NC State Wolfpack

Fernando Mechereffe
	Hometown: Pelotas, Brazil Height: 5-8 Birthdate: 03/06/1983

2003-04: Named to PING All-South Region Team by GCAA ... Earned All-ACC honors ... Led the team and was 13th in the ACC with a 72.86 stroke average ... Played in all 12 tournaments, leading team in seven ... Had a team best 13 rounds of par or better ... Led the squad with a 12.1 average differential of strokes behind the tournament medalist ... Shot a 69-67-73 en route to a seven-under-par 209 in the Koch/Cleveland Golf Intercollegiate at the Old Memorial golf Club in Tampa, Fla., to tie for third place individually ... Came in two-under in NC State's Courtyard by Marriott Intercollegiate at MacGregor Downs to tie for 10th place ... Carded a third round 69 in the Tucker Intercollegiate in Albuquerque, N.M., to tie for fourth place with a one-under 215 ... Shot another one-under 215 in the Puerto Rico Classic at the Rio Mar Coutnry Club in San Juan, Puerto Rico ... Was three-over in the ACC Championship to tie for 25th place individually and help Pack finish fourth ... Went 2-1 in the Hooters Collegiate Match Play Championship at the Barefoot Resort's Dye Course in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., defeating John Poucher from UCLA, 4 and 3, as well as Oklahoma State's Alex Noren, 4 and 3.

2002-03: Third in stroke average behind All-American's Justin Walters and Jason Moon with an average of 73.7 … Twenty-five of his 37 rounds were 75 or lower, with a season and career low 67 at the Cleveland Golf/ASU Invitational … Was dominant in the spring, posting 10 of his 11 rounds under-par and three of his five even-par rounds … Posted two top-five finishes, with three top-20 finishes overall.

2001-02: Finished tied for 51st in his first NCAA Championship with a tournament total of 72-70-72-75=289, the seventh best NCAA Championship total in school history…Fourth on the team in stroke average (73.8), rounds-under-par (9), top-10 finishes (2), and top-20 finishes (3)…Tied for second on the team in rounds at even-par with five…Fired a season-low round of 67 in the final round of the Las Vegas Intercollegiate, tied for the third lowest round last season for the Wolfpack…Finished fourth in Las Vegas, his best finish of the year…Also fired a 67 in the second round at the Intercollegiate, finishing eighth for the tournament…

2000-01: Played for Division II Wingate University…In the fall of 2000…He won two tournaments outright and tied for first in another before falling in a playoff…Won the NCAA Division II South Regional by firing a three-day total of 205 (68-69-68) to finish eight-under par for the four stroke victory…Named the South Atlantic player of the year and freshman of the year…Only the third golfer to advance to a national tournament in Wingate history…Stroke average of 72.3 for the six fall tournaments and posted a 73.4 average overall for the year…Participated in the South American Junior Golf Championships…

Amateur: Captured the Brazilian Amateur in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2001 and 2002…Finished first overall at the Brazilian Junior Championship at Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2000…Won the Tournament of the Americas in Doral, Florida in 1999…