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2022-23 Men's Golf Roster

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James Swash

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Stockton On Tees, England
  • High School Egglescliffe Comprehensive
  • Twitter james_swash
  • Instagram james_swash

Biography

CAREER HONORS
NCAA Regional Participant (2023)
First Team All-Conference USA (2023)
CUSA Individual Medalist (2023)
CUSA All-Tournament Team (2023)
Second Team All-Louisiana (2023)
CUSA All-Academic Team (2023)
CoSIDA Academic All-District (2021)

GCAA All-American Scholar (2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23)
CUSA Commissioner’s Honor Roll (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
CUSA Freshman of the Year (2019)
Second Team All-Louisiana (2019)


FIFTH-YEAR SENIOR (2022-23)
• Competed in 10 of the 11 regular season events.
• Became third Bulldog in program history to qualify for NCAA Regionals.
• Registered a stroke average of 73.03 over 33 rounds, totaling a team-best 93 birdies.
• Shot at or under par in 11 rounds, tied for the most on the team, including two bogey-free rounds.
• Tallied one tournament win, two top-10 finishes and four top-20 finishes.
• Finished as top Bulldog in five events.
• Opened season with season-low 67 (-5) in first round of home event Jim Rivers Intercollegiate (9/11).
• Tied for 8th at Border Olympics (2/14), shooting Even par for the event (71-73-72=216).
• Became CUSA Individual Champion, coming back from three strokes down to shoot a championship-best 68 (-4) in the third round and win by two strokes (first individual champion at LA Tech since 1980). Shot -2 (75-71-68=214) for the championship to earn NCAA automatic qualifier.
• Tied for 21st at NCAA Norman Regional (5/17), shooting -4 (72-71-69=212) for second highest finish ever by a Bulldog at an NCAA Regional. 

SENIOR (2021-22)

• One of three bulldogs to compete in all 11 events.
• Recorded a stroke average of 73.19 (second best on the team) over 32 rounds.
• Shot at or under par in 12 rounds.
• Registered four top-20 finishes.
• Tied for 17th at the Trinity Forest Invitational (10/4-5) with a +1 (69-72-73=214).
• Tied for 12th at the Border Olympics (2/14-15) with a +3 (73-75-71=219).
• Tied for 11th out of 100 competitors at the All-American Intercollegiate (3/21-22), shooting a +1 over two rounds.
• Anchored the team at the CUSA Championships (4/25-27), finishing in a tie for seventh with a -1 (led event after two rounds).
• Shot the lowest round of any player at the league championship, firing a -6 (66) in the second round.

JUNIOR (2020-21)

• Competed in all 10 events as a junior.
• Registered a stroke average of 74.71 over 24 rounds.
• Shot a season-low 68 in the first round of the Linger Longer Invitational (March 12).
• Finished in the top-15 twice at the Jim Rivers Intercollegiate (-1, t-11th) and at the LaTour Intercollegiate (+3, t-15th).
• Recorded eight rounds at or under par.

SOPHOMORE (2019-20)
• Recorded the second-best scoring average on the team (73.12) over the course of 17 rounds at 6 tournaments.
• Placed 8th after carding 213 (69-74-70) at the Jim Rivers Intercollegiate to open the season.
• Recorded another top-20 individual performance with a 271 (70-72-75) at the Bearcat Invitational.

FRESHMAN (2018-19)
• Became only the second Bulldog to ever be named league Freshman of the Year (Jack Lempke: WAC, 2011).
• Competed in 11 events as a true freshman, playing 31 competitive rounds.
• Recorded a 73.45 scoring average, the lowest ever by a LA Tech freshman.
• Opened his collegiate career with a three-under-par 68 at the Louisville Cardinal Challenge.
• Shot a three-under-par 69 in the second round of the I-20 Showdown vs. ULM.
• Shot a three-under-par 69 in the final round of the Clemson Invitational.
• Finished second at the ULM Showdown.
• Finished 17th at the USF Invitational.
• Finished 18th at the ULL Classic.
• Posted 11 rounds of even par or better.
• Was Tech's top finisher in six events.

HIGH SCHOOL
• Attended Egglescliffe Comprehensive.
• Finished third at the 2018 NYSO Championships.
• Tied for 12th at the 2018 Welsh Youths Amateur Championships.
• Tied for 16th at the 2018 North of England Youths Championships.
• Finished as the runner up at the 2017 Yorkshire Boys.
• Finished tied for 14th at the 2017 British Boys qualifying rounds.
• Finished 21st in the 2017 Mcevoy Trophy competition.
• Captained the 2017 National County Champions with Yorkshire.

PERSONAL: Full name is James Ryan Swash ... Son of Craig and Annette Swash ... Has one sister, Nicola ... Born Sept. 2, 1999 in MIddlesbrough, England.

Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

  • 2019-20Sophomore

  • 2020-21Junior

  • 2021-22Senior

  • 2022-23Graduate Student