RENO, Nev. (Nevada Athletics) – Trake Carpenter was named Nevada Males’s Golf head coach, Director of Athletics Stephanie Rempe introduced Friday.
“I’m excited to welcome Trake to the Northern Nevada and Wolf Pack communities,” Rempe stated. “Trake’s method to the sport, his purposeful teaching model, and his potential to recruit distinctive expertise will additional improve the stature of the Nevada males’s golf program. His success as a head coach and assistant coach completely positions Nevada to take the following step on the nationwide stage.”
Carpenter takes the reins of a Nevada program which has made four-straight NCAA Regional appearances, most not too long ago competing on the Stockton Regional in 2022. The Pack completed within the high 10 in any respect 12 of its occasions final season, highlighted by a tiebreaker victory on the Husky Invitational in September, and a runner-up end at The Goodwin, hosted by Stanford, in March.
After serving as Denver’s head males’s golf coach in 2020-21, Carpenter labored independently as a efficiency coach over the previous yr. Working with elite juniors and amateurs, Carpenter’s work included creating efficiency plans and growing strategic and psychological recreation abilities. He additionally served as caddie and coach for shoppers at main junior and novice tournaments.
“I’m grateful to affix the Wolf Pack and the chance to proceed to construct upon this system’s success lately,” Carpenter stated. “I’m excited in regards to the imaginative and prescient Stephanie Rempe and Rhonda Bennett have for athletics and the lads’s golf program, together with large help from President Sandoval.
Nevada followers can count on to help a program whose gamers compete with delight for the College and those that got here earlier than them, and by no means stop till the ultimate putt drops. I’m wanting ahead to constructing relationships with the alumni and neighborhood that may assist push our program to the highest of the Mountain West and be a contender on a nationwide stage.”
In his season on the helm in Denver (2020-21), Carpenter was named Summit League Coach of the Yr after main the Pioneers to the convention title and the NCAA Cle Elum (Wash.) Regional. On the Regional, the Pioneers got here up only one place shy of this system’s first NCAA Championships berth in 61 years, ending sixth on the three-day occasion.
The Pioneers cleared the remainder of the sphere by eight strokes on the Summit League Championships, with three Denver golfers ending within the high 5 on the person leaderboard. Every of that trio, Jackson Solem, John Sand, and Carson Griggs, earned All-Summit League recognition. Solem was named Summit League Participant of the Yr along with his first-team choice, with Sand and Griggs named to the Second Staff.
Solem had a profession yr, beneath Carpenter, handing over a career-best 71.92 scoring common, which included a team-high 13 rounds of par-or-better, and two top-five event finishes.
Beneath Carpenter’s tutelage, the Pioneers posted 5 top-10 crew finishes over the eight occasions by which they competed.
He spent one season (2019-20) as assistant coach at Stanford, serving to information the Cardinal to a few top-six crew finishes, with six completely different golfers combining for seven particular person top-10 finishes.
Previous to his time at Stanford, Carpenter was an assistant for 2 seasons at Marquette. With the Golden Eagles, Carpenter dealt with Marquette’s recruiting, social media advertising and marketing, budgeting, fundraising and oversaw this system’s power and conditioning. Carpenter and head coach Steve Bailey had been acknowledged because the 2018 and 2019 BIG EAST Teaching Workers of the Yr.
Carpenter performed his faculty golf at Ball State, the place he earned his bachelor’s diploma in threat administration and insurance coverage in 2012. Throughout his collegiate profession, Carpenter earned Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar honors and earned the Ball State Yestingmeier Scholar-Athlete Award, offered to a graduating males’s senior golfer who shows distinguished athletic, educational and neighborhood credentials.
Following his time as an undergraduate at Ball State, Carpenter coached at his alma mater from 2012-14, a tenure beneath long-time head coach Mike Fleck that included a dramatic sudden demise playoff on the Pullman Regional to ship BSU to the NCAA Championships.
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