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Women's Golf

CSUB Golf Season Recap 2024-25

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The Cal State Bakersfield women's golf team wrapped up the 2025 Big West Championship and a historic season with one last round on Tuesday, April 15. Iris Han and Sarah Mutai led Bakersfield in the final tournament, offering the Roadrunners a continued solid foundation as Juniors in the program. CSUB's strong Fall season helped propel them into a challenging Spring slate that featured conference opponents.
 
Notables

  • Second-year Head Coach Katy Barrett Baxter guided the `Runners to pick up where they left off last season.
  • CSUB finished ninth of nine teams at the 2025 Big West Championship with a final total of 936 strokes (315-311-310) at Spanish Trail Country Club in Las Vegas, Nev.
  • Han led the Roadrunners finishing 26th in the tournament on the individual leaderboard. The Bakersfield native finished with a score of +11 (73-79-75), the lowest by a `Runner at the Big West Championship since 2021 (+9, Brandi Borjon).
  • Full results available on Clippd
CSUB at Big West Championship
  • To open up the Championship, the `Runners were led by Han (73, +1) and Mutai (77, +5).
  • On moving day, Bakersfield saw improvement from the whole team, with everyone shooting in the 70s. Kate Montemayor (78) had a seven-stroke improvement and Mutai improved by two strokes to finish day two with a score of 75.
  • In the final round, Nicole Whipple posted a score of 75 for her best round of the tournament, and her final round as a Roadrunner. The lone Senior helped lead the way for CSUB as Han also finished with a 75 to round out their trip to Vegas.
A Historic Season
  • As a team, CSUB posted the second-best scoring average in program history (310.56) last year. This year they reset the program record with a team scoring average of 306.00.
  • Five different `Runners averaged in the 70s on the year (Han, Mutai, Kehrer, Whipple, and McKee).
    • Iris Han is now first in program history for single-season scoring average (75.07), resetting teammate Sarah Mutai's record that was set last year (75.52).
  • The Roadrunners tallied 17 different performances on the program's Top 10 lists for team and individual scores for either 18, 36, or 54 holes.
  • Freshman Anna Kehrer reset the best `Runner single-round debut score with a 74 (+2) at the Wolverine Invitational.
  • Iris Han shattered the individual 54-hole tournament score with a 205 (-11) at Boulder Creek, previously held by Sarah Mutai's 211 (-5) set last year at Boulder Creek.
  • Mutai (75.88), Han (77.01), and Whipple (78.81) all sit in the top three for career scoring averages in Roadrunner program history.
  • The Clash at Boulder Creek was historic for the Roadrunners as Iris Han shot 67 (-5) in both rounds one and two.
    • It also featured two outstanding team rounds, both of which sat at No. 1 (290) and No. 3 (293) in CSUB for single-round score.
    • The team reset the program's all-time 54-hole tournament score record (878) which was previously set last season at 888 strokes.
  • Mutai wrapped up her 2024-25 season placing herself in second all-time for single season rounds in the 70s with 24, two away from Ariel Lee who sits in first.
  • Mutai and Han are the only Roadrunners to have career rounds in the 60s, both with two and will have another year to build upon that feat.
  • After a long and busy season, Barrett Baxter and the `Runners will enjoy some deserved time off before hitting the grind again to continue progressing the CSUB Golf program.

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Players Mentioned

Iris Han

Iris Han

5' 4"
Junior
Sarah Mutai

Sarah Mutai

5' 4"
Junior
Nicole Whipple

Nicole Whipple

5' 8"
Senior
Kate Montemayor

Kate Montemayor

5' 5"
Freshman
Anna Kehrer

Anna Kehrer

5' 5"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Iris Han

Iris Han

5' 4"
Junior
Sarah Mutai

Sarah Mutai

5' 4"
Junior
Nicole Whipple

Nicole Whipple

5' 8"
Senior
Kate Montemayor

Kate Montemayor

5' 5"
Freshman
Anna Kehrer

Anna Kehrer

5' 5"
Freshman
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