Megan Judge

Office: 74M-B106

Phone: (805) 756-2322

Email: mjudge@calpoly.edu

 

Megan Carter Judge is the owner and manager of the Central Coast Polo Club in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Judge, along with her associates, started the Central Coast Polo Club in April 2002. She is a U.S. Polo Association (USPA)-certified arena polo umpire and instructor, and has been coaching for more than 20 years.

Judge graduated from Cal Poly with an undergraduate and master’s degree in agribusiness. While attending Cal Poly, she competed for the university’s intercollegiate polo team from 1995-1999, and was a member of the All-West All-Star team all four years. She was also a member of the Western Regional Championship teams in 1996 and 1999.  

Judge has been playing polo for more than 23 years and is rated at 1 goal, which is considered a professional handicap. She won or placed second in the Arena Masters Tournaments in 2011, 2013 and 2014, and won the SouthBay Garlic Cup Tournament in 2013, 2014 and 2015. She has been the Cal Poly Polo Team coach for the past 12 years, and has led her team to Nationals six of the last eight years.  Judge also coaches two Scholastic Teams, and took her 2014 and 2015 Girls Interscholastic teams to Nationals, where they placed second. Her teams have dominated the Pacific Coast Arena League tournaments the last two years, with her members receiving Champion and Reserve Champion for most MVP awards, BPP awards and most games won. The Girls’ Interscholastic team also won the 2013 WCT Arena Finals in the 1 goal flight. 

Judge learned to play polo from her grandfather, William (Bill) C. Carter, Jr., who was a 30-year member of the Will Rogers Polo Club. She credits her love for polo to her early influences Sue Sally Hale, Domingo Questal and, most importantly, her grandfather, Bill.