2022-23 Men's Golf Roster

Morgan Givens/University of West Florida
Morgan Givens

Elias Haavisto

  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Kotka, Finland
  • Highschool Kotkan Lyseo
  • Prev School Averett University

Biography


Transferred to UWF in the Fall 2020 semester after playing his freshman season at Averett University in Danville, Va.

* GCAA/PING Second Team All-America
* GCAA First Team All-Region
* First Team All-GSC
* GSC Spring All-Academic


2021-22 (So.): GCAA Second Team All-America ... First Team All-GSC ... GSC Championship Individual Medalist for the second-consecutive year, becoming just the fifth player in the 50-year history to do so ... GSC Spring All-Academic team selection ... Finished the season as the No. 14 rated player on Golfstat ... Posted a 71.18 stroke avg. over 33 rounds, ranking fourth in UWF single-season history ... Had a first round avg. of 71.78 and a final round avg of 72.91 ... Had nine rounds in the 60s and  21 of his 33 rounds at par or better ... Posted six top 5 finishes ... Season-low round of 64 came in the second round of the GSC Championship, breaking his own league-record of 65 from a year earlier.

2020-21 (Fr.): GCAA Second Team All-America ... First Team All-GSC ... GSC Championship Individual Medalist with a 67-65-71=203 total, tying the GSC record set by former Argo Juan Miguel Heredia in 2014 ... GSC Spring All-Academic team selection ... Compiled a 72.39 stroke avg. in 23 events ... Had six rounds in the 60s and 12 at par or better.

* GCAA Division III Phil Mickelson Outstanding Freshman Award
* GCAA/PING First Team All-America
* GCAA Freshman All-America
* Averett University Spring Sports Male Student-Athlete of the Year
* USA South Conference Rookie of the Year
* USA South Academic All-Conference


Low 18-Hole Score: 67 (5-under) VSGA Intercollegiate, 10/14/2019
Low 36-Hole Score: 136 (8-under) VSGA Intercollegiate, 10/14/2019
College Wins: VSGA Intercollegiate (10/14-15/19), Hill City Invitational (3/9-10/20)

2019-20 (Fr. at Averett):
Competed in five events, finishing with two individual wins and five top-10s in a shortened season ... Won the Virginia State Golf Association Intercollegiate by shooting 8-under-par ... Won the University of Lynchburg's Hill City Invitational with a score of 6-under ... Helped Averett win the Don Scalf Memorial as a team ... Selected as the 2020 Golf Coaches Association of America Division III Phil Mickelson Outstanding Freshman Award recipient ... Named to the 2020 Golf Coaches Association of America/PING All-America First Team and GCAA/PING All-Region First Team ... Chosen to the 2020 Golf Coaches Association of America's All-Freshman Team ... Selected as the 2020 Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID) Player and Rookie of the Year and earned All-State First Team honors ... Named the USA South Conference Rookie of the Week all five times eligible and named the USA South Co-Golfer of the Week once ... Was ranked as high as No. 3 in Division III by GolfStat ... Named the Spring Sports Dr. Tommy Foster Male Student-Athlete of the Year at the Averett Athletics Night of Champions ceremony ... Selected as the Spring Freshman Male Athlete of the Year ... Earned USA South Academic All-Conference honors.

Personal:
Son of Ermo and Sanna Haavisto ... Born on Aug. 15, 1999.
 

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

  • 2021-22Sophomore

  • 2022-23Junior