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Cal State San Marcos golfer Liam Weaver takes part in the CCAA Championships. (Catharyn Hayne, KLC fotos)<\/p>\nGreg Hutton\u2019s golf teams at Cal State San Marcos are making history.<\/p>\n
For the first time, both the Cougars\u2019 men\u2019s and women\u2019s golf teams are competing in the NCAA Division II Championships.<\/p>\n
And while it\u2019s exciting times for the golfers, the double run of success has turned into something of a marathon for Hutton and assistant coach Brook Brand.<\/p>\n
Starting with conference tournaments, men\u2019s and women\u2019s NCAA golf events are staggered. And while the golfers get time off between events, the coaches go from one event to the next as long as their teams keep advancing \u2014 which the Cougars have done to perfection.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t be home in 22 days,\u201d Hutton said earlier this week after he rejoined his women\u2019s team in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., for the start of the NCAA Championships on the PGA National Course.<\/p>\n
After the women\u2019s NCAA Championships end Saturday, Hutton will catch a flight to Nevada, where the men\u2019s NCAA Championships begin their five-day run next Monday in Boulder City.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has been quite a run,\u201d Hutton said of CSUSM\u2019s parallel runs in golf. \u201cWhat\u2019s been most rewarding is the interest each team has shown in the other\u2019s success.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe men\u2019s players wanted to hear from me about how the women won the NCAA Western Regionals for the first time. And the women players wanted to hear how the men rallied from 12th on the final day of their regionals to finish fourth and earn their berth in the NCAA finals. There\u2019s a lot to celebrate.\u201d<\/p>\n
And a lot of ground to cover.<\/p>\n
The Hutton and Brand road trip began in April, when the men and women traveled to Stockton together for the California Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament.<\/p>\n
The next stop was the Women\u2019s NCAA West Regionals in Pueblo, Colo., where the Cougars scored a major upset by defeating Dallas Baptist to win the 18-team event. Hutton returned to Stockton, which was also the site of the Men\u2019s Western Regionals.<\/p>\n
And while the two Cougars teams are from the same school, they have different backgrounds.<\/p>\n
Ranked ninth in the nation, the women\u2019s team is led by veterans Avery Foster and Kiara Hernandez and includes Del Mar native Carmella Carlisi and Cathedral Catholic High School graduate Ellaclair Leedom (Cathedral Catholic High School). Both locals are freshmen.<\/p>\n
Cal State San Marcos golfer Liam Weaver takes part in the CCAA Championships. (Catharyn Hayne, KLC fotos)<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s team is paced by redshirt freshman Liam Weaver, who is from Coronado by way of San Diego State.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, we\u2019re pretty young,\u201d said Hutton. \u201cWe have six freshmen on the men\u2019s roster and four on the women\u2019s roster. The difference is (that) freshmen led the men\u2019s team while we had those two veteran women atop the women\u2019s lineup.:\u201d<\/p>\n
Foster, who transferred to CSUSM last summer after Sonoma State discontinued its athletic program, finished second in the NCAA Regionals. Hernandez, who transferred to CSUSM in the middle of the 2025 season from Point Loma Nazarene, tied for sixth. Carlisi and Leedom were the Cougars\u2019 next lowest scorers at the regionals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think they felt the pressure of beating the perennial power that is Dallas Baptist at the Regionals,\u201d Hutton said of his women\u2019s team. \u201cWe beat DBU and the weather. The high was 35 degrees with wind gusts of 20 to 30 miles an hour. The wind chill was 20 degrees.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we came through. It was the best week I\u2019ve ever had with the women\u2019s team.\u201d<\/p>\n
The women didn\u2019t have a great start Tuesday. Hernandez led the way with a 1-over-par 73 and the Cougars were in the middle of the pack at 19-over for the first round. Sickles shot a 77, Carlisi a 78, Foster a 79 and Leedom an 83.<\/p>\n
The men also had the individual runner-up at the NCAA Regionals in Weaver. Freshman Kai Miyata tied for 10th. Junior Gavin McCormick was the third-lowest scoring Cougar after winning the CCAA\u2019s individual title. The Cougars\u2019 roster includes two local freshmen in addition to Weaver \u2014 Julian Gay (Patrick Henry High School) and Aaron Arch (Mission Vista High School).<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pretty rare for any university to have both its teams in the NCAA Golf Championships,\u201d said Hutton. \u201cThat in itself is awesome. And we\u2019re trying to make a run at two national championships.\u201d<\/p>\n
Every week, U-T contributor Bill Center highlights one San Diego college team that\u2019s making strides on and off the field. To nominate a team, email wcenter27@gmail.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg Hutton\u2019s golf teams at Cal State San Marcos are making history. For the first time, both the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":792367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,1369,1370,3549,7264,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-792366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-college-sports","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116564767642537508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}