Glen Millican - 2013 Coach of the Year
Glen Millican – 2013 Coach of the Year Courtesy: New Mexico Athletics
Release: 11/25/2014
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Glen Millican
University of New Mexico men’s golf coach Glen Millican would be the last person in the world to say it, but he did a pretty remarkable job during the 2012-13 season.
The Lobos’ 13th-year coach, already the owner of four Mountain West championships, led his team to a fifth Mountain West crown in the spring of 2013. But he didn’t stop there.
His Lobos also won the NCAA Columbus Regional and then made a comeback for the ages at the NCAA Championship in Alpharetta, Ga. UNM, in 27th place among the 30 teams after the first round, stormed its way up the leaderboard to a tie for sixth in the 54-hole stroke play portion and qualified for the eight-team match play competition to determine a national champion.
UNM finished fifth in the nation in 2013, matching Millican’s 2005 team for the best national finish during his tenure. Millican won the Mountain West Coach of the Year Award, for the third time in his career and last season was a finalist for the Dave Williams National Coach of the Year award.
The 2012-13 team won five tournaments, pushing Millican’s overall win total to 22. That total is second all-time in school history. He had two golfers earn All-America honors in senior James Erkenbeck (first team) and sophomore Gavin Green (third team).
The Lobos placed four players on the All-Mountain West team (Erkenbeck, Green, senior John Catlin and sophomore Victor Perez), which set a UNM and MW record. The four also earned PING All-West Region honors.
Millican also had two Academic All-America student-athletes in Catlin and senior Benjamin Bauch, pushing that total to 18 during his tenure.
And last but not least, Millican’s Lobos earned a spot on the Golf Coaches Association of America 2013 National All-Academic Team with a 3.28 cumulative grade-point average during the 2013-14 academic year.
Millican’s teams traditionally make an impact on the golf course, in the classroom and in the community. A former Lobo himself, Millican proves time and again that good guys can finish first.
Congratulations to coach Glen Millican, the quintessential representative of UNM athletics!