Beavers Earn Trip To NCAA Regionals For Seventh Consecutive Year
Jon Reehoorn enters his third year as the head coach of the Oregon State men's golf program with a veteran roster of players that won two team titles last season and advanced to the NCAA Regional Championships for the sixth consecutive year.
In his second season, Reehoorn led the Beavers to titles at the Pacific Invitational and Fresno State Lexus Classic, their most in a season since 2007, and a fifth place finish at the inaugural Pac-12 Championships that were held at Trysting Tree Golf Club in Corvallis. At the conference tournament, Oregon State finished behind four of the nation's Top 11 teams, according to the golfstat.com rankings, and ahead of No. 9 Stanford and No. 13 Washington.
The Beavers once again advanced to the NCAA Regionals where they finished in a tie for seventh place at the Stanford Regional with the help of the lowest team score on a par-70 course in school history, an 11-under 269, in the second round.
Individually, transfer Nick Chianello posted the 10th-best single-season scoring average in school history at 72.50 and Nick Sherwood qualified for the 112th U.S. Open that was played at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, Calif.
Reehoorn enjoyed a solid first season with the Beavers as the team finished in the top-10 in 10 of their 11 tournaments, including five top-5 finishes, and had a seventh place finish at the NCAA Arizona Regional. The Beavers also set the school record for low team score in a three-round tournament when they shot a 27-under at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational in the fall of 2010, which bettered the 26-under Oregon State shot at the 2004 Northwest Collegiate Classic.
Individually, junior Alex Moore had one of the best seasons in school history, finishing with a 70.74 scoring average for second all-time and shooting a school record 9-under 63 in the Oregon Duck Invitational. Moore became just the sixth Oregon State golfer to earn All-America honors when he was named to the PING and Golfweek honorable mention teams and was an All-Pac-10 First Team selection.
Oregon State student-athletes have enjoyed success in the classroom as well during Reehoorn's first two years, as Jonnie Motomochi was named a Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year and made the Pac-12 All-Academic Second Team two times and three others received conference honorable mention academic recognition.
Reehoorn came to Oregon State after spending three years at the University of Idaho, first as the associate head coach for the men's and women's programs for the Vandals and then two seasons as head coach for the men's program.
At Idaho, Reehoorn led the Vandals to new heights as they finished in the top half of the Western Athletic Conference all three years of his tenure including a school-best third-place finish in 2009. In his first year at Idaho as the associate head coach, he helped Ben Weyland earn second team All-WAC honors; a first for the Vandals' program. Reehoorn was elevated to head coach following the 2008 season and promptly watched as his first recruit, Jarred Bossio, was selected WAC Freshman of the Year in 2009. The Vandals ended his first season as head coach with its best ranking in eight seasons.
Prior to his stop in Moscow, Reehoorn spent three seasons as the assistant coach at the University of Washington. During his time with the Huskies, he coached four All-Americans, eight All-Pac-10 selections and seven Pac-10 All-Academic selections. In his first year at Washington in 2005, the Huskies won the Pac-10 Championship and finished third at the NCAA Championships. In addition, Erik Olson won the individual title at the conference tournament and James Lepp won a playoff at the national championships to earn the individual title. In 2006, the Huskies finished runners-up at the Pac-10 Championships and ninth at the NCAA Championships.
As an athlete, Reehoorn walked-on at Washington State before ultimately earning a scholarship during his record-setting playing career for the Cougars. Reehoorn set the school's single-season scoring average at 72.0 as a senior after notching six top-10 finishes and 12 top-25's. He was also the team captain of WSU's first golf team to advance to the NCAA Championships. He wrapped up his career at WSU with 14 top-10 finishes, 28 top-25 finishes and was named to the All-Pac-10 Second Team and the PING Pacific All-Region team. Outstanding in the classroom as well, Reehoorn was a three-time Pac-10 All-Academic performer and was awarded a Pac-10 post-graduate scholarship.
Reehoorn earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Washington State in 2002 and added a Master's of Science in Sport Administration from the University of Louisville in 2004. He is married to the former Meghan Parsons.
