West Virginia golf's season ended as a team after a 13th-place finish last week at the Big 12 Championship -- but one Mountaineer will have the opportunity to continue their season individually and vie for an opportunity at the NCAA Championship.
West Virginia junior golfer Kaleb Wilson has officially qualified as an individual for the upcoming NCAA Regional set to take place May 12th-May 14th at Poplar Grove Golf Course in Amherst, Virginia.
Wilson will make his second NCAA Regional appearance -- last season, he made it to the NCAA Regional and then the NCAA Championship as the Mountaineers advanced to the national championship event as a team. Wilson's qualification marks the program's second-ever individual qualifier -- he follows in the footsteps of alum Mark Goetz, who earned a spot at the 2021 NCAA Regional as an individual and proceeded to finish in second place overall.
"Kaleb has been a consistent, hard-working player for us this season," WVU golf coach Sean Covich said. "He does everything you want your players to do – achieve success in the classroom, dedicated to working on his game, a great teammate and a great leader for us. He's constantly trying to improve and that's why he has earned this opportunity."
Wilson, a Knoxville, Tennessee native, enters the regional coming off a 34th-place finish as an individual at the Big 12 Championship, finishing the event at 12-over-par. Last fall, Wilson was able to secure his first-ever collegiate victory, finishing seven-under-par to capture the crown at the Nemacolin Collegiate Invitational.
Wilson will play in a 54-hole stroke play competition against nine other individuals in the regional, as well as the other teams in the field. The lowest-scoring athlete not on an advancing team from each of the six regional sites will move on to the NCAA Championship.