2011 Owens Community College Express Golf Team
Owens' golf program is guided by fifth-year Head Coach Gil Guerrero. The Express golf team captured one match and invitational title during the 2010 season, highlighted by a second-place finish in the Ohio Community College Athletic Conference (OCCAC) Championship Invitational. The program also finished second in the NJCAA Region XII Sub-Regional Championship after rounds of 333-307 (640) at Belmont Country Club. Additionally, Owens placed seventh in the NJCAA Region XII Golf Championship.
“Our golf team is extremely young with only two veterans returning from last year,” stated Guerrero. “However, I am really excited about this year's group of student-athletes as they extremely hard workers. Each individual is very unselfish and willing to do whatever it takes for the team to succeed. I expect improvement to occur throughout the season and to compete for the conference title.”
The golf program has two players returning from last year's team, including Brooks Gardner of Bowling Green (Bowling Green H.S.) and Lee Schmidlin of Toledo (Whitmer H.S.).
In 2010, Gardner, a sophomore, earned Second Team OCCAC All-Conference honors and compiled an 82.7 scoring average. He also was an OCCAC Academic All-Conference selection. Schmidlin is a sophomore and compiled an 88.1 scoring average for the Express last year. His postseason honors included OCCAC Academic All-Conference recognition.
First-year players to the Express golf program are Kyle Anderson of Monroe, Mich. (St. Mary Catholic Central H.S.), Brian Brumenshenkel of Maumee (Anthony Wayne H.S.), Louis Fahrbach of Northwood (Northwood H.S.), Greg Hermes of Maumee (Maumee H.S.), Kevin Hoyle of Maumee (Anthony Wayne H.S.), Casey Lawless of Orillia, Canada (Patrick Fogarty Secondary School) and Kyle Simmons of Millbury (Genoa H.S.).
Owens Community College is an accredited two-year, state-assisted institution of higher education that has served Northwest Ohio since 1965. With a commitment to providing small classes, personal attention and unmatched affordability, the College serves the diverse academic needs of credit and non-credit students on the Toledo-area and Findlay-area campuses. Owens offers associate degrees that transfer to baccalaureate degrees in the Arts and Sciences and over 130 technical program areas in Agriculture, Business, Health Sciences, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Skilled Trades, and Engineering and Transportation Technologies. Owens students also can earn the first two years of a bachelor's degree with a smooth transfer to any area four-year college or university.