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Following a historic run to a fourth consecutive conference championship, Long Beach State dominated the 2025-26 All-Big West Men\u2019s Golf awards with the Golfer and Coach of the Year and five first-team selections.\u00a0This marks yet another known first in league history, with the entirety of the Beach lineup landing on the first team\u00a0as lineup is ranked one through five in the\u00a0Clippd\u00a0rankings heading into the national postseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Senior Alejandro de Castro Piera earned Big West Golfer of the Year recognition after putting together one of the top seasons in the country. Ranked No. 31 nationally and first in\u00a0The Big West, de Castro Piera leads\u00a0the Big West with a 69.2 scoring average and\u00a0has\u00a0posted\u00a0nine\u00a0top\u00a010s and five\u00a0top-3\u00a0finishes in 11 tournaments, including medalist honors at the Arizona Thunderbirds Intercollegiate. He also finished runner-up at The Thunderbird Collegiate and placed third at the Mark Simpson Colorado Invitational and Ram Masters Invitational\u00a0in fall competition.\u00a0This marks a\u00a0second straight first-team nod for the native of\u00a0Sant Esteve\u00a0Sesrovires, Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joining de Castro Piera on the All-Big West First Team are teammates Jaden Huggins, Steen Zeman, Jack Cantlay and Krishnav Nikhil Chopraa.\u00a0Huggins, the\u00a0league\u2019s\u00a0second-ranked golfer,\u00a0holds\u00a0a 70.4 scoring average\u00a0with four top 5 finishes, including a runner-up showing alongside teammate Jack Cantlay at The Big West Championship. Zeman,\u00a0Big West individual medalist, heads into regional action with back-to-back individual top 10s as does 2025 Big\u00a0West\u00a0individual medalist\u00a0Chopraa.\u00a0Chopraa\u00a0is making a second appearance on the first team, also earning distinction after last season\u2019s Championship victory.\u00a0All five golfers average under-par scoring on the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All told, the Long Beach State fivesome\u00a0finished atop the leaderboard twice,\u00a0with nine top 3 finishes, 16 top 5 placements and\u00a023 top 10 individual performances. As a team, the Beach took home three titles while\u00a0landing in the top 3 on eight occasions in the 2025-26 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LBSU\u00a0head coach Rob Murray was voted Big West Coach of the Year for the fourth straight season after guiding the Beach to another league title. LBSU\u00a0shattered\u00a0The Big West\u00a0scoring record\u00a0by 26 strokes\u00a0and became the first program in Big West history \u2014 dating back to 1970 \u2014 to sweep places 1 through 5 on the All-Tournament Team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
UC San Diego senior Davis McDowell earned first-team honors after ranking sixth in the conference and posting two tournament victories during the season. McDowell captured medalist honors at both The Watney and Ram Masters Invitational while adding\u00a0a fifth-place result at the Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational.\u00a0McDowell\u00a0finished the year with a 71.1 scoring average\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0return\u00a0to the course after missing the majority of the 2024-25 season with injury. This marks the\u00a0San Rafael, Calif.,\u00a0native\u2019s\u00a0second first-team honor (2022-23).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Senior teammate Nathan Tseng garnered second-team recognition after averaging 72.2 strokes per round with one victory at the Pearl at\u00a0Kalauao\u00a0Invitational.\u00a0This is Tseng\u2019s second-straight appearance on the All-Big West second team.\u00a0Both McDowell and Tseng picked up Big West Golfer of the Month honors in the fall after their tournament titles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cal Poly first-year player\u00a0Rafael Bobo-Lloret was named Big West Freshman of the Year after\u00a0emerging\u00a0as one of the league\u2019s top newcomers. Ranked 10th in the conference, Bobo-Lloret won the Bill Cullum Invitational.\u00a0The native of Marseille, France,\u00a0finished the season with a 72.5 scoring average across 33 rounds, capped by a 10th\u00a0place finish in The Big West Championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sophomore Nolan Kuszyk joined\u00a0Bobo-Lloret\u00a0on the second team after posting a 72.5 scoring average and compiling\u00a0a trio of\u00a0top-10\u00a0efforts during the season for\u00a0The Big West Championship runners-up. Kuszyk is earning consecutive All-Big West second team\u00a0disctinctions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
UC Irvine senior Rei Harashima secured second-team honors\u00a0for a third straight season\u00a0after recording\u00a0a pair of\u00a0top\u00a010s\u00a0after a\u00a0fifth-place\u00a0showing at the\u00a0UC San Diego Invitational\u00a0and\u00a0a seventh-place finish\u00a0at the Big West Championship while averaging 72.6 strokes per round.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rounding out the second team is UC Davis sophomore Lequan Wang. The product of San Mateo, Calif., closed the year with a 72.3 scoring average\u00a0with top 5s\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0Bridgestone Collegiate\u00a0Invitational,\u00a0\u00a0El\u00a0Macero Classic\u00a0and\u00a0Marquette Intercollegiate\u00a0for the Aggies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
UC Davis teammates Curtis Da Silva and Ryan Firpo were placed on the honorable mention listings alongside Dylan\u00a0Ma of UC Santa Barbara, Cal State Fullerton\u2019s Will\u00a0Tanaka\u00a0and\u00a0Dane\u00a0Watanabe\u00a0of\u00a0Hawai\u2019i\u00a0to complete awardees.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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