The 2005 Golf season will be somewhat of a rebuilding process for Shawnee State University .  SSU returns just 4 players, 2 seniors and 2 sophomores, from a team that won 1 tournament and finished second at the AMC Championship Meet in 2004.  Gone is Heath Chamberlain, winner of the 2004 Cedarville Invitational, and Matt DeHart, winner of the 2004 American Mideast Conference Tournament.  

The most experienced returning player for Shawnee State in 2005 is senior Jason VanDeusen.  He has played in 31 rounds over the course of his career and averaged 81 strokes per round.  Senior Brad Washburn is the only other upper classman on the roster.  Since transferring from Marshall University as a sophomore, Washburn has played in 23 rounds, averaging 79.4 strokes per round.   

Sophomores Shawn Sergent and Jeff Evans also return to the squad from last season.  Sergent averaged 78.5 strokes per round through 18 rounds as a freshman.  He placed 2^nd overall at the Shawnee State Invitational and Cedarville Invitational.  He placed 7^th at the AMC Championship Tournament and earned All-AMC honors.  Evans played in just 5 rounds as a freshman and carded an average score of 87.6.  He showed a great deal of improvement during the fall season and looks to make the traveling squad.  

Four freshmen look to compete for the 5^th on final spot on the team’s Top 5.  Brian Hunter (Northwest H.S.), Drew Prater (Southeaster H.S.), Tom Kempinski (North Olmstead H.S.), and Andy Wilkinson (Loveland H.S.) make up the 2004 – 2005 freshman class.   

Shawnee State opens the season hosting the Shawnee State Invitational on March 28 & 29.  The Bears are also scheduled to compete in the OU-Chillicothe Invitational, the Urbana University Invitational, the Mt. Vernon Invitational, the Cedarville Invitational, the Wilmington College Invitational, the Ohio Dominican Invitational, and the American Mideast Conference/NAIA Region IX Championship Tournament.