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1 MEN S GOLF NOTES February 26, 2016 MALIBU, Calif. The Pepperdine men s golf team is on a terrifi c run of success and will look to keep it going at its own tournament, next week s Southwestern Jones Invitational. The Waves have recorded fi ve straight top-fi ve fi nishes (which hasn t happened since 2002) and have had fi ve straight tournaments at par or better (a program fi rst, and the Waves haven t done this fi ve times in a season since 2003). The last time out, the Waves started the spring with a fourth-place fi nish at The Prestige at PGA West and defeated three top-10 teams in the process. EVENT INFO The tournament will be held at the par-72, 6,992- yard North Ranch Country Club, located in Westlake Village, Calif. The Lakes and Oaks courses will be utilized. Teams will play 36 holes on Monday (Feb. 29), beginning with a shotgun start at 8 a.m., followed by the fi nal 18 holes on Tuesday (March 1) with tee times beginning at 7:30 a.m. Live scoring will be available at www. golfstat.com. FIELD In addition to Pepperdine, the 15-team fi eld includes Augusta, Boise State, BYU, Fresno State, Iowa, Lipscomb, Mississippi State, Northwestern, Oregon, Sam Houston State, San Diego, San Diego State, USC and Winthrop. Six teams are ranked in Golfstat s top 50, led by USC at #6. PEPPERDINE LINEUP Pepperdine s lineup will consist of senior Frederick Wedel (The Woodlands, Texas/The Woodlands HS), freshman Sahith Theegala (Chino Hills, Calif./Diamond Bar HS), freshman Roy Cootes (Rolling Hills, Calif./Palos Verdes HS), junior Robbie Geibel (Pembroke Pines, Fla./American Heritage HS/Louisville) and freshman Lorenzo Magagnin (Treviso, Italy). Sophomore Anthony Cecere (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif./St. Margaret s Episcopal School) and junior Cody McManus (Phoenix, Ariz./Desert Vista HS) will play as individuals. RANKINGS Pepperdine is ranked 35th by Golfweek/Sagarin and 42nd by Golfstat... Frederick Wedel is ranked 61st by Golfstat and 74th by Golfweek/Sagarin. TOURNAMENT HISTORY The Southwestern Jones Invitational combines two previously existing tournaments, the Southwestern Intercollegiate (started by USC in 1978) and the Jones Invitational (hosted by Pepperdine the last two years) SEASON The Pepperdine men s golf program the defending West Coast Conference champions features a veteran squad this season (including four of the fi ve that won the WCC crown) as well as a group of talented newcomers. Former Pepperdine All-American Michael Beard is in his fourth season as the Waves head coach. The roster breakdown is two seniors, three juniors, one sophomore and three freshmen. The Waves have fi ve returning letterwinners, one transfer and three true freshmen. WCC Both Frederick Wedel and Cody McManus made the preseason All-WCC team and the Waves were picked to fi nish second in the coaches poll. Wedel was named the WCC s Golfer of the Month for October RETURNERS Frederick Wedel and Cody McManus have both earned multiple all-conference honors... Wedel made the fi rst team in 2015 and was honorable mention while McManus, the 2015 WCC champion, was fi rst team in 2015 and honorable mention in Wedel played in his second straight U.S. Amateur Championship this past summer (he made the semifi nals of the 2014 event)... The other two in the lineup for last season s WCC title were Robin Kang and Anthony Cecere... Senior David Pelekoudas gives the Waves fi ve players who have competed in at least 10 tournaments in their Pepperdine careers. MORE ON WEDEL Frederick Wedel is currently fi fth all-time at Pepperdine with a career scoring average of His scoring average of would be a school record if he keeps it up. Also on the career charts, Wedel ranks fi fth in career belowpar rounds (36) and tied for 10th in top 10 fi nishes (12). As a junior, Wedel set the Pepperdine 54-hole record with a 20-under 196 ( ) in winning the Warrior Princeville Makai Invitational, and his 9-under 63 in the second round tied the school s 18-hole record. He holds the two-best 54-hole scores in school history after fi nishing with a 16-under 197 at the 2015 Alister MacKenzie Invitational. NEWCOMERS Junior Robbie Geibel, a transfer from Louisville, was the 2014 American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year... Freshman Sahith Theegala won the Junior World Golf Championships three times (at the ages of 6, 8 and 10)... Freshman Lorenzo Magagnin has been a member of the Italian National Team since Freshman Roy Cootes was a threetime Daily Breeze Player of the Year. RECORD-SETTING FALL Pepperdine set school records for 54 holes (33-under) and 36 holes (23-under) and had the second-best single-round score (17-under) while earning a tie for second place at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational (Oct )... A 14-under in the second round of the Bill Cullum Invitational (Oct. 19) was the third-best single-round in school history, while the total of 17-under is tied as the 10th-best 54 hole score...

2 Waves had another round of 17-under at the Warrior Princeville Makai Invitational and the total of 20-under was the eighthbest 54-hole score in school history, SOUTHWESTERN JONES INVITATIONAL The last two seasons, the Waves brought back a home tournament and called it the Jones Invitational. It will now merge with the long-time Southwestern Intercollegiate, held at North Ranch Country Club in Westlake Village, Calif., and will be titled the Southwestern Jones Invitational. Fifteen teams will converge on the course on February 29 and March 1. BEARD Michael Beard returned to Pepperdine in December 2012 after spending the previous season-and-a-half as an assistant at Arizona State. Beard competed for the Waves between and was a GCAA All-American honorable mention selection in both 2000 and He was the medalist at the 2000 NCAA West Regional and the 2002 WCC Championships and was a four-time All-WCC fi rst teamer. He still ranks fi rst in total rounds played (162) and fourth in career scoring average (72.72) at Pepperdine. After playing professionally for several years, he served as an assistant coach at Pepperdine for one season helped the Waves to make the 2011 NCAA Championships. FOLLOW ONLINE The squad has sites on both Twitter (@PeppGolf) and Facebook (/PeppGolf). You can also follow the coaches Akirakossian on Twitter. PEPPERDINE GOLF HISTORY Thanks to its victory at the 1997 NCAA Championships, Pepperdine will always be known on a national level for its outstanding men s golf program. The Waves have made eight appearances at the NCAA Championships since 1993 and have achieved NCAA Regional berths in 20 of the last 24 years. In the West Coast Conference, they ve won a league-best 18 championships since 1987 and have fi nished either fi rst or second in 22 of the last 29 years. The Waves have been successful sending player to the pros and had a program-best four alums on the PGA Tour in 2015, while Jason Gore and Michael Putnam remain on the top tour in ABOUT PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY Pepperdine boasts a one-of-a-kind athletic department with unprecedented success for a school of its size. The Waves have won NCAA Division I championships in fi ve different men s sports one of just 17 schools to have accomplished this feat and nine overall. Of this elite group, Pepperdine has the smallest undergraduate enrollment, is the only school without football and is the only university that has not been affi liated with a major conference. The Waves have won a total of 25 team or individual national championships in their history. Pepperdine has also earned the Division I-AAA All-Sports Trophy, an award based on postseason success that s given to the top non-football school, three times (most recently in ). Located in scenic Malibu, Calif., the university overlooks the Pacifi c Ocean and its campus and athletic facilities are regularly voted among the nation s most beautiful. Pepperdine, which is affi liated with the Church of Christ, ranks #52 overall on U.S. News and World Report s list of America s best colleges PEPPERDINE MEN S GOLF QUICK FACTS Location... Malibu, Calif Founded (Malibu Campus 1972) Enrollment... 8,000 (3,000 undergraduate) Nickname... Waves Colors...Blue, Orange and White Conference... West Coast President...Andrew K. Benton Athletic Director...Dr. Steve Potts Athletic Department phone... (310) Ticket Offi ce phone...(866) WAVE-TIX MEN S GOLF ROSTER Name Ht. Yr. Exp. Hometown (High School/Last School) Anthony Cecere 5-11 So. 1V Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. (St. Margaret s Episcopal School) Roy Cootes 5-10 Fr. HS Rolling Hills, Calif. (Palos Verdes HS) Robbie Geibel 5-11 Jr. TR Pembroke Pines, Fla. (American Heritage HS/Louisville) Robin Kang 5-8 Jr. 2V Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. (South Torrance HS) Lorenzo Magagnin 5-11 Fr. HS Treviso, Italy (Collegio Vescovile Pio X) Cody McManus 5-11 Jr.* 2V Phoenix, Ariz. (Desert Vista HS) David Pelekoudas 6-0 Sr. 2V Irvine, Calif. (University HS/Orange Coast College) Sahith Theegala 6-3 Fr. HS Chino Hills, Calif. (Diamond Bar HS) Frederick Wedel 6-4 Sr. 3V The Woodlands, Texas (The Woodlands HS) * utilized redshirt year MEN S GOLF COACHES Head Coach...Michael Beard experience... 4th season phone... (310) michael.beard@pepperdine.edu Assistant Coach...Armen Kirakossian experience...1st season phone... (310) armen.kirakossian@pepperdine.edu Twitter...@Akirakossian MEN S GOLF HISTORY NCAA Championships Appearances...8 last championships...1 (1997) WCC Championships...18 last ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Director/MGOLF Contact... Roger Horne offi ce phone... (310) cell phone... (805) roger.horne@pepperdine.edu Assistant Dir...Jacob Breems ...jacob.breems@pepperdine.edu Assistant Dir...Sarah Otteman ... sarah.otteman@pepperdine.edu Assistant Dir./Video...Olivia Arns ... olivia.arns@pepperdine.edu Address Pacifi c Coast Highway... Malibu, Calif Fax... (310) Facebook.../PeppGolf.../PepperdineWaves

3 MEN S GOLF STATISTICS Dates Tournament (Host) Par Finish Total +/- Par RD. 1 RD. 2 RD. 3 Top Individual Sept Gopher Invitational (Minnesota) 71 T-11th/ Cecere/McManus T-29th Sept Primland Collegiate Invitational (Wake Forest) 72 5th/9 576 E Geibel T-4th Oct Alister MacKenzie Invitational (California) 71 T-2nd/ Wedel T-2nd Oct Bill Cullum Invitational (Cal State Northridge) 72 2nd/ Theegala T-4th Nov. 2-4 Warrior Princeville Makai Invitational (Hawaii) 72 4th/ Wedel T-6th Feb The Prestige at PGA West (Stanford/UC Davis) 71 4th/ E Wedel T-3rd Feb. 29-March 1 Southwestern Jones Invitational (Pepperdine) 72 March 5-6 Desert Mountain Intercollegiate (Michigan) March The Goodwin (Stanford) April 2-3 3M Augusta Invitational (Georgia Regents) April Western Intercollegiate (San Jose State) April WCC Championships (Saint Mary s) May NCAA Regionals May 27-June 1 NCAA Championships (Oregon) TOTALS 4,833 1,723 1,695 1,415 AVERAGES / INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Player Events Rounds Strokes Average Wins Top 10 Top 20 -Par Rds Anthony Cecere Roy Cootes , Robbie Geibel , Robin Kang Lorenzo Magagnin Cody McManus , David Pelekoudas Sahith Theegala Frederick Wedel , CAREER INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Player Seasons Events Rounds Strokes Average Wins Top 10 Top 20 - Par Rds Anthony Cecere 2015, , Roy Cootes , Robbie Geibel , Robin Kang 2014, , Lorenzo Magagnin Cody McManus 2013, 15, , David Pelekoudas 2014, 15, , Sahith Theegala Frederick Wedel 2013, 14, 15, , THE LAST TIME Pepperdine s team won an event: West Coast Conference Championships (April 13-15, 2015) Pepperdine had an individual medalist: Cody McManus (WCC Championships, April 13-15, 2015) A Pepperdine individual had a hole-in-one: Robin Kang (WCC Championships, April 13, 2015)

4 PEPPERDINE MEN S GOLF TOURNAMENT RESULTS Gopher Invitational Sept , 2015 Windsong Farm Golf Club Independence, Minn. Par 71 7,152 Yards 16 Teams 81 Players 1st Oklahoma (+2) 2nd California (+23) T-3rd Baylor (+25) T-3rd Kent State (+25) 5th Charlotte (+33) T-11th Pepperdine (+43) 1st Max McGreevy, Okla (-7) T-29th Anthony Cecere (+10) T-29th Cody McManus (+10) T-39th Robbie Geibel (+12) T-55th Frederick Wedel (+14) 79th Roy Cootes (+32) Bill Cullum Invitational Oct , 2015 Wood Ranch Golf Club Simi Valley, Calif. Par 72 6,869 Yards 16 Teams 92 Players 1st Loyola Marymount (-22) 2nd Pepperdine (-17) 3rd Santa Clara (-12) 4th Seattle (+1) 5th Long Beach State (+3) 1st F. Concepcion, So. Utah (-9) T-4th Sahith Theegala (-5) T-12th Frederick Wedel (-3) T-12th Robbie Geibel (-3) T-22nd Cody McManus (E) T-36th Roy Cootes (+3) T-58th * David Pelekoudas (+9) Primland Collegiate Invitational Sept , 2015 Highland Course at Primland Resort Meadows of Dan, Va. Par 72 7,053 Yards 9 Teams 51 Players (tournament shortened to two rounds due to rain) 1st North Carolina (-18) 2nd Auburn (-13) 3rd Wake Forest (-7) 4th Penn State (-6) 5th Pepperdine (E) 1st Michael Johnson, Auburn (-15) T-4th Robbie Geibel (-5) T-12th Sahith Theegala (E) T-19th Cody McManus (+1) T-29th Frederick Wedel (+5) T-32nd Anthony Cecere (+6) Nick Watney Invitational Oct. 5-6, 2015 Fort Washington Country Club Fresno, Calif. Par 71 6,741 Yards 13 Teams 80 Players (Pepperdine only sent two individuals) 1st Pavon Sagoo, SMC (-16) T-51st * Roy Cootes (+5) T-72nd * Lorenzo Magagnin (+12) Alister MacKenzie Invitational Oct , 2015 Meadow Club Fairfax, Calif. Par 71 6,734 Yards 16 Teams 80 Players 1st California (-42) T-2nd Pepperdine (-33) T-2nd Arizona State (-33) 4th San Diego State (-31) 5th Michigan (-28) 1st Cody Blick, SJSU (-17) T-2nd Frederick Wedel (-16) T-8th Roy Cootes (-10) T-22nd Sahith Theegala (-5) T-38th Cody McManus (-1) T-41st Robbie Geibel (E) Warrior Princeville Makai Invitational Nov. 2-4, 2015 Princeville Makai Golf Club Princeville, Kaua i, Hawa i Par 72 7,223 Yards 17 Teams 92 Players 1st Alabama (-40) 2nd Wake Forest (-35) 3rd UAB (-28) 4th Pepperdine (-20) 5th Cal Poly (-12) 1st C. Young, Wake Forest (-15) T-6th Frederick Wedel (-8) T-14th Roy Cootes (-5) 27th Sahith Theegala (-1) T-28th Cody McManus (E) T-43rd Robbie Geibel (+3) The Prestige at PGA West Feb , 2016 Greg Norman Course at PGA West La Quinta, Calif. Par 71 7,046 Yards 15 Teams 81 Players 1st LSU (-26) 2nd Arizona State (-8) 3rd San Diego State (-4) 4th Pepperdine (E) 5th USC (+5) 1st Zach Wright, LSU (-12) T-3rd Frederick Wedel (-8) T-19th Sahith Theegala (+1) T-29th Roy Cootes (+4) T-46th Robbie Geibel (+7) T-67th Anthony Cecere (+16) 71st * Lorenzo Magagnin (+20)

5 PEPPERDINE MEN S GOLF INDIVIDUAL RESULTS Player Tournament Finish Total +/- Par RD. 1 RD. 2 RD. 3 - Par Low Anthony Gopher Invitational T-29th Cecere Primland Collegiate Invitational T-32nd The Prestige at PGA West T-67th Totals 0 Top 10 8 rds / Average 0 Top Roy Gopher Invitational 79th Cootes Nick Watney Invitational T-51st Alister MacKenzie Invitational T-8th Bill Cullum Invitational T-36th E 72 Warrior Princeville Makai Inv. T-14th The Prestige at PGA West T-29th Totals 1 Top rds / 1, Average 2 Top Robbie Gopher Invitational T-39th Geibel Primland Collegiate Invitational T-4th Alister MacKenzie Invitational T-41st 213 E Bill Cullum Invitational T-12th Warrior Princeville Makai Inv. T-43rd The Prestige at PGA West T-46th Totals 1 Top rds / 1, Average 2 Top Lorenzo Nick Watney Invitational T-72nd Magagnin The Prestige at PGA West 71st Totals 0 Top 10 6 rds / Average 0 Top Cody Gopher Invitational T-29th McManus Primland Collegiate Invitational T-19th Alister MacKenzie Invitational T-38th Bill Cullum Invitational T-22nd 216 E Warrior Princeville Makai Inv. T-28th 216 E Totals 0 Top rds / 1, Average 1 Top David Bill Cullum Invitational T-58th E 72 Pelekoudas Totals 0 Top 10 3 rds / E 72 Average 0 Top Sahith Primland Collegiate Invitational T-12th 144 E Theegala Alister MacKenzie Invitational T-22nd Bill Cullum Invitational T-4th Warrior Princeville Makai Inv. 27th The Prestige at PGA West T-19th Totals 1 Top rds / Average 3 Top Frederick Gopher Invitational T-55th Wedel Primland Collegiate Invitational T-29th Alister MacKenzie Invitational T-2nd Bill Cullum Invitational T-12th Warrior Princeville Makai Inv. T-6th The Prestige at PGA West T-3rd Totals 3 Top rds / 1, Average 4 Top