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Mac Petty served 13 seasons as the head golf coach at Wabash College and will be an advisor to current head golf coach Tyler Schmutz beginning with the 2019-2020 season. Petty spent several seasons as the fall golf coach while working his primary duties as head basketball coach at Wabash. Five of his golfers have earned All-North Coast Athletic Conference honors, with Logan Burdick most recently earning First All-NCAC honors in 2014. Jordan Vice was an All-NCAC player three times, including First Team honors in 2009. Vice went on to be named to the All-Third Decade NCAC Men's Golf Team in 2014.

An avid golfer, Petty was the 2001 Crawfordsville Country Club MGA Player of the Year and was the 2012 Senior Club Championship after firing a round of 77. His first career hole-in-one came in 1992 and scored a second ace in 2015. He currently carries a nine handicap. He shot par (71) for an entire round on the course in 2011.

Petty is no stranger to coaching. He is the winningest basketball coach in Wabash history prior to retiring at the end of the 2010-2011 season. In 35 years at the helm of the Little Giant basketball team, Petty recorded an overall record of 497-389. His 1982 basketball team won the NCAA Division III national title, with Petty earning Division III Coach of the Year honors. He was named the 1997 District Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, marking the second time in his career (1982) that he has received that honor. He also earned NCAC Men's Basketball Coach of the Year honors in 2010. He was inducted into the Greater Akron Baseball Hall of Fame in October of 2004, celebrating his outstanding baseball career during his high school and early collegiate days. He was enshrined in the Wabash Athletics Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Montgomery County Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.

Petty and his wife, Gloria, reside in Crawfordsville. They have two grown children, Susan and Matt, and four grandchildren.