Bio

Bart Reiten is in his second year as Head Golf Coach for the men's and women's golf programs at Richard Bland College during 2017-18.  He joined the Statesmen in February 2017.  Reiten had served as the jayvee golf coach at St. Christopher’s School in Richmond since March 2015, and has worked as a professional caddie at Kinloch Golf Club in Manakin-Sabot since April 2012.

Reiten coached three individual student-athletes to NJCAA National Tournament appearances during his first year, including Anna Carole Cole and Kenedi Byard to the Women's Championship in Braselton, Georgia and Frankie Lin to the Division I Men's Championship in Garden City, Kansas.

A native of Colonial Heights, Reiten is a graduate of Colonial Heights High School.  His current home course is Dogwood Trace Golf Course, and he previously worked at the Country Club of Petersburg golf course -- both courses are located just minutes from the Richard Bland campus.

Reiten taught composition and rhetoric, as well as film studies classes, at the university level for seven years, including at Virginia Commonwealth University in the English Language Program IEP/ESL/ELL from January 2007 to May 2013.  He taught and mentored non-native English language learners in college composition and rhetoric, conducted quarterly testing, evaluation and placement, advised new students of test results, course options, policies and procedures and served as the course designer and instructor for ‘The Atlantis Project.’
 
Reiten earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in English from the University of South Carolina (2000), and has a Master of Arts degree in Film Studies from Emory University (2005).  He was a President’s List and Dean’s List (five times) student.