The Colorado Christian men's golf team talked about the task at the beginning of season and on Saturday that task was completed.
The Cougars won their first national title with a 3-2 match play finals win over North Georgia at Orange County National Golf Center in Winter Garden, Fla.
Colorado Christian is the first Colorado-based university to claim a Division II golf title. Before the Cougars, no other Colorado school, either men or women, had won a national team title.
"We're preparing to go win the national championship, so that's the way that we've been thinking about the season," Hull, who took the program over in 2005, told The Denver Gazette in February. "If we prepare that way, then probably a lot of good things will happen."
And good things happened this week for the Cougars and most of the season.
The team got contributions from up and down their roster. Strong player from veterans Dylan Arthur, Adam Duncan and Xavier Bighaus. Freshman Bradley Mulder and sophomore Peyton Jones played well under the bright lights of the national tournament.
On Saturday, Arthur won his match by five strokes, Jones won by four and Duncan by two. Bighaus ad Jones lost close matches in the finals.
The Cougars beat Central Oklahoma 4-1 in the quarterfinals to advance to the semifinals where they took care of business against Oklahoma Christian 4-1 on Friday.
The Cougars were on a roll heading into the NCAAs as well.
They won their first Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference title and Duncan claimed the individual title. At NCAA regionals, the Cougars' Dylan Arthur took the top spot with the team finishing second.
On Thursday, the Cougars earned a clean RMAC sweep of golfer of the year, freshman of the year and coach of the year while placing five golfers on the all-conference list.
Duncan was RMAC Golfer of the Year, Mulder earned RMAC Freshman of the Year and Hull was Coach of the Year. Arthur, Bighaus and Peyton Jone made the all-conference team.
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