LAREDO, Texas – Wichita State opens spring season action on Monday at the Border Olympics at the Laredo Country Club.
 
In the fall season, Wichita State recorded four top-five team finishes in five events. Their first time posting three successive top-five finishes since the 2020-21 season.
 
Emilio Arellano Lamas set the program record for most consecutive rounds under par at eight, breaking the previous high of six.
 
The Shockers recorded eight individual top 20 results in the fall, led by Lamas and Jose Ramirez who had three each.

Fast Facts – Border Olympics University Golf Tournament
Dates: Monday, Feb. 16 – Tuesday, Feb. 17
Venue: Laredo Country Club 
Location: Laredo, Texas
Host: Houston
Yardage: 7,257
Par: 72
Format: Stroke Play
Results: Scoreboard
The Field: 13 Teams
Illinois State, Houston Christian, Houston, UTRGV, Louisiana, New Mexico State, Tarleton State, Troy, Sam Houston, Lamar, Wright State, North Texas, Wichita State
 
The Shocker lineup remains the same from their last tournament in Hawaii back on Nov. 8-9. 
 
Shocker Five:
 
Emilio Arellano Lamas (Jr.) – First year Shocker…Tied for fifth in first competition as a Shocker at the Git-R-Done Invitational…One of four transfers on Wichita State's roster that spent time at Indian Hills Community College…2025 PING All-District and NJCAA Division I Men's Golf Second Team All-American…
 
Jose Ramirez (Sr.) – Transfer from Indian Hills Community College…Second year Shocker…Finished top 15 in each of the first two tournaments in the 2025-26 season…2025 American Conference Individual Runner Up…2025 All-American Conference selection…Played in all ten tournaments in first year as a Shocker, posting 71.7 stroke average and two top five finishes…Won 2023 NJCAA DI Men's Golf National Championship at Sand Creek Station Golf Course in Newton, Kan…Helped Indian Hills CC to team national championship in the same year…2023 GCAA Arnold Palmer Award winner…
 
Jose Carletta (Sr.) -- Competed in nine of ten tournaments in first season as a Shocker...Recorded 89 birdies, which was second on the team...Eagled six holes, leading the team, and recorded four individual rounds in the 60s...Tied for 11th at the AAC Championship, carding a 66 (-6) score in round three to jump up the leaderboard, also tied best individual round by any Shocker at the AAC Championship...Posted a season-best ninth-place finish on April 1 at the Wyoming Cowboy Classic...Tied for 18th to lead Shockers to eighth-place finish at the GCU Invitational on March 12...
 
Michael Robson (Gr.) – First-year Shocker with four years of college golf experience…two-time NAIA Men's Golf All-American…two-time all-conference selection…tied for 13^th at the 2025 NAIA Men's Golf All-American…Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference Newcomer and Player of the Year at Northwestern Ohio in 2022… 

Caden Cox (So.) – Second-year Shocker…Competed in six events as a true freshman, including the final five tournaments of the year…Birdied 40 holes, the most by any Shocker freshman since 2022…Posted season-best t-26 finish on April 1, 2025, at the Wyoming Cowboy Classic...

Next up:
The Shockers play again next week in the Lake Las Vegas Collegiate in Las Vegas, Nev., Feb. 23-25.