Florida State University Men's Golf

Jones has lifted the sport of golf at Florida State to new heights. Under his direction, there is no limit on how high the Seminole programs will go. Florida State Golf will remain in excellent hands in the foreseeable future, as Director of Athletics Stan Wilcox announced on June 5, 2015, that he extended Jones' contract through the 2020 season. Trey has done an outstanding job and I am pleased that he has committed to FSUs long-term success, said Wilcox. We are consistently competing at the very highest level and our program, which has had great past success, is arguably at its strongest ever. We look forward to continued success under Treys outstanding leadership. Jones is responsible for attracting nationally ranked recruiting classes, upgrading the Seminoles' schedule to where it is ranked among the nations toughest on an annual basis and creating one of the most functional player development facilities in all of college golf on one of the Seminoles' five home golf courses. Jones continues annually to build on the Seminoles' success in developing the nation's top talent into national contenders and collegiate golf's elite players. The top-notch head coach helped FSU Mens Golf achieve more milestones in 2016. For the fifth consecutive year, the Seminoles made the NCAA Tournament the longest active streak in the ACC and tied for the sixth-longest nationally. Senior Hank Lebioda became the third Seminole to win ACC Player of the Year honors, while redshirt junior Cristobal Del Solars career year put him on the All-ACC Team and PING Southeast All-Region Team alongside Lebioda. Senior leader Lebioda was also a PING All-American. FSUs two All-ACC selections in 2016 makes it 10 straight years the Seminoles have garnered multiple all-conference selections. Heading into the 2016-17 season, FSU has finished in the Top five in 51 of its last 72 tournaments played, equating to an impressive 70.8 percent. Jones guided Florida State to its most successful season in program history in 2015, earning ACC Coach of the Year honors for the second time. FSU ranked No. 1 in the Golf Coaches Association of America Poll for most of the season and entered the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed for the first time ever. The Noles set a school record with six tournament victories and established three All-Americans in Jack Maguire (First Team), Hank Lebioda (Second Team) and Rowin Caron (Third Team) - the most in a single year. Named the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year as he led the Seminoles to the first conference championship in the sport of golf in school history, Jones is no stranger to competing with the nation's best in one of the top conferences for college golf. Building championship teams and elevating those teams onto the national stage is nothing new to Jones, who has earned five conference coach of the year awards and led 15 of his 20 teams at the Division I level to the NCAA Championship tournament. His teams consistently hold prominent places in the national rankings, are adept at winning conference championships and are annually among the top producers of All-American and all-conference performers. Jones has become one of the winningest coaches in school history in his first 13 years in Florida State. He is the only coach in school history to lead the Seminoles to 11 NCAA Tournament appearances (no other coach has led Florida State to more than five appearances) and he is ranked first in school history with 20 tournament championships (second is nine by Don Veller). The Seminoles have appeared in a school record 11 consecutive NCAA Tournaments entering the 2016-17 season. 2015 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP A prominent season was capped by an 11th-place finish at the NCAA Championship Finals, as the Seminoles fell just short of reaching the top eight by the final round. Individually, Jack Maguire finished 22nd overall while Del Solar ended at 35th. Maguire would earn first-team All-America honors from Golfweek and second-team honors from the GCAA, while Lebioda earned second-team All-America honors from both organizations. Rowin Caron highlighted his junior season as a third-team Golfweek All-American while getting honorable mention accolades from the GCAA. FSU enjoyed a dominant stretch of winning four consecutive tournaments, and also won four tournaments by coming from behind on the final day. 2014 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP Florida State once again returned to the NCAA Championship Finals, but it was with a much different looking team from the previous year. The Seminoles fielded the youngest team in the tournament with two freshmen, two sophomores and a senior and was one of only three schools (in a field of 30), with only one upperclassman in the line-up. Freshman Jack Maguire became the first freshman to be ever named an All-American at Florida State as he was named to the second team by Golfweek and to the third team but the GCAA. Maguire and sophomore Hank Lebioda were named to the All-ACC team and Maguire was tabbed the ACC Freshman of the Year. The Seminoles smashed apart the record book at the USF Invitational as the team posted the lowest round (24-under 264) and lowest three-round tournament score (41-under 823) in school history. Maguire created his mark with the lowest round in school history (10-under 62) and second lowest tournament score (16-under 200). 2013 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP Florida State finished in 11th place at the 2013 NCAA Championship Finals at the Capital City Club Crabapple in Atlanta, Ga. The Seminoles are just one of two teams to finish in the top 11 of the NCAAs in three or the last four years. Sophomore Daniel Berger led the team at the Championships finishing tied for second with a 6-under 204. Both Berger and Chase Seiffert earned All-American status for the year as Lebioda was named 2013 ACC Freshman of the Year. 2012 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP Florida State earned an eighth place national finish at the 2012 NCAA Championship Finals to mark the second time in three seasons the Seminoles finished in the top eight of the standings at the national tournament. The Seminoles entered the championship ranked No. 19 in the nation by GolfStat and finished as one of only two teams ranked outside of the top eight to finish in the top eight of the final standings. 2010 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP Florida State finished in a tie for third place at the 2010 NCAA Championship Finals to earn the best national finish in school history. The Seminoles fell to Augusta State (the 2010 National Champion) in the semifinals of the championship tournament after defeating Texas Tech in the first round of match play. The Seminoles led the stroke play portion of the tournament and finished in second place to earn the No. 2 seed in the match play portion of the event. The third place finish at the NCAA Championship marked the best finish in school history - one better than the Seminoles fourth place national finish in 1957 and tied for fourth place finish in 1958. 2008 ACC CHAMPIONSHIP Florida State, which was led by All-Americans Jonas Blixt and Matt Savage, won its first ever Atlantic Coast Conference championship as it defeated Duke by three strokes at the 2008 ACC Championship at the Old North State Club at Uwharrie Point. The Seminoles defeated Duke as they rallied from a one stroke deficit after two rounds to claim the school's first ever ACC championship in the sport of golf. Each of the five team members contributed to the victory as the Seminoles closed the 54-hole tournament with four players under par. Blixt and Savage led the way with eight-under par 208 scores as they both finished in a tie for third in the individual standings. RECRUITING Known as one of the nations most dynamic recruiters, Jones is nationally recognized as one of the top talent scouts in all of collegiate golf. His ability to recruit talented players, which in turn helps him build solid teams, is one of the aspects of coaching that has made Jones a top Division I coach. Florida State's recruiting class ranked fourth best in the nation in 2007, fifth best in 2008, sixth best in 2005 and among the nation's top 15 in 2006, 2010 and 2012. HANK LEBIODA Hank Lebioda, who played at FSU from 2012-16, will go down as one of the top golfers in school history. The four-year letterwinner leaves FSU as the programs career leader in par or better rounds (76), percentage of counting scores (93.4 percent) and birdies (467). The Winter Springs, Fla., native was the 2016 ACC Player of the Year, a four-time All-ACC Team member, a two-time All-America and a two-time ACC Player of the Month. Having an FSU legacy in his family, Lebioda embodied the true of meaning of being a Seminole and has an excellent chance of succeeding on the pro tour. BROOKS KOEPKA Jones coached Brooks Koepka the school record holder for lowest stroke average in a single season (71.09) and for a career (71.85) the ACC Golfer of the Year in 2010 and 2012 and a three-time All-ACC selection. Koepka was named the ACC Golfer of the Year twice, the ACC Rookie of the Year in 2009 and earned All-American twice in his career in leading the Seminoles to four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and two top-10 NCAA Championship Finals finishes. As a senior, Koepka tied the school record with a nine under par score of 63 in the third round of the FAU Spring Break Invitational and set the school record with his 199 total for three rounds of the event. Koepka won three events as a senior at the Brickyard Collegiate Championship, the Seminole Intercollegiate, the FAU Spring Break Invitational. Koepka secured his status on the PGA Tour by tying for fourth place in the 2014 U.S. Open, and finished the 2015 season with Top 10 major finishes at The Open Championship (T-10th) and the PGA Championship (T-5th). He won his first tournament at the 2015 Waste Management Phoenix Open. DANIEL BERGER Under Jones tutelage, Daniel Berger secured All-America status in 2013 by earning first-team honors from the GCAA and Golfweek. Bergers 69.79 average score in the 2012-13 year makes him the only Seminole to shot sub-70 in a season, an average score that led the country. He finished as an All-ACC selection in the same spectacular year, and joins former teammate Koepka as two of the best young players on the PGA Tour. Berger was honored as the 2014-15 PGA Tour Player of the Year, and won his first tournament at the 2016 FedEx St. Jude Classic. JONAS BLIXT Jones coached one of Florida State's all-time best players - Jonas Blixt - to All-America honors and the first individual ACC Championship in school history. Blixt earned Ping/Division I All-American First Team honors in 2008 and Ping/Division I All-American second team honors in 2007. He is one of only three players in school history to earn All-American First and Second Team honors during his career. Blixt won the ACC individual championship in 2007 to become the first Seminole to win ACC medalist honors. He helped lead Florida State to the 2008 ACC Championship - the first ACC golf championship in school history - and earned All-ACC honors twice during his career. Blixt is currently playing on the PGA Tour with two wins, the 2012 Frys.com Open and 2013 Greenbrier Classic. He finished tied for second in the 2014 Masters Tournament and fourth in the 2013 PGA Championship. DREW KITTLESON Jones also coached Drew Kittleson, who will long be remembered as one of the top golfers in school history. Kittleson played in the Masters Championship at Augusta in 2009, the U.S. Open at Bethpage Black in 2009, four NCAA Championships and four ACC Championships during his standout career as a Seminole. He earned All-American Honorable Mention honors from Ping/Golf Coaches' Association of America in 2010 and Southeast Regional All-American honors in 2011. Kittleson helped lead Florida State to the 2008 ACC Championship - the first ACC golf championship in school history and to a third place finish at the NCAA Division I Championship finals in 2010 - the highest national finish in school history. After a second place finish at the 2009 U.S. Amateur, he earned exemptions to play in both the 2009 Masters and U.S. Open Championships. Kittleson is currently playing on the Web.com Tour. ACADEMIC SUCCESS Committed to the academic and athletic success of his student-athletes, Jones has coached 33 members of the ACC Academic Honor Roll, seven members of the ACC Academic Golf Team and three members of the Golf Coaches' Association of America All-American Scholar team. His team was also nationally recognized in 2010 as one of the few schools in the NCAA to achieve a perfect APR score of 1000 since the inception of the Academic Progress Rate program in 2003. During his tenure at Georgia State, he coached 10 members of the Atlantic Sun All-Academic team and 20 members of the TAAC All-Academic team. JONES NATIONALLY Jones has been an active member of the Golf Coaches Association of America since 1993. He is currently a member of the steering committee for the Collegiate Golf Hall of Fame. Jones served the board as the Division I Director for the East Region and served as the chair of the District 3 South Regional NCAA Selection Committee. He was also a representative in the District 3 South NCAA Selection Committee from 1999-2002. GEORGIA STATE Trey Jones was named the head coach at Georgia State in 1995 and immediately began to assemble one of the dominant men's golf programs in the southeastern United States. He led the Panthers onto the national scene for the first time in school history including their first appearance in the NCAA Championship tournament (2003), first conference championship (1998, Trans America Athletic Conference) and highest national ranking (20th during the 2000 season). Jones was responsible for the program in its entirety including recruiting, coaching, fundraising, public relations, strength and conditioning, scheduling and all budgetary matters. Under Jones' leadership, Georgia State amassed 91 wins over SEC teams and 33 wins over ACC opponents from 1997-2003. During that period, the Panthers earned 23 victories over top 25 opponents. PERSONAL Jones is married to the former Cathy McVeigh, who is the coordinator of financial aid for student-athletes at Florida State. They are the proud parents of a daughter, Jordan (14) and a son, Drew (10). Jones earned his bachelor's degree in health and physical education with a minor in business administration from North Alabama in 1991. Jones is a 25-year veteran of the collegiate coaching ranks. He was the head men's coach and Director of Golf Operations at Georgia State for eight years (1996-2003) before becoming only the fifth coach in the history of the Seminole program in 2004. Prior to his career at Georgia State, Jones was an assistant coach at Wallace State Junior College (1992-95) and his alma mater North Alabama (1991). Jones developed his teaching, coaching and recruiting philosophies as he helped hone those programs into national contenders. Two-time ACC Coach of the Year (2008, 2015) Five straight NCAA Championship appearances (longest active streak in ACC) 20 tournament wins (most in school history) Nine All-Americans and 20 All-America honors in his tenure Updated August 2016 Top national finishes, All-Americans, professional success and academic achievement have become synonymous with the Florida State mens golf program under Trey Jones. Now in his 14th season as the head mens coach and Director of Golf for the Seminoles mens and womens golf programs, Jones has lifted the sport of golf at Florida State to new heights. Under his direction, there is no limit on how high the Seminole programs will go. Florida State Golf will remain in excellent hands in the foreseeable future, as Director of Athletics Stan Wilcox announced on June 5, 2015, that he extended Jones' contract through the 2020 season. Trey has done an outstanding job and I am pleased that he has committed to FSUs long-term success, said Wilcox. We are consistently competing at the very highest level and our program, which has had great past success, is arguably at its strongest ever. We look forward to continued success under Treys outstanding leadership. Jones is responsible for attracting nationally ranked recruiting classes, upgrading the Seminoles' schedule to where it is ranked among the nations toughest on an annual basis and creating one of the most functional player development facilities in all of college golf on one of the Seminoles' five home golf courses. Jones continues annually to build on the Seminoles' success in developing the nation's top talent into national contenders and collegiate golf's elite players. The top-notch head coach helped FSU Mens Golf achieve more milestones in 2016. For the fifth consecutive year, the Seminoles made the NCAA Tournament the longest active streak in the ACC and tied for the sixth-longest nationally. Senior Hank Lebioda became the third Seminole to win ACC Player of the Year honors, while redshirt junior Cristobal Del Solars career year put him on the All-ACC Team and PING Southeast All-Region Team alongside Lebioda. Senior leader Lebioda was also a PING All-American. FSUs two All-ACC selections in 2016 makes it 10 straight years the Seminoles have garnered multiple all-conference selections. Heading into the 2016-17 season, FSU has finished in the Top five in 51 of its last 72 tournaments played, equating to an impressive 70.8 percent. Jones guided Florida State to its most successful season in program history in 2015, earning ACC Coach of the Year honors for the second time. FSU ranked No. 1 in the Golf Coaches Association of America Poll for most of the season and entered the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed for the first time ever. The Noles set a school record with six tournament victories and established three All-Americans in Jack Maguire (First Team), Hank Lebioda (Second Team) and Rowin Caron (Third Team) - the most in a single year. Named the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year as he led the Seminoles to the first conference championship in the sport of golf in school history, Jones is no stranger to competing with the nation's best in one of the top conferences for college golf. Building championship teams and elevating those teams onto the national stage is nothing new to Jones, who has earned five conference coach of the year awards and led 15 of his 20 teams at the Division I level to the NCAA Championship tournament. His teams consistently hold prominent places in the national rankings, are adept at winning conference championships and are annually among the top producers of All-American and all-conference performers. Jones has become one of the winningest coaches in school history in his first 13 years in Florida State. He is the only coach in school history to lead the Seminoles to 11 NCAA Tournament appearances (no other coach has led Florida State to more than five appearances) and he is ranked first in school history with 20 tournament championships (second is nine by Don Veller). The Seminoles have appeared in a school record 11 consecutive NCAA Tournaments entering the 2016-17 season. 2015 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP A prominent season was capped by an 11th-place finish at the NCAA Championship Finals, as the Seminoles fell just short of reaching the top eight by the final round. Individually, Jack Maguire finished 22nd overall while Del Solar ended at 35th. Maguire would earn first-team All-America honors from Golfweek and second-team honors from the GCAA, while Lebioda earned second-team All-America honors from both organizations. Rowin Caron highlighted his junior season as a third-team Golfweek All-American while getting honorable mention accolades from the GCAA. FSU enjoyed a dominant stretch of winning four consecutive tournaments, and also won four tournaments by coming from behind on the final day. 2014 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP Florida State once again returned to the NCAA Championship Finals, but it was with a much different looking team from the previous year. The Seminoles fielded the youngest team in the tournament with two freshmen, two sophomores and a senior and was one of only three schools (in a field of 30), with only one upperclassman in the line-up. Freshman Jack Maguire became the first freshman to be ever named an All-American at Florida State as he was named to the second team by Golfweek and to the third team but the GCAA. Maguire and sophomore Hank Lebioda were named to the All-ACC team and Maguire was tabbed the ACC Freshman of the Year. The Seminoles smashed apart the record book at the USF Invitational as the team posted the lowest round (24-under 264) and lowest three-round tournament score (41-under 823) in school history. Maguire created his mark with the lowest round in school history (10-under 62) and second lowest tournament score (16-under 200). 2013 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP Florida State finished in 11th place at the 2013 NCAA Championship Finals at the Capital City Club Crabapple in Atlanta, Ga. The Seminoles are just one of two teams to finish in the top 11 of the NCAAs in three or the last four years. Sophomore Daniel Berger led the team at the Championships finishing tied for second with a 6-under 204. Both Berger and Chase Seiffert earned All-American status for the year as Lebioda was named 2013 ACC Freshman of the Year. 2012 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP Florida State earned an eighth place national finish at the 2012 NCAA Championship Finals to mark the second time in three seasons the Seminoles finished in the top eight of the standings at the national tournament. The Seminoles entered the championship ranked No. 19 in the nation by GolfStat and finished as one of only two teams ranked outside of the top eight to finish in the top eight of the final standings. 2010 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP Florida State finished in a tie for third place at the 2010 NCAA Championship Finals to earn the best national finish in school history. The Seminoles fell to Augusta State (the 2010 National Champion) in the semifinals of the championship tournament after defeating Texas Tech in the first round of match play. The Seminoles led the stroke play portion of the tournament and finished in second place to earn the No. 2 seed in the match play portion of the event. The third place finish at the NCAA Championship marked the best finish in school history - one better than the Seminoles fourth place national finish in 1957 and tied for fourth place finish in 1958. 2008 ACC CHAMPIONSHIP Florida State, which was led by All-Americans Jonas Blixt and Matt Savage, won its first ever Atlantic Coast Conference championship as it defeated Duke by three strokes at the 2008 ACC Championship at the Old North State Club at Uwharrie Point. The Seminoles defeated Duke as they rallied from a one stroke deficit after two rounds to claim the school's first ever ACC championship in the sport of golf. Each of the five team members contributed to the victory as the Seminoles closed the 54-hole tournament with four players under par. Blixt and Savage led the way with eight-under par 208 scores as they both finished in a tie for third in the individual standings. RECRUITING Known as one of the nations most dynamic recruiters, Jones is nationally recognized as one of the top talent scouts in all of collegiate golf. His ability to recruit talented players, which in turn helps him build solid teams, is one of the aspects of coaching that has made Jones a top Division I coach. Florida State's recruiting class ranked fourth best in the nation in 2007, fifth best in 2008, sixth best in 2005 and among the nation's top 15 in 2006, 2010 and 2012. HANK LEBIODA Hank Lebioda, who played at FSU from 2012-16, will go down as one of the top golfers in school history. The four-year letterwinner leaves FSU as the programs career leader in par or better rounds (76), percentage of counting scores (93.4 percent) and birdies (467). The Winter Springs, Fla., native was the 2016 ACC Player of the Year, a four-time All-ACC Team member, a two-time All-America and a two-time ACC Player of the Month. Having an FSU legacy in his family, Lebioda embodied the true of meaning of being a Seminole and has an excellent chance of succeeding on the pro tour. BROOKS KOEPKA Jones coached Brooks Koepka the school record holder for lowest stroke average in a single season (71.09) and for a career (71.85) the ACC Golfer of the Year in 2010 and 2012 and a three-time All-ACC selection. Koepka was named the ACC Golfer of the Year twice, the ACC Rookie of the Year in 2009 and earned All-American twice in his career in leading the Seminoles to four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and two top-10 NCAA Championship Finals finishes. As a senior, Koepka tied the school record with a nine under par score of 63 in the third round of the FAU Spring Break Invitational and set the school record with his 199 total for three rounds of the event. Koepka won three events as a senior at the Brickyard Collegiate Championship, the Seminole Intercollegiate, the FAU Spring Break Invitational. Koepka secured his status on the PGA Tour by tying for fourth place in the 2014 U.S. Open, and finished the 2015 season with Top 10 major finishes at The Open Championship (T-10th) and the PGA Championship (T-5th). He won his first tournament at the 2015 Waste Management Phoenix Open. DANIEL BERGER Under Jones tutelage, Daniel Berger secured All-America status in 2013 by earning first-team honors from the GCAA and Golfweek. Bergers 69.79 average score in the 2012-13 year makes him the only Seminole to shot sub-70 in a season, an average score that led the country. He finished as an All-ACC selection in the same spectacular year, and joins former teammate Koepka as two of the best young players on the PGA Tour. Berger was honored as the 2014-15 PGA Tour Player of the Year, and won his first tournament at the 2016 FedEx St. Jude Classic. JONAS BLIXT Jones coached one of Florida State's all-time best players - Jonas Blixt - to All-America honors and the first individual ACC Championship in school history. Blixt earned Ping/Division I All-American First Team honors in 2008 and Ping/Division I All-American second team honors in 2007. He is one of only three players in school history to earn All-American First and Second Team honors during his career. Blixt won the ACC individual championship in 2007 to become the first Seminole to win ACC medalist honors. He helped lead Florida State to the 2008 ACC Championship - the first ACC golf championship in school history - and earned All-ACC honors twice during his career. Blixt is currently playing on the PGA Tour with two wins, the 2012 Frys.com Open and 2013 Greenbrier Classic. He finished tied for second in the 2014 Masters Tournament and fourth in the 2013 PGA Championship. DREW KITTLESON Jones also coached Drew Kittleson, who will long be remembered as one of the top golfers in school history. Kittleson played in the Masters Championship at Augusta in 2009, the U.S. Open at Bethpage Black in 2009, four NCAA Championships and four ACC Championships during his standout career as a Seminole. He earned All-American Honorable Mention honors from Ping/Golf Coaches' Association of America in 2010 and Southeast Regional All-American honors in 2011. Kittleson helped lead Florida State to the 2008 ACC Championship - the first ACC golf championship in school history and to a third place finish at the NCAA Division I Championship finals in 2010 - the highest national finish in school history. After a second place finish at the 2009 U.S. Amateur, he earned exemptions to play in both the 2009 Masters and U.S. Open Championships. Kittleson is currently playing on the Web.com Tour. ACADEMIC SUCCESS Committed to the academic and athletic success of his student-athletes, Jones has coached 33 members of the ACC Academic Honor Roll, seven members of the ACC Academic Golf Team and three members of the Golf Coaches' Association of America All-American Scholar team. His team was also nationally recognized in 2010 as one of the few schools in the NCAA to achieve a perfect APR score of 1000 since the inception of the Academic Progress Rate program in 2003. During his tenure at Georgia State, he coached 10 members of the Atlantic Sun All-Academic team and 20 members of the TAAC All-Academic team. JONES NATIONALLY Jones has been an active member of the Golf Coaches Association of America since 1993. He is currently a member of the steering committee for the Collegiate Golf Hall of Fame. Jones served the board as the Division I Director for the East Region and served as the chair of the District 3 South Regional NCAA Selection Committee. He was also a representative in the District 3 South NCAA Selection Committee from 1999-2002. GEORGIA STATE Trey Jones was named the head coach at Georgia State in 1995 and immediately began to assemble one of the dominant men's golf programs in the southeastern United States. He led the Panthers onto the national scene for the first time in school history including their first appearance in the NCAA Championship tournament (2003), first conference championship (1998, Trans America Athletic Conference) and highest national ranking (20th during the 2000 season). Jones was responsible for the program in its entirety including recruiting, coaching, fundraising, public relations, strength and conditioning, scheduling and all budgetary matters. Under Jones' leadership, Georgia State amassed 91 wins over SEC teams and 33 wins over ACC opponents from 1997-2003. During that period, the Panthers earned 23 victories over top 25 opponents. PERSONAL Jones is married to the former Cathy McVeigh, who is the coordinator of financial aid for student-athletes at Florida State. They are the proud parents of a daughter, Jordan (14) and a son, Drew (10). Jones earned his bachelor's degree in health and physical education with a minor in business administration from North Alabama in 1991. Jones is a 25-year veteran of the collegiate coaching ranks. He was the head men's coach and Director of Golf Operations at Georgia State for eight years (1996-2003) before becoming only the fifth coach in the history of the Seminole program in 2004. Prior to his career at Georgia State, Jones was an assistant coach at Wallace State Junior College (1992-95) and his alma mater North Alabama (1991). Jones developed his teaching, coaching and recruiting philosophies as he helped hone those programs into national contenders.

Maggio on the Seminoles coaching staff during the 2015-16 fall and spring seasons.  Matilda Castren finished as the co-champion of the NCAA Shoal Creek Regional, Castren and Kim Metraux earned All-ACC honors and Florida State finished third in stroke average in the incredible competitive ACC.  A pair of Seminoles Matilda Castren (three individual wins) and Lydia Gumm (her first career individual win) earned individual championships and Morgane Metraux set the school record for best win and lowest school in an NCAA regional championship.  Maggio came to Florida State after one year as an assistant coach at Baylor (2014-15) and one season as an assistant coach at Houston (2013-14).  She helped coach the Baylor womens golf team to a second place finish at the 2015 NCAA Championships.  As a standout player, she won the Big 12 Championship and earned All-Big 12 honors at Texas A&M in 2012. Maggio helped coach Florida State to the fourth round of the 2016 NCAA Championship Finals as she helped the Seminoles to the cusp of match play to decide the national champion.  The Seminoles qualified for the finals with a second place finish at the NCAA Shoal Creek Regional Championship the highest regional finish in school history.  Florida States regional finish advanced it to the championship finals for the first time since 2010 and for the 10 time in school history.  Maggio is no stranger to success in the NCAA Championship Finals and she helped coach Baylor to within one hole of the NCAA Title in 2015. She coached the Bears to a national runner-up finish at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Fla., in May of 2015.  The Bears fell to Stanford on the first extra hole of a playoff to finish second and earn Baylors highest NCAA finish in the sport of womens golf.  Baylor defeated Tennessee in the national quarterfinals and Duke in the semifinals to reach the national championship match.  Baylor and Stanford split the first four matches before Stanford clinched the national championship on the 19 hole of the final match. Maggio began her coaching career at the University of Houston where she was an assistant coach during the inaugural season for the Cougar womens golf team during the 2013 and 2015 fall and spring seasons.  She worked with head coach Gerrod Chadwell and flourished as a staff with only three golfers on their roster.  With only three golfers, the Cougars were ineligible to compete as a team.  Maggio helped coach sophomore Raegan Bremer to All-AAC honors and an individual victory in the Houston Baptist University Husky Invitational during the spring of 2014. Maggio forged a successful collegiate playing career at both LSU (2010 and 2011) and at Texas A&M (2012 and 2013).  During her first two seasons at LSU, she helped lead the Tigers to the team championships at the 2009 NGCA Match Play and 2010 Mason Rudolph tournaments.  During her two seasons at Texas A&M, Maggio won the 2012 Big 12 Championship, earned All Big 12 and All Big 12 Tournament honors in 2012 and was named to the 2013 SEC Academic Honor Roll.  Individually she earned individual championships at the 2012 Big 12 Championship and the fall 2012 Liz Murphey Fall Preview. Maggio enjoyed a stellar junior career before beginning her collegiate playing career.  She earned All-American honors by the American Junior Golf Association and was ranked No. 9 nationally in the AJGA in 2009.  Maggio was a two-time Arkansas state champion (2006 and 2007) and earned All-State honors in each of her four seasons on the girls varsity golf team.  In 42 high school matches she was a medalist 37 times and was the runner-up in the other five events. Maggio earned her Bachelors Degree in Agricultural Communications and Journalism from Texas A&M in 2013. Maggio helped Florida State finish the 2015-16 season ranked 19 nationally by Golfstat, 24 nationally by Golfweek, 15 nationally in the NCAA Division I Championship Finals, second at the NCAA Division I Shoal Creek Regional, win team championships at the fall 2015 Jacksonville Classic and the spring 2016 Florida State Match-Up, finish in the top five of nine of its 13 matches, have two players earn NCAA Shoal Creek All-Region honors (Matilda Castren and Kim Metraux) and have two players earn All-ACC honors (Castren and Metraux). Maggio helped lead Baylor to a second place finish in the NCAA Championship Finals in her only season with the Bears in 2015.  The Bears finished third in stroke play and missed winning a national championship in match play against Stanford by one stroke.  Baylor won four events during the regular season as it captured the team championships at the Northrup Grumman Regional Challenge, the Texas San-Antonio Tri Match, the Big 12 tournament and the NCAA San Antonio Regional Championship.  Maggio helped coach senior Hayley Davis to three individual championships and All-American First Team honors in 2015.  Davis was the first All-American First Team selection in Baylor history.  Davis and teammate Dylan Kim both earned All-American honors in 2015.  Both Davis and Kim also earned All-Big 12 honors and Kim was named the 2015 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. Maggio joined the University of Houston Womens Golf program as a volunteer assistant coach in the summer of 2013. She was promoted to full-time assistant coach in February 2014.  At Houston, Maggio worked under head coach Gerrod Chadwell.  The coaching duo led the program through its inaugural season with only three participating players, making the Cougars ineligible to compete as a team. However, Raegan Bremer won the individual title at the 2014 HBU Husky Invitational, and she went on to earn a pair of The American Golfer of the Week awards and was named to the All-American Athletic Conference Team. The trio of golfers combined to record 13 top-25 individual finishes in 26 events. Maggio began her career at LSU and completed her career as an All-Big 12 selection at Texas A&M.  She averaged 75.40 strokes in 14 events during her career at LSU (2009 and 2010).  Maggio helped lead the Tigers to the team championship at the fall 2010 Mason Rudolph Championship and earned her best finish as a Tiger tied for eighth at the fall 2009 NGCA Match Play Championship.  At the Match Play Championship, she finished in a tie for eighth in stroke play and was undefeated, 3-0, in match-play.   Maggio transferred to Texas A&M for her junior and senior seasons and flourished as a golfer in College Station.  She was a two-time All-Big 12, a two-time All-Big 12 Tournament team selection and was named the Big 12 Golfer of the Month in April of her junior season.  She was named the National Golfer of the Week by GolfWeek in October of 2012.  Maggio averaged 74.86 strokes in 18 career events as an Aggie including a single-season career low 74.85 strokes per round as a junior.  She won the Big 12 championship, earned All-Big 12 honors and was named to the All Big 12 Tournament teams as a senior in 2013.  She helped Texas A&M advance to the NCAA Championship Finals during her junior season and the NCAA Regional Championships in both her junior and senior seasons.  The Aggies finished in a tie for 16 place at the 2012 NCAA Championship Finals.  Maggio won the individual championship at the 2012 Big 12 Tournament and won the individual title at the Liz Murphey Fall preview during the 2012-13 season. Maggio earned her bachelors degree in agricultural communications and journalism and was named to the 2013 SEC Academic Honor Roll.  During her first season at Florida State, all 10 members of the Seminole womens golf team were named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll while four members of the team were named to the ACC All-Academic Womens Golf team and two were named to the WGCA All-American Scholar Athlete team. Maggio enjoyed a standout junior golf career and is still considered to be one of the top high players in the history of the state of Arkansas.  She was named the 2004, 2005 and 2006 Arkansas Women's Golf Association Player of the Year, was the state junior match play champion (2005 and 2006) and the state junior stroke champion (2004 and 2005).  Maggio won the 2007 Valero Texas Open Championship and the 2008 Bubba Conlee event as she earned nine top 10 finishes and five top five finishes in AJGA events.  She was a four-time qualifier for U.S. Girls Junior Open championship and finished in a personal best tied for ninth in both 2007 and 2008.  Maggio graduated from Conway High School as one of the most decorated athletes in school history as a star golfer and a star basketball player.  She was named the golfer of the year in each of her four high school seasons by the Conway Democrat.

Ducks tutelage, both Seminole teams have become perennial leaders in national rankings and course statistics as well as in the production of All-Americans and All-ACC performers, as he has helped raise the profiles of both programs to the levels necessary to compete as top collegiate programs on an annual basis. Duck plays an integral role in the successes of both programs including the mens national ranking of No. 1 and the womens national finish of 15th during the 2016 season.  Duck has helped coach both programs into the NCAA Tournament in each of his first five years while working with All-Americans and All-ACC honorees on both teams. In his first five seasons at Florida State, the men have produced seven All-Americans, 12 All-ACC selections, two ACC Golfers of the Year (Brooks Koepka in 2012 and Hank Lebioda in 2016) and two ACC Freshmen of the Year while the women have produced two All-Americans and seven All-ACC performers. During each of his five seasons, the Seminole men and the Seminole women have appeared in the NCAA Tournament five times each with the men finishing in ninth in the team standings in the 2012 NCAA Championship finals and 11th in the 2015 NCAA Championship finals and the women finishing in 15th at the 2016 NCAA Championship Finals.  The men have finished in second (twice) and third once and the women have finished third once and have earned two fourth place finishes in their respective ACC Championships. Ducks work with Florida States players has led to incredible individual success in his first five seasons in Tallahassee.  His teaching abilities and coaching philosophies have helped accelerate the careers of two of the top mens players in school history Brooks Koepka and Daniel Berger as well as four of the top performers on the womens team Matilda Castren, Lydia Gumm, Maria Salinas and Jessica Negron.  Koepka was named the ACC Golfer of the Year in 2012 and was a three-time All-ACC selection while Berger earned All-ACC honors and played for the United States Palmer Cup team in 2013.  Duck also worked with Seminole All-America Hank Lebioda who earned All-America honors in 2015 and 2016, was the 2013 ACC Freshman of the Year, a four-time All-ACC selection and was a member of the 2014 United States Palmer Cup Team.  Castren earned All-American honors in 2014, is a two-time All-ACC honoree and holds the record for lowest stroke average in school history.  Gumm was an All-ACC selection in 2015, Salinas finished in a tie for first in the NCAA Central Regional and earned All-America honors in 2012 and Negron earned All-ACC honors in 2013. Duck has helped coach the Florida State men to 13 tournament championships in his first five seasons in Tallahassee.  The Seminoles won four consecutive tournaments, earned six overall team championships and were the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Golf championships in 2015.  Duck helped the Seminole women win three team championships and finish in second place at the 2016 NCAA Shoal Creek Regional. The Seminoles both the men and the women have been ranked among the nations top 30 teams throughout his first four seasons at Florida State.  The men were ranked as high as No. 1 in 2015 while the women were ranked as high as No. 16 in 2016. COACHING EXPERIENCE Duck is one of the rising stars in collegiate coaching.  He was the acting head coach at Augusta State in 2002, served the Jaguars as a volunteer assistant coach during the 2001-02 season and was an assistant coach for the program during the 2002-03 season.  During his tenure as the acting coach at Augusta State, the Jaguars were ranked as high as No. 9 nationally. COLLEGIATE PLAYING EXPERIENCE Duck enjoyed a standout career at Augusta State (1998-01) where he earned All-America honors as a sophomore (1999) and led the Jaguars to three NCAA Championship appearances (1998, 1999, 2001). He is one of the top golfers in the storied history of the Augusta State program and remains listed prominently in the record book 15 years after his playing career ended. Duck is ranked second in school history for lowest stroke average by a freshman (73.22) (which stood as the school record for nearly 15 years).  It is an average that still ranks in the top 15 in school history.   His career stroke average of 73.86 is ranked 14th in school history. During his career he earned 12 top-10 and 28 top-20 individual finishes. COLLEGIATE COACHING EXPERIENCE Ducks ability to communicate with the players he coaches is illustrated by the success those players have earned on the golf course.  In in first five seasons at Florida State he has worked with 10 All-Americans, 19 All-ACC honorees, two ACC Golfers of the Year and three ACC Freshmen of the Year.  Each of the ten teams (five mens and five womens) he has helped coach at Florida State has played in the NCAA Tournament and both teams have been ranked in the nations top 20 during the first five years of his tenure in Tallahassee. 2016 WAS A SPECIAL YEAR FOR THE SEMINOLE WOMEN Duck helped the Seminole women finish the 2015-16 season ranked 19th nationally by Golfstat, 24th nationally by Golfweek, finish 15th nationally in the NCAA Division I Championship Finals, finish second at the NCAA Division I Shoal Creek Regional, win team championships at the fall 2015 Jacksonville Classic and the spring 2016 Florida State Match-Up, finish in the top five of nine of its 13 matches, have two players earn NCAA Shoal Creek All-Region honors (Matilda Castren and Kim Metraux) and have two players earn All-ACC honors (Castren and Metraux). 2015 WAS ONE OF THE BEST IN PROGRAM HISTORY Duck helped the Seminole mens golf team to the best season in program history in 2015.  The Seminoles finished 11th in the final standings at the NCAA Mens Golf Championships, finished in second place in the ACC Championships, earned a program-best national ranking of No. 1 during the season, were the No. 1 seed in the NCAA mens Golf Championship tournament, had three players earn All-American honors (third time in school history three players earned All-American honors in the same season) and set a single-season school record with six tournament wins. 2014 WAS A BANNER YEAR Ducks coaching efforts in 2014 helped the Seminole men to a second place finish in the ACC championship, a fifth place finish in the NCAA Raleigh Regional and an appearance in the NCAA Championship Finals for the third consecutive year.  He helped coach one All-American, the ACC Freshman of the Year and All-ACC selections Jack Maguire and Hank Lebioda.  The Seminole men won the USF Invitational as they posted the best single round team and tournament score in team history in winning the championship.  Duck helped coach freshman Matilda Castren who earned All-American Second Team and All-ACC Honors and who was the runner-up for ACC Player and Rookie of the Year honors as well as All-ACC selection Alex Milan. SUCCESS OF BROOKS KOEPKA Duck worked with All-American Brooks Koepka during his final season as a Seminole (2011-12).  He was named the ACC Player of the Year and led the Seminoles to a ninth place finish at the NCAA Championship finals in 2012.  Koepka earned his PGA Tour card for the 2014-15 season as he finished in a tie for fourth place at the 2014 U.S. Open a finish which also earned him an invitation to play in the 2015 Masters Championship.  Koepka enjoyed his best professional season in 2015 as he finished in the top 10 at both the Open Championship (tied for 10th) and the PGA Championship (tied for fifth) and set a record for a Florida State player with a 13-under par score in finishing in a tie for fifth at the 2015 PGA Championship.  Koepka won the championship of the 2015 Phoenix Open for his first PGA Tour victory. SUCCESS OF DANIEL BERGER Duck coached Daniel Berger, the 2016 FedEx St. Jude tournament champion on the PGA Tour, during his stellar two-year career as a Seminole.  Berger won two individual titles (the spring 2013 Gator Invitational and the spring 2013 Seminole Invitational), was a two-time First-Team All-American, was named to the All-Nicklaus Team, the All-ACC Team and the Ping All Region team as a sophomore during his career at Florida State.  He led the ACC in stroke average and carded his career low score of 65 during the spring of his sophomore season.  Berger was named the 2015 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year. ON COURSE COACHING Because he has played and coached at such high levels, Duck is known as a players coach.  His ability to help each student-athlete create long-term training schedules and encourage them to work towards those goals on a daily basis has helped create a teaching environment that has fostered the recent successes of both the Seminoles mens and womens programs. NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY AS A PLAYER Duck led Augusta State (now Georgia Regents University) to three NCAA Championship tournament appearances and helped the Jaguars to a seventh place finish as a senior. The seventh place finish was the best in program history at the time. With the foundation put in place by Duck and his teammates, the Jaguars won the NCAA Titles in 2010 and 2011. SUCCESS IN PROFESSIONAL WORLD Duck enjoyed a successful career as a manager of professional golfers for the Hambric Sports Group (2003-2012) before accepting his current assistant coaching position at Florida State. Based in London, Duck was the supervisor of the European Division of Hambric Stellar Golf. He was a player manager who oversaw public relations and marketing for seven clients including 1988 Masters champion Sandy Lyle, 2005 European Tour Rookie of the Year Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, former Augusta State All-American Oliver Wilson and Francesco Molinari. PERSONAL Duck is married to the former Michelle Digsby. The couple has two daughters, Annabel (nine) and Hannah (six). He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from Augusta State in 2001. A native of Northampton, England, he represented Great Britain-Ireland as a member of the 1998 Palmer Cup team. Duck played in the 1997 European Amateur Championship and finished tied as the runner-up with Sergio Garcia and Luke Donald.

Santiago has been a member of the athletics staff at Florida State since 2007 when she became a member of the Athletic Academic Support Unit.  She was promoted to the position of Associate Director of the Academic Support Unit before becoming the Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance in 2009.  She served the department in that capacity until 2012 when she began working with the National Championship track and field teams. Santiago previously worked as the Assistant Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Development at Georgia State University, as well as spending four years as a high school teacher before coming to Florida State. A native of Sarasota, Florida, Santiago earned her undergraduate degree in English from Villanova University and a Masters in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2001, she married Matt Balog. The couple has four children: Tauara, 32, Alexander,12,  Nicolas, 10 and six-year old Lucas.