Ball State University Athletics
2022-23 Men's Golf Roster
Joey Ranieri
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Zionsville, Ind.
- High School:
- Zionsville
Career Honors:
- All-MAC Second Team (2021, 2022)
- Academic All-MAC (2021, 2022)
- MAC Freshman of the Year (2019)
- MAC Golfer of the Week (Sept. 19, 2019; Sept. 9, 2021)
- Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar (2021, 2022)
2021-22 (Sr.): An All-MAC Second Team selection … Academic All-MAC … chosen as Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar ... named MAC Golfer of the Week (Sept. 9) ... competed in all 11 events and 33 rounds for BSU … led the Cardinals with a team-low scoring average of 72.64 … BSU’s top finisher in five out of 11 events … produced 14 rounds of par or better … placed in the top 10 four times, including two top-five finishes at the Hoosier Collegiate Invite (Sept. 6) and the Paintbrush Invitational (Oct. 5) … posted a personal season-best round score of 64 in the Earl Yestingsmeier Invite (Sept. 18).
2020-21 (Jr.): An All-MAC Second Team selection … Academic All-MAC … competed in all six of BSU’s full-team events … led the team with a 74.93 scoring average over 15 stroke play rounds … BSU’s top finisher in four of its five stroke play tournaments … registered three top-25 finishes, highlighted by a sixth-place result at the MAC Championships at Sycamore Hills where he contended for the individual title deep into the final round … tied for 15th at the Hoosier Collegiate Invitational and 22nd at the Craft Farms Intercollegiate … managed a season-best 54-hole total of 221 (+5) at Craft Farms … season-best round of 72 came on the final day of the Boilermaker Invitational … went 2-1-0 at the No. 1 spot in the lineup at the season-opening Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play.
2019-20 (So.): Played in all seven events and all 18 stroke play rounds … ranked second on the team with a 73.00 stroke average … season was cut short when the last four spring tournaments, including the MAC Championships, were canceled because of COVID-19 … ended the season as the MAC’s No. 7-ranked golfer by Golfweek … had an overall head-to-head record of 316-150-17 … carded a team-best nine rounds of even-par or better (half of his rounds), including five rounds in the 60’s … had four top-25 finishes in six stroke play starts … recorded his best career finish with a tie for second out of 93 golfers at the season-opening Golfweek Conference Challenge … helped BSU to a 15-stroke team victory at the event and an initial Golfweek national ranking of No. 20, the program’s best ever … made only one bogey for the tournament on his way to a career-best 54-hole total of 209 (-7) … named MAC Golfer of the Week for that performance … matched his career-low score with a 68 (-4) in round one of the Golfweek event and bettered it in the next tournament with a 67 (-4) in round two of the Trinity Forest Invitational … tied for 12th at the Marquette Intercollegiate at Erin Hills, 23rd at Trinity Forest and 24th at the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate … went 2-1-0 at the Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play at the No. 2 spot in the lineup.
2018-19 (Fr.): Named MAC Freshman of the Year, becoming just the second BSU golfer to win the award and the first since Tyler Merkel in 2011 … set a BSU freshman record with his 73.70 scoring average, breaking Merkel’s mark of 74.00 … competed in the final nine events as part of the Ball State lineup and logged a total of 23 stroke play rounds … had two top-10 finishes – the Butler Spring Invitational (T-4) and the Musketeer Classic (T-9) – and four top-25 results … fired a season-best round of 68 (-4) to open the Boilermaker Invitational … also carded three scores of 69 on the year, including back-to-back rounds at the Mason Rudolph Championship … posted his season-best 54-hole mark of 212 at the Rudolph and finished 1 under par at both that event and the Boilermaker … carded seven rounds of par or better on the year.
HIGH SCHOOL: Competed in the IHSAA state finals all four years of his high school career and finished in the top 10 in each of his final three appearances … placed third in the state finals as a senior, one shot out of a playoff … a three-time all-state selection … runner-up at his sectional as a junior and twice finished third at the regional level … registered 14 top-10 finishes in 17 junior events in the year before signing with Ball State … won the Amelia National Junior Shootout and the Golfweek Junior Tour event at the Golf Club of Dublin in 2017 … placed fourth at the Indiana Boys State Junior Championship over in 2017 … came to Ball State as the seventh-highest rated junior player in the state of Indiana.
- All-MAC Second Team (2021, 2022)
- Academic All-MAC (2021, 2022)
- MAC Freshman of the Year (2019)
- MAC Golfer of the Week (Sept. 19, 2019; Sept. 9, 2021)
- Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar (2021, 2022)
2021-22 (Sr.): An All-MAC Second Team selection … Academic All-MAC … chosen as Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar ... named MAC Golfer of the Week (Sept. 9) ... competed in all 11 events and 33 rounds for BSU … led the Cardinals with a team-low scoring average of 72.64 … BSU’s top finisher in five out of 11 events … produced 14 rounds of par or better … placed in the top 10 four times, including two top-five finishes at the Hoosier Collegiate Invite (Sept. 6) and the Paintbrush Invitational (Oct. 5) … posted a personal season-best round score of 64 in the Earl Yestingsmeier Invite (Sept. 18).
2020-21 (Jr.): An All-MAC Second Team selection … Academic All-MAC … competed in all six of BSU’s full-team events … led the team with a 74.93 scoring average over 15 stroke play rounds … BSU’s top finisher in four of its five stroke play tournaments … registered three top-25 finishes, highlighted by a sixth-place result at the MAC Championships at Sycamore Hills where he contended for the individual title deep into the final round … tied for 15th at the Hoosier Collegiate Invitational and 22nd at the Craft Farms Intercollegiate … managed a season-best 54-hole total of 221 (+5) at Craft Farms … season-best round of 72 came on the final day of the Boilermaker Invitational … went 2-1-0 at the No. 1 spot in the lineup at the season-opening Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play.
2019-20 (So.): Played in all seven events and all 18 stroke play rounds … ranked second on the team with a 73.00 stroke average … season was cut short when the last four spring tournaments, including the MAC Championships, were canceled because of COVID-19 … ended the season as the MAC’s No. 7-ranked golfer by Golfweek … had an overall head-to-head record of 316-150-17 … carded a team-best nine rounds of even-par or better (half of his rounds), including five rounds in the 60’s … had four top-25 finishes in six stroke play starts … recorded his best career finish with a tie for second out of 93 golfers at the season-opening Golfweek Conference Challenge … helped BSU to a 15-stroke team victory at the event and an initial Golfweek national ranking of No. 20, the program’s best ever … made only one bogey for the tournament on his way to a career-best 54-hole total of 209 (-7) … named MAC Golfer of the Week for that performance … matched his career-low score with a 68 (-4) in round one of the Golfweek event and bettered it in the next tournament with a 67 (-4) in round two of the Trinity Forest Invitational … tied for 12th at the Marquette Intercollegiate at Erin Hills, 23rd at Trinity Forest and 24th at the Desert Mountain Intercollegiate … went 2-1-0 at the Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play at the No. 2 spot in the lineup.
2018-19 (Fr.): Named MAC Freshman of the Year, becoming just the second BSU golfer to win the award and the first since Tyler Merkel in 2011 … set a BSU freshman record with his 73.70 scoring average, breaking Merkel’s mark of 74.00 … competed in the final nine events as part of the Ball State lineup and logged a total of 23 stroke play rounds … had two top-10 finishes – the Butler Spring Invitational (T-4) and the Musketeer Classic (T-9) – and four top-25 results … fired a season-best round of 68 (-4) to open the Boilermaker Invitational … also carded three scores of 69 on the year, including back-to-back rounds at the Mason Rudolph Championship … posted his season-best 54-hole mark of 212 at the Rudolph and finished 1 under par at both that event and the Boilermaker … carded seven rounds of par or better on the year.
HIGH SCHOOL: Competed in the IHSAA state finals all four years of his high school career and finished in the top 10 in each of his final three appearances … placed third in the state finals as a senior, one shot out of a playoff … a three-time all-state selection … runner-up at his sectional as a junior and twice finished third at the regional level … registered 14 top-10 finishes in 17 junior events in the year before signing with Ball State … won the Amelia National Junior Shootout and the Golfweek Junior Tour event at the Golf Club of Dublin in 2017 … placed fourth at the Indiana Boys State Junior Championship over in 2017 … came to Ball State as the seventh-highest rated junior player in the state of Indiana.
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