Mason Banger

Biography

Mason Banger enters his third season as an assistant coach with the UCLA men’s golf team in 2025-26. He joined the Bruins’ program in July of 2023, working alongside head coach Armen Kirakossian. Banger and Kirakossian have positioned UCLA to play their best golf in years, having concluded the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons with NCAA postseason trips. UCLA advanced to the NCAA Stanford Regional in 2023-24 before securing a spot at the 2025 NCAA Championships in Carlsbad, Calif. The Bruins finished in third place at the 2025 NCAA Auburn Regional, advancing through to the program’s first NCAA Championships appearance since 2018. In Banger’s two years with UCLA’s program, the Bruins have placed third or better in 11 tournaments. The Bruins produced three team tournaments wins in 2024-25 and had one runner-up finish that season. During the fall season, the Bruins won The Preserve Golf Club Collegiate in Carmel, Calif. That marked UCLA’s first team win since taking the title at The Lamkin San Diego Classic in 2021. The Bruins finished in first place out of 30 teams at The Goodwin, hosted by Stanford University in March 2025. In their first season as members of the Big Ten Conference, UCLA won the Big Ten Championships at Baltimore Country Club, finishing one stroke ahead of second-place Illinois. The Bruins finished third or higher in seven tournaments in 2024-25, including a runner-up finish in October 2024 at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate. UCLA closed the 2024-25 golf season

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