Jamie Bermel '86
Men's golf
Bermel has served as Kansas head coach since 2012 and has piloted the Jayhawks to a record nine consecutive NCAA regional tournaments. He's coached 24 NCAA regional tournament teams overall, having previously coached at Drake University (1992-97), Iowa State University (1997-99) and Colorado State University (1999-2012) and guided four teams to the NCAA national meet. He was a three-time Missouri Valley coach of the year while at Drake.
Bermel's Kansas teams have won 17 regular-season tournaments including the Hawkeye Invitational in Iowa City April 13-14. His squads won 18 titles at Colorado State, where he coached PGA Tour veteran Martin Laird. He was a three-time Missouri Valley coach of the year honoree at Drake, and coached PGA standout Zach Johnson, who won the 2007 Masters and 2015 British Open.
At Central, Bermel helped the Dutch claim four Iowa Conference titles and make four NCAA Division III Championships appearances. He played in three of those NCAA tournaments as Central placed sixth in 1984, fifth in 1985 and 12th in 1986. Bermel tied for 76th in 1984, tied for 47th in 1985 and placed 23rd at the 1986 NCAA meet, receiving All-America honorable mention. A team co-captain in 1985-86, he was given Central's Golden Putter Award as the most improved player that year. Bermel received all-conference recognition in 1985 by placing seventh at the league tourney.
He received a master's degree at Purdue University in 1988 and worked in recreational sports at the University of Michigan from 1989-91 before joining the staff at Drake.
As an inductee, Bermel will join his older brother, John Bermel '84, who was inducted in 2013. The Bermels are among four sets of siblings who are Hall of Honor members. Others are Rich Kacmarynski '92 and Mark Kacmarynski '96, Kevin Sanger '93 and Rick Sanger '96 and Raegan Schultz Wagner '04 and Lindsay Schultz Janke '04.
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