'16 Brad Stracke
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- Year:
- 2016
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- Position:
- Golfer
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- Team:
- Men's Golf
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- IHCC Years:
- 1988-90, 1996-05
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- Career Highlights:
- 2000 NJCAA National Championship • Two-year national tournament participant • 1990 Region Medalist • University of Alabama-Birmingham • 9x national tournament appearance as head coach
Stracke had two stints at IHCC – as a golfer and, later, as the school's very successful golf coach. He finished second at the regional tournament as a freshman golfer, losing a playoff to determine medalist honors, and was the conference tourney medalist the following season. Stracke placed 25th at the 1989 NJCAA national tourney, finishing with a four-round score of 307, and he led IHCC to a national tournament berth again the following year when he had a stroke average of 72.4. The native of Perry, IA transferred to Alabama-Birmingham where he was a two-year letterman and an all-conference choice in 1993. He returned to Indian Hills in August 1996 after three years as a teaching assistant at Des Moines Golf and Country Club. Stracke coached the Warriors to a spot in the national golf tournament all nine years he was at the helm, guiding Indian Hills to the school's first-ever national title in 2000. That began a streak of six straight years, under Stracke's direction, when the Warriors finished in the top three at the national tourney. He left IHCC to be an assistant coach at the University of Florida and then took over the golf program at the University of North Texas where he has led the Mean Green to unprecedented success, twice being named the conference coach of the year and leading them to the NCAA Regional Tournament three times in a five-year period.