2025-2026 Varsity Schedule - Coming August 2025

2025-2026 JV Schedule - Coming August 2025

2025-2026 Rosters - Coming August 2025

JILL Daniels-HEGNA - Head Varsity Coach
email: HEGNAJ@smhs.org

Coach Jill Hegna has developed one of the most highly competitive and respectable HS girls’ golf programs in CA. She has passionately coached golf at SMCHS for 19 years. As Director of girls’ golf and Head Varsity coach for 13 seasons, she has led our Lady Eagles to greater heights, achieving the following:

1-National PGA High School Championship (2024) | 2-State Championships (2022 & 2023) | 2-SCGA CIF Regional Championships (2022 & 2023) | 1- CIF-SS Division 1 Team Championship | 7-Trinity League Championships | 6-Undefeated Seasons | 6 season tournament championships | Overall combined record of 317-47 | Overall combined League record 183-29.

Under Coach Hegna’s leadership numerous Individual Player Champions have also been won. Many SM players have continued their golf dreams by attending prominent colleges and competing at the collegiate level.

Coach Hegna was selected as the 2023 OC Register Coach of the Year. Her other role at SMCHS is Associate Dean of Students.

Coach graduated from Saint Anthony’s HS in Long Beach, CA. She attended LBCC for a year, then transferred to Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO on a volleyball scholarship. She received her bachelor’s degree in physical education K-12 and then attended Kansas University Graduate School. Coach Hegna has taught and coached various sports at the elementary and secondary levels while living in Colorado, Kansas, Connecticut and California.

Coach has three daughters who played golf and graduated from SMCHS: Megan Hickey-Barbosa ’04, Lauren Hickey-Fleiner ’07 and Katy Hickey-Miller ’09. Coach loves spending time with her family-6 grandchildren, friends and time on the golf course.

Combined Overall and League Record

Ralph Torres- JV Blue Head Coach

Coach Torres enters his second year with the Santa Margarita golf coaching staff as the JV Blue Girls Golf Head Coach. He has numerous years of coaching youth athletics including baseball, basketball, soccer and softball. Torres played baseball at UCSB before transferring to UC Berkeley where he received his Bachelor’s Degree. He also has an MBA from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA. Coach Torres is married with two kids.  Zach is starting his Freshman year at San Diego St University where is pursuing a degree in Business. Jillian is a Junior at SM where she also plays on the softball team.

Hailey Archuletta- JV Blue/ Gold assistant Coach

Coach Hailey Archuleta graduated from Santa Margarita in 2015 and is currently the sports medicine teacher on campus and an assistant varsity softball coach. This will be her first season with our golf program! Coach Archuleta played softball at Syracuse University where she earned her bachelor’s degree. Following undergrad she went on to obtain her Masters in Sport and Performance Psychology from California Baptist University. In recent years she has developed a love for golf and is excited to help grow the game. Hobbies include watching tennis, playing pickleball and spending time outside.