Courtney Roberts Named Big West Co-Coach of the Year, Koong and Yoo Honored
4/28/2026 8:30:00 AM | Women's Golf
IRVINE, Calif. — Announced by the Big West on Tuesday morning, Courtney Roberts was named Big West Co-Coach of the Year while Nicole Koong earned a spot on the All-Big West First Team and Sarah Yoo received honorable mention.
Fourth-year head coach Courtney Roberts turned the Mustangs around from a fifth-place finish just a year ago to the program’s fifth Big West Championship, Roberts’ second at the helm. This is her second overall Coach of the Year nod, as she was named Big 12 Coach of the Year in 2016, and she is the first Mustang skipper to earn the honor since Sofie Aagaard in 2022. Roberts shares this year’s award with fellow honoree Kathryn Hosch of Cal State Fullerton.
She coached the Mustangs to the program’s best Big West Championship score (866), the conference’s best score at the tournament since UC Davis’ record-setting 858 in 2015, and all five of Cal Poly’s golfers placed in the top 20 with All-Big West honorees Nicole Koong and Sarah Yoo both earning top-five spots.
Koong, who currently owns the program’s best career scoring average (73.8) and is on pace to set the second-best season mark as well with a 73.0 average heading into the NCAA postseason, was named to the All-Big West First Team. The Sammamish, Wash., native placed in the top 20 in eight of 10 possible tournaments so far this season, half of those within the top 10, and recorded 13 par-or-better rounds with one under 70.
Her most complete performance came in the Big West Championship, where she was one stroke behind team leader Yoo with 216 strokes, matching her co-low for the season and good for a tie for fifth place. With the sophomore’s first-team addition, the Mustangs now have 10 total in the program’s Big West history. This is the seventh straight year, since 2018, that the Mustangs have had a first-team golfer.
Third-year Mustang Sarah Yoo received an automatic All-Big West Honorable Mention, the second of her career, after placing in the top five of the Big West Championship, per the conference’s bylaws. Yoo led the charge individually for Cal Poly in the Big West Championship, finishing in solo fourth place at 1-under 215, just one stroke off her career low.
As a freshman in 2024, Sarah Yoo burst onto the scene, earning an All-Big West Honorable Mention after a debut season that included a runner-up finish at the Fresno State Classic and back-to-back-to-back months carding at least one round in the 60s: in Fresno, at the AGT Intercollegiate and at the Causeway Invitational.
Yoo had a slow start to the fall season but used the spring to post some of the team’s better scores, including another impressive finish in Fresno (230, T-25th) and her team-leading 215 at the Big West Championship.
With the automatic qualifier secured from their Big West Championship victory, the Mustangs now turn their attention to the 2026 NCAA DI Women’s Golf Selection Show, which will air on GOLF Channel on Wednesday, April 29, at 10 a.m.
The NCAA Regionals will be held May 5-7 at six sites around the country: Ann Arbor, Mich.; Chapel Hill, N.C.; Huntsville, Ala.; Stanford, Calif.; Tallahassee, Fla.; and Waco, Texas. The Mustangs will more than likely end up at Stanford. The championship is scheduled for May 22-27 in Carlsbad, Calif.
