Team Captain J.R. Steinbauer
Head Coach Matt Mahanic
 Since taking over the Huntingdon program three years ago, Mahanic has led the Hawks to a rank ing within the top-five nationally every week, including a 30-week stay atop coaches poll during the 2008-09 season. During his tenure, Mahanic has coached the Hawks in 25 events, guiding them to victory in 12 of those, including a team championship in his first event as head coach. He has also helped Huntingdon to a pair of top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships. Last season, Mahanic was named the Division III Eaton Golf Pride National Coach of the Year, after leading Huntingdon to seven wins in 10 regular season tournaments. The Hawks finished runner-up in two events and third in the other, while finishing sixth at the NCAA Championships. In his first season, Mahanic and the Hawks won three times in 10 events and finished eighth at the NCAA Championships.
Yaroslav Merkulov
 Merkulov, who has signed with Duke University, was a 2009 Rolex Jr. first team All-America choice and is tabbed third in the Polo Golf Rankings and sixth in the Golfweek/Sagarin Junior Ratings (third in his class). Merkulov was the runner-up at the 2009 Junior PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass, one of his five top 20 finishes this year at AJGA events. In his last three tournaments, Merkulov had two top five finishes. He was also a member of the 2009 Canon Cup, compiling a 3-0-1 record at the event. Perhaps most impressive was Merkulov’s win at the 87th New York State Amateur, tying for the youngest champion in tournament history at 17-years-old. The senior has been tabbed All-Greater Rochester three times and an All-State selection four times. He was the Section V champion and twice a runner-up in the state championship. Merkulov has also won the New York State Junior Amateur twice along with the New York State Boy’s Amateur in 2006.
Oliver Schniederjans
 Schniederjans is No. 6 in the Junior Golf Scoreboard Rankings. He won the Jones Cup Junior Invita tional in December and has claimed top five finishes at the U.S. Junior, The Junior PLAYERS Cham pionship, The PING Invitational and the HP Boys Championship. He was named the Georgia State Golf Association Junior Player of the Year after winning the Georgia Junior, Georgia PGA Junior and Georgia Public Links over the summer. Schniederjans has verbally committed to play golf at Geor gia Tech.
Cameron Wilson
 Wilson, who signed a letter-of-intent with Stanford, was named an American Junior Golf Association All-American and was picked as a member of the U.S. Challenge Cup and AJGA Canon Cup Teams. Wilson advanced to the Round of 8 in the 2009 USGA Junior Amateur at Trump National Golf Club, and posted first place finishes in the 2009 MGA Met Amateur, the 2009 AJGA Nationwide Open at the Ohio State Scarlet Course and the 2009 Carter Cup at Baltusrol Golf Club. He was also ad vanced to the Round of 32 in the USGA Men’s Amateur.
Bobby Wyatt
 Wyatt, who has signed with the University of Alabama, is rated No. 2 in the Golfweek/Sagarin ju nior index for the class of 2010 and No. 1 in the Polo Golf Rankings for his class. Wyatt won the Ju nior Players Championship at Sawgrass this year and won medalist honors in nine of the 11 events he played during the 2009 high school season. He has won the Alabama state individual champion ship three times (2006, 2008, 2009) with the first coming when he was a 13-year-old eighth-grad er, and he helped his team at UMS-Wright win the state title in 2008 and 2009.
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