University of North Florida Men's Golf

Davidson returned to his alma mater after serving a year and a half stint as an assistant coach at Mercer University. While at Mercer, Davidson assisted coach Steve Bradley in building the Bears into a regional contender including coaching UMs James Beale to an appearance in the 2012 NCAA Regionals. A 2011 graduate of UNF with a bachelors degree in business administration and marketing, Davidson played in 14 collegiate tournaments during his playing career. As a senior, Davidson made the travel squad for 10 events including the 2011 NCAA Regional. He recorded several top 30 individual finishes and had a personal best finish of T-22nd at the SunTrust Gator Invitational in his final season. For his career, he boasted a 76.60 stroke average over 48 rounds and posted a pair of rounds under par including a career best 68 in the Schenkel Invitational. Off the course, Davidson garnered four ASun All-Academic honors and also helped found the FCA Chapter at UNF and served as the group's first president. Jacob Davidson was named the assistant coach for the North Florida mens golf team in January of 2013. Davidson returned to his alma mater after serving a year and a half stint as an assistant coach at Mercer University. While at Mercer, Davidson assisted coach Steve Bradley in building the Bears into a regional contender including coaching UMs James Beale to an appearance in the 2012 NCAA Regionals. A 2011 graduate of UNF with a bachelors degree in business administration and marketing, Davidson played in 14 collegiate tournaments during his playing career. As a senior, Davidson made the travel squad for 10 events including the 2011 NCAA Regional. He recorded several top 30 individual finishes and had a personal best finish of T-22nd at the SunTrust Gator Invitational in his final season. For his career, he boasted a 76.60 stroke average over 48 rounds and posted a pair of rounds under par including a career best 68 in the Schenkel Invitational. Off the course, Davidson garnered four ASun All-Academic honors and also helped found the FCA Chapter at UNF and served as the group's first president.

Schroeder, is in his 11th season as head coach and continues leading the Ospreys to new and higher levels. With Schroeder at the helm, UNF has captured four Atlantic Sun Championships including three of the last five titles (2012|2013|2015). In addition, UNF has made eight NCAA Regional appearances including each of the last seven seasons along with advancing to the NCAA Championship round three times. The Ospreys also have either won or finished runner-up in nine A-Sun Championship events during his tenure. In May of 2016, Schroeder was named a member of the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Committee and will serve with the group until Aug. 31, 2020. As part of his committee member duties, he will help evaluate, select and seed the team's for the NCAA Tournament Regional fields in 2017-2020. Schroeder was named interim head coach for his alma mater in January of 2006 and earned the permanent title during the summer of that same year. Under his guidance Osprey golfers have excelled on and off the course, including: One Ping (Div. I) All-American, three A-Sun Golfers of the Year, a quartet of A-Sun Freshman of the Years, 22 all-conference honorees, 14 Atlantic Sun all-tournament finishers, 10 all-freshman team selections, one NCAA Regional individual qualifier, a pair of Academic All-ASun honorees and 41 league academic honor roll team members. He has also been recognized as the A-Sun Coach of the Year five times (2008|2010|2012|2013|2015). Schroeder did not have to make a long move in 2006 to his new office at the Hayt Golf and Learning Center on the campus of UNF. He served as director of the center for two and half years prior to his move. Prior to serving as director at the Hayt Center, Schroeder served as an assistant coach under former UNF coach John Brooks during the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons. Brooks recruited Schroeder to play for UNF, where he was a letterwinner from 1994-98, the team's inaugural season at the NCAA Division I level. As a junior, Schroeder won more than 20 tournaments before capturing his biggest career win as an amateur at the 1998 Oglethorpe Invitational in Savannah, Ga. Schroeder opened the event with a pair of 70s, before closing with a 71. Schroeder earned his bachelor's degree in marketing and management at UNF in 1999 before teaching two years at Southside Middle School in Jacksonville, where he coached multiple sports. A native of Clearwater, Fla., Schroeder spends his time developing players and building relationships with other collegiate coaches, as well as sponsors and local golf courses. He also has oversight of managing the Hayt Golf Center on the UNF campus, which serves as a practice facility and home headquarters for both the men's and women's golf programs. Schroeder has proven that all of the amenities that UNF has adds up to a winning formula, one that will keep the Ospreys competing on a national level on a yearly basis. In his time off the course away from the UNF golf team, Schroeder can usually be found with his wife, Wendy, a former All-America and UNF Hall of Fame tennis player, and their daughter, Kaitlyn.