University of Findlay

David Grove helped anchor the men’s golf program at Findlay during a period where the team competed independently without a conference affiliation. Despite the lack of opportunity to compete for conference titles and awards, Grove played like a champion and was an accomplished academic.

Grove finished in the top 10 in half of the 26 tournaments in which he represented the Oilers. He was a medalist on seven occasions, which ranks second all-time at Findlay. Grove’s career scoring average of 78.51 places him in the 18^th position all-time for UF men’s golf. A model student athlete, Grove earned the program’s first National Association of Collegiate Athletics (NAIA) Academic All-America award for the 1993-1994 season. That same year, he was named Aristos Eklcktos junior of the year at Findlay. Grove graduated in three and one half years with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and completed his MBA in 2005. He had certainly demonstrated his belief, “Sports allow one the opportunity to learn how to handle success, failure and adversity, all of which help and individual in life.”

An employee of the Ohio Mutual Insurance Group for 15 years, Grove currently serves as Vice President of Product Management. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Galion Country Club, completed the executive educating program at the Darden School of Business, and was selected to serve on the Insurance Services Office (ISO) 2015 Actuarial Panel. Grove and his wife of 21 years, Missi, live in Bucyrus, Ohio and have two adult daughters, Hannah Woods and Chloe Grove.