With three conference titles, NCAA postseason participation in three sports, and a milestone handball national championship, 2015-16 was another successful year for Lake Forest College Athletics.
Lake Forest College's Brian Bruha was named Midwest Conference Men's Golf Coach of the Year on Saturday after leading his team to a tied-for-second place finish at the 2016 MWC Championship Tournament.
Men's golfer Ricky Schmidt was named Forester Athlete of the Week on Thursday after claiming medalist honors at the St. Norbert Invitational over the weekend.
Sophomore Davis DeKorte's 73 was Thursday's second-best round and Lake Forest College also ranks second as a team after day one of the Midwest Conference Championship Tournament.
Freshman Parker Hill was one of two Foresters to shoot a team-best 78 on Friday at the Midwest Conference Championship Tournament. Lake Forest remained in second place after the second of three days of competition.
The Midwest Conference issued its weekly release for men's golf on Tuesday. Included are results from the last week as well as the league's Performer of the Week.
On Thursday, April 21, President Steve Schutt and Athletic Director, Jackie Slaats, hosted a dinner at Glen Rowan House to recognize this year’s “A-Team” honorees. The A-Team is comprised of student-athletes who received straight A’s in either the 2015 fall or 2015 spring semester.
Freshman Ricky Schmidt won a scorecard playoff to claim medalist honors as the Lake Forest College men's golf team finished third at the two-day St. Norbert College Invitational over the weekend. The Foresters' score of 307 on Sunday was the best in the eight-team field.
The Midwest Conference issued its weekly release for men's golf on Tuesday. Included are results from the last week as well as the league's Performer of the Week.
Freshman Ricky Schmidt and sophomore Davis DeKorte shot in the 70s as the Forester men's golf team placed 10th at the Carthage College Spring Invitational on Tuesday.
Sophomore Davis DeKorte tied for seventh place out of 98 golfers and the Lake Forest College Red team tied for eighth out of 17 teams at the Forester Spring Invite on Sunday. The Lake Forest Black team was tied-for-14th.
Freshman Jordan Mandel shot a season-best round of 78 to lead the Lake Forest College men's golf team to a tied-for-eighth-place finish at Wisconsin Lutheran College's WLC Spring Invitational on Saturday.
The Midwest Conference issued its weekly release for men's golf on Tuesday. Included are results from the last week as well as the league's Performer of the Week.
Sophomore Jeremy Edelson was the squad's top finisher as the Lake Forest College men's golf team placed 21st at the Augustana Invitational on Friday and Saturday.
The Midwest Conference issued its weekly release for men's golf on Tuesday. Included are results from the last week as well as the league's Performer of the Week.
Freshman Ricky Schmidt finished 19th out of 40 competitors at Knox College's Prairie Fire Classic over the weekend to lead the Forester men's golf team to a tied-for-fourth place finish.
Lake Forest's top 10 players were separated by just six strokes as the Foresters took on host Eckerd College at the St. Petersburg Country Club on Thursday.
The Midwest Conference released the 2016 MWC Men's Golf Preseason Coaches Poll on Wednesday and Lake Forest College was listed fifth. The Foresters finished seventh last year in their first season as a varsity sport since 1970.
Two Forester teams captured Midwest Conference championships and another advanced to the NCAA Tournament in the fall of 2015. Lake Forest's eight fall sports combined for a .606 overall winning percentage and a .744 mark in league play. Individual Foresters earned 29 all-conference honors and set or tied 24 program records.
The Forester men's golf team placed 20th out of 31 teams at the Midwest Region Fall Classic over the weekend. Freshman Parker Hill led Lake Forest both days and finished in a tie for 11th place overall.
The Lake Forest College men's golf team improved 13 strokes from Sunday to Monday and climbed from eight place to fifth at the Wisconsin Lutheran College Fall Invitational. Sophomores Durham Ghelfi and Davis DeKorte combined for six birdies and an eagle on day two and posted two of the 12 best rounds in the 84-player field.
Men's golf player Durham Ghelfi was named Forester Athlete of the Week on Thursday after finishing in a tie for third place at last weekend's Tim Kopka Memorial Tournament.
The Lake Forest College men's golf team began the year by placing 10th out of 19 teams at Carthage College's Tim Kopka Memorial Tournament on Saturday. Sophomore Durham Ghelfi tied for third place out of 103 competitors with a two-day score of 146.