Cedarville University Men's Golf

Brown guided the Yellow Jackets to a third-place finish at the 2015 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Championship. He was voted the G-MAC Mens Golf Coach of the Year. Browns first team featured senior Jacob Forsythe, who was presented the prestigious NCCAA Game Plan 4 LIFE Character Award. Five of his golfers were named to the G-MAC Academic Team. A native of Mason, Ohio and an assistant on the mens basketball coaching staff, Brown produced a notable two-year career with the Yellow Jackets after transferring from NCAA Division I Lipscomb. He started all 63 games at CU with 676 points scored and 253 assists during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons. Brown helped lead the 2012 squad to the NCCAA Division I national championship. He also sparked the 2013 club to the Great Midwest Athletic Conference title. Brown was voted to the All-NCCAA Midwest Region Team and the G-MAC First Team. He was a two-time NCCAA Scholar-Athlete and was selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District® Team. Brown is a 2013 graduate of the University with a degree in early childhood education. He earned a masters in coaching and athletic administration at Concordia University (Calif.) in 2015.  Zach Brown

Rich Ritter was named the new head coach of the Cedarville University men’s and women’s golf teams in January, 2025. Ritter is the first-ever Lady Jackets’ golf head coach which begins play in the 2025-26 academic year. He will take over the men’s program from Ryan Bowen, who is retiring at the end of the 2024-25 season following a 19-year tenure coaching the Yellow Jackets. Ritter comes to the University following an accomplished coaching career at New Albany High School in New Albany, Ohio. He has served as the Eagles’ Director of Golf as the head coach of both the boys and girls programs since 2021. Ritter was solely the school’s girls golf head coach from 2017 through 2021. He posted an impressive .899 winning percentage at New Albany featuring four consecutive Ohio Division I Girls State Championship titles from 2018-21. His girls program captured the last seven Ohio Capital Conference Championship trophies in a row and his last three boys teams claimed the league championship crown. He is an eight-time Ohio Capital Conference Coach of the Year for both the girls (6) and boys (2). Three of his girls have achieved state medalist honors while ten of his players have advanced to play collegiately at the NCAA level including six in Division I. Ritter was a member of the men’s golf team at Division III Ohio Wesleyan University from 1991-94 under legendary coach Dick Gordin. He is a 1994 graduate of OWU with a degree in economics management. Rich and his wife, Stacy, have four children: a daughter, Anna, is a senior on the women’s golf team at the University of Illinois and triplet boys, Alexander, Ethan, and Huston, are freshmen on the Yellow Jacket men's golf squad.