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MARK GOETZ

• Finished 10th at the Big 12 Championship with two golfers finishing in the top 25 (Mark

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Goetz and Logan Perkins) for the first time since being in the Big 12 • Goetz won the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate and Mountaineer Invitational for his second and third collegiate tournament wins, the most in school history • Max Green was co-champion of the East Carolina Intercollegiate, becoming the third different Mountaineer to win a collegiate tournament • Team won the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate with a 28-under-par tally, the lowest 54-hole, under-par score in school history • The 271 in the final round at Las Vegas tied the lowest round team total in school history • The 17-under-par tally in the final round at Las Vegas was the lowest round in school history in relation to par • Defeated Kansas State (4-2-0) and tied Kansas (3-3-0) at the Big 12 Match Play

Championship • Tied the then-school record for 18 holes at the Mountaineer Invitational with a final round score of 13-under-par • Goetz was the stroke-play medalist out of 312 golfers at the 121st U.S. Amateur at Oakmont

Country Club, shooting 8-under-par

JACKSON DAVENPORT

• Big 12 Championship lineup • Recorded four rounds in the 60s and eight rounds of par or better • Was WVU’s top finisher at The Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate, finishing 4-under-par (7267-73=212) for 16th place • Posted his best tournament as a Mountaineer at the Georgia State Invitational, finishing 7-under-par in fifth place with rounds of 74-68-67=209 • Posted WVU’s low round of the final day at the Gopher Invitational with a 71

TODD DUNCAN

• WVU Golf Most Improved Player • Played in eight tournaments with five rounds of par or better • Shot 71-72=143 (+3) to finish tied for 12th at the Butler Spring Invitational • Shot 9-over-par with a season-low 70 in the second round at the Minnesota Golf Classic

MARK GOETZ

• Recorded 17 rounds of par or better, including nine rounds in the 60s • Average score was 71.37 for the season (-0.19 vs. par) • WVU Golf Most Outstanding Player • Was the stroke-play medalist out of 312 golfers at the 121st U.S. Amateur at Oakmont

Country Club, shooting 8-under-par • Tied for 25th place at the Big 12

Championship with rounds of 75-7376=224 (+8) • Shot 1-over-par (72-67-78=217) at The

Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate • Tied for ninth place at 4-under-par with rounds of 70-70-72=212 at the Schenkel

Invitational • Won the Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate, shooting 15-under-par to set the school record for the lowest 54-hole total (65-6769=201), breaking his own record set in the fall at the Mountaineer Invitational • Broke his own record for score in relation to par in Vegas, besting his 14-under-par mark last fall at the Mountaineer Invitational • His Vegas win was the third of his career, the most in school history • Was WVU’s top finisher at the Gators

Invitational with a 10th-place finish, recording rounds of 69-69-70=208 (2-under-par) • Won three matches at the Big 12 Match

Play Championship against Kansas State,

Kansas and Iowa State • Shot a career-low on the final day to win his second consecutive Mountaineer

Invitational • Posted a career-low 63 in the final round, one shy of the school record • His 9-under-par day was the lowest round in school history in relation to par • Three-day total of 202 (69-70-63=202) for 14-under-par was the then-lowest threeround total in school history • His 14-under-par score set the then-school record for a tournament in relation to par • Had 19 birdies and just five bogeys in the 54-hole event • Shot even par at the Gopher Invitational, tying for 18th place, with two rounds under par

KURTIS GRANT

• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Championship lineup • Played in every tournament • Had 10 rounds of par or better, including one round in the 60s • Was WVU’s top finisher at the Isleworth

Collegiate Invitational in 33rd place with rounds of 71-73-78=222 (6-over-par) • Captured a victory at the Big 12 Match

Play Championship against Kansas State • Finished tied for a season-best 18th at the

Mountaineer Invitational with rounds of 78-71-70=219 (+3)

MAX GREEN

• Played in eight tournaments • Had six rounds of par or better, including two rounds in the 60s • Named WVU’s Athlete of the Week (March 28) for his performance at the ECU

Intercollegiate • Was co-champion of the ECU

Intercollegiate, shooting 5-under-par with rounds of 69-69-73=211 • Became the third different WVU golfer to win a collegiate tournament • Tied Logan McAllister of Oklahoma at the

Big 12 Match Play Championship • Finished tied for 15th as an individual with rounds of 73-72-72=217 (+1) at the

Mountaineer Invitational

OLIVIER MÉNARD

• Academic All-Big 12 Second Team • Traveled to the Big 12 Championship as a substitute • Recorded four rounds of par or better, including one round in the 60s • WVU’s top finisher at the Thomas Sharkey

Individual Collegiate, finishing tied for 16th with rounds of 78-77-74=229 (+13) • Recorded a win in the Big 12 Match Play

Championship against Kansas State • Shot even par and finished tied for 13th at the Mountaineer Invitational with rounds of 73-73-70=216 • Was WVU’s top finisher at the Minnesota

Golf Classic, placing third at 8-under-par with rounds of 72-66-70=208 • His second round 66 at Minnesota tied for the eighth-lowest round in school history

LOGAN PERKINS

• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Competed in every tournament • Had 11 rounds of par or better, including five rounds in the 60s • Tied for 25th place at the Big 12

Championship with rounds of 75-7475=224 (+8) • Was WVU’s top finisher at the Mason

Rudolph Championship with rounds of 71-69-70=210 (-3) to tie for 16th place • Finished tied for 18th at the Schenkel

Invitational with rounds of 72-68-76=216 to finish even par • Recorded a third-place finish and his best 54-hole total as a

Mountaineer with rounds of 73-66-65=204 (12-under-par) at the Lake

Las Vegas Intercollegiate • His 204 score bested his previous-best 205, set at the 2020 Gators Invitational • Was bogey free in the final 36 holes at the

Lake Las Vegas Intercollegiate • Picked up three victories (Texas Tech,

Kansas State and Kansas) in the Big 12

Match Play Championship

WILL STAKEL

• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • WVU Golf Academic Achievement Award • Had two rounds of par or better, including one round in the 60s • Career-best finish by tying for 10th place at the Minnesota Golf Classic at 3-under-par with rounds of 72-73-68=213

TRENT TIPTON

• Academic All-Big 12 First Team • Big 12 Championship lineup • Competed in every tournament • Had seven rounds of par or better, including four rounds in the 60s • Recorded his best finish as a Mountaineer, tying for a career-best eighth place at 6-under-par (68-74-68=210) at the Lake

Las Vegas Intercollegiate • His two rounds of 68 were his lowest rounds as a Mountaineer • Recorded victories over Texas Tech and Kansas in the Big 12 Match Play

Championship

MAX GREEN

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