Gentry Scheve

FRESHMAN EMPORIA, KANSAS (EMPORIA)

CAREER HONORS

• Kansas 5A First-Team All-State (2018, 2019) • Kansas 5A State Runner-Up (2019) • Centennial League Player of the Year (2018, 2019) • Centennial League Newcomer of the Year (2017)

BEFORE NEBRASKA

Gentry Scheve was a two-time Kansas 5A firstteam all-state member for the Emporia Spartans. He finished in the top 12 at the state tournament in each of his first three seasons.

After finishing 12th at state his freshman year, he climbed the ranks with a third-place finish in Salina his sophomore season in 2018. As a junior in 2019, Scheve tied for first with a then careerbest 67 (-5) in Dodge City, but came up one step short of a state title by losing in a playoff with Wichita Eisenhower’s Tyler Trudo.

Scheve was the back-to-back Centennial League Player of the Year in 2018 and 2019, and ended his high school junior season with five individual championships, three runner-up finishes, and one third-place showing.

His senior season of high school golf was canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

In the summer of 2019, Scheve distinguished himself by winning the Kansas Junior Golf Association Tour Championship by three strokes after shooting a blazing first-round 64 (-8) and followed it up with a second-round 70 (-2) for a 134 (-10).

Scheve went on to claim the KJGA Match Play Championship by winning four consecutive matches.

Scheve added a 10-stroke victory in a Missouri Junior Golf Tour event to cap his junior amateur year in 2019 with an under-par scoring average of 71.3.

Scheve closed 2019 ranked No. 42 nationally in the Golfweek rankings and No. 103 in the Junior Golf Scoreboard rankings.

He owns the course record at the Emporia Country Club with a 63 (-8).

PERSONAL

The son of Francis and Lisa Scheve, Gentry was born April 11, 2002, in Topeka, Kan. Gentry has a sister, Alaina. He is the cousin of former Husker javelin thrower Austin Bramen. Gentry is majoring in PGA golf management at Nebraska.

“I love the coaching staff and the golf facilities,” Scheve said. “The people in charge at Nebraska really care about the student-athlete’s success in their sport and in the classroom. It is a Division I Power Five conference school, and they play a great schedule against the best competition in the country.”