Player: Ryan Cole

Career Highlights:

• 2016 Honorable Mention PING All-American, CAA Golfer of the Year, VaSID State Golfer of the Year and Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-American Scholar


• 2015 VaSID Second Team All-State


• 2016 and 2015 First Team All-CAA after being named 2014


• Second Team All-CAA


• Career lows of 64 (single round), 146 (36 holes) and 202 (54 holes)


• Has 12 top-15 and 19 top-30 finishes in his career


• Tied for 2nd at 14-under in the 2016 NCAA Franklin Regional to qualify for the Division I National Championships

• Has shot under par in all five rounds thus far


• CAA Men's Golfer of the Week (9/21)


• Tied for 10th at the Golfweek Program Challenge with three rounds of 2-under 70


• Just missed medalist honors at Janney VCU Shootout, tying for first (-10; 66-68=134) but falling on the sixth hole of a sudden-death playoff

• Honorable Mention PING All-American


• CAA Men's Golfer of the Year


• CAA Men's Golf First Team


• CAA All-Academic Team


• Virginia Sports Information Directors State Golfer of the Year


• Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-American Scholar


• Individual tournament runner-up at the CAA championships finishing 3-under par


• Tied for 2nd at 14-under in the 2016 NCAA Franklin


• Regional to qualify for the Division I National Championships


• Tied for 132nd at the 2016 Division I National Championships in Eugene, Oregon after shooting 16-over par


• Finished in the top-10 in four fall tournaments


• Second place finish at the Golfweek Program Challenge (65-72-67 - 204) earning a career best 65 (18 holes) and 204 (54 holes)


• Tied for seventh at the Patriot Intercollegiate (74-72-68- 214) and Terrapin Invitational (75-72 - 147)


• Finished 10th at the Loyola Intercollegiate (68-71-71- 209)
  Individual Tournament champion at the 35th Annual Bash at the Beach Invitational (71-67-67 - 205)


• Named CAA Golfer of the Week for the week of March 10th


• Tied for seventh at the Seminole Intercollegiate (69-73-70 - 212)


• Finished tied for 14th at the Seahawk Invitational (70-74 - 144)


• Name ECAC Golfer of the Week for the week of April 7th


• Individual tournament champion at the Cabarrus County Irish Creek Intercollegiate (67-70-66 - 203)


• Named CAA Golfer of the Week for the week of April 13th

• CAA Commissioner's Academic Award


• Played in all 11 events and 32 rounds, averaging a team-best 72.38 strokes, a school record for single season versus par


• Had four top-10 and six top-20 placings


• Won his first collegiate tournament at the Bash at the Beach Invitational with a career-best 8-under 205, earning him CAA Golfer of the Week


• Led Madison to the team victory at the Bash at the Beach Invitational


• Tied for second at the Old Dominion/OBX Collegiate to lead the Dukes to the team title and earn CAA Golfer of the Week honors


• Also surpassed his previous career-best with a 5-under 211 at the Golfweek Program Challenge to tie for 18th with a career-low 6-under 66 in the final round (the second lowest for JMU during the year)


• Tied for seventh at the Janney VCU Shootout


• Tied for ninth at the CAA Championship


• Was named to the CAA All-Academic Team


• JMU Athletics Director Scholar-Athlete