University of Nevada Las Vegas

2012-13 Media Guide Bio

UNLV: Begins his third year with the Rebels ... Has played in 74 rounds and has a 72.36 scoring average, which currently ranks sixth in program history ... Has 15 top-20 finishes, 11 top-10s and three top-fives ... Has recorded 35 rounds at par or better ... Won his first career individual title at the 2012 Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters in Las Vegas ... Enters the 2012-13 season as one of three Rebels listed in Golf World's Top 50 Players to Watch.

2011-12: One of three Rebels to earn PING All-West Region honors ... Played in a team-high-tying 36 rounds and recorded a scoring average of 71.89, which was third on the team and the 15th-lowest for a season in program history ... Had eight top-20 finishes, six top-10s and two top-fives, including his first career win at the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters in Las Vegas ... Finished tied for fifth at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate .. Had 21 rounds at par or better, which led the team ... Shot in the 60s nine times, with a low of 66 ... Had a streak of shooting in the 60s in the final round of a tournament in each of his last six events ... His 67 in the third round of the Mountain West Championship tied the UNLV record for low final round at a conference championship.

2010-11: Became just the fifth Rebel ever to be named league Freshman of the Year ... Also earned Academic All-MW honors ... Lost in the round of 16 at the U.S. Amateur, losing to the eventual champion after forcing five playoff holes ... Was third on the team with a 72.82 scoring average ... Played in 38 rounds, which was second on the team ... Was also second on the team with 14 rounds at par or better ... His top finish was the a tie for third at the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate ... Recorded seven top-20 finishes, five top-10s and one top-five in 13 tournaments ... Shot in the 60s in four rounds ... His lowest was 68, which he did twice.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2010 graduate of Wheaton Academy in West Chicago, Ill. ... Lettered four years with the golf program ... Was his conference's four-time Player of the Year ... Was all-state two times and his team's MVP all four years ... Was his team's captain ... Before his senior year, he finished in fifth place at the 2009 Scott Robertson Invitational and 11th in the 2009 Junior Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass ... He had 10 top-15 finishes in American Junior Golf Association events over his first three years of high school, including seven finishes in the top 10 ... He won more than 20 Illinois high school tournaments, recording two top-10 finishes at the Illinois Open (fifth in 2008) and 10th in 2009) while competing as an amateur ... Is a four-time Wheaton City Championship winner ... During his final fall high school season, he won five individual titles in nine events played, shot under par in six of those tournaments, and broke a course record at St. Andrews in West Chicago by shooting 63, a record that has stood for more than 60 years ... His high school team won the state championship during the 2009-10 season and won 45 straight matches ... His team won six of eight tournaments during the 2009-10 season ... All four years, his team went 57-2 in matches ... Coached by Bob Broman ... He scored in every match and event his team played in all four years ... Played in approximately 65 rounds and had an under par average for all four years.

PERSONAL: Blake Collins Biddle was born Sept. 6, 1991, in Winfield, Ill. ... The son of Robert and Donna Biddle ... Majoring in communication studies ... Has four sisters: Brooke (22), Kristen (38), Amy (40) and Laurie (42).