The Florida Gulf Coast University men’s golf team will compete in its third NCAA Regional at The Gallery Golf Club in Marana, Arizona, from May 18-20, according to a May 17 announcement. The Eagles enter the Marana Regional as the No. 10 seed and will play alongside Saint Mary’s College of California and Tarleton State University.
This event marks FGCU’s return to regional competition after previous appearances as a No. 9 seed at the Columbus Regional in 2022 and as a No. 10 seed at the Amherst Regional in 2025. The program has also sent individual golfers to the NCAA Championship on several occasions.
The team’s lineup features Nolan Harper, Sebastian Gamboa, Sacha Ruiz, Brett Moore, and Christian Figueredo, with Tom Scullion serving as alternate. All but Ruiz competed at last season’s Amherst Regional. Harper said: “If we can continue to lean on each other and be a good group of brothers, the sky’s the limit. We’re having a ton of fun and playing good golf while we’re doing it.”
FGCU is currently ranked No. 57 nationally with a team scoring average of 282.2 across twelve stroke-play events this season. The Eagles have secured three team victories—the West Bay Collegiate Invitational, Johnnie-O at Sea Island, and ASUN Championship—and three individual titles by Gamboa (Quail Valley Collegiate Invitational and ASUN Individual Championship) and Ruiz (Giles-Spratley Collegiate). Their first-ever ASUN Championship was won by an eleven-stroke margin over Stetson.
Individual rankings for starters include Harper (No. 171), Gamboa (No. 215), Ruiz (No. 230), Moore (No. 537), and Figueredo (No.726). Each player brings notable performances from this season; Harper recorded seven top-12 finishes including fourth place at Ka’anapali Classic in Hawaii; Gamboa captured two tournament wins; Ruiz earned one win plus runner-up honors behind Gamboa at ASUNs; Moore posted five top-25 results; Figueredo logged four top-30 finishes.
Six regional tournaments will take place from May 18-20 with thirteen or fourteen teams competing per site depending on location structure; five teams plus six individuals not on advancing teams from each regional move forward to finals held May 28-June 2 in Carlsbad, California.
