Kevin Penner

Class: Junior Hometown: Sammamish, Wash. High School: Eastlake HS

Height / Weight: 6-1 / 160 Birthdate: 12/29/1990 Experience: 2L

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UNLV: Begins his third year with the Rebels ... Holds a 73.15 career scoring average, which ranks 14th in program history ... Has played in 66 rounds ... Has 11 top-20 finishes, seven top-10s and five top-fives ... Has recorded 30 rounds at par or better ... Earned his first career victory during the 2010-11 season at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate.

2010-11: Was named to the All-Mountain West team ... Earned his first career victory at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate ... Finished tied for fourth in the Sahalee Players Championship ... Lost in the round of 64 in the U.S. Amateur ... Played in 11 tournaments, totalling 32 rounds ... Averaged 72.53 per round ... Recorded five top-20 finishes, four top-10s and three top-fives ... Had 13 rounds at par or better ... Placed fourth on two separate occasions: at the National Invitational Tournament and the PING Cougar Classic ... Shot in the 60s four times ... His lowest scores came back-to-back in the first and second round at the PING Cougar Classic where he shot 67 and 68, respectively ... His 54-hole total of 208 was the third-lowest score posted on the team.

2009-10: Was named to the Academic All-Mountain West Conference team ... Played in 12 tournaments, totalling 34 rounds ... Averaged 73.74 per round ... Recorded six top-20 finishes, three top-10s and two top-fives ... Had 17 rounds at par or better, including 10 at under par ... His best finishes were third place at the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate and fifth at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate ... Shot in the 60s seven times with his low round of 66 coming during the first round at the Wimberly and the final round of the Burns ... His 54-hole total of 205 at the Wimberly ranks tied for 17th for low total in program history ... Was the 2010 winner of the Michael Maze Award, which is presented annually to the Rebel golfer who best exemplifies the spirit of Rebel golf.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2009 graduate of Eastlake High School in Sammamish, Wash. ... Was the 4A state high school champion in 2007 and 2009 ... Finished third in 2008 ... Named the 2008 WJGA Player of the Year ... Played in the 2008 USGA Junior Amateur National Championship where he finished 18th out of 154 golfers ... Named to the Hogan Cup team in 2006 and 2007 ... Was a 2007 second-team All-America by the Future Collegiate World Tour ... Lettered four years on the golf team.

PERSONAL: Kevin Lewis Penner was born Dec. 29, 1990, in Decatur, Ala. ... The son of Diane and Doug Penner ... His father played baseball and his mother played softball at Kansas State ... Majoring in pre-business ... Has a sister, Christy (23).