Warsaw Community High School senior Tyler Ostrom has signed his national letter of intent to play golf at Ball State University. Ostrom, who owns a 4.33 grade-point average on the school’s 4.0 scale, won the Indiana High School Athletic Association State Championship as a junior with a 63-74=137. He won by two strokes and the first round 63 marked a state championship single round record. Also, Ostrom won the 2011 IHSAA Regional with a 70, and helped his team to sectional titles in 2009 and 2010, the 2010 regional crown and a seventh place finish in the state as a junior. An IHSAA All-State selection in 2010 and 2011, Ostrom has been the Warsaw team’s Most Valuable Player for three seasons. He helped the Tigers to conference titles as a sophomore and junior, while maintaining averages of 74.3 as a junior and 75.0 as a sophomore. Warsaw, under the direction of coach Ben Barkey, has compiled a 41-3 record in his career, with all three losses coming in matches his freshman season. Ostrom was named to the American Junior Golf Association HP Scholastic All-America Junior Boys Team and was a Future Collegian World Tours Academic All-Scholar selection in 2011.
