Competitive disc golf is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. Colorado State University is home to the first collegiate disc golf club in the state of Colorado. The team welcomes all skill levels, including beginners, advanced, and pro players. The goal of the CSU Disc Golf Club is to teach new players how to play the sport, turn recreational players into competitive players, and give advanced players the opportunity to become champions.
Disc golf is not the most physically demanding sport, but it takes a great deal of technique and mental focus to become a great player. Disc golf is very much an individual sport as well as a team sport. Most competitions are performed as individual players, but individual scores affect the team’s overall competition score. There are also several doubles competitions.

OUR TEAM

Our team has an average team size of 25-40 people with activity of the members varying heavily. There are no cuts for our team but we will select our nationals travel teams based off season results from events we attend/host.

EVENTS

Our typical season has 6-10 optional events that consist of national tryout events, regional collegiate conference events, nationals, and fundraisers. Here is what these events typically look like / when they are typically held.

Fundraisers – These are the most casual events that we host with the two goals of making money for the CSU team and having fun! Fundraisers we’ve done in the past include 1 disc challenges, warped disc challenges, glow disc rounds and ace challenges. These events don’t determine CSU national teams and are open to anyone who wants to play beginner or advanced. As for timing, these events can happen anytime during the school year but generally happen before nationals in April.

National Tryout Events – These are CSU student only events that we host at highly rated local/regional courses. These events will consist of two disc golf rounds (singles) held on a Saturday any time before nationals in April (usually September-November or February-March). Performance at these events will be considered in picking out national teams for CSU. These events are good tournament practice for newer players even if they aren’t looking to get on a national’s team.

Regional Collegiate Conference Events – These are events that each school in our conference (CSU, CMU, BYU, UNC, Mines, CU, New Schools) hold at course/s local to the respective school. They’re usually on Saturdays and consist of a singes round followed by a collegiate doubles round that will count towards picking our nationals teams for CSU. Each school will host their event followed by the Regional Collegiate National Qualifier Event. This event determines which schools get to send D1 and D2 teams to nationals. The location of this event changes every year and is a two-day event run with a similar format to the regional collegiate conference events. All the regional events will be run in the fall semester.

Regional collegiate conference events are fan favorites among team members as in the collegiate doubles round, you get to play on a 2-4 person team head to head against another school. The atmosphere is very exciting! These events are generally weekend long trips as we must travel to most of them creating a great team bonding experience.

Collegiate Nationals – Collegiate Disc golf nationals is held in April of the spring semester and has been on the east coast in the past. If we qualify (we generally do as we are one of the better teams in the country) we will select anywhere from 1-3 Men’s teams and 0-3 Women’s teams which consist of 4 players for men’s teams and 2 players for women’s teams. The event is 4 days long with 2-3 practice days before the event, so this event will require you to miss school. We generally fly out to the venue and get and Air BnB for the week. There are upwards of 1000 players at collegiate nationals, so it is certainly an experience of a lifetime!

HISTORY

In 2012, the Men’s CSU Disc Golf Team took 1st place out of 40 teams at the National Collegiate Disc Golf Championships! In 2013 another four person team was sent to Nationals, tying for 2nd place and only 1 stroke away from earning the title. In the last two years are team has been ranked within the top 10 schools in the country and some team members also ranked within the top 10 collegiate players in the country. Our team has also been very dominant on the regional scene beating many of our conference competitors’ best teams with our B and C teams!

Do you want to learn how to play the sport, take your game to the next level, or do you want to try out for the Nationals team? These are all things that the club will help you with. If you are taking 6 or more credit hours, join the team and see what CSU Disc Golf is all about!

  • Info Session(s): TBD
  • President: Ethan Peterson
  • Vice President: Wyatt Orstead
  • National Governing Body/League: College Disc Golf
  • Season: Our primary season for Collegiate Disc Golf is in the fall. This is when we will compete in conference events against other regional schools. During this time, we will also hold CSU ONLY national tryout events to determine the CSU national’s teams. Finally, the conference national tryout event will also be held during the fall to determine what schools will go to collegiate nationals.
  • Practices: Typically, practices are Monday and Thursday evenings with Monday being a more casual practice round at Edora Park, and Thursday being a field practice session on the IM fields. Monday practices will likely be 5-7pm while Thursdays are 7-9pm. Thursday practices will eventually move inside the Glen Morris field house later in the year when it gets cold. This schedule is tentative so keep tabs on the @csudiscgolf Instagram page for practice schedule updates.
  • Player Dues: $100-$150
  • Links: Instagram
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