Baylor

Senior from Encintas, Calif. ... Played in 43 rounds across 16 individual stroke-play events and holds an 0-4-1 record in Match Play ... Appeared in the 2024 NCAA Championship in Carlsbad, Calif., just miles from his home course ... Two-Time Academic All-Big 12 First Team.

2024-25 (Junior): Team leader in stroke average (73.25), Par-4 scoring average (4.17), par or better % (78.8%) and total pars (323) ... Tied for the second-most rounds at par or better ... Tied for 38th at the Gopher Invitational (9/9) ... shot an opening-round 70 at the Fighting Illini Invitational (9/22) ... Finished with a 2-3 mark Mark at the Big 12 Match Play, including Baylor's lone point in the championship match against BYU (10/11) ... Started 69-70 en route to his career-best tie for fifth at the Clerico (10/29) ... Led BU with a tie for 27th at the Cabo Collegiate (3/4) ... Closed with a final-round 70 to tie for 33rd at the Hackler (3/18) ... Paced the Bears with a tie for 17th in difficult conditions at the Maridoe Intercollegiate (4/1) ... Tied for 28th at the Aggie Invitational (4/13) ... Fired a final-round 70 to lead BU with a tie for 29th at the Big 12 Championship.

2023-24 (Sophomore ): Played in nine tournaments (Eight in the lineup) with a stroke average of 75.17 ... Named to the 2024 Academic All-Big 12 First Team ... Opened the season with a tie for 38th in a 72-player field at the Valero Texas Collegiate (9/11) ... Tied for 60th at the Fighting Illini Invitational (9/17) ... Shot a final-round 67 en route to a tie for 50th in a 113-player field in the Kapolei Invitational (11/2) ... Carded his best finish of the season with a tie for 17th at the Aggie Invitational (4/7) ... Subbed in for the final round of the NCAA Chapel hill Regional, shooting 71 and helping the Bears Advance to the NCAA Championship (5/15) ... Made his NCAA Championship debut at Omni La Costa finishing 81st (5/29).

2022-23 (Freshman): Played in seven events as an individual with his best finish coming at the Trinity Forest Invitational (t-7th) ... Finished with a par or better percentage of 82.2%, a par-4 scoring average if 4.02 and a par-5 scoring average of 4.72, which all would have led the team if he had enough team rounds to qualify ... Made his debut at the Minnesota Golf Classic where he finished tied for 17th in the 101-player field  with a +1 217 ... Finished tied for 17th in his second event at the MCC River Classic at Bear Ridge Golf Club buoyed by an opening-round 68 ... Carded his career best finish at the Trinity Forest Invitational (t-7), highlighted by a second-round 67, one of three rounds at par or better ... Made his match play debut with an 0-4-1 record at Houston Oaks at the Big 12 Match Play ... Carded a second top-10 as an individual at the Bear Brawl to close out the fall season ... A third-straight top-10 came to open the spring slate at the Prestige Individual Invitational (t-8) ... Opened with a first-round 71 en route to a tie for 33rd at the Bearkat Invitational ... Shot book-end 71s to close out his season at the Spring Individual at Winstar with an eighth place finish.

Prior to Baylor: Appel signed with Baylor as the 14^th-ranked player in the Junior Golf Scoreboard rankings and the seventh-ranked player in the class of 2022 ...  Made the round of 64 in the 2022 United States Golf Association Junior Amateur ... Made the round of 32 at the 2021 United States Junior Amateur ... Finished fifth at the 2021 IMG World Championship ... Made the Wyndham Cup in back-to-back years compiling a record of and went 3-3-2 in the team event ... a 2021 Rolex Junior All-American Honorable Mention ... Used a final-round 65 to win the 2020 Under Armour Jordan Spieth Championship by three shots ... Earned Rolex Junior All America First Team honors in 2019-2020 ... Earned a spot on the 2019 AJGA Junior All-Star Team.