Ep. 1006 - Mike Small on Illini golf's PGA success, transfer adds; Katie Hultin on her vision for Illini soccer
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Illinois men's golf coach Mike Small joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to discuss Illini greats Brian Campbell and Thomas Detry having success on the PGA TOUR, two significant transfer additions and his 2025-26 roster. First-year Illinois soccer coach Katie Hultin then joins Werner to discuss what attracted her to the Illini job, what she learned from Janet Rayfield as an assistant coach, what she'll bring to the program, her roster and what she thinks Illini soccer can become.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the online inquire podcast, let's continue focusing on some other sports at Illinois. |
| 0:17.8 | Of course, we focus on men's basketball and football so much, but I had a |
| 0:21.8 | blast catching up. Joey Wagner and I last week was Shauna Green, the Atlanta women's basketball |
| 0:25.9 | coach, and I thought this is a great time of year with it being slow before Big Ten Football |
| 0:30.6 | Media Days, before basketball really gets our interest back. Let's give some time and some thought |
| 0:37.0 | to these other programs and some |
| 0:39.5 | successful programs and some programs with new coaches. So today I catch up with Mike Small on |
| 0:45.8 | MN's golf coach. It's a great time to catch up with him because Illinois has added two of the |
| 0:49.8 | best transfers in the country to their roster and I talked to Mike Small about that, about what it's like out on the golf marketplace |
| 0:56.9 | this year compared to last year and what he thinks of his team. |
| 1:01.3 | But also, so a couple of his guys doing incredibly well on the PGA tour. |
| 1:06.2 | Thomas D. Tree, who won events earlier this year on the PGA tour and is number 31 in the FedEx Cup standings. |
| 1:13.4 | But Brian Campbell just won his second PGA tour event over at the John Deere Classic, his second |
| 1:18.9 | playoff victory as well. |
| 1:21.1 | It's been a long grind to get to this point for Brian Campbell. |
| 1:24.9 | And of course, Thomas D.T Dietrich too both those guys 32 years old |
| 1:28.0 | but Brian's number 28 right now in the FedEx Cup standings so talk to Mike about them about all his |
| 1:33.7 | guys on tour and what that's like for him because it is kind of a culmination of what he has built |
| 1:39.3 | over the last 15 years to see this many guys competing at such a high level professionally. |
| 1:45.0 | But I also catch up with, and it was my first conversation with O'I soccer coach Katie Holtine. |
| 1:50.3 | Had a blast catching up with her, taking over a program that had only known one coach for the previous |
| 1:56.7 | 23 years in Janet Rayfield. |
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