California State University, Chico Women's Golf

Nick Green is in his eighth year as Head Coach for the Wildcat men’s golf team. Since taking over the job in 2016–17, the former Chico State player has led the ’Cats to one California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) title and six trips to the NCAA National Championship Tournament.    Not only has Chico State been among one of the top 35 Division II teams nationwide five times, the Wildcats haves earned plenty of individual recognition under Green’s watch, coaching 1 CCAA Player of the Year, racking up 22 All-CCAA awards, 11 All-West Region accolades and five All-America honor. For his efforts, Green was has twice been named CCAA Coach of the Year and West Region Coach of the Year in 2023.    The 2022–23 season saw the Wildcats back in the national spotlight. After posting six top five tournament finishes (including wins October 10–11, 2022 at the Chico State Wildcat Classic and the October 25–26, 2022 Sharks Shootout in Hawaii), the ’Cats advanced to the NCAA Championship Tournament for the 15th straight season and took third place at the West/South Central Super Regional, earning the program’s first NCAA Championship finals appearance since 2015–16. Dakota Ochoa and Tyler Ashman each received All-CCAA and All-West Region honors, with Ochoa winning the individual title at the April 17–19, 2023 CCAA Championships. Chico State wrapped up the season ranked No. 35 in Golfstat’s final Division II national rankings.   Green’s Wildcats turned in a strong in 2021–22 campaign after being forced to sit out a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chico State finished in the top five in seven of the team’s 11 tournaments and reached the NCAA Championship Tournament for the 14th straight season. Chico State ended the season ranked fourth in the West Region and No. 56 among all Division II programs.   Green’s 2019–20 edition of the Wildcats racked up five top 10 finishes in six tournaments before the season was abruptly halted in mid-March. As a team, Chico State occupied the No. 32 slot in the season’s final Golfstat Division II rankings.    Green led the Wildcats to a pair of tournament titles in 2018–19 and top five finishes in all but one of its nine regular season events to earn the top spot in the NCAA West Region rankings. Kelley Sullivan was named the CCAA Player of the Year, while Josh McCollum represented Chico State in the finals of the NCAA Championship Tournament in Daniels, West Virginia. Green picked up his second straight CCAA Coach of the Year honor as the ’Cats concluded the season ranked fifth in the nation by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) and No. 6 by Golfstat.   The ’Cats won two tournaments for Green in 2017–18 while posting eight top five finishes and claiming the NCAA’s No. 1 West Region ranking. In the postseason, Chico State won both stroke play and medal/match play to capture the program’s first CCAA men’s golf championship since 2012. The Wildcats came within a stroke of advancing to the NCAA Championships, finishing in a tie for seventh place at the West/South Central Regional Championships in Amarillo, Texas. Chico State wrapped up the season at No. 16 in the final Golfstat D-II team rankings.      In his first season at the helm, Green led the Wildcat men to three tournament wins—including the stroke play portion of the CCAA Championship Tournament—and seven top five finishes in 2016–17 to conclude the season ranked third in the West Region and 21st in the nation.   Prior to assuming the reigns of the men’s program, Green served as Chico State’s head women’s golf coach from 2014–17. In his three years with the program, the Wildcats set several program records (including the two lowest single-season team stroke averages) while notching 17 top five tournament finishes and earning two straight trips to the NCAA Championship Tournament.   Before joining the head coaching ranks, Green served as an assistant for both the Chico State men’s and women’s golf teams. Working with head coach TL Brown, Green helped steer the Wildcat men to a third-place finish at the 2010 national championships, and while serving as assistant for Kathy Dais, helped lead the women into the NCAA Championships for just the second time in the program’s history.   Green is in his 21st year with Chico State golf as either a player or coach, and has served as the common thread running through some of the best seasons in Chico State golf history. As a player (2003–07), he was part of an NCAA Championship runner-up and seventh-place finisher at the national championships, while posting a career strokes-per-round average of 76.2 and notching six top 20 tournament finishes. Green also excelled in the classroom, earning a pair of Academic All-America honors.   Green hails from Las Vegas, Nevada, where he was a four-time All-State athlete in golf, while also garnering All-State recognition in basketball.    Green earned his bachelors’ degree in Exercise Physiology from Chico State and received his master’s in kinesiology in 2010.   Green and his wife Lauren, an art teacher at Pleasant Valley High School in Chico, have two sons, Liam and Miles.  

Heather Fegley, a mainstay in Chico State women’s golf for well over a decade, is in her ninth year as the Wildcats’ head coach. During the 2024–25 season, Fegley guided the Wildcats through a competitive slate of nine tournaments, highlighted by a third-place team finish at the Sonoma State Fall Invitational. Chico State earned a sixth-place result at the CCAA Championships, with standout performances from Kaylie Parola and Trinity Hernandez, who each tied for sixth individually at Sonoma. In 2022–23, Fegley led the Wildcats to top-five team finishes at the Bay Area Invitational and the Sonoma State Spring Invitational. Taylor Stewart earned medalist honors at the Sonoma event and wrapped up her career with All-CCAA recognition. The 2021–22 season saw the ’Cats make 11 tournament appearances and place third at the Bay Area Invitational. The team also earned national academic distinction, with four players named to the WGCA All-American Scholar Team. In her first six years as head coach, Fegley produced multiple All-CCAA honorees, directed the team to several top-10 finishes, and helped Chico State consistently rank among the top programs in the West Region. She assumed the head coaching role in August 2017 after serving as an assistant from 2014–17 under Nick Green. During her assistant tenure, the Wildcats recorded 17 top-five finishes and made two NCAA Championship appearances. A former Wildcat herself, Fegley competed from 2010–14, playing in 35 events and earning nine top-20 finishes. As team captain her senior year, she helped lead Chico State to its first NCAA Super Regional berth in eight seasons. Off the course, she was a two-time Dean’s List honoree and a Department of Sociology representative in the Dean’s Cup Academic Competition. Fegley graduated from Chico’s Pleasant Valley High School, where she won back-to-back Eastern Athletic League individual titles and led the Vikings to three section championships. She remains deeply engaged in the community, co-founding the Chico Area Junior Golf Association in 2016 and volunteering with the Butte County Special Olympics Golf Program. She previously worked at Butte Creek Country Club in pro shop operations and marketing. Fegley earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Chico State in 2014.