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Caleb Bond

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Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Williamston, Mich.
High School:
Williamston
Prev School:
Ferris State

2024-25 – Junior
A Division I All-Midwest Region team by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) ... All-Big Ten Conference Second Team selection ... Finished the season with a 71.69 scoring average in 12 events over 35 rounds ... His 71.69 scoring average was a personal best and ranks as the sixth-lowest single-season average in Michigan State history ... Had 97.1 percent of his rounds count toward the team total (34-of-35), posted one top-5 finish, four among the top-10 and nine among the top-20 ... Was the team’s top finisher four times, including four of eight events in the Spring ... In the second half of the season, carried a team-best 70.83 average in eight events (23 rounds) ... Had his best finish of the season with a second-place showing at the Boilermaker Invitational on April 19-20, firing a 9-under par 204 (67-68-69) ... His score of 204 was tied for the sixth-lowest 54-hole score in program history.

2022-24 – At Ferris State
Joined the Spartans after playing for two seasons at Ferris State ... A Golf Coaches Association of America Third-Team All-America selection as a sophomore in 2023-24 ... Helped lead Ferris State to a ninth-place finish at the NCAA Division II National Championships … Tied for 37th place with an even-par 216 at the NCAAs … Named to the All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) First Team and was a GCAA All-Midwest Region selection ... He finished the year with a 71.40 scoring average and won three events, while finishing among the top-10 nine times ... Opened the season with a 12-under par 204 to win the Malone Fall Classic and closed out the regular season with a 9-under par 207 to caputre medalist honors at the Indianapolis Invitational in April 2024 ... Bond finished in 10th place at 4-under par 206 as Ferris State finished in fifth place at the NCAA Central/Midwest Super Regional, advancing the team to the championships ... In the championships at Orange County National Golf Center in Winter Garden, Fla., Bond tied for 37th place at 3-over par 216 as the Bulldogs fell just four shots shy of advancing to match play ... Named the GLIAC Freshman of the Year in 2022-23, posting six top-10 finishes ... He earned medalist honors following a playoff win at the Music City Invitational in Tennessee and was named the GLIAC Golfer of the Week in April 2023 ... Bond was named First Team All-GLIAC and finished among the top-20 in 10 of his 12 tournaments, including 10-straight to close the season with three in the fall and all seven spring events.