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2024-25 Men's Golf Roster

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Max Leppelmeier

Max Leppelmeier

  • Height:
    5-10
  • Weight:
    135
  • Letters:
    4
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Wauseon, Ohio
  • High School:
    Pettisville

Summary

Biography

2024-25:  Collected GCAA All-America Scholar accolades ... one of 12 (along with DiCarlo) from the Midwest Region to earn GCAA PING All-Region distinction ... garnered GLIAC All-Academic Team honors ... named First Team All-GLIAC ... finished season with a personal best 72.17 scoring average (29 rounds, 2,093 strokes), which is right on the heels of DiCarlo's 71.59 in 2024-25 as the fourth-best output on program history ... also holds the ninth-best mark on that list at 72.59 from 2022-23 ... closed the book on his Green and Gold career with 11 tournaments, six finishes in the top 10, nine among the top 25, five rounds in the 60s, and 11 of them under par ... joined elite company when he became a multi-time champion and won Ohio Dominican's Pawleys Island Beach Bash on March 12-13 .. that event, he bested 100 other golfers with a two-day total of 139 (-5, 68-71) ... placed no worse than a tie-for-eighth in his six top-10 placings including the ODU win, a second place, tie-for-sixth, tie-for-seventh (x2), and tie-for-eighth ... four other rounds in the 60s included a 67 in round two of the Al Watrous Invitational (Sept. 7-8), a 67 in round two of the HawksHead Invitational (Oct. 19-20), a 68 in the Match Play Finals (April 18-20) against Saginaw Valley State, and a 69 in round two of the Findlay Spring Invite (March 24-25).

2023-24:  Earned GCAA All-America Scholar honors ... named to the GLIAC All-Academic Team ... garnered Honorable Mention All-GLIAC distinction ... one of just three Warriors (DiCarlo, Smith) to play in 13 of the team's 14 tournaments (31.5 rounds) and did so with the squad's third-best scoring average at 73.33, good for 15th in program history ... finished in the top 10 for three events including a tie-for-second of 22 golfers at the Motor City Shakedown (E, 72), tie-for-fourth of 60 at the Battle at Brunswick (+1, 109, 72-37) and sixth of 93 at the B&R Investments Bulldog Classic (+5, 218, 76-73-69) ... tied with Hawryluk for second on the squad in top-25 showings with seven ... joining his three in the top 10 (excluding the Motor City Shakedown) were a tie-for-11th of 130 at the SVSU Spring Invitational (-1, 143, 70-73), tie-for-12th of 90 at The Tulsa Cup (+1, 217, 74-67-76), tie-for-19th of 96 at the Ken Partridge Invitational (+7, 223, 82-66-75), tie-for-21st of 87 at the UIndy Invitational (+2, 218, 73-73-72) and tie-for-23rd of 45 at the GLIAC Championships (+8, 150, 75-75) ... fired the best 18-hole score of any Warrior on the season thanks to that 66 in round two at the Ken Partridge Invite on April 8, just one stroke off of his own program record set in September of 2022 that's tied with Tyler LaSerra from October of 2012 ... that round was one of four in the 60s for him, tied with DiCarlo for second on the squad ... also carded six rounds below par ... placed in a tie-for-74th of 108 in the second NCAA Midwest/Central Super Regional of his career with an eight-over 218 (75-68-75).

2022-23:  Earned GCAA All-America Scholar honors ... named to the GLIAC All-Academic Team ... selected to the All-GLIAC First Team ... received Academic At-Large All-District honors by College Sports Communicators (formerly CoSIDA) ... one of two Warriors (Josh DiCarlo) to play in all 27 of the team's rounds ... paced the squad with a 72.59 scoring average, the sixth-best mark in program history with the second-most rounds played of anyone in that top six ... also led the Warriors in finishes among the top 10 with six while tying with DiCarlo and Hawryluk for top-25 placings with seven ... was among the top five in four of his first five tournaments of the campaign including a medalist honor at the Dual in Dearborn on Oct. 28 ... that event, Leppelmeier shot a 67, the fourth-best 18-hole card by a Warrior in 2022-23 ... also shot the lowest single-round score of any Warrior with a 65 in round two of the Findlay Doc Spragg Fall Invitational, which is tied for the best in program history with Tyler LaSerra in October of 2012 ... he turned in a 66 in the first round of that event too ... those other three finishes in the top five included second of 92 players at the Findlay Doc Spragg Fall Invitational (204, 66-65-73), where he was named to the All-Tournament Team, tied-for-third of 91 at the NCAA Super Regional Preview (144, 72-72) and fourth of 63 at the Motor City Invitational (146, 76-70) ... his two other top-10 performances of the season came at the Findlay Spring Invite where he tied-for-seventh of 100 with a 216 (72-73-71) and the Battle at Brunswick where he tied-for-eighth of 95 with a 150 (79-71) ... tied-for-12th of 45 at the GLIAC Championship with a 142 (72-70) and tied-for-61st of 108 at the NCAA Midwest/Central Super Regional with a 226 (77, 79, 70) ... his 142 at the GLIAC Championship and 144 at the NCAA Super Regional Preview were the fourth- and fifth-best 36-hole scores by a Warrior for the season ... shot a 69 in the Match Play Semifinals of the GLIAC Championship against Ferris State before a 71 in the Match Play Finals against Grand Valley State ... owned the best 54-hole mark for the team for the season with that 204 (best in program history) at Findlay as well as the third-best mark with a 216, also at Findlay, but in the spring ... was tied-for-second with Mat Hawryluk on the team for rounds in the 60s with four and tied-for-first in rounds under par with Josh DiCarlo with 10.

2021-22:  Competed in six events and collected four top-25 results, including a pair of top 10 finishes ... had a stroke average of 73.53 over 13 rounds ... posted a low round of 69 and had four total rounds under par ... best finish came at the BrownGolf Intercollegiate (3/11-12) where he shot a 145 (72, 73) to tie for fourth ... finished fifth at the Kyle Ryman Memorial (10/4-5) with a 212 (70, 69, 73) ... started the season at the SVSU Al Watrous Intercollegiate (9/11-12) and shot a 143 (72, 71) to tie-for-11th ... carded a 143 (73, 70) and tied-for-12th at the Motor City Invitational (10/10-11).

High School:  A 2021 graduate of Pettisville High School ... earned four golf letters for head coach Mike Zimmerman ... was the 2020 OHSAA Division 3 state runner-up with a 147 (74, 73) at NorthStar helping PHS to a fourth-place team finish after winning the district title and being named the District Player of the Year ... contributed to the Blackbirds being back-to-back Buckeye Border Conference (BBC) champions in 2019 and 2020 after a second-place finish in 2018 ... powered Pettisville to a sectional runner-up finish in 2019 ... posted a nine-hole stroke average of 35.3 and an 18-hole average of 73.3 ... was a First Team All-District selection as a sophomore and finished 20th at the state tournament ... was the Conference Player of the Year and a First Team All-District honoree in 2019 ... also earned All-Ohio accolades following his 2020 season ... shot a 67 at Eagle Rock Golf Club and a 32 at Ironwood Golf Club as a junior ... as a senior, shot a 68 at Riverside Golf Club, a 31 at Ironwood Golf Club, and a 70 at Stone Ridge Golf Club ... also lettered in cross country, track & field and basketball ... was the BBC cross country runner-up as a freshman and a two-time individual state qualifier (2017 and 2018) ... earned Second Team All-Conference and Second Team All-District honors in basketball in 2020 ... was a First Team All-Conference and First Team All-District honoree in basketball as a senior ... served as a team captain in both golf and basketball ... carried a 3.7 GPA throughout high school and was a member of the National Honor Society.

Personal:  Full name -- Max W. Leppelmeier ... born on February 19, 2003, in Troy, Ohio ... son of Brian and Amy Leppelmeier ... father competed in football and track at Baldwin Wallace ... mother participated in cross country and track at Heidelberg ... has two older sisters, Morgan and Alexa, and one younger brother, Jack ... Alexa is a cross country and track competitor at Walsh, while Morgan played basketball at Siena Heights ... Alexa was the 2022 USTFCCCA Midwest Region Female Track Athlete of the Year ... she was the national runner-up in the steeplechase in 2022 ... is majoring in Management ... named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll (term GPA 3.5+) for Fall 2021, Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 ... named to the Coach's Honor Roll (term GPA 3.0-3.49) for Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023 and Winter 2024 ... was a member of the WSU Student Leadership Council.
 
Max Leppelmeier's Career Statistics
Year Rounds Strokes Average Low
2021-22 13 956 73.53 69
2022-23 27 1,960 72.59 65
2023-24 31.5 2,310 73.33 66
2024-25 29 2,093 72.17 67
Total 100.5 7,319 72.83 65

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Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

    5'10" 130 lbs

  • 2022-23Sophomore

    5'10" 137 lbs

  • 2023-24Junior

    5'10" 136 lbs

  • 2024-25Senior

    5'10" 135 lbs