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UTEP Men’s Golf Set to Compete at 2025 CUSA Championship April 21-24

4/20/2025 8:56:00 PM

PAIRINGS

EL PASO – The UTEP men's golf team will open the 2025 Conference USA Men's Golf Championship in Texarkana, Ark., at Texarkana Country Club (par 72, 6969 yards) starting Monday and going through Thursday.

Monday's opening round will tee off at 8 a.m. CT. Round two (Tuesday), three (Wednesday) and semifinals match play (Thursday) will also start at 8 a.m. CT. Coverage for semifinals match play will be on ESPN+.

Live results will be on Scoreboard.

No. 105 Max Schliesing (71.1 stroke average), Dylan Teeter (71.7), Patrick Foley (74.8), Alexandre Godin (74.6) and Braden Smith (74.3) are taking the course for the Miners.

No. 99-ranked UTEP will compete against NM State (ranked 61), Kennesaw State (68), Sam Houston (70), Liberty (102), Middle Tennessee (120), LA Tech (128), Jax State (129) and WKU (179).

Student-athletes from NM State, Kennesaw State and Sam Houston will kick off the tournament with the opening round at 8 a.m. CT. Each team has five players, and the top four scores count toward the team score for each round. The second group of teams in UTEP, Liberty and Middle Tennessee will tee off at 9 a.m. CT. The last three teams, LA Tech, Jax State and WKU will start tournament play at 10 a.m. CT.

LAST YEAR'S RUN
The Miners advanced to match play at the 2024 CUSA Championship as a four seed and went on to upset top-seeded LA Tech 3-2 in the semifinal, followed by a dramatic 3-2 loss against no. 3 Liberty in the final.

THE LAST TIME
UTEP last won the CUSA Tournament in 2017.

PREVIOUS 54
UTEP men's golf finished in sixth place and no. 105 Max Schliesing tied for fourth on the final day of regular-season competition at Mississippi State's Old Waverly Collegiate Championship at Old Waverly Golf Club (par 72 | 7,088 yards) on April 14-15.

UTEP (302-283-294 – 879) carded the second-best score in round three to climb three spots up the leaderboard and place sixth out of 13 schools. It was the Miners' best finish since their second-place showing at the Vaqueros Intercollegiate on Feb. 2-4. UTEP led the field with five eagles and finished with 49 birdies, the third most during the two-day event.

Following a 1-over par 73 in the first round, Schliesing (73-67-70—210, -6) penciled in a 67 in round two to catapult 21 spots. The redshirt senior followed with a 2-under par 70 in the third round to climb up another seven spots to finish tied for fourth. Schliesing tallied a team-most 14 birdies and an eagle on hole 2 in round three. Schliesing tied for the lead, shooting 10-under on par 5 holes. Schliesing finished ahead of nine golfers ranked in the top 150.

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