{"id":698548,"date":"2026-05-27T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/698548\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:22:10","slug":"ndsu-mens-golfs-miller-named-summit-league-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/698548\/","title":{"rendered":"NDSU Men\u2019s Golf\u2019s Miller Named Summit League Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SIOUX FALLS, S.D. \u2013 North Dakota State men&#8217;s golf first-year head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/coaches\/dr-ekren-miller\/2414\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2414\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Ekren Miller<\/a> has been named the Summit League Men&#8217;s Golf Coach of the Year, announced the league office on Wednesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMiller led NDSU to a Summit League Championship and NCAA berth in his debut season with the Bison. He is the second NDSU men&#8217;s golf coach to win the award, joining Steve Kennedy from the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n<p>In his first season at NDSU, Miller led the Bison to three victories, including a Summit League Championship title. In his first two tournaments leading the Bison, NDSU claimed team tournament titles at the Metropolis Intercollegiate in White Plains, New York and the Bluejay Invitational in Omaha, Nebraska. The Bison would go on to secure seven top-four finishes, including a pair of runners-up finishes before closing out the season with the program&#8217;s second-ever Summit League Championship title in Meza, Arizona in early May.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMiller guided <a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/rylin-petry\/24114\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24114\" target=\"_blank\">Rylin Petry<\/a> to All-Summit League First Team honors, while <a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/jake-skarperud\/24115\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24115\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Skarperud<\/a> earned All-Summit League Second Team honors. Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/gobison.com\/sports\/mens-golf\/roster\/carter-white\/24119\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"24119\" target=\"_blank\">Carter White<\/a> was also named to the Summit League All-Freshman Team and the three Bison golfers combined to claim four Summit League Peak Golfer of the Week honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SIOUX FALLS, S.D. \u2013 North Dakota State men&#8217;s golf first-year head coach Dr. Ekren Miller has been named&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-698548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}