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Cole, Ryan
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Ryan Cole
- Year:
- Senior
- Height:
- 6-0
- Hometown:
- Mount Airy, Md.
- High School:
- Linganore
- Major:
- Finance
Bio
Career Bests:
Career Highlights:
2016-17 as a Senior:
2015-16 as a Junior:
2014-15 as a Sophomore:
2013-14 as a Freshman:
High School:
Personal:
- Single Round: 64 (-8), NCAA Franklin Regional Vanderbilt Legends Club on 5/16/16-5/18/16
- 54 Holes: 202 (-14), t-2nd, NCAA Franklin Regional Vanderbilt Legends Club on 5/16/16-5/18/16
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
- 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
2016-17 as a Senior:
- Has shot under par in all five rounds thus far
- CAA Men's Golfer of the Week (9/21/2016)
- CAA Men's Golfer of the Week (10/26/2016)
- CAA Men's Golfer of the Week (3/15/2017)
- 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
- Finished 12th at All-American Golf Classic
2015-16 as a Junior:
- 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
2014-15 as a Sophomore:
- 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
2013-14 as a Freshman:
- Played in all 11 tournaments and 33 rounds in his first collegiate season fall
- Led the Dukes and ranked fourth in the league with a 72.73 scoring average and posted 12 rounds of par or better, earning Second Team All-CAA honors
- Led the team in scoring in five of the 11 tournaments played
- Had five top-15 and nine top-30 finishes on the year
- Had his best finish at the Joe Agee Invitational, tying for fifth at even-par 213, his 54-hole low, and also helping JMU win the team title in the event
- Tied for eighth at the Bash at the Beach Invitational with an even-par 213, earning CAA Golfer of the Week honors
- Tied for 12th at the CAA Championship
- Had his best 18 in the second round of the Golf Galaxy VCU Shootout, shooting a 5-under 67 and eventually finishing in a tie for seventh at 2-under 214
High School:
- As both a sophomore and junior at Linganore won the Frederick County High School Championship
- Posted the lowest stroke average in the county as a senior, earning him Frederick News Post Player of the Year honors for the second consecutive year
- Three-time team MVP and two-year captain so far, Cole also took home the Maryland District 1 Tournament title his freshman year.
- Had eight career AJGA top-10s, including four summer of 2012, earning him a ranking of 60th nationally according to the Polo Golf Junior Rankings
- In 2012 was the medalist at the AJGA Peninsula Junior Classic and was runner-up in both the AJGA Erie Junior Golf Classic and the AJGA William Penn Junior Championship
- Finished sixth at the Southern Junior Championship and Woodward Video Junior, including a summer-low 66 in the second round
- Had four career top-five finishes at the Maryland State Junior Amateur and qualified for match play at the 2012 Maryland Amateur
- A two-time member of the AJGA HP Scholastic All-American Honor Roll with a 4.0 GPA in high school
Personal:
- Son of Randy and Leslie Cole
- Majoring in finance at JMU
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