The longest-tenured golf coach in Lycoming College history,
Jamie Spencer ’01 is back on the course in 2025-26 for a 19
th season at the helm of the program.
In Lycoming first two years in the Landmark Conference, Spencer has coached two all-conference picks, with Will Eberz jumping from honorable mention status in 2024 to First Team All-Landmark Conference in 2025.
Spencer first solidified the Warriors' golf program during his first tenure from 2001-15, as he became the longest-tenured coach in program history while mentoring five all-conference performers and two MAC Scholar Athletes.
After the Warriors finished last at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships in his first year in 2001, Spencer quickly built the team into a respectable contender in the conference, helping the team to a seventh-place finish in a 14-team field just four years later as Jim Bechtel became Spencer's first all-conference golfer.
In 2005, when the MAC split its league championship into separate events for the Freedom and Commonwealth Conferences, Jordan Isenberg and Jim Bechtel starred for the Warriors as they finished tied for second to earn all-conference honors and led the Warriors to a second-place finish in the MAC Freedom.
In 2006, Isenberg again earned all-conference honors under Spencer and the team finished fourth. Ryan Nelson also earned all-conference honors in 2007. He coached his second MAC Scholar Athlete in 2013, as four-year letterwinner Drew Tompkins was named the honoree to join Bechtel as winners of the prestigous award. In 2015, he mentored Will Dietz, the first Warrior to earn the Academic All-MAC award in program history.
Spencer is an alum of the golf program, as he finished tied for 17th at the MAC Championships as a junior and he notched a hole-in-one in the event on a 157-yard par-3 in 1998.
Spencer has also had two stints as an assistant basketball coach at Lycoming. He served as a student assistant and assistant coach with the men’s program from 1999-2003. He worked under Terry Conrad and was on staff when the Warriors won their first Freedom Conference title during the 2001-02 season. He also assisted the women's team from 2010-12, working under head coach Christen Ditzler.
He has also served as the head boys’ basketball coach at three local high schools – Montoursville Area, Montgomery Area and St. John Neumann Regional, where he was named WNEP Super 16 Coach of the Year after leading the Knights to the state finals in April 2022.
Spencer earned a bachelor’s degree in managerial economics from Lycoming in 2001. A sales executive at Susquehanna Marble & Granite, he resides in Cogan Station, Pa., with his wife, Michelle, and son, Jensen.
| The Spencer File |
| Hometown: Williamsport, Pa. |
| Wife - Michelle |
| Son - Jensen |
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Education
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| 2001 |
Bachelor of Arts - Managerial Economics |
Lycoming College |
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Collegiate Coaching Experience |
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| 1999-01 |
Lycoming College |
Men's Basketball Student Assistant |
| 2001-03 |
Lycoming College |
Assistant Men's Basketball Coach |
| 2001-Pres. |
Lycoming College |
Head Golf Coach |
| 2010-12 |
Lycoming College |
Assistant Women's Basketball Coach |
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| Spencer Year-By-Year |
| Year |
Conf. |
Note |
| 2001 |
14th/14 |
Went 1-1 in dual meets |
| 2002 |
12th/14 |
Team finished 4-0 in dual meets |
| 2003 |
13th/14 |
Team dropped its average round at the conference championships by seven strokes from 2002 |
| 2004 |
7th/14 |
Jim Bechtel earns All-MAC honors, finishing sixth at the conference championships |
| 2005 |
T-2nd/7 |
Jordan Isenberg and Jim Bechtel finish tied for second at Freedom Conference Championships |
| 2006 |
5th/7 |
Jordan Isenberg earns all-conference honors, takes fifth at Freedom Conference Championships |
| 2007 |
5th/7 |
Ryan Nelson earns all-conference honors, finishes 10th at Freedom Conference Championships |
| 2008 |
6th/6 |
Robert Wentzel and Sean Driscoll post top 20 finishes at the Commonwealth Conference Championships |
| 2009 |
6th/7 |
Robert Wentzel finished 16th at the Commonwealth Conference Championships |
| 2010 |
7th/8 |
Jordan Hollander posted top GPA in the conference among senior golfers |
| 2011 |
7th/8 |
Robert Jumper finishes tied for 14th at the Commonwealth Conference Championships |
| 2012 |
T-6th/8 |
Team posted its best finish in an eight-team Commonwealth Conference field |
| 2013 |
9th/10 |
Drew Tompkins earns MAC Scholar Athlete award |
| 2014 |
9th/10 |
Team posted lowest stroke average since 2009 |
| 2015 |
8th/9 |
Team's two-day score at Commonwealth Conference Championship of 710 was lowest in seven years |
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| 2023 |
9th/9 |
Michael Coe earns College Sport Communicators Academic All-District honors |
| 2024 |
10th/10 |
Will Eberz earns Honorable Mention All-Landmark Conference honors |
| 2025 |
10th/10 |
Will Eberz earns First Team All-Landmark Conference honors |
