Ken Bartelt enters his first season as the Northland College Golf Coach before the 2024 season.
Ken is a 1985 UW-Whitewater graduate with a BSE in Mathematics. In Naples, Florida he was an assistant coach for the 1987 state runner up football team at Lely High School and also the varsity girls tennis coach that reached the state tournament for the first time in school history. Moving back to Wisconsin, he took over the varsity girls basketball program at Monticello HS and in his third year, the Ponies won the 1991 Division 4 state championship with a 26-1 record. After taking an administrative position at Northwestern HS in Maple, WI, Ken took over the girls basketball program there in 1996 and led them to their only state tournament appearance in 1999 where they lost in the state semi-finals. He left coaching in 2001 to watch his sons play sports but when an assistant boys basketball coach was needed at Northwestern in 2018, Bartelt took the position and helped lead a team that was .500 the year before to a state tournament appearance in 2019. Ken has since spent several years subbing as a principal and teacher while also officiating football, basketball, baseball and softball before taking the Northland College golf coaching position. Ken’s wife, Annette, (also a volunteer assistant golf coach) is a Northland College graduate and was the first woman in school history to make a 3-pointer when the 3-point line was first introduced. Ken was the 2023 club champion at Ashland’s local course (Chequamegon Bay Golf Course) and in 2024 placed third. Ken’s 2nd oldest son is a PGA Class A teaching pro out of SMART golf in Lombard, Illinois and qualified for the PGA Professionals Championship that was held in Austin, Texas in 2022.
