Trake Carpenter

Trake Carpenter was named Nevada's men's golf head coach Aug, 5, 2022, and enters his third season at the Wolf Pack helm in 2024-25.

The 2023/24 season saw great success under Carpenter's guidance, with the Pack notching its first team win under his leadership. This win at the UCSB Gaucho Invitational was the first team win since 2021. Individually, transfer Enrique Dimayuga won three times, putting himself in second in Nevada Career Wins history.

Carpenter's first season with the Wolfpack, the 2022/23 season, was an up and down year, which saw an individual win for Peyton Callens early in the year at the USF Invitational, at the prestigious Olympic Club in San Francisco. The Pack competed all year with grit and determination but didn't manage to get a team win for Carpenter in year one.

After serving as Denver's head men's golf coach in 2020-21, Carpenter worked independently as a performance coach over the 2021-22 season. Working with elite juniors and amateurs, Carpenter's work included creating performance plans and developing strategic and mental game skills. He also served as caddie and coach for clients at major junior and amateur tournaments.

In his lone season at the helm in Denver (2020-21), Carpenter was named Summit League Coach of the Year after leading the Pioneers to the conference title and the NCAA Cle Elum (Wash.) Regional. At the Regional, the Pioneers came up just one place shy of the program's first NCAA Championships berth in 61 years, finishing sixth at the three-day event.

The Pioneers cleared the rest of the field by eight strokes at the Summit League Championships, with three Denver golfers finishing in the top five on the individual leaderboard. Each of that trio, Jackson Solem, John Sand, and Carson Griggs, earned All-Summit League recognition. Solem was named Summit League Player of the Year in addition to his first-team selection, with Sand and Griggs named to the Second Team.

Solem had a career year, under Carpenter, turning in a career-best 71.92 scoring average, which included a team-high 13 rounds of par-or-better, and two top-five tournament finishes.

Under Carpenter's tutelage, the Pioneers posted five top-10 team finishes over the eight events in which they competed.

He spent one season (2019-20) as assistant coach at Stanford, helping guide the Cardinal to three top-six team finishes, with six different golfers combining for seven individual top-10 finishes.

Prior to his time at Stanford, Carpenter was an assistant for two seasons at Marquette. With the Golden Eagles, Carpenter handled Marquette's recruiting, social media marketing, budgeting, fundraising and oversaw the program's strength and conditioning. Carpenter and head coach Steve Bailey were recognized as the 2018 and 2019 BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year.

Carpenter played his college golf at Ball State, where he earned his bachelor's degree in risk management and insurance in 2012. During his collegiate career, Carpenter earned Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar honors and earned the Ball State Yestingmeier Student-Athlete Award, presented to a graduating men's senior golfer who displays distinguished athletic, academic and community credentials.

Following his time as an undergraduate at Ball State, Carpenter coached at his alma mater from 2012-14, a tenure under long-time head coach Mike Fleck that included a dramatic sudden death playoff at the Pullman Regional to send BSU to the NCAA Championships.