Academy of Art University Athletics

2021-22: 2022 All-PacWest Second Team … 2022 PacWest All-Tournament Team … 2021-22 Academic All-PacWest Team … PacWest Golfer of the Week on Oct. 13 … Posted an average round score of 74.48 over 25 rounds (nine tournaments) … Earned one tournament victory and had two top-10 finishes … The tournament victory was the second of his ART U career, helping him become just the second Urban Knight with multiple tournament wins in a career … Further extended his ART U record of top-10 finishes in a career to 11 … This year’s round totals helped him post the ART U program record for lowest average round across a career with a 74.83 … Best finish was when he won the Chico State Wildcat Classic on Oct. 11-12 … Lowest three-round score was a 2-over-par 218 that he shot at the Tim Tierney Pioneer Shootout on March 14-15 …Lowest two-round score was the Chico State Wildcat Classic where he show a 2-over-par 146 … Lowest single-round score was a 3-under-par 69 which he shot during the opening round of the Hanny Stanislaus Invitational. 

2020-21: 2021 All-PacWest First Team ... 2021 PacWest All-Tournament Team ... 2020-21 Academic All-PacWest ... 2020-21 GCAA Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-American Scholar ... Posted an average round score of 74.41 over 17 rounds (seven tournaments) … Earned four top-10 finishes, moving him into first in ART U career history with a total of 10 … Best placement was a runner up finish in the season’s opening tournament, the Bay Area Invitational … Lowest three-round score of the year was an even-par 210 at the PacWest Championships where he tied for third … Lowest two-round score of the season was a 3-under-par 141 at the Sonoma State Invitational where he tied for fourth … Lowest single-round score of the season was a 68 which he shot twice, the first coming in the opening round of the Bay Area Invitational while the second came in the final round of the Pioneer Shootout. 

2019-20: 2020 Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar, 2019-20 Academic All-PacWest … posted an average round score of 73.67 … best finish of the year came at the NDNU invitational where he placed seventh … lowest three-round score of the year was at the WWU invitational where he shot an even-par 216 … lowest single-round score of the year was a 2-under-par 70, which he did twice … posted one top-20 finish and one top-10 finish.

2018-2019: All-PacWest Second Team, Academic All-PacWest...PacWest Golfer of the Week (1) (Apr. 11)... highest finish was fourth at the Mustang Intercollegiate when he tied the best three round score in ART U program history after shooting 67 (-5), 67(-5), 72 (E) for a cumulative score of 206 (-10)... had a stroke average of 74.62

2017-2018: 2017-18 All-PacWest Third Team ... 2018 PacWest All-Tournament Team ... 2017-18 Academic All-PacWest ... claimed the individual title in ARTU/NDNU Dual Match ... finished tied for fifth in the Sonoma State Invitational and eighth in the PacWest Conference Championship ... finished the season with a stroke average of 76.36.

Previous Experience: Watkins was named First-Team All-Marin County Athletic League (MCAL) his sophomore through senior seasons and was on the Second Team his freshman year ... was also the MCAL individual champion in his final season at Novato High School ... graduated in 2017 ... played in the Bay Cities League and for the Marin Country Club for five years ... finished second overall while his team was named the 2015 North Division Champions.

Personal: Matthew Watkins' parents are Lorraine and Michael ... Communications & Media Technologies major.