MALIBU, Calif. — Earning his second preseason award of the 2025-26 season, Pepperdine men's golf senior Mahanth Chirravuri was named a Golfweek Preseason All-American on Thursday.
Chirravuri made the second team alongside nine other players. Just like he was on the Haskins Award Preseason Watch List, Chirravuri is the only golfer from a non-Power 4 institution to make any of Golfweek's three Preseason All-American teams. Additionally, this is the second Golfweek honor Chirravuri has earned in the calendar year; he was named a Golfweek All-American Honorable Mention selection following the 2025 season.
Last year, the senior from Chandler, Ariz. had his most successful season of collegiate golf. He earned Golfweek and PING All-American honors after tying for ninth place at the NCAA Championships. He was the seventh Wave in program history to earn a top-10 finish at NCAAs. The 2025 West Coast Conference Individual Champion and Golfer of the Year tied Michael Putnam for the second-most below-par rounds by a Wave in a single season with 23, plus he tied Joe Highsmith and Andrew Putman for sixth for the most top-10 finishes in a single season with seven.
Chirravuri and the Waves kick off the 2025-26 season at the Sahalee Players Championship, held in Sammamish, Wash. on Sept. 6-7. All schedule updates and results can be found on the men's golf team's schedule page on pepperdinewaves.com.
First Team
Ethan Fang, Jr., Oklahoma State
Ben James, Sr., Virginia
Jackson Koivun, Jr., Auburn
Michael La Sasso, Sr., Ole Miss
Christiaan Maas, Sr., Texas
Jacob Modleski, Jr., Notre Dame
Tommy Morrison, Sr., Texas
Preston Stout, Jr., Oklahoma State
Jase Summy, Sr., Oklahoma
Arni Sveinsson, So., LSU
Second Team
Daniel Bennett, So., Texas
Mahanth Chirravuri, Sr., Pepperdine
Ryder Cowan, Jr., Oklahoma
Connor Graham, So., Texas Tech
Max Herendeen, Jr., Illinois
Filip Jakubcik, Sr., Arizona
Luke Poulter, Jr., Florida
Lance Simpson, Sr., Tennessee
Tyler Weaver, Jr., Florida State
Connor Williams, Jr., Arizona State
Third Team
Josiah Gilbert, Jr., Auburn
Frankie Harris, Sr., South Carolina
Dane Huddleston, Jr., Illinois
Bryan Lee, Sr., Virginia
Eric Lee, Jr., Oklahoma State
Michael Mjaaseth, Sr., Arizona State
Kihei Akina, Fr., BYU
Cameron Tankersley, Sr., Ole Miss
Jack Turner, Jr., Florida
Wells Williams, Sr., Vanderbilt
ABOUT PEPPERDINE MEN'S GOLF
Pepperdine men's golf has ranked among the elite collegiate golf programs in the nation, having won the NCAA Championship in 1997 and 2021. The program has won 24 WCC championships while reaching 28 NCAA Regionals and 14 NCAA Championships. With 30 All-American selections, the Waves currently have four active members of the PGA TOUR in 2025.
