SAN ANTONIO — Nearly one year to the day since its last team competition, the UTSA men's golf team will travel to Laredo for the Border Olympics on Monday-Tuesday, Feb. 22-23, at Laredo Country Club (par 72/7,375 yards).
The Roadrunners will line up against Abilene Christian, Baylor, Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Houston, Houston Baptist, Illinois State, Kent State, Lamar, Little Rock, Louisiana, Michigan, New Mexico State, Rice, Sam Houston State, Texas, Texas A&M and ULM in the 54-hole tournament. The field will play 36 holes on Monday and 18 on Tuesday with 8:30 a.m. shotgun starts slated for both days.
UTSA's last action came in this same tournament on Feb. 24-25, 2020, weeks before the rest of that season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Roadrunners tied for fourth place a year ago behind Christian Fanfelle and Chad Sewell, who shared for 15th and 20th, respectively.
The Roadrunners return seven veterans for head coach John Knauer's 13th season at the helm. Included in that list are seniors Collin Clark and Adam House, who both elected to take advantage of an NCAA waiver that granted spring sports student-athletes an extra year of eligibility following the early end to the 2020 season.
Other returnees include Fanfelle, a San Antonio native who earned third-team All-Conference USA honors last year as a sophomore, and Sewell, a Conroe product who played in his second straight U.S. Amateur last summer.
Despite missing all of 2019-20 with an injury, redshirt junior Michael Rome is expected to again be a mainstay of the UTSA lineup, while sophomores Hunter Bott and David Harrison both look to improve upon their debut campaigns.
UTSA welcomes a pair of newcomers in freshmen Reed Foster, who hails from McKinney Boyd High School, and Jack Wehman, a product of Austin Vandegrift High School. Both players were ranked in the top 30 players in the state of Texas for the class of 2020.
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