What Schmidt did this season: Schmidt, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio, earned his second straight Academic All-Atlantic Sun Conference honors for his performance on the links and in the class room. He boasts a 3.987 grade point average as a finance major, and he finished the season with a scoring average of 76.81. Schmidt shared the team lead with two eagles on the year, and he also recorded 64 birdies, which ranked fourth for NKU, while averaging 10.32 pars per round.
Schmidt competed in 11 events for the Norse and posted a season-high 12th-place finish in NKU's last event prior to the conference championship, the UK Bluegrass Invitational, on April 13. He shot rounds of 71-72-75 for a 2-over-par, three-round total of 218 as NKU posted an eighth-place finish as a team. He helped the Norse to a ninth-place finish at the Atlantic Sun Championship last week after carding rounds of 80-76-79. His three-day total of 235 earned him a share of 35th place.