LBSU’s Charlie Forster Headlines 2024-25 All-Big West Men’s Golf Team

Headlined by Long Beach State senior Charlie Forster, the 2024-25 All-Big West Men’s Golf Teams have been announced, as voted on by the league’s 12 head coaches. 

Forster, a native of Winchester, England, claimed The Big West’s top honor after an impressive campaign for the league-champion Beach. Forster enters the national postseason with an individual rank of 31st, carding two victories this season at the Lake Las Vegas Invitational and Wyoming Cowboy Classic. Forster averages 70.1 strokes per round and has posted five Top 5 finishes on the season, including a fourth-place effort at The Big West Championship after a 26-spot leap up the leaderboard with a final-round 9-under 63. Forster becomes the fourth LBSU golfer to take home top conference honors.  

The All-Big West first team sees four from the Beach in the six-man makeup, as Forster is joined by senior Clay Seeber with back-to-back first-team honors. Seeber, a product of Newport Beach, Calif., averages 71.8 strokes per round and finished the spring regular-season strong with Top 10 marks at the Lake Las Vegas Invitational and Arizona Thunderbirds Intercollegiate. This is Seeber’s third career selection to the All-Big West first team, also earning acclaim in 2021.  

LBSU junior Alejandro de Castro Piera heads into regional action averaging 70.5 strokes per round with five Top 10 showings on the year. DeCastro Piera finished in runner-up position to Forster at both the Lake Las Vegas Invitational and Wyoming Cowboy Classic this spring. The native of Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Spain, played one season at Anderson before transferring to the Beach.  

With an impressive performance from the No. 5 spot in the Long Beach State lineup, Big West individual medalist Krishnav Nikhil Chopraa can also add first-team All-Big West honors to his resume. Chopraa fired off a Big West record-tying performance of 16-under 200 for the wire-to-wire win. The sophomore from New Delhi, India, got a first career victory at La Quinta Country Club punctuated by a first-round 63 to help the Beach to their third team title in as many years.  

Also making the first-team listings are seniors Tegan Andrews of Cal State Fullerton and Cal Poly’s Baron Szeto. Both former Big West individual medalists will be competing in NCAA regional action after impressive seasons.  

Szeto, a senior from Moraga, Calif., posted six top 10 finishes and two medalist performances in 2024-25, winning at the Lyons Links Invitational hosted by Wake Forest back in September and taking the top spot at the Rober Kepler Invitational in Columbus, Ohio. A two-time second team honoree in 2022 and ’24 and an honorable mention recipient in 2023, this marks Szeto’s first appearance on the All-Big West first team.   

Andrews, a redshirt senior from Agoura Hills, Calif., earned consecutive first-team nods and will be making consecutive appearances at NCAA Regionals. The 2024 Big West medalist closed in a tie for fifth in 2025 as the Titans finished as runners-up in the team standings. Andrews finished in the top 10 in five events this season and claimed the individual victory at the GCU Invitational back in March. 

Freshman of the Year Hartej Grewal of UC Riverside becomes the Highlanders’ first student-athlete to pick up an individual honor in program history. Hailing from Pleasanton, Calif., Grewal played to four Top 10 finishes, indluding a third-place effort at the SeattleU Redhawk Invitational. Averaging 71.9 strokes per round after a successful freshman campaign for UCR, Grewal is one of five golfers on the All-Big West second team. 

Grewal is joined by fellow first-year player Nolan Kuszyk of Cal Poly, whose year was highlighted by a fifth-place finish at the Mesquite Desert Classic in February. A trio of juniors in Jack Cantlay of LBSU, UC Irvine’s Rei Harashima and Nathan Tseng of UC San Diego round out the second team. Tseng posted two Top 5 finishes on the season with Cantlay landing in fourth at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate in February. For Harashima, this marks consecutive selections to the second team after tying for eighth at The Big West Championship.