David Trainor is in his fifth season as head coach of Boise State men's golf\u00A0in 2026-27 after being hired in July 2022.
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\r\nLeading the team to its second-consecutive 80-win campaign, the Broncos amassed an 84-79-3 mark in 2025-26. Boise State finished three tournaments in the top three and won two championships in the process.
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\r\nTaking home hardware in the fall and spring, the Broncos claimed victory in the Oregon State Invitational (866, +2) in October 2025 and Lake Las Vegas Invitational (841, -23) in February 2026. In both events, Cole Rueck took home first place as the outright individual champion.
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\r\nInstrumental in Rueck turning pro, Trainor oversaw his continued development in his senior season. In addition to winning two championships, Rueck was named Mountain West Golfer of Week twice and was selected to the All-Mountain West Team for the third-straight year.
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\r\nUnder Trainor’s guidance, Rueck finished his collegiate career with eight tournament titles and 17 top-10 finishes (second most in program history). He was also a multi-time PGA TOUR participant during his four years in the Treasure Valley.
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\r\nIn 2024-25, Trainor led the team to an 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.
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\r\nCompeting in 10 regular season tournaments, the Broncos posted five top-three finishes\u00A0and was victorious once. Shooting a season-best 841 (-23), Boise State won the UC Santa Barbara Gaucho\u00A0Intercollegiate 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.
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\r\nThat season, Rueck won the Loyola Intercollegiate, Genesis Collegiate Showcase (second-straight year), second annual Battle for Idaho (second-straight year) and notched six top-10 finishes. Additionally, Luke Cushman won his first career tournament and took home MW Golfer of the Week honors, while Reese Knox garnered MW Freshman of the Week accolades on the same day.
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\r\nThe 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.
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\r\nRueck concluded the season by winning the Mountain West individual title, an honor Boise State hadn't received\u00A0since 2017. He went on to make an appearance in the 2024 NCAA Stanford Regional, where he shot 210 and tied for 28th.
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\r\nIn Trainor’s first season, the Broncos finished in the top four in\u00A0two 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.
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\r\nTrainor joined the Broncos with\u00A0nine seasons of head coaching experience from Akron, where he led the Zips\u00A0to an\u00A0individual 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\u00A0All-America Scholar honors.
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\r\nOver 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.
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\r\nTrainor 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.
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\r\nBefore 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\u00A0the NCAA Championship (seventh – 2005; fifth – 2006), the 2005 Southeastern Conference championship and nine overall tournament titles.
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\r\nA native of\u00A0Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Trainor was a four-year\u00A0letterwinner\u00A0at 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).
Keita Shimada joined Boise State Sports Medicine in 2010 and currently serves as an associate athletic trainer. Shimada works with gymnastics and men's and women's golf. He has worked with gymnastics since 2008 when he started at Boise State as a graduate assistant.
\r\n\r\nShimada was selected by the USA Gymnastics Committee to speak at the USA Gymnastics National Congress meeting on the topic of educating coaches on the management of gymnastics injuries.
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\r\n\r\nA native of Tokyo, Japan Shimada moved to New York when he was five years old. After graduating from high school in 2000 Keita attended Oregon State where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 2007.
\r\n\r\nShimada is an avid fisherman and spends much of his time near the water but he is also known to frequent many local golf courses.
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\r\nDuring his tenure at Boise State he has worked with nearly every Olympic sports program in the athletic department. He currently oversees the needs for beach volleyball, men’s and women’s cross country and both track & field teams, as well as both golf teams, and softball. He also serves as host for visiting football teams.
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\r\nIbarra joined the Bronco staff after graduating from Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario, Ore., where he assisted the basketball coach for two years.\u00A0He received a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice in 1999 and obtained his master’s degree in criminal justice administration in 2001, both from Boise State. He is currently working on his doctoral degree in education, also from Boise State.
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\r\nIbarra moved to Idaho when he was a child and graduated from McCall-Donnelly High School in 1992.\u00A0 He and his wife Rashelle have two children a daughter, Karinya Joyce, and a son, Raul Andres, Jr.
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