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Jacob Miller

At Murray State

Jacob Miller is in his fourth season as Murray State head coach in the 2025-26 school year.

2024-25 season

Team won The Buddy (home event), total score of -18, 5 shot victory.
5 top 4 finishes & 3 top 3 finishes
Second-lowest team average in program history.
Earned National All Academic Team awarded for team's GPA
Three Academic All Americans (Lennon Albans, Kamaren Cunningham and Rocco Zakutney).
Had two MVC Player of the Week honorees.
Three Racers current student-athletes qualified for national summer events in an 11 month span, including freshman Brock Montgomery in the USGA Junior Amateur.
Team was MVC Championship Runner up (best finish in 10 years).
MSU improved National Ranking, MVC Ranking, average finish and scoring average.
Guided Trey Wall to MVC Individual Championship (first time since 2013), MVC Freshman of the year (first time since 2008), NCAA Individual Qualifier (first time since 2013) and All-MVC Team.
Team was Top-5 among all MSU teams in community service.

2023-24 season

Saw the Racers improved the team's previous national and MVC ranking.
MSU improved team's previous average finish and single round scoring average by five strokes per round.
The Racers' 292.2 scoring average was the lowest for the Racers in five seasons since the 2019-20 team posted an average of 292.8
The Racers placed fourth at the MVC Championship in Sunrise beach, Mo. as the program's best conference finish since the 2018-19 team placed third at the OVC Championship.
The Racers had three top-4 team finishes for the season, at the Bubba Barnett, The Buddy & MVC Championship.
At the Bubba Barnett Intercollegiate in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the Racers posed a school-record 269 (19-under par) in the second round at RidgePointe Country Club.
With their first-round score (286), the Racers had a program record 555 (21-under par) at the event in Jonesboro.
Improved team's community service hours by 23 additional hours compared to previous season.
The Racers had three student-athletes on the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) All-American Scholars Team, John Buchanan, Kamaren Cunningham and Carson Holmes.
As a team, the Racers had a school-record 3.51 GPA, to lower the team record standard and gain recognition by the GCAA.

2022-2023 season

Improved team’s national ranking and scoring average from 2021-22.
Coached Trey Lewis to Murray State's best individual finish at a conference championship in 10 years of third place.
Coached Jay Nimmo to win program’s first Power 5 event in 4 decades with a win at the Hoosier Collegiate.
Trey Lewis earned a spot on the MVC All-Tournament Team.
The Racers won their second-straight Battle of the Border Match Play over Austin Peay.
MSU bested its projected MVC Championship finish by five spots and produced four Top-5 finishes in the 2022-23 season.
The Racers had three Top-5 finishes in their last four events (Second place at the Ernie Denham Classic in Louisville).
MSU has its highest GPA in Murray State men’s golf history recording a 3.51.
Numerous players earning 4.0 and being on the Dean’s list.
MSU earned the GCAA President’s special recognition for the first time (3.5+). Highest academic distinction in men’s college golf.
MSU had three GCAA Academic All American Scholars.
Named the fourth head coach for the Racer men’s golf program on June 9, 2022.
Is the fourth head coach in program history following Buddy Hewitt (1961-2002), Eddie Hunt (2002-21) and Daniel DeLuca (2021-22).

Before MSU

In 2022 was named Men’s Golf Coach of the Year in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference after his team won the league championship.
The Dragons set or tied seven records including a 295.3 per round average.
Began coaching career in 2015 at Marshall University as assistant men’s coach.
In 2016, became graduate assistant coach at University of Findlay.
Promoted to assistant coach of the men’s and women’s programs at Findlay in spring 2017.
Led Findlay women to their first Great Midwest Conference championship in 2017.
As assistant coach in 2018, Coach Miller helped the Findlay men’s and women’s teams to a combined eight team victories and a pair of conference titles.
In the 2019-20 season at Tiffin, his team had the second-best GPA in the nation and combined for 19 academic All-America selections in four seasons.

Playing Career

Played four seasons for the Marshall Thundering Herd where he was a four-year letter winner from 2011-15.
Won three collegiate team titles at Marshall.
Has qualified for the Ohio/Kentucky Amateur eight times.
Competed in the 2014 USGA Public Links Championship.
2015 USGA United States Amateur first alternate.
Competed in the 2021 USGA United States Amateur.

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