American Heritage’s Brandt Moser, Mike Carlin sweep Broward Golf Coaches of the Year

It’s another sweep for Plantation American Heritage.

Once again, Plantation American Heritage’s boys’ and girls’ golf teams were arguably the best in South Florida, so Brandt Moser and Mike Carlin are the Miami Herald’s Broward County Golf Coaches of the Year.

Moser led the Patriots’ boys’ golf team to a top-two finish in the state for the sixth straight, finishing as the runner-up in Class 2A. Carlin led American Heritage’s girls’ golf team to a third straight state title.

They also both pulled off their feats without any seniors at the top of their lineups.

For the boys, Sohan Patel, an eighth grader, was the Herald’s Broward County Boys’ Golfer of the Year and junior Aiden Arce was the Patriots’ other first-team all-Broward County selection. For the girls, junior Katherine Schaefer was the Herald’s Broward County Girls’ Golfer of the Year and Alessandra Tabora, another junior, was American Heritage’s other first-team all-Broward pick.

In total, both teams used just three seniors in their lineups at the 2A championships at Howey-in-the-Hills’ ultra-tough Mission Inn Resort & Club. The girls won by seven strokes, and the boys finished five strokes out of first and 16 ahead of the third-place finisher.

“Our coaches are absolutely incredible,” Schaefer said. “I admire their way of working.”

The girls won their third straight title with two seventh graders in the top four, too, and only one senior. A fourth straight title next season is certainly in the realm of possibility after the Patriots won their record 11th Florida High School Athletic Association championship last year.

The boys, despite Patel and Arce returning, will have a trickier task ahead, with two seniors wrapping up their careers. Still, there aren’t ever rebuilds at American Heritage, which was a state runner-up for four straight years before winning a title in 2021 and then cracking the top two again last year.