UIndy Athletics

UIndy alum Brent Nicoson is continuing the proud tradition of University of Indianapolis golf. As the coach of both the Greyhound men's and women's golf programs, Nicoson has won a combined 12 GLVC Coach of the Year honors, 13 conference titles, 10 regional crowns and two national championships. He was recently named to the NCAA Division II Women's Golf Committee.

Though he has had great success with both squads, Nicoson's achievements on the women's side are unprecedented in UIndy Athletics history. The Greyhound women's golf team has won two DII national championships, representing UIndy's only first two NCAA team championships in school history. Nicoson's 2015 squad became the first non-Florida-based school to capture the DII crown, while his '18 team earned a dominating 38-stroke win at Nationals, tying the tournament record for lowest team score (+5). Led by Division II Player of the Year Pilar Echeverria and DII individual national champion Katharina Keilich, all five members of the latter Greyhound lineup were later named All-Americans, while Nicoson himself was voted the 2018 WGCA DII National Coach of the Year by his peers. Thanks to a mayoral proclamation, the City of Indianapolis named May 19, 2018 as University of Indianapolis Women's Golf Champions Day in honor of the Hounds' incredible season.

Additionally, Nicoson's women's teams have captured 10 GLVC titles and eight NCAA Regional crowns since he took over as the women's coach in the summer of 2011. The ladies also had five more top-five finishes at the NCAA Championships besides the national titles, including a runner-up performance in 2016, a third-place showing in 2017 and a national semifinal appearance (new format) in 2019.

Also the UIndy men's coach since 2006-07, Nicoson has guided the Greyhound men to 17 consecutive NCAA Regional appearances, five conference titles, two regional championships and seven top-15 finishes at the NCAA DII Championships. His Greyhounds advanced to the national semifinal in 2021, led by the program's first individual national champion, Keegan Bronnenberg. Additionally, Nicoson led UIndy to both conference and regional crowns in 2018 before advancing to match play at Nationals for the first time since the format was adopted in 2011.

In 2010, Nicoson mentored now-professional-golfer Seth Fair -- his first recruit at UIndy -- to a fourth-place showing at the NCAA Division II Championships. Fair was later named to the DII PING All-America First Team by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA).

All told, Nicoson has tutored a combined 19 GLVC Players of the Year, 12 GLVC Freshmen of the Year and 37 All-Americans as the coach of both UIndy squads.

Nicoson was a three-year varsity golfer at Indianapolis, playing from 1992-94 under UIndy coaching legend Ken Partridge. Nicoson was the team captain of the 1994 squad. The Hounds won Great Lakes Valley Conference titles in 1992 and 1993, the last of six straight league crowns.

Nicoson's grandfather, the late Angus Nicoson, was the athletic director and basketball coach at UIndy for 30 years. The 4,000-capacity gym on campus was renamed "Nicoson Hall" in his honor. Dan Nicoson, Brent's father, is a former football student-athlete and also assistant coach at Indiana Central. His 1975 team was the first gridiron team in school history to make the postseason, qualifying for the NCAA Division III playoffs after an 8-2 regular season ledger. The team was inducted into the University of Indianapolis Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003.

Additional, Brent's son, Ben, is currently a member of the UIndy men's basketball team, representing a fourth straight generation of Nicosons involved in Greyhound athletics.

As a player, Brent has qualified for the Indiana Open six times, including making the cut most recently in 2003. As a student, he boasted a 3.45 GPA at UIndy, graduating in 1994 with a bachelor's in business administration. A member of the Dean's List and the Honor Roll, Nicoson was part of the Delta Mu Delta National Honor Society in Business Administration and also the recipient of the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club Scholarship. He is just the second men's golf coach in nearly six decades, succeeding Ken Partridge, who stepped down following the 2006 spring season -- his 40th as head men's golf coach.


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