2019-20 Men's Golf Roster
Roster
Chris Tanabe
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Sewickley, Pa.
- High School:
- Quaker Valley
Spring 2021: Wrapped up a stellar career at Bucknell with another outstanding season ... averaged 74.4 over 11 rounds, and his 74.4 career average is second-best in team history ... recipient of the Bison Club Award as one of the top senior athletes in his class ... finished T-13th at the Patriot League Championship, shooting 76-80-70 ... 2-under 70 in his final round was his best of the season ... best finish was T-6th at the Wildcat Invitational (71-72) ... Fall 2020: No competitions due to COVID-19 ... Spring 2020: Was positioning himself to be one of the Patriot League Championship favorites when the season was halted in March due to the coronavirus outbreak ... averaged 72.0 in two February events, leaving his full-season average at 72.0 ... shot 74-69-68 (-5) in a T-8th finish at the Loyola Invitational in Arizona ... helped the Bison break the team 54-hole scoring record with an 858 (-6) in that event ... Fall 2019: Turned in one of the best fall seasons in school history ... 72.1 average was the second-lowest in school history for a single season and the lowest ever for a fall season ... finished in the top 10 in four of his six outings ... won second career collegiate tournament at the Dartmouth Invitational, shooting 68-65 to finish with a school-record 9-under 133 for 36 holes ... 6-under 65 tied school records for low 18 and low 18 in relation to par ... that performance came on the heels of a T-3rd finish at the Cornell Invitational, highlighted by a final-round 67 ... named Patriot League Golfer of the Week and Bison Athlete of the Week after the Dartmouth win ... also placed T-8th at the Bucknell Invitational (69-73) and T-10th at the Lehigh Invitational (77-72) ... all told had five sub-par rounds and only twice shot higher than 75 ... Summer 2019: Won the 106th Pennsylvania Amateur Championship at Aronimink Golf Club ... buoyed by an incredible 28 on the opening nine of his second round, posted a 5-under-par 205 over 54 holes to hold off Nate Menon -- a member of Stanford's 2019 national championship team -- and Kansas State's Kyle Vance by two strokes ... Spring 2019: Earned All-Patriot League honors after a T-7th finish at the Patriot League Championship ... shot 74-72-73 in challenging weather conditions ... earlier in the spring picked up his first career individual title with a win at the Abarta Coca-Cola Collegiate Challenge ... shot 3-under 141 (69-72) to win that tournament by one stroke ... earned Patriot League Golfer of the Week honors after the win ... shot 71-77 to finish T-11th at the Robert Trent Jones Shootout ... posted a 75.9 spring scoring average and a 74.6 mark for the full season ... Fall 2018: Lone Bison to play in all six fall events ... recorded a strong 73.4 average ... highlight was a T-1st finish (71-69) at the Quechee Club Collegiate Challenge ... lost in a four-man playoff, but helped Bucknell win the team title ... opened the season with a T-14th finish at the Colgate Invitational (77-70-72) ... six rounds of even par or better in the fall ... Spring 2018: Played in all three stroke play events, averaging 76.7 for the spring and 76.3 for the full 2017-18 season ... placed T-33rd in his first Patriot League Championship appearance (80-79-77) ... shot 75 on three occasions ... Fall 2017: Made an immediate impact at Bucknell, playing in all seven fall tournaments and posting a 76.1 scoring average ... notched two top-20 finishes: T-16th at the Colgate Invitational (77-71) and T-20th at the Lehigh Invitational (78-75) ... 1-under 71 at Colgate was a season-best score ... shot 1-over twice: 72 at the Cornell Invitational and 71 at the MacDonald Cup ... PERSONAL: Born Oct. 21, 1998 in Pittsburgh, Pa. ... son of Jennifer and Scott Tanabe ... has three brothers: Alex, Michael and Adam ... 2016 Class 2A Pennsylvania state champion at Quaker Valley High School, where he has played both golf and baseball ... four-year golf letterman and two-time captain and team MVP ... team was the 2016 PIAA state champion after finishing as the runner-up a year earlier ... led his team to the 2016 PIAA Western Regional title and the 2014 WPIAL championship ... low high school round of 69 came on the Penn State Blue Course ... owns the school’s single-season scoring average record of 35.1 ... became Quaker Valley’s first golfer to win a WPIAL title and a PIAA state championship ... 1-under-par 70 gave him the state title by one stroke at Heritage Hills Golf Resort in York in October 2016, one year after he was runner-up in the event ... also had six career wins and seven top-10 finishes in junior golf events ... his two 2016 wins came at the College Prep Series at Penn State and the Major Championship at Birdsfoot in Pittsburgh ... was runner-up by one shot at the 2017 Pennsylvania State Junior Championship at Hershey Country Club ... shot a 3-under 68 in the opening round and closed with a 74 ... finished fourth in that event the previous summer ... also owns a top-15 finish at the 2015 Innisbrook Easter Junior Classic at the famed Innisbrook Resort and Spa in Florida ... majoring in Spanish and economics ... earned a spot on the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll in 2018, 2020 and 2021.
