This season ladies golf has only three seniors, leaving room for the underclassmen to step up in preparation for future years. 

The girls have practice every day after school, “putting so strokes aren’t wasted on the greens during tournaments,” said senior Ciera Anderson. Coach Brian Bernier added on, “they’re getting better and developing”.

This year they have implemented a developmental team which includes a couple players that wanted to learn to play golf and improve their skills before playing in any actual matches or competitions. Instead of cutting them, the team is working together to encourage them to become better players.

“That’s why [I] don’t like cutting freshmen, they work hard, they want to practice, you never know what they could turn into…” said Bernier

Senior Dakotah Kreil, who has been on the golf team since her first year of high school says the season is off to a good start and hopes to “help the team get back to state… you really grow as a team at state”

One of the first tournaments, the Night Hawk Invitational is an annual tradition for the girls, however they never played this course before. There was a hole on the side of a mountain, which Kreil said she “had to use a driver to combat the strong wind.” There was also a lightning delay for an hour on both days of the tournament.

This  competition has shown the team what they need to do to prepare for this season, “it’s a good measure of the teams we’ll be competing against [this year]” said Bernier, “We expect to finish in the top ten in state, that should be well within our reach.”

On Wed. Sept. 27, the girls went to Mesa to play Mountain View at the Longbow golf course. The girls won the match and are taking a well earned break until their next competition, the state tournament on Oct. 31.