Washburn University of Topeka Men's Golf

Stromgren is in his fifth season as head coach of the Ichabods golf team returning to Washburn as a coach prior to the 2012-13 season. While at Washburn he has coached the Ichabods to 26 MIAA Academic Honor Roll selections, four all-MIAA golfers, two individual tournament champions and one team championship. He has also coached the Ichabods to three NCAA regional appearances. Stromgren, a head coach at Washburn Rural High School from 1993-2012, is a 1979 graduate of Washburn with a bachelor's degree in education. He played basketball and golf for the Ichabods from 1977-79 and was the basketball team MVP in 1978-79. He also earned all-Central States Intercollegiate Conference as a guard that year. Stromgren started his teaching and coaching career in 1980 at Meade High School in Meade, Kan., as head boy's basketball coach and assistant football coach until 1982.  He then coached from 1982 to 1989 at Winfield High School in Winfield, Kan., as head coach of the boy's and girl's golf teams and the boy's basketball team. He moved to Topeka in 1989 and started at Washburn Rural as head boy's basketball coach until 1994. In 1993 he took over the girl's golf program and in 1997 he headed the boy's golf team and held those two positions for two years. Stromgren won three 6A state titles at Washburn Rural (1997, 2005, 2008) and 17 city titles.  His Junior Blues teams finished in the top five in state 15 times and he had 25 league and 21 regional titles in his career. He was city coach of the year 19 times and state coach of the year in 2005. Stromgren has coached more than 30 players who went on to play college golf including nine who played with NCAA Division I schools. Along with coaching, he also taught at each of the three high schools he's worked at retiring from teaching after the 2012-13 school year. Stromgren was born in Emporia, Kan., but grew up in Abilene. He's a 1975 graduate of Abilene High School and he's been married 35 years to his wife, Stephanie. They have two grown daughters, Whitney and Adin. Whitney played college golf at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Adin played at Wichita State. Along with his degree from Washburn, he earned an associate's degree in 1977 at Cowley County Community College and a master's in education administration in 1988 from Southwestern College. Thirty-two-year high school coach and Washburn graduate Jeff Stromgren is in his fifth season as head coach of the Ichabods golf team returning to Washburn as a coach prior to the 2012-13 season. While at Washburn he has coached the Ichabods to 26 MIAA Academic Honor Roll selections, four all-MIAA golfers, two individual tournament champions and one team championship. He has also coached the Ichabods to three NCAA regional appearances.

Former Ichabod golfer Ronnie McHenry is in his third season as the head coach in 2023-24 after spending two seasons as the team’s volunteer assistant taking over the Washburn program in 2021. Entering his third full season, he has led the Ichabods to two NCAA Super Regional appearances and an NCAA National Championship appearances finishing 18th in 2023 and 12th in 2021. In the 2020-21 season, McHenry helped the Ichabods as an assistant coach reach the NCAA National Championships and coached the Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year Andrew Beckler. Beckler finished an Ichabod best second-place at the NCAA National Championships. In 2022-23 season Washburn had 12 top-10 finishes including seven top-five finishes and a tournament title at the Ichabod Invitational and three runner-up finishes. The Ichabods moved up from 12th-place after the first round of the NCAA Midwest/Central Super Regional to fourth to earn a spot in the NCAA National Championship meet. With McHenry at the helm of the program, Washburn has had 21 top-10 finishes, 11 top-five finish and two team championships. Individually there have been 29 top-10 finishes, 12 top-five finishes and four individual medalist honors. McHenry has coached a PING All-American, two PING All-Region selections and five all-MIAA honorees. In the classroom, 23 Ichabods have earned MIAA Academic Honor Roll distinction and one has earned MIAA Scholar Athlete honors. As a student-athlete, McHenry was a member of the Washburn golf squad from 2012-16 and held the title of team captain for three of those seasons. He earned all-MIAA accolades at the conclusion of his junior season and received team MVP honors as a sophomore and junior. He recorded a 75.8 career stroke average after 112 rounds and played in 47 tournaments. Off the course, McHenry was a four-time selection to the MIAA Academic Honor Roll and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business marketing & management.  His father, Ron McHenry, is currently a volunteer assistant for the golf team and was previously Washburn’s head Women’s Basketball coach. His sisters, Dani and Sami, both played basketball and volleyball at Washburn.  He is married to former Ichabod volleyball player Natalie Bates.