Corey Ziedonis

Corey Ziedonis is the Men's Golf Assistant Coach at Indiana University. The 2022-23 season is the seventh season for Ziedonis as an assistant in Bloomington, but his tenth year overall with the IU men's golf program after a storied 4-year career with the Hoosiers.

Corey returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach on Aug. 1, 2016, after serving as an assistant coach at the University of Virginia for Spring 2016.

The 2020-21 campaign, all of which was played in the spring, was filled with success for the Hoosiers. Indiana began the year with a title in the Big Ten Match Play Championship and finished with the first trip to NCAA Regionals since 2013. Clay Merchent earned the program’s third Big Ten Freshman of the Year award and set the Indiana program record for a freshman average with a 72.46. Merchent finished in the top-21 or higher in every stroke play event this spring, including four top-10 finishes and a pair of top-5 finishes. Ethan Shepherd also earned conference honors, as he was named Second Team All-Big Ten. The Hoosiers finished sixth in the Big Ten Championship, the best since 2013, before earning a bid to NCAA Regionals, where they finished in ninth place.

In the 2019-20 shortened season, the Hoosiers posted a pair of top-5 team finishes, including third at the Steelwood Collegiate. Indiana had a pair of top-10 individual finishes at the Steelwood Collegiate as Ethan Shepherd and Brock Ochsenreiter tied for ninth. The Hoosiers were led in scoring by Mitch Davis, who averaged a 73.81 and finished in the top 30 in four of six events, including a pair of top 20 finishes.

In 2018-2019, Indiana ended the year by posting its best finish in the Big Ten Tournament since 2013, tying for seventh place. IU earned eight top-10 tournament finishes, including three in the top five. Brock Ochsenreiter led Indiana last season in scoring with a 72.56 average and enters the 2019-20 season with the fourth-best scoring average in Indiana history (73.44). The Hoosiers also saw an impressive campaign from Mitch Davis, whose 73.27 average was the second-best ever for an IU freshman.

Ziedonis continued to help the Hoosiers return to national prominence through recruiting and on-course improvement during the 2017-18 season. The top two players for the Hoosiers - Jake Brown and Brock Ochsenreiter - both trimmed nearly two strokes off their scoring average from the previous season, and Brown topped off the development by earning an individual bid to the NCAA Regional in Bryan, Texas. At the regional, Brown tied for 14th at 1-under par in his postseason debut.

In his first season back in Bloomington in 2016-17, The team posted a pair of second place finishes at the Northern Intercollegiate and the Hoosier Invitational. Individually, the team was led by senior Andrew Havill and his 73.81 scoring average to go with two Top 10 finishes. Redshirt sophomore Jake Brown closed the season with a T10 finish at the Big Ten Championships in Baltimore.

While at Virginia, the Cavaliers registered five Top 5 team finishes in tournament play and advanced to the NCAA Championship after a fifth place finish at the NCAA Regional in Franklin, Tennessee. Virginia went on to finish 22nd as a team at the NCAA Championship and Derek Bards tied for 17th individually.

Ziedonis played for Mayer at IU from 2009-10 season through the 2012-13 season and finished his career with 74.84 career scoring average in 85 rounds of golf in the Cream and Crimson. The native of Indianapolis was named an All-American Scholar by the Golf Coaches Association of America following his senior year and collected seven Top 25 tournament finishes that season as well.

During his career, Ziedonis has the penchant for putting up solid scores on some of the most challenging tournaments. He helped the Hoosiers to NCAA Regional appearances in each of his four years and finished inside the Top 25 at those tournaments on three occasions, highlighted by a T11 finish as a sophomore. While competing in the Big Ten Championship each of his four years, he racked up three Top 25 finishes and helped the team to a second place finish in 2012.

After graduating from Indiana with a degree in sports marketing and management in 2013, he spent the next two seasons as a graduate assistant with the men’s golf program at Ball State and also served as a player relations manager on the Golfweek Junior Tour in the spring and summer of 2014.