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- Year:
- Gr.
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- Hometown:
- Fort Wayne, Ind.
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- High School:
- Homestead
Bio
Two-year team captain ... graduate student from Fort Wayne, Ind. ... 2017 graduate of Homestead High School who majored in computer information systems as an undergrad and graduated in three years ... is currently pursuing his Masters of Science in digital innovation ... outstanding student who had a minor in history ... two-time Academic All-Northeast-10 ... two-time recipient of D2ADA Achievement Award.
Career, entering 2020-21: In 16 tournaments and 33 rounds during his first three seasons, recorded a 77.8 stroke average ... low round is a 73 ... highest finish was a tie for fifth in the 2019 Bentley Newport Classic.
2019-20: Played in four tournaments and registered a 75.75 stroke average during eight rounds ... was +3.75 to par ... honors included CoSIDA Division II Academic All-America men’s at-large third team, third-team All-Northeast-10, Cleveland/Srixon All-America Scholar, CoSIDA Academic All-District, Academic All-Northeast-10 and D2ADA Academic Achievement Award ... received team’s Richie Powers Honor Award ... tied for 13th , of 84, in the Le Moyne Fall Invitational (75-73-148) ... tied for 31st, of 50, in the rain-shortened Northeast-10 Championships (77).
2018-19: Received the team’s Most Improved Award after posting the Falcons’ fourth best stroke average (78.1) ... played 22 rounds during the course of ten tournaments ... tied for fifth of 30 in the Bentley Newport Classic (one-over 73) ... tied for eighth of 30 in the NEIGA Division II Championships (77-81-158) ... best 36-hole score was a 152 (77-75) in the American International Invitational ... finished 17th of 56 in that tournament ... tied for 28th, among 85, in the NCAA Division II Atlantic/East Regional (74-79-76-229) ... posted a 79-74-77-230 in the NCAA Division II Championships, tying for 83rd among 108 players ... received the Elite 24 Award for having the highest GPA at the Northeast-10 Championships ... voted Academic All-Northeast-10 ... received D2ADA Achievement Award ... named to the NE10 Weekly Honor Roll Oct. 24.
2017-18: Played in two tournaments as a freshman with an 81.0 stroke average for three rounds ... tied for 40th of 63 in the Bentley Newport Classic (80-82-162).
Before Bentley: Played four years of golf at Homestead HS ... finished in top three at sectionals and top ten at regionals in 2015 ... top ten sectionals in 2016 ... top five regionals in 2017 ... top 3 Golfweek Junior Tour event in 2017 ... two Indiana Golf Foundation Junior Tour victories ... at the Indiana State Finals, Homestead finished seventh in 2015, tenth in 2016, 11th in 2017 and 15th in 2014 ... high school valedictorian ... Academic All-State ... National Merit Scholarship semifinalist ... National Honor Society ... Indiana Academic All-Star.
Personal: Age as of Sept. 1: 21 ... son of Catherine Periolat and Ben Yoder ... has one sister, Grace (19) ... father played soccer at Goshen College ... co-founded Champions Together, a program that organizes sporting events for special needs students ... president of ISACA Student Group after previously serving as vice president ... Undergraduate Academic Services peer tutor ... CIS Sandbox peer tutor ... volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and Cradles to Crayons ... Bentley Trustee Scholarship.
News Mentions
Ethier Selected as PING All-Region for 4th Time; Yoder Also Recognized
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Ethier Repeats as NE10 Golfer of the Year; Herron Earns 3rd Coach of the Year Award
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Yoder Selected as Northeast-10 Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year
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Yoder Named Finalist for Northeast-10 Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year
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Ethier-Led Falcons Finish Day 1 of NCAA Regional Tied for 7th
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Bentley Opens Play in NCAA Div. II East/Atlantic Regional Thursday
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May 5, 2021
Yoder Receives Northeast-10 Elite 24 Award for Men’s Golf
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April 29, 2021
Bentley Receives 10th Straight Bid to NCAA East/Atlantic Golf Regional
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Ethier Leads Bentley During Northeast-10 Championships; Falcons Place 5th
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Bentley Enters Tuesday’s Northeast-10 Championships with High Expectations
The Bentley University Falcons will be looking for their first tournament crown since Octobr 2017 and their seventh since 2006 when the 2020-21...
April 19, 2021
Bentley Finishes 3rd in Mike Bello Invitational; Ethier Again Leads the Way
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April 12, 2021
Bentley Finishes 2nd of 7 at Saint Anselm Spring Invitational
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April 9, 2021
Ethier, Bentley Do It Again as Falcons Take Their Own Spring Invitational
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April 6, 2021
Ethier Delivers as Bentley Shoots Past Assumption, 297-308
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Ethier Leads Bentley Past 2 Northeast-10 Foes, Assumption & Le Moyne
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March 26, 2021
Bentley Plays Well, but Falls to Southern N.H., 287-295
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