Johnson County Community College Golf Media Guide / 2008-09
Year 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Totals
Conference Reg/Dist. Finish Finish 4th 3rd 4th 5th 3rd 5th 3rd 2nd 2nd 1st 3rd 3rd 1st 3rd •2nd 2nd 2 Titles
3rd 3rd 4th 5th 5th 5th 2nd 1st 3rd 2nd 3rd 3rd 1st 3rd 3rd 2 Titles
NJCAA Finish
Tournament Wins
All-Conference Selections
Individual Champion
N/A N/A N/A 24th 18th 23rd 18th 13th 18th 14th 14th 8th 7th 13th T-12 14th 8 Top-15
0 2 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 5 2 2 5 1 6
2 3 2 2 2 1 3 3 3 6 2 2 5 3 5
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
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Norwood’s Year-by-Year Totals
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Conference selections. Among those is two-time, first-team pick Kirk Schneider, who set a school record with 43 points during the 1994-95 campaign. Schneider closed out the season with a 67th-place finish at nationals. Another is Scott McCoy, who five seasons ago became the first individual from JCCC win the conference point title. McCoy finished with 39.5 points. He also set 18-hole and 36-hole scoring records at JCCC. Four years ago saw the emergence of Chris McGown, who finished third in the standings and registered a stroke average of 75.8, No. 2 all-time at JCCC. Four years ago he became the second JCCC player to win the individual conference point championship. He also became the first JCCC golfer to be selected the male athlete of the year by the JCCC coaching staff. Three years ago, Brian Donnelly etched his name in the record books, posting the best stroke average in JCCC at 75.3 while setting a new 18-hole scor ing record of 66. He earned all-conference and became the second JCCC golfer to be selected the male athlete of the year. In 2004-05, Jay Kramer became the third golfer to be selected JCCC Male Athlete of the Year. He led the squad in tournament wins (2), top five fin ishes (6), stroke average (76.6) and rounds in the 70s (20). He also earned first-team all-conference, second-team All-American and National AllTournament accolades. The 2005-06 season saw Matt Salome and Andrew Manley finish under par at nationals. Salome set a record with a 9-under 279 total, good for a 20th place finish. He finished with a stroke average of 76.2, fourth-best all-time. Manley finished with a 5-under 283 effort at nationals. He also set the single round record in the championship by a JCCC golfer, firing a 67. Last season Salome finished tied for 22nd at nationals with a 72-hole total of 290, six-over par. That ranks as the third-best score posted by a Cavalier in a national championship, and his 22nd-place finish is the fourth-best effort posted by a Cavalier. On the season, Salome finished with a stroke average of 74.0 with 30 rounds of golf played. That stroke average set a new season mark at JCCC, breaking the old record of 75.4. He also set a new career mark with a stroke average of 75.1 with 60 rounds played. Manley also concluded his career, posting a stroke aver age of 76.2, the third-best total in team history. Other players who have had success in the conference and at nationals are Steve Priest and Keith Early. Priest led the Cavaliers in 1997-98. He won one tournament, finished runner-up twice, garnered all-conference hon ors and placed 55th at nationals, the third highest finish in the program’s history at the time. Early became JCCC’s first player to earn first-team all-conference honors in 1993. One year later, he became the first twotime, all-conference selection, again earning first-team honors. He closed out his career with a 78th-place national finish. Norwood’s devotion to his student-athletes’ success off the course is just as important to their success on it. During his 15 years, he has had a number of his student-athletes receive academic honors for posting grade point averages above 3.0. In 1997, Norwood had his first student-athlete recognized as a NJCAA Academic All-American, when Mike Maskill closed out his collegiate career at JCCC with a grade point above 3.6. In 2003, McGown and Eric Klinger became JCCC’s second and third golfers to earn Academic All-American, and McGown became the first to earn Distinguished Academic All-American with a 4.0 grade point aver age. Matt Holton became JCCC’s fourth player to earn Academic AllAmerican in 2004, and last year, Joey Krsnich became the fifth player to earn Academic All-America accolades. Norwood’s coaching career have not always been just limited to the golf. As a guard playing for the immortal Ralph Miller at Wichita East High
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