Congratulations to Behrend Men's Golf, 2020 AMCC Champions

[iacas]

My Penn-State Behrend men's golf team was fairly dominant in winning the 2020 AMCC Championship yesterday at Peek 'n Peak Resort's golf course.

Behrend "hosted" the event this year, so I set the course up at about 6715 yards, and the conditions were a bit cold, a bit windy, but otherwise decent for early spring.

We had three players in the top eight, including the individual champion Ryan Meyer (75, 74) and third-place Alex Pol (81, 77). My team shot 320 (75, 81, 81, 83) and 312 (74, 77, 79, 82) for a two-day total of 632 and the best team score each day. Ryan won by seven, and we won by 20 as a team.

With the win, Behrend wins our conference's Automatic Qualifier spot at NCAA Nationals on May 11-14 at Oglebay Resort in West Virginia.

Behrend has now won the AMCC Championship ten times: 2004, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2020. I have been the coach since 2015, and we set a conference record score of 588 in 2017 with four of the top five individual finishers.

Links:

• Team Leaderboard: http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=teamPlayer&tid=22659
• Player Leaderboard: http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=player&tid=22659
• Team Story: https://psblions.com/sports/mgolf/2020-21/releases/20210419rghrhf
• Meyer AMCC Golfer of the Week: https://psblions.com/sports/mgolf/2020-21/releases/20210420kxty9d

Some Photos:

[saevel25]

Congrats!!!

[mcanadiens]

Congratulations @iacasand to your team. Great to see those young guys being able to do their thing with all that's going on.

[boogielicious]

Congratulations! It feels good as a coach when your team wins.

[dennyjones]

Congratulations!  That's quite an accomplishment for the team and @iacas.    

[iacas]

Yeah, I always feel weird in these situations. I put in a lot of work to help them improve, prepare, etc. I coach them during the round.

But ultimately I hit none of our 632 shots, and they all did. So… virtually all credit to them.

[boogielicious]

1 minute ago, iacas said:

Yeah, I always feel weird in these situations. I put in a lot of work to help them improve, prepare, etc. I coach them during the round.

But ultimately I hit none of our 632 shots, and they all did. So… virtually all credit to them.

That’s good coaching and I’m sure they appreciate it. 

[woodzie264]

11 hours ago, iacas said:

My Penn-State Behrend men's golf team was fairly dominant in winning the 2020 AMCC Championship yesterday at Peek 'n Peak Resort's golf course.

Behrend "hosted" the event this year, so I set the course up at about 6715 yards, and the conditions were a bit cold, a bit windy, but otherwise decent for early spring.

We had three players in the top eight, including the individual champion Ryan Meyer (75, 74) and third-place Alex Pol (81, 77). My team shot 320 (75, 81, 81, 83) and 312 (74, 77, 79, 82) for a two-day total of 632 and the best team score each day. Ryan won by seven, and we won by 20 as a team.

With the win, Behrend wins our conference's Automatic Qualifier spot at NCAA Nationals on May 11-14 at Oglebay Resort in West Virginia.

Behrend has now won the AMCC Championship ten times: 2004, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2020. I have been the coach since 2015, and we set a conference record score of 588 in 2017 with four of the top five individual finishers.

Links:

• Team Leaderboard: http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=teamPlayer&tid=22659
• Player Leaderboard: http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=player&tid=22659
• Team Story: https://psblions.com/sports/mgolf/2020-21/releases/20210419rghrhf
• Meyer AMCC Golfer of the Week: https://psblions.com/sports/mgolf/2020-21/releases/20210420kxty9d

Some Photos:

in that group pic, are you standing 6-10ft behind the rest of them? 🙃

[iacas]

1 hour ago, woodzie264 said:

in that group pic, are you standing 6-10ft behind the rest of them? 🙃

No, just right next to the 6'5" player. 😛

And the other is 6'3" or 4".