2020-2021 RECAP

Two Championships In The Same Year

Due to COVID, the 2020-2021 Championships were shifted to the spring, so this team won two conference championships in the same calendar year when they won in the fall of 2021.

No. 20 Saint John’s golf used a fast start Monday to win its 14th conference title at the 2021 Fall MIAC Championships on Monday, Oct. 4, at Bunker Hills G.C. (par 72) in Coon Rapids.

The win clinched SJU’s 19th appearance at the NCAA Division III Championship when the 2022 edition is held May 10-13 at Mission Inn Resort and Club in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. The Johnnies finished with a 45-hole total of 706 (-14) and Gustavus Adolphus claimed second with a 712 (-8). Carleton was third with a 758 (+38).

SJU started the final round Monday morning with a 15-shot lead over GAC. The five Johnnies combined for 14 birdies and 25 pars on the front nine as SJU was -10 at the turn. The Gusties, however, posted a 277 (-11) and closed the gap to six after the Johnnies lost nine shots on the final four holes to end with a 286 (-2).

For the first time since 2008, all five Johnnies finished in the top 10 to earn All-MIAC honors.

• Sophomore Nate Loxtercamp (Richmond, Minn./Melrose Area) birdied five of his first six holes and tallied a 71 (-1) to place second out of 45 golfers with a 173 (-7). He led the tournament with 14 birdies.

• Sophomore Sam Berger (Waconia, Minn.) led SJU Monday with a 2-under par 70 and tied for fourth with a 178 (-2), while sophomore Glavine Schugel (New Ulm, Minn.) claimed sixth with an even-par 180.

• Sophomore Blake Schuler (Waconia, Minn.) tied for seventh (+1, 181) and junior Thomas Gutzmer (Jordan, Minn.) placed 10th (+3, 183).

This isn’t the first time the Johnnies golf team has one two championships in a row. In 2007 and 2008, the team won back to back championships.

BACK TO BACK IN ’07 & ’08

BRASELTON, Ga. – Down by eight strokes entering the final round, Saint John's University shot a 291 (+7) to win its second consecutive NCAA Division III Men's Golf National Championship at Chateau Elan Resort in Braselton, Ga.

The Johnnies shot rounds of 314, 291, 296 and 291 to finish three strokes ahead of second-place Redlands (+59). St. John Fisher (+63), Methodist (+67) and Skidmore (+68) rounded out the top five. This is the third consecutive season, and fifth time in the last eight years, that an institution from the 12-state Central Region has won the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championship. Nebraska Wesleyan won the title in 2006, fellow Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference member Gustavus Adolphus won in 2004 and Wisconsin-Eau Claire won in 2001.