Minnesota State University-Mankato Men's Golf

Alex Schmitz was named head coach of the Minnesota State men's golf program in the summer of 2021 and the women's golf coach in 2022.  Since joining the Mavericks, they have had fantastic success.   In 2023-24, the Maverick men's golf team ran away with the NSIC Tournament championship, winning the event by 23 strokes posting a 286-296-276--858, the lowest three-round total in league tournament history. Minnesota State had the top three individual golfers in the tournament and all five Mavericks finished in the top 20. For his coaching efforts, Schmitz was named the league's Coach of the Year, an award he also garnered on the women's side, becoming the first coach in league history to sweep the men's and women's coach fo the year honors in the NSIC. Additionally, this past season, the Mavericks had two men's golfers receive First-Team All-Conference honors in Ben Laffen and Max Brud and one women's golfer earn the award in Anna Cihak. A pair of women's golfers in Kelly Winter and Sammy Youngquist earned Second-Team All-NSIC efforts, while Karson Patten also earned the honor on the men's side. Patten and freshman Claire Schweim were also named the league's Newcomers of the Year on the men's and women's side respectively.  A native of Faribault, Minn., Schmitz had served as the Director of Golf/Head Boys Varsity Coach at Faribault High School since 2017.  Schmitz, who spent the 2012-13 season as a member of the Bemidji State men's golf team, was an assistant coach/swing coach with the boys and girls golf program at South Washingto Schools (East Ridge High School) in 2017. Schmitz resides in Eagle Lake and has a daughter, Laiken.

Black began his tenure as head coach of the Minnesota State men's golf program in the summer of 2014. In his first year in charge of the Mavericks, Black guided his team the the 2014-15 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament championship.  Black, who was named NSIC Coach of the Year, led Minnesota State to a fifth-place tie at the 2015 NCAA DII Midwest/Central Region Championship. Black, who served as the business manager for Alexandria Blizzard and Brookings Blizzard in both the North American Hockey league and North American 3 Hockey League and currently is the general manager of Twin City Steel of the North American 3 Hockey League, was a two-year team captain for the Mavericks. A native of Alexandria, Minn., Black played on Minnesota State teams that won two NSIC titles (2009 and 2010) and made appearances in three NCAA regional tournaments (2008, 2009 and 2010). Black has qualified for multiple Minnesota Golf Association events along with the U.S. Junior Amateur tournament. He graduated from Minnesota State in 2010 with a degree in sport management. Black, who also earned a master's degree from MSU in sport management in 2011, is married and his wife's name is Meghan.

Todd Pfingsten joined the Minnesota State men's golf program as an assistant coach in 2021. The Director of Campus Recreation since 1999, Pfingsten is a native of Worthington, Minn. He received his bachelor’s degrees in accounting and business finance from MSU in 1989 before earning a master’s degree in sport administration from the school in 1993.  He spent six years as the Assistant Director for Intramural Sports at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln prior to returning to MSU.