GREENSBORO, N.C. --- Guilford College
Director of Athletics Tom Palombo announced the appointment of
Justin Tereshko as the Quakers' head men's golf coach Friday.
Tereshko replaces Corey Maggard, who resigned after four years in
August to become assistant men's golf coach at Auburn
University.
Tereshko spent most of the past two seasons as the men's and
women's assistant golf coach at DePauw University under Vince
Lazar. With Tereshko on staff, DePauw placed eighth at the 2013 and
2014 NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championships and won two North
Coast Athletic Conference titles. The Tigers' Paige Gooch earned
First Team All-America honors from the Women's Golf Coaches'
Association and was one of three DePauw students tabbed as 2014
all-region selections.
After graduating from Transylvania University in 2012 with an
exercise science degree, Tereshko spent the fall season as interim
head men's golf coach and head women's golf coach at Huntingdon
(Ala.) College.
Like his predecessor at Guilford, Tereshko was an accomplished
golfer at Transylvania under head coach Brian Lane. (Maggard was a
Transylvania assistant coach for Tereshko's first two years at the
Kentucky school.) A two-time PING NCAA Division III All-American,
Tereshko helped the Pioneers to second place in the 2012 Division
III Championships, the best of four NCAA appearances in Tereshko's
career. He also ranked among Division III's top-five statistical
leaders in five categories that season, including stroke average.
Transylvania won four Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
Tournament titles in Tereshko's tenure, including in 2012 when he
won medalist honors and was named the league's player of the
year.
Tereshko remains a competitive golfer and last month reached the
Round of 32 at the United States Amateur Championship. After
placing 24th in two rounds of stroke play, the
Madison, Ind., native won his first match-play contest before
falling to Jimmy Mullen in 23 holes. Tereshko placed sixth at the
2014 Indiana Amateur Championship.
Tereshko makes his head coaching debut this weekend as he leads
Guilford into the Tournament Town Championship Preview at the
Grandover Resort in Greensboro. The tournament, a preview of the
2015 Division III Championships at Grandover, features 18 of
Division III's top teams. All but two squads were ranked among the
top-30 schools in the final 2013-14 Division III Golfstat.com
Rankings. Tereshko won the tournament as a Transylvania junior in
2010 when it was called the Greensboro-Gordin Classic
Invitational.
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courtesy of the Guilford College sports information department.
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