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Tony Blake

  • Title
    Head Coach
  • Alma Mater
    Wichita State

BIO

About Coach Blake...

  • Alma Mater: Wichita State
  • Year at Park: 3rd
  • Playing Experience: Wichita State (1994-1996), professional golfer until 2003, Kansas State Mid-Amateur Champion (2003)

Coaching at Park University...

?2017-18 

Men

  • In Blake's first season, the men's golf team won six tournaments. While the women's team won one title in the 2017-18 season.
  • Wes Buntenbach was named AMC Newcomer of the Year.
  • Coached three athletes that received AMC All-Conference (Wes Buntenbach, Ryan Tattan, & Yannick Koehnen)
  • Wes Buntenbach won the 2018 AMC Men's Golf Championship and qualified for the 2018 NAIA National Championship in Silvis, Ill.
  • Had four student-athletes receive Academic All-Conference

Women

  • Genevieve Stelmacovich selected to 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-American At-Large Team
  • Four landed on Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete Team (Rachel Hoffman, Allie Storm, Genevieve Stelmacovich, & Leeah Shipley)
  • Coached two AMC All-Conference Honorable Mention (Rachel Hoffman & Leeah Shipley)
  • Had seven Academic All-Conference


2018-19

Men

  • In year two of the men's program, the Pirates finished second in the 2019 AMC Championship. The men's squad garnered four AMC All-Conference award winners (Wes Buntenbach, Jonathan Graf, Matt Percy, & Evan Shartzer), including 2019 AMC Men's Golfer of the Year, Wes Buntenbach, and 2019 AMC Freshman of the Year, Jonathan Graf. 
  • Wes Buntenbach was selected for Google Cloud Academic All-District Team and was the first-ever Men's Golf Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete.
  • Had six Academic All-Conference winners

Women

  • The 2019 women's team placed 4th at the 2019 AMC Women's Golf Tournament and Leeah Shipley finished second overall and was named to the 2019 AMC Second Team All-Conference. 
  • Leeah Shipley landed on Daktronics-NAIA Women's Golf Scholar-Athlete Team 
  • Had five Academic All-Conference winners

2019-20

Men

  • The men's team won the first tournament of the spring season at Eagle Bend Golf Course hosted by Ottawa University. 

Women

  • The women's team had four second-place finishes with three in the fall, and one in the spring season.

Coaching experience before Park University...

  • Coached at Wichita State as assistant men's golf coach from 2012 to 2016

More about Coach Blake...

  • Played for Kansas Sports Hall of Fame coach Grier Jones, current head coach at Wichita State.
  • Aided in the development of 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Missouri Valley Conference Golfers-of-the-Year, Rafael Becker, Hunter Sparks, Louis Cohen Boyer (2), and Grant Bennett, while helping the Shockers to their fifth-, sixth-, seventh- and eighth-straight MVC titles as well as their, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st  and 22nd  NCAA appearances.
  • In his five seasons, WSU produced 20 All-MVC performers, three MVC Newcomer of the Year awards, four MVC Championship medalists and five MVC Player of the Year awards.
  • Prior to playing at Wichita State, Blake was a member of the Butler County Community College golf team where he was the 1993 Region IV Champion.