Ethan Shepherd

Weight:
null
Height:
5-11
Year:
Senior +
Hometown:
Greenwood, Ind.
High School:
Center Grove

2021-22 (Senior+)
• Academic All-Big Ten
• Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Honoree
Competed in all 36 rounds across 12 tournaments … averaged 74.58 strokes per round … earned two top-20 and one top-5 finish … finished t-39th at the NCAA Palm Beach Gardens Regional after shooting a team-best 226 (80-73-73; +10) … placed t-45th at the Big Ten Championship with a scorecard of 223 (73-82-75; +14) … tied for 19th at the Kepler Intercollegiate after shooting 217 (76-69-72; +1) … tied for 45th as an individual at the Boilermaker Invitational with a three-round score of 228 (78-70-80; +15) … shot a 227 (79-76-72; +11) to finish t-64th at the Colleton River Collegiate ... finished t-43rd at the Nexus Collegiate with a three-round score of 248 (82-85-81; +32) ... defeated Morgan Lofland (4&2) of Penn State and played even with Luke Prall of Purdue the Big Ten Match Play Championships … closed the fall slate with a t-32nd effort at The Williams Cup with a score of 223 (71-78-74; +7) ... tied for 62nd at the Quail Valley Collegiate with a score of 220 (71-72-77; +4) ... tied for 22nd in Indiana's team title at the Purdue Fall Invitational with a score of 218 (75-75-68; +2) ... finished third among Hoosiers and tied for 42nd overall at the Windon Memorial Classic with a score of 216 (72-72-72; +3) ... earned a t-42nd finish at the Fighting Illini Invitational with a scorecard of 220 (72-78-70; +10) ... tied for fifth as an individual at the Hoosier Collegiate Invitational with a score of 212 (74-69-69; -1).

2020-21 (Senior)
• Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar
• Big Ten Medal of Honor
• Second Team All-Big Ten
• Academic All-Big Ten
Competed in all 24 rounds, posting an average of 73.33 … had five top-30 finishes and two in the top-10 … tied for 21st place at the Mobile Bay Intercollegiate, carding a 1-under-par 215 … tied for 30th at the Spartan Collegiate at Sea Island … earned a tied for 32nd place at the General Hackler Championship … posted his best finish of the year and tied for his best-career finish as he tied for fourth place at the Hoosier Collegiate Invitational at the Pfau Course … tied for 13th at the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate as he turned in a 3-over 216 … paced the Hoosiers at the Big Ten Championship, coming in ninth place … his 73.96 career average is currently ninth-best in the IU record book

2019-20 (Junior)
• Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar
• Academic All-Big Ten
Ended the season with a career average of 74.17, the 10th best in IU school history (min. 50 rounds) … averaged a 74.00 in 16 rounds, which was the second-best average on the team … earned a top-40 finish in each of the last four tournaments, including ending the Steelwood Collegiate at t-9th … tied for 59th in back-to-back events to open the year at Windon Memorial and Olympia Fields … finished t-40th at the Marquette Intercollegiate, highlighted by a 70 in the second round … came in at t-32nd in the Crooked Stick Invitational with a 225 … matched his career low round and notched the lowest round of a Hoosier during the year with a 66 in the second round of the Steelwood Collegiate … earned a pair of victories in the Big Ten Match Play Championship – against Charlie Pilon of Michigan (3&2) and Tony Jian of Rutgers (1up) … shot a 1-under 71 in the lone round of the weather shortened Dorado Beach Collegiate to tie for 26th.

2018-19 (Sophomore)
• Academic All-Big Ten
Finished the year with a 73.06 scoring average, which ranked second on the team ... logged a pair of Top-5 finishes ... named Academic All-Big Ten ... tied 5th at the Fuzzy Zoeller Invitaional with a score of 210 (-6) ... Finished 48th with a score of 222 at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invite ... tied 24th with a score of 219 at the Windon Memorial ... finished 4th at the Chatham Hills Collegiate with a score of 210 (-6) ... tied 27th with a score of 221 at the Steelwood Collegiate Invitational ... defeated Thomas Longbella (MINN) 4&2 in the first day of Big Ten Match Play and bested Charles Hutzinger (PSU) 3&2 and Chris Gotterup (RUT) 1-up on the second day ... his play at Mission Inn Spring Spectacular gave him a tie at 19 with a score of 218 (72-73-73) ... Score of 215 (73-69-73) at Redhawk Invitational collected a tie at 44th ... finished with a score 155 (79-76) and a tie at 82 at Boilermaker Invitational ... ended play t-43rd at Hawkeye Invitational with a score of 218 (73-72-73) ... at the Big Ten Championship at Philadelphia Cricket Club, carded scores of 72-80-71 to tie for 24th with a score of 223.

2017-18 (Freshman)
Posted a scoring average of 75.83 in 23 stroke play rounds … made his collegiate debut at the Wolf Run Intercollegiate and finished tied for 18th with a score 223 (73-72-78) … went 4-0 at the Big Ten Match Play Championship with wins over Alec Bard (PSU), Charlie Green (MSU), Putt Sridama (RUT) and Bryan Baumgarten (ILL) … earned t-13th honors at the Mission Inn Spring Spectacular with his score of 222 (73-72-77) … tied for 41st at the Boilermaker Invitational with a score of 148 (76-72) … competed at the Big Ten Championship and finished 68th with a score of 236 (82-75-79).

Prep/Personal
Shepherd completed a stellar 4-year career at Center Grove High School ... helped Center Grove to a runner-up team finish as a sophomore and a third place finish his junior year at the IHSAA state championship before capturing the state title his senior year ... he also finished fourth individually as the state championship as a senior ... in the summer of 2017, he finished T13 at the Northern Amateur Championship, T20 at the Indiana State Amateur Championship and T28 at the Indiana Open Championship ... his junior year stroke average of 72.31 earned him all-state honors ... also finished runner up at the Indiana State Amateur ... has a number of tournament wins on his resume, capturing the IHSAA State Preview, the MIC Tournament and the Johnson County Tournament as a junior ... the son of Matt and Jerlyn, Shepherd also has on sister, Erica ... majoring in Business through the Kelley School of Business.

Year	Rounds	Strokes	Stroke Avg.	Low Round
2017-18	23	1,744	75.83	72
2018-19	32	2,338	73.06	66
2019-20	16	1,184	74.00	66
2020-21	24	1,760	73.33	69
2021-22	36	2,685	74.58	68
TOTALS	131	9,711	74.13	66