No. 14 CSUSM Competes in Fifth Consecutive West Regional
SAN MARCOS, Calif. – The No. 14 Cal State San Marcos women's golf team will travel north to Stockton for the Cougars' fifth consecutive appearance in the NCAA West Regional on May 6-8.
LAST TIME OUT
- The Cougars won their fifth consecutive CCAA Golf Championship team title on April 24 in Santa Rosa, California.
- CSUSM posted a 1-over 865, finishing with the largest win margin in tournament history with a 27-stroke cushion over Cal State Monterey Bay (892, +28).
- Regan Barton was crowned the CCAA individual medalist with a 2-under 214 (70-69-75), becoming CSUSM's fourth in program history.
TOURNAMENT 10 | NCAA WEST REGIONAL | |
Dates | Monday, May 6 - Wednesday, May 8 |
Tee Times | Beginning at 8 a.m. |
Location | Stockton, Calif. |
Course | Brookside Country Club (par 72, 5,972 yards) |
Live Scoring | GolfStat |
CSUSM Team | |
Participating Teams | 1. Dallas Baptist (Lone Star Conference Champion) 2. West Texas A&M 3. St. Mary's 4. CSUSM (CCAA Champion) 5. Oklahoma Christian 6. Midwestern State 7. Cal State Monterey Bay 8. Cal State LA 9. Cal State East Bay 10. CSU Pueblo (RMAC Champion) 11. Simon Fraser (GNAC Champion) 12. Biola (PacWest Champion) |
Participating Individuals | 1. Arnie Taguines, Texas Permian Basin 2. Yuliana Yapur, Texas A&M International 3. Martha Laremarrk, Texas Tyler 4. Sidney Stramel, Arkansas-Fort Smith 5. Ali Escamilla, Lubbock Christian 6. Brokolynn Maes, WNMU |
2024 WEST REGIONALS
- Visit Stockton and California Collegiate Atheltic Association will serve as host of this year's NCAA West Regionals.
- Dallas Baptist defeated West Texas A&M in a sudden death playoff in last year's regional tournament.
- Former WTAMU golfer Alyssa Campbell was the individual champion last year carding a 5-under 205 (72-66-67).
- CSUSM matched its best finish in program history with a third-place finish at the 2023 West Regional after carding a 20-over 860 (286-286-288).
- Former Cougar Breann Horn was CSUSM's top golfer last year with a 1-under 209 (68-67-74).
- Madison Murr tied for ninth with a 4-over 214 (73-70-71) while Makenna Cabardo tied for 30th with a 15-over 215 (73-74-78) while Regan Barton tied for 41st with a 10-over 229 (79-75-75).
COUGAR OUTLOOK
- This year's squad will feature three new Cougars in the lineup — freshmen Chloe Rahn and Maddie Reed in addition to midseason transfer Hannah Anderson
- The Cougars won their fourth consecutive CCAA Championship title in 2023, defeating second-place Cal State Monterey Bay by six strokes.
- After a third-place finish in the NCAA West Regional, CSUSM made its second appearance in the NCAA National Championships, finishing ninth in stroke play.
THE HUTTON FILE
- Head coach Greg Hutton has been at the helm of the men's program since the 2010-11 season and was named the women's head coach in 2014.
- In his 13 years as the Cougar men's coach and nine years as the Cougar women's coach, Hutton has led CSUSM to 60 tournament victories (36 women/24 men).
- The CSUSM women's team was the 2019 NCAA Division II National Championship runner-up, led by National Champion Jaime Jacob.
- The CSUSM men's golfer Matt Pennington was the program's first-ever CCAA Champion and NCAA West/South Central Regional Champion in 2022.
- In 2023, the CSUSM men's team captured its first-ever CCAA Championship Tournament Title, defeating runner-up Cal State Monterey by one stroke on April 19 at the Victory Club in Riverside.
- Under Hutton's leadership, the women's team won CSUSM's first CCAA Championship in school history in 2018 and the Cougars defended their title in 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
- In CSUSM's first year of being a full-fledged NCAA Division II member in 2017-18, the Cougar men's and women's golf teams each qualified for the NCAA Regional Championships.
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