Girls golf

After a successful 8th place finish at state to end the 2016 girls golf season, the team looks to aim for a higher finish led by an experienced senior group and head coach Ken Thomas. Thomas, being a process-oriented coach, creates opportunity with each golfer by looking to improve the team as a whole.

“It’s not where you start at the beginning of the season but it’s where you end up at the end of the season,” Thomas said. “I think we made a major step forward last year in the ability of our golfers to overcome adversity.”

Senior Ally Pappas, who placed 17th individually at state last year, hopes to return to the state tournament and place higher herself as well as with the team.

“As a team, our goal is to make it back to state and do better than eighth in the state and to try to get better than last year,” Pappas said. “As an individual I want to try and place top ten at state because I got 17th last year and I just want to always get better and improve.”

Both Thomas and Pappas believe that mental toughness and teamwork are major stepping stones in the production and success the team would like to have this season.

“[We have to] continue to show mental toughness,” Thomas said. “[And] continue to show that discipline and that toughness that made us successful last year and seems to be doing us well.”