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  Brandon Askew
Brandon Askew
Player Profile
Class:
Junior

Hometown:
Fargo, N.D.

High School:
Fargo South HS

Height / Weight:
5-10 / 160

Birthdate:
10/25/1981

Experience:
2L

2002-03: An athletic player who has developed his collegiate resume in two seasons with the Rebels ... Has shown continual significant improvement in his game since adjusting to the collegiate training regimen … Finished last season ranked 243rd in the Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index.

2001-02: Played in eight tournaments, including all seven in the spring ... Peaked toward the season’s end, recording two top-10 finishes that propelled UNLV to team titles ... Carded a career low 69 at the U.S. Collegiate Championship in Tucson, Ariz. ... Matched that score in the first round of the NCAA West Regional ... Claimed his first top-10 showing after tying for ninth at the rain-shortened Kepler Intercollegiate ... Bested that performance two weeks later with a sixth-place effort at the MWC Championship.

2000-01: Played in three tournaments and eight rounds as a true freshman … Tied for 21st in his best finish at the Morris Williams Intercollegiate with rounds of 74 and 72 … Best round was a two-under 70 at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2000 honors graduate of Fargo South High School in Fargo, N.D. … A four year letterwinner in golf for coach Steve Kennedy … Led the Bruins to three team titles at the North Dakota High School State Golf Championships and won the individual title as a senior … Finished second in the state as a freshman, third as a sophomore and second again as a junior before capturing medalist honors ... Selected all-state, all-region and all-conference in golf all four years … A second team AJGA All-American in 1999 … Won the Golfweek Invitational in Chicago and the PING Junior Championship in Phoenix at the AJGA level … Lettered three times in hockey for coach Dean Wilson … Twice named MVP of the Bruins’ hockey team and was declared “Mr. Hockey” as the state’s top senior hockey player of the year.

PERSONAL: Brandon Askew was born October 25, 1981, in Grand Rapids, Mich. … The son of Mark and Lisa Askew … Has not yet declared a major.

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