Nick Green

Nick Green is in his seventh 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 three trips to the NCAA Championship Tournament.

Not only has Chico State been among one of the top 35 Division II teams nationwide every season between 2016–20, the Wildcats haves earned plenty of individual recognition under Green’s watch, racking up 17 All-CCAA awards, four All-West Region accolades and one All-America honor. For his efforts, Green was has twice been named CCAA Coach of the Year.

Though the COVID-19 pandemic erased the entire 2020–21 season, Green’s Wildcats came back strong in 2021–22, finishing in the top five in seven of the team’s 11 tournaments and reaching 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. Chris Colla concluded his Wildcat career with All-CCAA and All-West Region honors, while Dakota Ochoa and Tyler Ashman earned All-CCAA nods.

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. Junior Myoung Kim finished in the top five in five events and led the ’Cats with a 73.2 strokes-per-round average, earning First Team All-CCAA honors, an All-West Region selection, and All-America Honorable Mention. 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. Sullivan and McCollum received First Team All-CCAA honors, with Serge Kiriluk and Jordan Oliver earning All-CCAA Honorable Mentions. Green picked up his second straight CCAA Coach of the Year honor as the ’Cats wrapped up 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 19th 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 River Valley High School in Yuba City, have two sons, Liam and Miles.