earned all-district acclaim three times ...Dallas Morning News All-Area First Team selection ...Finished first in the 2007 TJGT Fall Invitational... In 2008, wassecond in the AJGA's EFW Defense for America Classic... Was top-20in three AJGA's.

Personal: Born December 28, 1989 ... Did volunteerwork at the Dallas-area Scottish Rite Hospital.

Quote: "I chose Emory because ofthe great balance between academics and athletics. The golf programis competitive with the best teams in the nationyear-after-year."

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