Kieschnick adds Leroux to staff
7/6/2022 2:14:00 PM | Men's Golf, Women's Golf
HUNTSVILLE - Sam Houston head golf coach Brandt Kieschnick announced on Wednesday the hiring of Lake Leroux as assistant coach, rounding out the staff for the upcoming 2022-23 season.Â
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"We are excited to have Lake join our coaching staff," Kieschnick said. "He is a talented young man and we are privileged he is beginning his coaching journey at Sam Houston. Lake was a solid collegiate player with tremendous leadership skills and will help us to continue to play at a high level."Â
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Leroux comes to Sam Houston after playing five years of collegiate golf, beginning at Hutchison Community College where he played two years and helped Hutchison qualify for two national championships. He also helped the Blue Dragons to a conference title as a sophomore and to an 11th-place national tournament finish as a freshman. Leroux was also a finalist for the NJCAA's Jimmy Russell award, which combines golf, academics and community service.
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From HCC, he played two years at Wichita State before transferring as a graduate student to play his last year at Eastern Kentucky. At EKU, Leroux played in all 13 events and played all 37 rounds, shooting seven rounds at par or below, tied for second-most on the team. He also had one top-10 finish and shot rounds of 69 and a season-low 67 at the EKU Intercollegiate Lake was chosen as the ASUN Golfer of the Week in February of 2022.
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Leroux also competed on the amateur circuit winning the 2021 Columbia Golf Championships, firing a final round 66 along with a 4th-place finish at 2021 Missouri Stroke Play Championship and finished 6th at the 2021 Rich Poe Invitational, firing 71-71.
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Leroux graduated from Wichita State in 2021 with BA in exercise science and recently completed his masters degree in exercise and sports science with an emphasis in sports administration from Eastern Kentucky.
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He is from originally from Columbia, Mo., and is the son of University of Missouri Golf Coach, Mark Leroux.
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"We are excited to have Lake join our coaching staff," Kieschnick said. "He is a talented young man and we are privileged he is beginning his coaching journey at Sam Houston. Lake was a solid collegiate player with tremendous leadership skills and will help us to continue to play at a high level."Â
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Leroux comes to Sam Houston after playing five years of collegiate golf, beginning at Hutchison Community College where he played two years and helped Hutchison qualify for two national championships. He also helped the Blue Dragons to a conference title as a sophomore and to an 11th-place national tournament finish as a freshman. Leroux was also a finalist for the NJCAA's Jimmy Russell award, which combines golf, academics and community service.
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From HCC, he played two years at Wichita State before transferring as a graduate student to play his last year at Eastern Kentucky. At EKU, Leroux played in all 13 events and played all 37 rounds, shooting seven rounds at par or below, tied for second-most on the team. He also had one top-10 finish and shot rounds of 69 and a season-low 67 at the EKU Intercollegiate Lake was chosen as the ASUN Golfer of the Week in February of 2022.
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Leroux also competed on the amateur circuit winning the 2021 Columbia Golf Championships, firing a final round 66 along with a 4th-place finish at 2021 Missouri Stroke Play Championship and finished 6th at the 2021 Rich Poe Invitational, firing 71-71.
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Leroux graduated from Wichita State in 2021 with BA in exercise science and recently completed his masters degree in exercise and sports science with an emphasis in sports administration from Eastern Kentucky.
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He is from originally from Columbia, Mo., and is the son of University of Missouri Golf Coach, Mark Leroux.
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