Summit High School’s fall sports have officially kicked off ahead of the 2026-2027 school year, which begins Wednesday, Aug. 19. 

One of the high school’s first teams to start its season is the boys golf team, which hosted tryouts on Aug. 3. Later this month, the Tigers will compete in their first official tournament at the Overland Park Golf Course in Denver on Aug. 24. 

“Based on what we’ve seen over the last two weeks, especially with the older boys that are much more seasoned in the tournament realm, I think they’re going to be in a good place,” head coach Zach Dobrota said of this season’s roster.

The team is made up of 15 boys from all four grade levels — two freshmen, four sophomores, four juniors and five seniors.

“We’ve got some seniors that I expect big things from. I think they expect big things from themselves, which is good to see,” Dobrota said. “Parker Gray, who’s your returning state qualifier from last year, Hunter Plummer, who’s a senior who narrowly missed the state tournament last year, Sawyer Coffman, who is gunning for a state berth, and I think he’s got it in him.”

All three of these golfers have “expressed interest in playing at the next level,” after their high school careers are finished, according to Dobrota. 

Other standout players to watch include Jack Tobias, Jagger Roberts, Jaxx Roberts and Fisher Woodard.

“All of these boys have a very strong chance if they can make their game peak at the right time,” Dobrota said. 

With a talented and overall closely-matched team this season, playing time isn’t guaranteed, Dobrota explained. Every tournament’s roster will look different, requiring the golfers to play their best to earn the chance to participate in more tournaments. 

“There’s a lot of firepower on this golf team right now,” he said. “It’s going to be not only competitive during tournament play, it’s going to be competitive throughout the season to just get yourself a tournament berth. It’s anybody’s game out here for the most part with the team that we built.”

Throughout the upcoming season, the boys will primarily travel to tournaments in the eastern half of the state, where there are more golfing facilities and longer seasons than in the High Country. Because of this, Front Range high schools will bring the Tigers some of their strongest competition. 

“It’s a little bit different down there just because of proximity to golf courses and more facilities and more schools,” Dobrota said. “There are a lot of very strong golfers that live on the Front Range that have practically year-round golf seasons.”

One Front Range tournament, hosted at the Air Force Academy’s Eisenhower Golf Club in Colorado Springs, will pose a particularly tough challenge for the Tigers. 

“The Eisenhower Blue course … arguably has some of the toughest greens in the country, definitely in the state. These boys are definitely going to get tested in their ability to manage their short game and how well they putt,” Dobrota said. “We will play some of the best teams in the state there.”

Other tough events for Summit High include a tournament hosted at the Collindale Golf Course in Fort Collins, which regularly hosts U.S. Open qualifiers, and a home tournament, hosted in Keystone, which the Tigers won last year. 

“September 10, the boys get to play a home event in front of their families, and we’ve stacked the field there too,” Dobrota said. “So it’ll be a little bit more difficult than it’s ever been, and hopefully we can turn around and repeat winning our home event again.”

With a competitive season ahead both internally and against other high schools, Dobrota explained that his golfers will need to focus on keeping a positive mindset.

“I’m excited to see the physical talent mesh with who can be mentally tough,” he said. “We all have bad holes. We blow up, or sometimes, the other way, you birdie a couple holes and you get overly confident. It’s about managing that and expectations for yourself.”

But despite his high expectations for this season, Dobrota said his overall goal is for the Tigers to enjoy themselves on the green.

“I’m excited to see what they can do and how competitive they can keep it amongst themselves while still keeping it fun, because that’s our ultimate goal,” Dobrota said. “They’re students first, they’re golfers second, but ultimately we want them to have fun while they’re doing this and don’t be too harsh on themselves.”