Kansas State University Men's Golf

The Robbins File PERSONAL INFORMATION Hometown: Memphis, Tennessee Education: Memphis (’94, '97) Playing Experience: Memphis (1991-94) COACHING HISTORY 1997-99: Penn State Assistant Coach 1999-2003: UNC Wilmington Head Coach 2003-14: Memphis Head Coach 2014-Present: K-State Head Coach CAREER POSTSEASON 2003 NCAA Regionals (UNCW) 2008 NCAA Regionals (Memphis) 2011 NCAA Regionals (Memphis) 2012 NCAA Championship (Memphis) 2013 NCAA Regionals (Memphis) 2014 NCAA Regionals (Memphis) 2022 NCAA Regionals (K-State) 2023 NCAA Regionals (K-State) 2025 NCAA Regionals (K-State) Grant Robbins, a veteran coach with more than 20 years of experience building and leading programs to postseason appearances, enters his 12th season at Kansas State in 2025-26. Robbins, who has garnered four coach of the year honors in three different conferences – including the 2023 Big 12 Coach of the Year award – and has guided nine teams to postseason play, was tabbed the 13th head coach in K-State men’s golf history on May 18, 2014. Robbins has presided over many quality performances on the course with a bright future ahead. In 11 seasons in Manhattan, Robbins has helped produce 40 team top-five finishes with eight team championships, nine individual championships, three team appearances in NCAA Regionals and seven individual regional appearances. In terms of program history, eight of the top 10 team scoring average marks have come under Robbins, while 16 of the top 25 team rounds and 17 of the top 25 54-hol

Cullen Carstens, a high-energy leader with 15 years of collegiate coaching experience, returned to Manhattan on December 6, 2022, to serve as Kansas State’s associate head coach, and the 2025-26 season will be his seventh on the K-State staff. This past season, Carstens helped guide the Wildcats back to the postseason as they competed in the NCAA Bremerton Regional and finished only three strokes shy of advancing to the program’s first ever national championship. It was the seventh-straight season K-State sent either a team or individual to NCAA Regionals, the longest streak in program history. The 2024-25 Wildcats ranked fifth in program history with a 288.38 team scoring average, while their five top-five finishes on the year tied for ninth. Carstens also helped Cooper Schultz (71.99) and Nicklaus Mason (72.30) finished second and fourth, respectively, in program history in career scoring average. During his first full year back, Carstens helped the 2023-24 Wildcats rank third in school history with a 287.39 team scoring average. He also helped K-State record a team victory at the season-opening Wildcat Invitational. When adding in another Wildcat Invitational win in the fall of 2024, K-State has now won at least one event each of the last three years, its longest streak since the 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons. In his first semester back with the Wildcats in the spring of 2023, Carstens helped K-State earn five top-five finishes in eight events, including a victory a