Mavs Begin Year With Exhibition at South Dakota
Aug 28, 2013 | Men's Golf, Women's Golf
This Week
The Omaha men's and women's golf teams will start the fall half of the 2013-14 season by heading to Vermillion, S.D. for an 18-hole exhibition match with South Dakota. The event, in which only individual scores will be kept, will be played at The Bluffs golf course beginning at 11 a.m.
The Coaches
Tim Nelson is in his 11th season at UNO, the third as Director of Golf, leading both the men's and women's teams. Nelson has led the UNO women's golf team to four conference championships including three straight Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association titles before the Mavericks began their reclassification to Division I in 2011. The 1980 UNO grad also has guided the women's team to three NCAA regional titles and three appearances in the NCAA Championship. He is assisted by Seth Porter who is in his thid year coaching the UNO men's team. The 2002 graduate of Nebraska was a four-year letter winner there and a former professional player on the Gateway and Canadian Tours.
The Maverick Men
UNO returns three of its top five scorers from last year including the 1-2 combination of Karl Krieser and Alex Overfelt. In 26 rounds last year, Krieser led the Mavericks in scoring with a stroke average of 76.7. He posted a team-best four rounds under par and had five of UNO's seven best 18-hole rounds of the year including a school record card of 70 in the third round of the Summit League Championship. Overfelt was second in scoring at 77.7 while playing in a team high 29 rounds.
Also returning are Taylor Sidzyik, Mitch Ryan and Alex Holtan. Sidzyik was third in team scoring at 79.3. Ryan, a freshman, finished at 79.9 and had UNO's second-best 54-hole score of 223 at the Bill Ross Intercollegiate on Oct. 15-16, 2012. Holtan closed the year with a scoring average of 80.7 and posted a career best round of 71, tied for second best on the team, at the Beu Mussatto Invitational on March 29, 2013.
The Mavericks add two players to their lineup this year. Minnesota native Lucas Gervais is a junior transfer who played his first two years at Minnesota State-Fergus Falls where he helped the team to the NJCAA III National Championship as a freshman. Miles Russell also joins the Mavs. The freshman was a four-year letter winner in golf at Omaha Central High School.
UNO's top team round last season was 294 in the second round of the Beu Mussatto Invitational.
The Maverick Women
The Mavericks have just two letterwinners returning from the 2012-13 squad. Junior Sophie Peters was UNO's second-leading scorer last year, finishing with a scoring average of 82.5. She led the team with three top-10 finishes including two top fives, and she shot eight of the Mavericks' top 10 18-hole rounds of the year. Her 73 in the first round of the Payne Stewart Memorial at Missouri State on Oct. 15, 2012 set the team standard. Peters was one of three Mavs to appear in all 23 rounds last season.
Sophomore Katie Kesti saw considerable playing time as a freshman in 2012-13 and finished fourth in team scoring with an average of 83.2. That total included her first top-five finish in her very first collegiate tournament, a fifth-place finish at the SIUE Intercollegiate on Sept. 25, 2012.
During the offseason, the Mavericks added freshmen Sarah Pravecek and Kat Slump. The Omaha natives come to UNO from Marian and Skutt Catholic High Schools respectively.
UNO's top team round last season was 319 in the first round of the Concordia University Invitational on Sept. 16, 2012.
Up Next
The Maverick men will begin regular season play on Monday, Sept. 9 when they take part in the Derek Dolenc Invitational at Southern Illinois Edwardsville. The women begin their regular season also on Sept. 9 at the Chip-N-Club Invitational at Nebraska.
The Omaha men's and women's golf teams will start the fall half of the 2013-14 season by heading to Vermillion, S.D. for an 18-hole exhibition match with South Dakota. The event, in which only individual scores will be kept, will be played at The Bluffs golf course beginning at 11 a.m.
The Coaches
Tim Nelson is in his 11th season at UNO, the third as Director of Golf, leading both the men's and women's teams. Nelson has led the UNO women's golf team to four conference championships including three straight Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association titles before the Mavericks began their reclassification to Division I in 2011. The 1980 UNO grad also has guided the women's team to three NCAA regional titles and three appearances in the NCAA Championship. He is assisted by Seth Porter who is in his thid year coaching the UNO men's team. The 2002 graduate of Nebraska was a four-year letter winner there and a former professional player on the Gateway and Canadian Tours.
The Maverick Men
UNO returns three of its top five scorers from last year including the 1-2 combination of Karl Krieser and Alex Overfelt. In 26 rounds last year, Krieser led the Mavericks in scoring with a stroke average of 76.7. He posted a team-best four rounds under par and had five of UNO's seven best 18-hole rounds of the year including a school record card of 70 in the third round of the Summit League Championship. Overfelt was second in scoring at 77.7 while playing in a team high 29 rounds.
Also returning are Taylor Sidzyik, Mitch Ryan and Alex Holtan. Sidzyik was third in team scoring at 79.3. Ryan, a freshman, finished at 79.9 and had UNO's second-best 54-hole score of 223 at the Bill Ross Intercollegiate on Oct. 15-16, 2012. Holtan closed the year with a scoring average of 80.7 and posted a career best round of 71, tied for second best on the team, at the Beu Mussatto Invitational on March 29, 2013.
The Mavericks add two players to their lineup this year. Minnesota native Lucas Gervais is a junior transfer who played his first two years at Minnesota State-Fergus Falls where he helped the team to the NJCAA III National Championship as a freshman. Miles Russell also joins the Mavs. The freshman was a four-year letter winner in golf at Omaha Central High School.
UNO's top team round last season was 294 in the second round of the Beu Mussatto Invitational.
The Maverick Women
The Mavericks have just two letterwinners returning from the 2012-13 squad. Junior Sophie Peters was UNO's second-leading scorer last year, finishing with a scoring average of 82.5. She led the team with three top-10 finishes including two top fives, and she shot eight of the Mavericks' top 10 18-hole rounds of the year. Her 73 in the first round of the Payne Stewart Memorial at Missouri State on Oct. 15, 2012 set the team standard. Peters was one of three Mavs to appear in all 23 rounds last season.
Sophomore Katie Kesti saw considerable playing time as a freshman in 2012-13 and finished fourth in team scoring with an average of 83.2. That total included her first top-five finish in her very first collegiate tournament, a fifth-place finish at the SIUE Intercollegiate on Sept. 25, 2012.
During the offseason, the Mavericks added freshmen Sarah Pravecek and Kat Slump. The Omaha natives come to UNO from Marian and Skutt Catholic High Schools respectively.
UNO's top team round last season was 319 in the first round of the Concordia University Invitational on Sept. 16, 2012.
Up Next
The Maverick men will begin regular season play on Monday, Sept. 9 when they take part in the Derek Dolenc Invitational at Southern Illinois Edwardsville. The women begin their regular season also on Sept. 9 at the Chip-N-Club Invitational at Nebraska.
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