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Jack Cunningham

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Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Vincennes, Ind.
High School:
Lincoln

Career Honors
• Academic All-MAC (2019, 2021)
• MAC Golfer of the Week (Oct. 27, 2017)

2020-21 (Sr.): Academic All-MAC … competed in five of Ball State’s six full-team events … managed a 77.67 scoring average over 12 stroke play rounds … BSU’s second-best finisher at the Trinity Forest Invitational in a tie for 42nd … carded a season-best score of 74 in the opening round of that event … posted a 2-1-0 record at the No. 3 position in the lineup at the season-opening Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play.

2019-20 (Jr.): Competed in five events and 12 stroke play rounds … season was cut short when the last four spring tournaments, including the MAC Championships, were canceled because of COVID-19 … managed a 74.92 stroke average … posted top-30 finishes at the Musketeer Classic (T23) and the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate (T27) … carded a season-best score of 70 (-1) in round one of the Musketeer Classic … recorded his season-best 54-hole total of 219 (+6) at the same event to help the Cardinals to a third-place team finish … helped BSU to a 15-stroke, season-opening victory at the Golfweek Conference Challenge … the win earned the Cardinals an initial Golfweek national ranking of No. 20, the program’s best ever.

2018-19 (So.): Academic All-MAC ... competed in six events as part of the Ball State lineup … managed a scoring average of 74.76 over 21 stroke play rounds … had his best finish of the year with a tie for 28th at the Chatham Hills Collegiate … fired a season-best score of 69 (-3) in the second round at Chatham Hills … also had his best 54-hole score of the season there with a 220 … carded a 1-under par 71 in the final round of the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate … went 2-1-0 at the No. 5 spot in the lineup at the Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play.

2017-18 (Fr:) Played every event as part of the BSU lineup … managed a 75.74 stroke average … made his collegiate debut at the Wolf Run Invitational … recorded his best career finish with a tie for fourth at the ODU/OBX Intercollegiate where he posted a career-best total of 207 (-6), matching the lowest 54-hole score of the season by a BSU player … named MAC Golfer of the Week for that performance … carded rounds of 68, 69 and 70 at the event, with the 68 being his career-low round … also led Ball State at the Ka’anapali Collegiate Classic … went 3-0-0 in the Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play at the No. 4 spot in the lineup.

HIGH SCHOOL: Reached the Indiana state finals three times for Vincennes Lincoln … individual sectional and regional champion as a senior … runner-up at both events as a junior … a four-time All- Big Eight Conference performer … finished runner-up at the conference championships three times … in junior golf, managed five top-10 finishes on the Golfweek Junior Tour, including three top-5 results … had two runner-up finishes on the Indiana Junior Golf Tour … earned a spot on the Transamerica Scholastic Junior All-American Honor Roll … admitted to Ball State with the Presidential Award.