Entering his 23rd season at ETSU and his 31st year overall, Hall of Fame head coach Fred Warren continues to build a winning tradition for the Buccaneers, making them one of only eight teams to play in the past three NCAA Championships and guiding them into the national spotlight on a yearly basis.

As the 2008-09 season enters the spring portion of the campaign, Warren – who was inducted into the Golf Coaches Association of America’s Hall of Fame in December of 2003 – and the Bucs are coming off a 2007-08 campaign which saw the team once again garner recognition as one of the nation’s elite squads. Earning a Top 15 ranking throughout much of last year, the team made its 20th trip to the NCAA Championships. In addition, Warren helped guide standout Gareth Shaw to an Atlantic Sun Conference individual title and a spot on the PING All-America second team, while also helping to place Rhys Enoch and Seamus Power on All A-Sun squads. Ending the NCAAs in 22nd place a year ago and returning a young team loaded with talent, Warren and the Bucs will once again undoubtedly enter the 2008-09 spring season as a one of college golf’s top teams.

Since his arrival in 1986, the Warren-led Buccaneer program has been a consistent performer among the nation’s elite, finishing in the top 13 six times and in the top 25 13 times since 1989 – including a third-place finish at the 1996 NCAA Championships and a ninth-place finish in 2001.

During the past 22 seasons, Warren’s Buc squads have won 39 tournaments, including the 2001 NCAA East Regional at Williamsburg, Va. During the 2000-01 season, his squad won four tournaments, including three straight from April to May. Even more impressive, his 1995-96 team won six events, tying national champion Arizona State and Florida for the most tournament wins during the year, and was ranked as the No. 1 team in the country during part of the year.

Just three years after arriving in Johnson City, Warren returned ETSU to the top of the Southern Conference, a position where the Bucs remained for 12 of the next 17 years. Warren led the Bucs to league titles from 1989-92, 1994-96, 1998-2001, and in 2005, his 12 championships broke the 54-year-old SoCon record of 11 titles held by longtime Duke golf coach Ellis "Dumpy" Hagler, making Warren the winningest men’s golf coach in SoCon history. The Bucs advanced to the NCAA Championships in 1989 and 1992, from 1994 to 2001, and have made the field in four straight seasons (2005-08).

Warren is a seven-time winner of Southern Conference Coach-of-the-Year honors (1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 1999), has won Atlantic Sun Conference Coach-of-the-Year once, and has twice earned NCAA District Coach-of-the-Year (1989 and 1996). He was a runner-up for National Coach-of-the-Year honors following the 1995-96 season. During his tenure at ETSU, Warren has coached 18 All-America selections and 30 All-Southern Conference choices, and three All-Atlantic Sun picks. He has coached eight of the past 14 Southern Conference Individual Medalists, two Atlantic Sun Conference champions, 11 SoCon Players-of-the-Year, and three Atlantic Sun Conference Players-of-the-Year.

Warren joined the Buccaneer program from collegiate golf power Oklahoma State, where he served as an assistant coach. During his tenure in Stillwater, the Cowboys won three Big Eight championships and finished as NCAA Tournament runners-up on three occasions. Warren began his coaching career at Texas Christian University, where he led both the men’s and women’s programs from 1979-84. While at TCU, his Horned Frog men’s team finished fourth at the 1980 NCAA Championships and posted a 27th-place finish in 1983. That year he became the first coach to ever place a men’s and women’s team in the NCAA Tournament field during the same season. He guided the women to the 1983 NCAA title and a runner-up finish the previous year. He was named Southwest Conference Men’s Coach-of-the-Year in 1980 and was the SWC Women’s Coach-of-the-Year choice in 1983. In October 2000, Warren was inducted into the TCU Horned Frog Hall of Honor, and in 2003 he was named a TCU "Legend."

Warren has taught in Golf Digest Instruction Schools, in the Oklahoma State Golf Schools, the North Carolina Golf Schools, the Georgia Academy of Golf, at Purdue University and at the NIKE All-Star Golf Camp. He has served as a member of the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Committee. He has served as Chair of the NCAA District 3 North Golf Committee, as the Chair of the Southern Conference Golf Coaches and as a Chair of the GCAA All-America Selection Committee. Warren also has served on the Golf Coaches Association of America Ethics Committee.

Warren played his collegiate golf at UCLA while earning a bachelor of arts degree in speech. He received a master of science degree in education from Oklahoma State. He served as a U.S. Marine Corps officer from 1974-78 and was honorably discharged, reaching the rank of Captain. Warren is active in several ETSU student organizations. He is a faculty advisor for Kappa Delta Sorority and has served in the same role for Campus Crusade for Christ and the Christian Student Fellowship.