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26 | June 6, 2019 | Malibu surfside news sports
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Signs of the future
MHS celebrates four college-bound student-athletes
Malibu High’s (left to right) Claudia Lane, who will run for Dartmouth; Sorin Moore, who will row for the University of
Iowa; Dovid Magna, who will play football for UCLA; and Kennan Hotchkiss, who will swim for University of California
at Santa Barbara, participate in a signing ceremony Thursday, May 30, at the high school. Photos by Suzy Demeter/
Surfside News
Dovid Magna with Sharks football coach Stuart Smith at
the ceremony.
Pepperdine Athletics
Waves men’s golf finishes 11th at NCAA Championships
Pepperdine concluded
the 2019 NCAA Championships
with an 11th-place
finish on May 27, the program’s
best result since
2004.
The Waves finished with
a four-day total of 1,199
strokes (312-291-293-303)
at the par-72 Blessings Golf
Club. After starting nationals
in 26th place after the
first round, they moved up
the leaderboard each day,
from 17th to 12th and finally
to 11th.
Pepperdine made the
first cut of 15 teams after
the third round and ended
up just three strokes shy
of eighth place, the cutoff
to move on to Tuesday’s
match play rounds.
Pepperdine, the 1997
NCAA champion, was
making its 10th appearance
at the NCAA Championships.
It was the second in
three years, and the Waves
improved upon their 13thplace
showing in 2017.
Joe Highsmith, the West
Coast Conference Freshman
of the Year, tied for 24th
place to lead the Waves.
It’s the best-ever finish by a
Pepperdine freshman at the
NCAA Championships.
Pepperdine, ranked 20th
by Golfstat, finished ahead
of 14 top-25 teams, including
No. 2 Arizona State, No.
7 Georgia Tech, No. 8 Duke
and No. 9 USC.
The future looks bright
for the Waves. All five players
who were in the lineup
today will be back next year,
plus a healthy two-time All-
American in Sahith Theegala,
in addition to one of
the nation’s top recruiting
classes.
MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD
Heath Named Academic All-
District for Third Time
Nick Heath has earned a
spot on the CoSIDA/Google
Cloud Academic All-District
first team for the third
consecutive year.
To be nominated, studentathletes
must have a minimum
3.3 grade-point average,
have at least sophomore
academic and athletic standing
and compete in at least
half of the team’s meets.
Heath was voted on to the
12-member first team for
District 8, which consists of
Alaska, Arizona, California,
Hawai’i, Nevada, Oregon,
Utah and Washington. He’ll
now be considered for Academic
All-American honors.
Heath graduated this
spring with a degree in finance
and a 3.98 gradepoint
average. He leaves
Pepperdine holding four
school records: the 8,000
and the 10,000 in crosscountry
and the 3,000 and
the 5,000 in outdoor track.
Heath also earned West
Coast Conference All-Academic
first team honors
three times. He made the
All-WCC honorable mention
team in 2017. In fall
2018, he led the Waves’
cross country team to its
best WCC finish since 2009
and its best-ever NCAA Regional
finish. He was Pepperdine’s
top-finishing runner
at 20 of 24 career cross
country meets.
MEN’S GOLF
Feagler, McCarthy Make
All-Region Team
For the second consecutive
year, Pepperdine’s Clay
Feagler and Joshua McCarthy
have both been named
to the Golf Coaches Association
of America/PING
All-West Region team.
The duo, who both just
completed their junior seasons,
helped Pepperdine to
an 11th-place finish at the
NCAA Championships.
The Waves won three tournaments
this year, including
the West Coast Conference
Championships for the second
year in a row.
Feagler is a three-time All-
WCC first team honoree. He
averaged a team-best 71.50
strokes this season (number
nine in Pepperdine singleseason
history). He was a trimedalist
at the Royal Oaks
Intercollegiate in the fall and
finished with five top-10 and
seven top-20 finishes.
McCarthy is also a threetime
All-WCC first team
selection. He was second on
the team with a 71.73 scoring
average (10th in Pepperdine
single-season history)
and he led the squad in top-
10 finishes (six), top-20 results
(eight) and below-par
rounds (17, tied for eighth
in Pepperdine single-season
history). He just became
only the third Wave ever to
appear in as many as three
NCAA Championships.
This is the fourth consecutive
season that the Waves
have put multiple golfers
onto the All-West Region
team.
Information from Pepperdine
University and
www.pepperdinewaves.
com. Compiled by Assistant
Editor Michal Dwojak,
m.dwojak@22ndcentury
media.com.