Terrance Stewart enters his 11th season as the head men's golf coach at UNCG in 2011-12.

Stewart was named to his post on Aug. 15, 2001.

In each of the last six seasons, Stewart has had a player finish in the top five individually at the Southern Conference Championship. in 2010-11, it was Will Almand, who tied for fourth as UNCG finihsed as tournament runner-up, just five strokes behind team champion Georgia Southern.

The 2009-10 campaign also saw freshman Robert Hoadley earn all-conference and all-freshman SoCon honors in addition to winning his first collegiate tournament, the Pinehurst Intercollegiate. Hoadley and Heisey were both named the SoCon Men’s Golfer of the Week during the season, while Will Bowman turned in his second straight top-10 finish at the SoCon Championship with a ninth-place showing.

Stewart also directed the Spartans to a pair of team titles during the season, as UNCG staged a remarkable 11-shot comeback on the final day to claim the Georgetown Intercollegiate and won the Towson Invitational by placing all five golfers in the top 12 individually.

In 2008-09, 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. Bowman tied for fifth at the SoCon Championship and earned All-Southern Conference honors. He also picked up his first career win during the season, taking medalist honors at the Palma Del Mar 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.

Stewart graduated from Lenoir-Rhyne in 1994 with a degree in Sports Management. He and his wife, Yvonne, are the proud parents of sons Spencer (age 6), and infant Thomas.

Dr. Bob Christina, a nationally renowned author on the psychology of golf learning and performance, is in his third season as an assistant coach for the men’s golf team.

Christina, dean emeritus of the School of Health and Human Performance at UNCG, is a nationally recognized expert in exercise and sport science. He currently serves as a research and educational consultant to the Pinehurst Golf Academy, PGA of America, Golf Magazine and its Top 100 Teachers, Precision Golf School of the Triad and the Steering Committee of the World Scientific Congress of Golf and has appeared on NBC, CNN and the Golf Channel.

“Obviously, to have someone of Dr. Christina’s knowledge and ability join our staff is phenomenal,” head coach Terrance Stewart said upon Christina’s hiring. “He has instructional tapes endorsed by the PGA and done an enormous amount of technical research in the game. He will be a great asset to our program.”

In 2008, Christina was named one of Golf Magazine’ Innovators of the Year along with former Tour greats Arnold Palmer, Lee Elder and several others. In 2009, his research with Eric Alpenfels, director of the Pinehurst Golf Academy, on how to practice golf skills to learn to effectively take them to golf course won The Outstanding Research Award at the World Scientific Congress of Golf.

He and Alpenfels have published 30 research-based articles (eight of which were cover stories) on the learning and performance of golf skills in Golf Magazine since 2003. Some of their golf research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and their 2005 article “The New Way to Putt” appeared as a cover story in Golf Magazine and won the National Magazine Award in the category of Leisure Interests, marking the first time any golf magazine had ever won the award.

Emanating from the article and their research was a book, “Instinct Putting,” which was published in 2009.

During his tenure at UNCG, Christina also served as a professor of kinesiology. He holds a bachelor’s from Ithaca College and a master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.

Christina taught health and physical education and coached several sports, including golf, at the high school and college levels from 1962-72. While a coach at SUNY-Brockport in 1972, he was named Baseball Coach of the Year by the SUNY Athletic Conference. After 17 years as a professor of exercise and sport science at Penn State, he became chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Exercise Science at SUNY-Buffalo. In 1992, he became dean of the School of Health and Human Performance at UNCG, a position he held until his retirement in 2001.

A native of Auburn, N.Y., Christina now lives in Greensboro, N.C., with his wife, Barbara. They have three children: Bob, Lynn and Lori, and five grandsons: Dawson, Parker, Daniel, Michael and Braden.