Bob Whartenby of Lawrenceville was named the new head coach of the Rider University golf team in the fall of 2006. In just his second competition as head coach, Whartenby led the Broncs to the Bucknell Invitation title and came back two weeks later to lead Rider to victory at the Cornell Invitational. In the spring of 2007, Whartenby helped then junior Tyler Brewington to a third place finish at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In the fall of 2007, the golf team placed third at the Bucknell Invitational, fourth at the Colgate Invitational and fifth at St. Bonaventure’s Leo Keenan Invitational and in the spring of 2008, Whartenby led the squad to its best ever runner-up finish at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championships with Brewington also finishing second and rookie Brian Accorsini placing seventh.
Whartenby is a 2004 Rider graduate, where he was a three-time All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference golfer for the Broncs, and is thought of by many as the finest golfer in the modern era of the sport at Rider. “Bob Whartenby has done a great job as Rider’s golf coach,” said Director of Athletics Don Harnum. “He obviously knows the game and is very well connected in local and regional golf circles.”
Whartenby replaced 2006 MAAC Golf Coach of the Year Chet Dalgewicz, who retired after 12 years as Rider’s golf coach and associate director of athletics for compliance and academic support.
Whartenby served two years as an assistant coach under Dalgewicz.
“I know that as a former Rider golfer he has a tremendous amount of pride in the Rider golf program,” said Harnum.
A three-time team captain, Whartenby was the recipient of the Ed Eget Scholarship for outstanding achievement in both academics and athletics, and served as vice president for Rider’s Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC).
