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Cory Cottrell

Cory Cottrell begins his sixth season at the helm of USCB Golf during the 2025-26 season. 

Under Cottrell's guidance, the USCB men's golf team earned the 2024-25 Peach Belt Men's Golf Championship, shooting 13-under with a team score of 851. The first PBC title in program history as well as in USCB Athletics history. 

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS 

Men’s  

  • 2025 Peach Belt Conference Champions 

Women’s  

  • 2023 Continental Athletic Conference Champions 

INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS  

  • Erik Rengardt, 2025 PBC Men’s Champion 

  • McLain Neal, 2025 PBC Women’s Champion 

  • Ashleigh Mead, 2023 CAC Champion 

YEAR-by-YEAR 

Men’s 

2024-25: Wins: 3 | Top 3 Finishes: 6 | Medalists: 2 
2023-24: Wins: 2 | Top 3 Finishes: 3 | Medalists: 2 
2022-23: Wins: 0 | Top 3 Finishes: 4 | Medalists: 1 
2021-22: Wins: 2 | Top 3 Finishes: 4 | Medalists: 3 
2020-21: Wins: 1 | Top 3 Finishes: 3 | Medalists: 4 

Women’s 

2024-25: Wins: 0 | Top 3 Finishes: 0 | Medalists: 1 
2023-24: Wins: 0 | Top 3 Finishes: 2 | Medalists: 1 
2022-23: Wins: 1 | Top 3 Finishes: 3 | Medalists: 3 
2021-22: Wins: 0 | Top 3 Finishes: 1 | Medalists: 2 
2020-21: Wins: 0 | Top 3 Finishes: 0 | Medalists: 0 

2024-25  

  • 2024-25 Peach Belt Conference Men’s Golf Champion 

  • Erik Rengardt and McLain Neal 2025 Peach Belt Conference Individual Champions 

  • Erik Rengardt Co-Champion at the Savannah Intercollegiate 

  • Three team wins, Currahee Collegiate Invitational, Oldfield Classic, and Peach Belt Conference Championship 

  • Six top 3 finishes including three second place finishes at the Savannah Intercollegiate, Pawley’s Island Beach Bash, and Ralph Hargett Memorial 

  • Erik Rengardt named PBC Freshman of the Year and to the Division II PING All-Region Southeast Team 

2023-24 

  • Two team wins at the Rams Shootout at the Pines and Oldfield Classic 

  • Ellis Bright (Oldfield Classic) and Nikolai Holme (Rams Shootout at the Pines) picked up first place finishes during freshman year 

  • Finished tied for 3rd at the PBC Men’s Golf Championship, Ellis Bright finished tied for fourth 

  • Ashleigh Mead picked up her fourth career win at the Patsy Rendleman Invitational 

2022-23 

  • 2023 Continental Athletic Conference Women’s Golf Champions  

  • Ashleigh Mead crowned individual champion at CAC Championships, the Lady Bearcat Invitational, and the Dual in the Lowcountry 

  • Jacob Thomas claimed individual title at Innisbrook Invite 

2021-22 

  • Picked up two wins during the season at the Monument Golf Oldfield Classic and the Dual Match vs Drexel 

  • Tyler Fox (Monument Golf Oldfield Classic) Christoph Hagenauer (Dual Match vs SCAD), and Dawson Peters (Coastal Georgia Fall Invite) claimed individual wins  

  • Ashleigh Mead picked up her first collegiate win at the Monument Golf Oldfield Intercollegiate  

2020-21 

  • Took over the program in spring of 2021 

  • Recorded three top 3 finishes including a win in a dual match vs SCAD Savannah 

  • Dawson Peters took home individual crown at the Oldfield Classic; Jacob Thomas finished just one stroke behind to finish second 

  • Jacob Thomas claimed the individual win over in dual match vs SCAD Savannah; Dawson Peters finished second in same event 

  • Dawson Peters won the Roadrunner Classic, his third victory of the season 

  • Finished third overall at the Sun Conference Championships 

AWARDS 

  • 2023 Continental Athletic Conference Women's Golf Coach of the Year 

  • Dawson Peters, Jacob Thomas 2021 NAIA All-America Team 

  • Dawson Peters – 2020-21 Academic All-America Team and All Nicklaus Team   

  • Dawson Peters, Jacob Thomas 2022 NAIA All-America Team 

  • Ashleigh Mead 2022 NAIA All-America Team 

  • Jacob Thomas 2023 NAIA All-America Team 

  • Ashleigh Mead 2023 NAIA All-America Team and All-Scholar Team 

  • 2023 NAIA Academic National Champions 

Cottrell returned to USCB as the assistant men’s and women’s golf coach in the Spring of 2020. Cottrell graduated from USCB in 2016 with a Psychology degree and was a member of the men’s team from 2012 – 2016.

After his time at USCB as a student-athlete, Cottrell went on to receive his Masters degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Georgia Southern University. While at Georgia Southern, Cottrell worked with athletes on mental performance and taught classes in the Physical Activity and Healthful Living Program.

Upon graduating from Georgia Southern, Cottrell moved back into golf and Bluffton full time and worked as a mental performance coach for the International Junior Golf Academy (IJGA), where he provided classroom and individual mental performance sessions for junior golfers.

Prior to joining USCB, Cottrell started his own company, Aware Performance Group, and continues to provide mental performance consultations and training. Cottrell has provided mental performance consulting to NCAA Division I athletes in golf, baseball, tennis, National Association of Collegiate eSports athletes and elite junior golfers. The athletes have been from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and South America.

Cottrell is extremely active in continuing education in Sport Psychology and holds membership in the Association in Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) and is a part of a committee dedicated to furthering the reach of AASP and sport psychology. Cottrell brings his experience as a student-athlete at USCB and his mental performance consulting experience back to USCB to continue the development of both the men’s and women’s programs to national recognition.