American Heritage’s Moser and Carlin are Broward Golf Coaches of the Year
Plantation American Heritage has maintained a long-lasting standard of excellence in golf.
This season was no different for the Patriots as their girls’ squad brought home the Class 2A state championship and their boys’ team secured a top 3 finish and had another individual champion.
Heritage’s coaches - Brandt Moser on the boys’ side and Mike Carin on the girls’ side - are this year’s Miami Herald Broward County Golf Coaches of the Year.
Carlin guided the Patriots girls’ squad to their first state title since and state-record 12th overall.
Led by senior Lilly Riegger and sophomore Nicole Wu, who each finished in the top 10 at the state meet, Heritage topped Miami’s SLAM Academy by 19 strokes combined over two days to win the state crown.
Riegger, the Miami Herald’s Girls’ Golfer of the Year, is set to graduate and will play golf at Lehigh University.
But the Patriots, who swept the district and regional titles, are set to return the rest of their starting lineup of Wu, junior Aryanah Ahmad, sophomore Laura Monsalve and eighth-grader Myla Kumar.
Moser has presided over all four team state championships that American Heritage’s boys have won. This season, the Patriots finished third in a tough Class 2A field. But they celebrated another individual championship when junior Sohan Patel secured his second consecutive individual crown.
Patel’s combined score of 139 was enough to win the title by one stroke and secure ninth individual championship by an American Heritage golfer all-time.
Patel is the third Patriots golfer to win multiple state individual titles and only the second to repeat joining PGA Tour golfer Luke Clanton.
