ROCK HILL, South Carolina – Trinity Western fourth-year Jacob Visser (St. Catharines, Ont.) earned the program's first national title by taking top spot in the DII division at the Collegiate Disc Golf National Championship in Rock Hill, South Carolina.  
 
Visser won the Div II Singles (192 players) by three strokes with the fourth-highest rated round across all Divisions.  His round rating of 1045 is the highest rating of his career and was done on a very technical course.
 
Rounding out the Spartans in Div II play were third-year Owen Field (Comox, B.C.) (70th), second-year Everett Dabbagh (Edmonton, Alta.) (129th), and first-year Mattias Huberts (Abbotsford, B.C.) (168th). Together with Visser, they go into team play in 10th place at +8. Which is six strokes behind NC State, who lead after the opening round at +2.
 
In DIII play, the Spartans team of fourth-year Zach Ruptash (Grande Prairie, Alta.), first-year Bailey Neufeld (Abbotsford, B.C.), second-year Ben Brandsma (Abbotsford, B.C.), and first-year Ayden Tweedle (Vancouver, B.C.) played their opening round of team play and sit in 14th place. The group will play their singles rounds tomorrow.
 
QUOTABLE
Chris Hartman – TWU head coach
"It was an amazing performance for Jacob, which required him to use his full set of skills wisely. The Camp Canaan course is a difficult course through dense woods on an Island in the middle of the Catawba River. It's a course where some fairways slope off into the River and where, on one spectacular hole, you throw out over the river and back to the island some 350 to 400 feet later."
 
UP NEXT
The Spartans will now continue team play for the next three day's in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
 
About Spartan Athletics
As official members of U SPORTS, the Spartans currently compete in 11 sports in the Canada West conference, including women's and men's soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey and track & field, as well as women's rugby sevens. TWU also competes as in the NAIA in track and field and cross country and as an independent team in men's rugby and women's and men's disc golf. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 15 U SPORTS team championships and 34 Canada West team championships.
 
About Trinity Western University
Recognized for quality, TWU has received seven consecutive A+ rankings for Quality of Teaching and Learning, holds three Canada Research Chairs, and wins national championships in U SPORTS. More importantly, lives are changed at TWU through its whole-person, Christ-centred approach to education. With a wide array of undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree-completion programs, TWU equips leaders of character and competence to make a positive impact in the lives of others. 

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