Men's Golf
- Title:
- Head Coach
- Email:
- davidtrainor@boisestate.edu
David Trainor enters his fourth season as head coach of Boise State men's golf in 2025-26 after being hired in July 2022.
Last season, Trainor led the team to a 88-63-3 win-loss record, which was a massive improvement from the previous campaign. The team posted a 39-99-2 mark during the 2023-24 season.
Competing in 10 regular season tournaments, the Broncos posted five top-three finishes and was victorious once. Shooting a season-best 841 (-23), Boise State won the UC Santa Barbara Gaucho Intercollegiate (April 7-8) by 21 strokes. The Blue and Orange also had a successful showing in the Loyola Intercollegiate (845, -19), finishing tied for second in the 19-team field.
In his third season at the helm, Trainor oversaw the continued development of Cole Rueck. Selected to the All-Mountain West team for the second-consecutive year, Rueck won the Loyola Intercollegiate, Genesis Collegiate Showcase (second-straight year), Second Annual Battle of Idaho (second-straight year) and notched six top 10 finishes, including the 2025 Mountain West Championships, where he placed seventh (206, -10).
Additionally, Boise State garnered some individual weekly accolades. Fresh off his first career victory in the UCSB Gaucho Intercollegiate (207, -9), Luke Cushman was named Mountain West Golfer of the Week, while true freshman Reese Knox took home Freshman of the Week honors after finishing tied for 10th (215, -1) in the same tournament.
The highlight of Trainor's second year was Rueck's dominant sophomore season 2023-24. He opened the spring with a win at the Genesis Collegiate Showcase to earn an exemption to the Scottish Open. He was the only amateur and collegian in the PGA Tour Event.
Rueck concluded the season by winning the Mountain West individual title, an honor Boise State hadn't received since 2017. He went on to make an appearance in the 2024 NCAA Stanford Regional, where he shot a 210 and tied for 28th.
In his first season, the Broncos finished in the top four in two tournaments (TPC Colorado Invitational and Bandon Dunes Collegiate) while fifth-year senior Max Charles earned medalist honors at the PING Cougar Classic. Charles set the school record for 36-hole score and 54-hole score in the process.
Boise State finished eighth in the Mountain West Championships in 2023, led by top-25 finishes from Charles and freshman Gavyn Knight.
Trainor joined the Broncos with nine seasons of head coaching experience from Akron, where he led the Zips to an individual MAC championship, three individual NCAA regional appearances and three PING All-Region team awards. His student-athletes earned five first-team All-MAC selections, along with 15 Academic All-MAC nods and seven Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholar honors.
Over his final five seasons at Akron, Trainor's teams posted 31 top-10 team finishes, including a title at the Firestone Invitational in fall 2018.
Trainor was the head coach at Akron from 2011 until the program was dissolved due to the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. He excelled in creating a well-rounded student-athlete experience, having produced a 450% increase in national academic and athletic honors, and postseason participation while at Akron. In his nine seasons with the Zips, he helped the program raise its cumulative GPA from 3.19 to 3.56.
Before taking over at Akron, Trainor was a member of the men's golf staff at Kentucky, where he was an assistant and associate head coach. In his seven seasons at UK, Trainor helped the Wildcats to two top-10 finishes in the NCAA Championship (seventh – 2005; fifth – 2006), the 2005 Southeastern Conference championship and nine overall tournament titles.
A native of Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Trainor was a four-year letterwinner at College of Charleston, where he graduated in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. Trainor and his wife, Landon, have two sons, William and Cian (KEY-an).
