| Mark
Eldridge, the only women's golf coach Palomar
has ever had, returns for his fifth season as coach of the
Comets in 2011.
The Comets have been fabulously
successful since Palomar added women's golf in 2007:
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2009
Southern California CC Champions
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2008-09
Conference Overall Champions
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2008-09
Conf. Regular-Season Champions
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2008-09
Conference Tournament Champions
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2008
Southern California Finals 2nd place
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2008-09
California State CC Finals 3rd place
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2009 So.
California Champion: Beth Sellers
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2008 So.
California Champion: Cora Busby
Eldridge is a
product of San Marcos High School, where he quarterbacked the
Knights to a CIF-San Diego Section small schools championship in
1966.
On the
collegiate level, he was an outstanding three-sport athlete
(football, baseball, track & field) at Palomar and moved on to
Washington State, where he started at safety in what was at the
time the Pac-Eight Conference. He finished his collegiate
athletic career as a dominant javelin thrower at Long Beach
State. He received a Bachelor's degree from Long Beach State and
a Master's degree from United States International University
(now Alliant University).
Eldridge was
Palomar's head women's softball coach for 31 seasons,
compiling a 31-year record of 1,083-303-6 with three state
championships, 28 conference titles, 30 community college
All-Americans and 153 four-year college scholarships (103 to
NCAA Division I).
He also served stints as the
Comets' head football coach in 1995, defensive coordinator for
three Comet national championship teams and defensive backfield
coach and assistant coach for Palomar's 1977 state community
college men's track & field team that featured two
national-class javelin throwers including future world record
holder Tom Petranoff.
Eldridge, a full-time associate
professor in Palomar's Department of Kinesiology, Health and
Recreation, lives in Pauma with his wife, Carla, and their son
Ricky, a baseball player at Valley Center High School. His
daughter Rebecca was a star pitcher for San Pasqual High School,
for the Palomar softball team and for Abilene Christian
University. His son Ryan played football and baseball at Orange
Glen High School, and his brother John was a baseball pitcher
for Palomar.
DAVE MOWRY, PGA
Teaching Professional
Assistant Women's Golf Coach
Assistant Women's Golf Coach
Jonathan Fleming, another outstanding former
Palomar athlete, returns as an assistant to head
coach Mark Eldridge after taking time off to
pursue his dream of a professional playing
career.
Fleming
was an All-Pacific Coast Conference baseball
pitcher for the Comets, compiling a 1.74
earned-run average in conference games during
the 2004 season. His .826 winning percentage (19
wins, 4 losses) is fourth best in Palomar
history. His 147 career strikeouts ranks as the
fourth best total in school history.
Fleming went on to pitch at the NCAA Division I
level for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo before seeing
his career ended by an arm injury -- and
switching sports to golf, in which his eventual
goal is to become the second Palomar alumnus
(the other being 1977 state community college
men's champion Mark Wiebe) onto play on the PGA
Tour.
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