The 2025-26 school year is Maas' tenth with Albion, and fifth as head coach of the men’s and women’s golf teams. Maas was promoted to head coach in the summer of 2021 after serving as an assistant for the Britons for five seasons.
Maas took over a program where the men’s team had placed sixth in the MIAA for seven consecutive years while the women’s team finished ninth. The team declared they would start a “New Era” of Albion Golf. At the end of the 2025 fall season, fueled by a culture overhaul, both the men’s and women’s teams climbed the conference standings to sit in fourth place. The Brits were one of only two MIAA schools to have both men and women in the top four of the conference standings at the end of the fall season.The pair of fourth-place finishes marked the best MIAA results for the men’s team since 2009 and the best for the women’s team since 2018.
The men’s team recorded a 336.2 average in their first year of the new era, and dropped it all the way down to 308.3 at the end of the fall 2025 season; marking the best team average since the 2008-09 school year and the third-best all-time. In April of 2024, they shot 292 at the Cascades Spring Invite to win their first invitational since 2007.
Under Coach Maas’s direction, the men’s team has won seven events: 2022 Oakland Hills Dual, 2023 Maas Cup, 2024 Thunder Brit Cup, 2024 Cascades Invitational, 2024 Maas Cup, 2024 Grey Wolves Invitational, and the 2025 Marshall Masters. With Coach Maas at the helm, the men have shot four of the top ten rounds in school history, including two scores of 292, which are one shot shy of the school record. They have also shot nine of the top sixteen individual rounds in school history. Three different men’s players under Coach Maas have won a tournament individually (Blake Wagner, Ryno Knitter, and Charlie Dierkes).
The women’s team started the new era with a 362 team average, then broke the school scoring record in 2023-24 with a 343 average, then broke it again in fall 2025 with a 328.8 average. In April 2025, the women shot 328 in the Cascades Spring Invite to win their first invitational since 2019. The Britons added another win in September 2025 at the Grey Wolves Invitational in September 2025.
Under Coach Maas' direction, the women's team has won five events in total: 2023 Maas Cup, 2024 Maas Cup, 2025 Cascades Invitational, and the 2025 Grey Wolves Invitational. With Coach Maas at the helm, the women have shot nine of the top ten rounds in program history, including all of the top six. They have also shot eight of the top-12 individual rounds in program history. Two different student-athletes under Coach Maas have won a tournament individually (Aubrie Schaibly and Anna Schaibly). In his first season as head coach, he mentored Grace Hoffman to second team All-MIAA honors. After the 2024 season, he saw Emily Abramczyk shoot the second-lowest average in program history while claiming All-MIAA Second Team honors.
The 2024-25 school year was the first in program history where both the men’s and women’s team each won an invitational. They followed that up in fall 2025 by having the first fall season where both teams won an invitational in program history. Coach Maas is one of only three coaches in MIAA history to coach both men and women to a top-four MIAA finish in the same season, and the only coach in conference history to do that with rosters recruited entirely during his tenure in charge of the program.
Maas is also in his second term as the MIAA’s representative on the NCAA’s regional advisory committee. He currently still plays his own tournament schedule every summer. He competes mainly in GAM and KMGA events.
After sustaining a shoulder injury two days before his freshman move-in date, Maas played four years at Olivet College and sat one year for his injury. During his final season, Maas was a starter in every tournament his team played in.
Outside of Olivet, Maas has worked with golfers of all ages. He spent two years as a junior golf instructor at Battle Creek Country Club, teaching the game of golf to children between the ages of four and 15. Prior to his time at BCCC, Maas spent a year working as a club fitter for the Foundation Golf Center in Coldwater, Mich.
Maas also served as a professional caddy for three years, manning the bag in Symetra Tour events and LPGA qualifiers. During his five years as Albion’s assistant coach, Maas also worked as the head teaching professional at Tomac Woods Golf Course in Albion.
Maas received a degree in journalism and mass communications from Olivet College. Along with golf, he was a member of the Echo Newspaper, WOCR radio station, Phi Alpha Pi Literary Society, and served as the public address announcer for athletic events. He currently lives in Albion with his wife Devon and their two dogs: Kisner and Poston.
