University of Nevada Las Vegas

UNLV: Begins his fifth season with the Rebels ... has played in 27 career tournaments, tallying 80 rounds ... has a career stroke average of 73.46, which ranks 17th in program history ... has recorded 11 top-20 finishes, including six top 10s and a top five ... has recorded 31 rounds of par or better golf.

2008-09: Named a Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar ... also named Academic All-Mountain West Conference for the third straight year ... led the Rebels in rounds played with 36 and was third in scoring average with 73.08 ... played in all 12 of UNLV[apos]s tournaments ... recorded four top-20 finishes, including two top 10s and a top five ... had six rounds at even par and 11 under par ... his best finish of the year was fourth at the Southern Highlands Collegiate Championship ... also placed eighth at the Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational ... shot in the 60s six times, including two 65s, which tie for the 13th-lowest round in Rebel golf history.

2007-08: One of four Rebel golfers to be named to the 2008 Academic All-MWC team ... was his second straight year on the academic team ... played in eight tournament totalling 24 rounds ... recorded three top-20 finishes, including two top-10s ... his best finish was a tie for seventh at the Shoot-Out at Angel Park ... shot par twice and was under par in four rounds ... shot in the 60s twice, including a 66 in the Shoot-Out at Angel Park[apos]s final round ... had a scoring average of 74.46.

2006-07: One of four Rebel golfers to be named to the 2007 Academic All-MWC team ... played in seven tournaments totalling 20 rounds ... recorded four top-20 finishes, including two top-10s ... his best finish was a tie for seventh at the District 7 Shootout ... shot par three times and was under par in five rounds ... shot in the 60s four times, including a 65 at the Morris Williams Intercollegiate ... his 67 during the MWC Championship[apos]s third round tied him for the lowest third-round score ever by a Rebel in the conference tournament ... had a scoring average of 72.95 ... won the 108th Southern California Golf Association Amateur Championship in July, 2007, and tied for eighth at the 41st Pacific Coast Amateur Championship.

2005-06: Did not play in 2005-06, using the season as his redshirt year.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2005 graduate of Flintridge Peparatory School in La Canada, Calif. ... lettered four years in golf and was the team captain his junior and senior years ... was a first team all-league selection all four years of high school ... was a two-time all-area selection and the MVP of the Prep League ... his senior year he was first team All-CIF and an L.A. Times first-team selection ... was a Southern California Junior Player of the Year ... finished second at the 2003 Las Vegas Founders Junior Golf Championship ... also was a two-time United States Junior participant.

PERSONAL: Brett James Kanda was born May 10, 1987, in Glendale, Calif. ... son of James and Patricia Kanda ... has a brother, Cameron (18) ... majoring in journalism & media studies ... his dad played tennis at Santa Clara.