Ali Khan

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Class:
Redshirt Senior
Hometown:
Columbus, Ohio
High School:
Columbus Academy

Honors and Awards:
MAC Golfer of the Week (Feb. 28, 2025)
All-MAC Second Team (2024)
2024 MAC Championships All-Tournament Team
Top 50 out of Top 100 Students List as announced by BSU Foundation (Feb. 12, 2024)
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District (May 24, 2023)
Academic All-MAC (2022, 2023, 2024)

Routinely finishes among Ball State's top three golfers ... "Ali has steadily improved during his time here to become one of our most consistent top-five players," said Cardinals coach Mike Fleck. Khan has earned merit as the Cardinals' most improved golfer in each of the past two seasons, notching a fourth-place tie in the 2024 MAC Championships and leading Ball State on the final day of the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional ... first name pronounced ALL-ee; last name pronounced KONN

2023-24 (R-Jr.): Shot a 73.09 average over 32 rounds in a stellar junior season that helped the Cardinals win the Mid-American Conference and reach the NCAA Regionals ... boasted four Top-20 finishes, six Top-25 finishes and seven in 26th place or better this year … his fourth-place tie at the MAC Championships was the second-best finish of his career, and his Championship Sunday was on pace for the best round of his career with five birdies and a 5-under score through 14 holes ... in the NCAA Regional at Chapel Hill, N.C., his third-round 69 led Ball State ... he twice turned in low rounds of 68 – in the second round of the Badger Invitational in October and again in the second round at Dorado Beach in late February … he shot at least 3-under-par in four rounds … perhaps most impressive is his status on the Ball State campus where the Ball State University Foundation annually presents its Top 100 Students award based on academics, community and extracurricular accomplishment … the Top 100 Students award is voted upon by alumni around the country and Khan was voted among the University’s Top 50 during the 2023-24 academic calendar.

2022-23 (R-So.): Academic All-MAC … competed in 12 events with a 73.89 stroke average over 35 rounds ... fired a low-round of 67 in the second round of the Don Benbow Invitational, shooting 68-67-69--204 for the lowest 54-hole tournament and best finish of his career (3rd out of 88).

2021-22 (R-Fr.): Academic All-MAC … competed in all 11 of BSU’s tournaments … played in 33 total rounds … finished the season with three top-10 finishes … managed the third-best scoring average on the team at 74.21 … placed a season-best of seventh out of 81 at the Dorado Beach Collegiate (March 1) … tallied a season-best card of 68 in the first round of the Dorado Beach Collegiate (Feb. 27).

2020-21 (Fr.): Redshirted. Did not see tournament action.

HIGH SCHOOL: Led his Columbus Academy team to three high school state championships in Ohio … a multiple first-team all-state and all-conference performer … set Columbus Academy records for best scoring average (73.0) and lowest nine-hole score (31) … placed in the top 10 individually three times at the Ohio Division II state finals, including a runner-up finish as a junior … won the 2019 AJGA Dana Incorporated Junior Open and made the cut at the Junior PGA Championship … posted two wins on the Golfweek Junior Tour … No. 3 in the AJGA's ranking of Ohio players in the Class of 2020.