Boy’s golf is filled with upper and lowerclassmen with extreme talent. Sophomore Caden Christopherson has been playing golf since he was four years old. Senior, Mike Finnegan has been on the varsity team for the past four years. Both players have remarkable talent and passion for the sport.

Although the boys have been “struggling in some of [their] tournaments” their matches have gone “pretty well” says Finnegan. The most important factor though, is that they know what they need to do to improve and get to state.

For Finnegan, “there’s no question that we’re going to qualify for state just how we’re going to do [in the competition].

As for how to follow through with state? They need to “practice more and dial it in; it’s all mental”.

The freshmen especially, according to Christopherson who has been on the varsity team since his freshman year, said that “the pressure might be getting to them”.

The seniors really need to step up their game with the end of the season coming in, they “lost a couple seniors [this year]”, so Finnegan has really had  to “step up a little bit more than others.”

The girls team have been doing “pretty well” in their recent competitions, Bernier claimed, landing themselves in the top ten. Most of the players have developed and progressed since the beginning of the season. Among the most notable, Junior Ciera Anderson, who Coach Bernier said is “not even the same player she was a month ago”.

Anderson started playing golf for the first time this summer, and has admittedly “become a better player”.

Playing in “around the fifth or sixth spot”, Anderson said that in the end, they “put [their] trust in Coach to pick who is going to get the better scores and bring [them] to state.”

However, having one of her good friends, Junior Delaney McDugle, on the team there could be a chance for rivalry on who gets chosen to play.

Anderson reassured that “[they’re] friends on the course and friends outside of the course.”

McDugle also confirms that the bus rides to the tournaments are “good opportunities to bond and become closer as a team.”

Forgetting the competition between each other, the girls are focusing on bettering themselves as individuals so that they can get into the top five. Standings won’t be as reliable until towards the end of the season because some of the matches get dropped off, counting only fourteen of the sixteen total matches they have played.

With the girls and boys both participating in weekly competitions and matches, and both being in the top ten, their main and only goal is qualifying for state.