Terrance Stewart enters his ninth season as the head men's golf coach at UNC Greensboro. Stewart was named to his post on Aug. 15, 2001.
In each of the last four seasons, Stewart has had a player finish in the top five individually at the Southern Conference Championship. Last season, it was Will Bowman, who tied for fifth and earned All-Southern Conference honors.
Bowman also picked up his first career win during the season, taking medalist honors at the Palma Del Mar Intercollegiate. Stewart directed the Spartans to a trio of top-five team finishes during the season, as UNCG was third at the Palma Del Mar and fifth at the UNCG Bridgestone Collegiate and the Towson Intercollegiate.
In 2007-08, Nathan Stamey finished second at the conference championship. That season also saw Stamey become the first Spartan in the Division I era to make it as an individual to the NCAA Tournament. Stamey was the first UNCG individual to compete in the NCAA postseason since Todd Jackson in 1981, when the Spartans were competing at the Division III level.
The 2007-08 campaign saw the Spartans finished tied for fourth at the Southern Conference Championship, improving one place from the season before. That was also one of three times the Spartans finished in the top five in the team standings during the season.
In 2006-07, the Spartans finished fifth in the Southern Conference Championship. The team was led by senior J.D. Bass, who won the individual championship. UNCG captured the title at the 2006 Sam Hall Intercollegiate, ending with a six-under-par 845, a school-record 54-hole total. The Spartans just missed another record for best team round with a third-round 278, one off the school mark. Following the win, the Spartans were named Golfweek's National Men's Collegiate Team of the Week. As a team, UNCG also finished second at both the Cavalier Classic (892) and the Mission Inn Collegiate Invite (874).
In his fifth season at UNCG, Stewart helped the Spartans to seven top-10 finishes, including three top-five finishes in 2005-06. UNCG placed seventh at the Southern Conference Championships and were led by Stamey's fourth-place finish, which earned him second team all-conference honors. The Spartans captured a season-best fourth-place finish at the Orange County National led by Stamey and senior Jake Lowder, who both finished in the top 20. Stewart also guided his Spartans to fifth-place finishes at the Tunica National Intercollegiate and the Pinehurst Intercollegiate.
In 2004-05, UNCG placed fourth at the SoCon Championships, while Lowder and Bass were each named to the SoCon all-conference team for their efforts during the course of the season. Led by Stamey's first-place finish in the opening match of the season, the Spartans took home second-place honors at the Mid Pines Intercollegiate. In a second tourney hosted by UNCG, the Spartans picked up a third-place finish at the Forest Oaks Intercollegiate - what is now UNCG's annual fall Bridgestone Collegiate - in the final tournament of the regular season. Sandwiched in between, Stewart watched as the Spartans posted top-five finishes in five of their other seven regular-season tournaments, including a second-place showing at the 49er Collegiate Classic.
The 2003-04 campaign was a breakthrough season as the Spartans posted a tie for second at the SoCon Championship, which represented the best finish in school history. In March 2004, the Spartans claimed top honors at the Winthrop-Waterford Invitational in Rock Hill, S.C. The tournament crown for the Spartans was their first since the 1999-2000 season, when UNCG took top honors at the Southern California Intercollegiate. Andy Bare and Bass took home medalist honors in two tournaments each. Bare finished the season with a 73.68 scoring average, third-best in the SoCon, and was named first team All-SoCon for the second consecutive season. Nick Baker, who finished second on the team with a 73.71 stroke average, was named second-team All-SoCon.
In just his second season, Stewart guided the Spartan squad to a fifth-place finish in the 2003 SoCon Championship. At the time, it was the program's best finish in its six-year history in the Southern Conference.
In his first season at UNCG, Stewart led a very young Spartan squad to a seventh-place finish at the 2002 SoCon tournament. The Spartans' top three performers were all freshmen.
Stewart came to UNCG after a five-year stint at his alma mater, Lenoir-Rhyne College. There, Stewart served as head coach for both the men's and women's golf teams. In that time, Stewart was named the 2001 South Atlantic Conference Women's Coach of the Year and the 1999 South Atlantic Men's Coach of the Year. He led the Bears' women's squad to the 2000 and 2001 NCAA Division II National Championships. Stewart led the men's team to the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Catawba Valley/Lenoir-Rhyne Cup.
He also created the Billy Joe Patton Intercollegiate that began in 1997, as well as the Bay Medical Intercollegiate that began in 2000. In his five years at Lenoir-Rhyne, four players were named all-conference.
