SAN MARCOS, Calif. –  The No. 7 Cal State San Marcos women's golf team will compete in the Tim Tierney Pioneer Shootout hosted by Cal State East Bay on Monday, Feb. 24 and Tuesday, Feb. 25 at Corica Park Golf Club in Alameda, California. 

LAST TIME OUT

• The Cougars captured their third tournament win at the LA Spring Kickoff on Feb. 4, carding a 22-over 590 (290-300) in the field of 16. 
• Madison Murr was CSUSM's top golfer once again, sharing second place with Sonoma State's Avery Foster and CSULA's Morgan Sjoerdsma, with a 2-over 144. 
• New Cougar Kiara Hernandez, a transfer at semester from Point Loma, and Diana Delgado tied for 10th with a 7-over 149.  

PIONEER SHOOTOUT

• This is CSUSM's sixth time competing in the Tim Tierney Pioneer Shootout hosted by Cal State East Bay. 
• The Cougars did not compete in the tournament three years ago due to participating in NCAA Division I Long Beach State's The Gold Rush Tournament on the same dates. 
• The Cougars placed sixth last season at the Shootout with Madison Murr leading CSUSM with a third-place finish. 
• This marks the fourth time CSUSM has played the Corica Park South Course in Alameda. 

COUGAR OUTLOOK

• For the second consecutive year, the squad added two new Cougars in the lineup — freshmen Faith Hamstreet and Abby Sickles. 
• The Cougars won their fifth consecutive CCAA Championship title in 2024, defeating second-place Cal State Monterey Bay by 27 strokes. 
• Regan Barton become CSUSM's fourth CCAA Champion, recording a 2-under 214 at the Santa Rosa Golf & Country Club. 
• After a fifth-place finish in the NCAA West Regional, CSUSM made its third appearance in the NCAA National Championships, finishing 12th 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.
• Hutton has been named CCAA Coach of the Year a total of seven times – six times on the women's side and one time on the men's side. 
• The CSUSM women's team was the 2019 NCAA Division II National Championship runner-up, led by National Champion Jaime Jacob.
• CSUSM men's golfer Matt Pennington was the program's first-ever CCAA Champion and NCAA West/South Central Regional Champion in 2022. 
• 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 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. 
• 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.