So it is almost time for the Fall semester to begin and I am really starting to get excited. Both of my parents attended BW and as a child I visited BW often. After visiting BW during my Senior year of High School I knew I wanted to attend this college with hopes of playing golf. I really enjoyed meeting all the lady golfers. I had a lot of fun at the highlighter party =) I think that BW will be a great fit me. I just can't wait for the season to begin!
~Rpina
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Brooke's Summer
So hi everyone! Goodness...I haven't blogged in a few weeks, and so I figured my first post in a while would be with you guys.
First of all, my summer this year has been pretty boring. A lot of it has been going to graduation parties, hanging out with my boyfriend, working, and golfing. I think the best event of my summer has been a highlighter party. It was so cool. We would draw on each other in highlighter under a blacklight, and it looked so awesome! My friends and I like doing random stuff like that. But aside from that, I've been shopping around for stuff to bring to my dorm and working so I could pay for it. My job's not that bad, either. Let me tell you, florists are an interesting group of people. Lol.
That's about it for my summer, but why did I choose BW? I actually didn't want to at first, if you can believe it. My dad actually told Coach not to call because I wasn't interested in the school. XD Go figure. But the more I looked at it and after visiting a couple of times, I realized that it really was a cool place. All of the people that I talked to loved the place, plus my favorite English teacher from high school got her degree here. The campus is really nice, and I really enjoyed talking to the students about classes and what they were like. I wanted to come to a place that would seem like a family, and I think this is the best place for that to happen.
And I hope the golf team will be a nice little family of its own. I'm really looking forward to getting to know all of you and to an awesome golf season!
First of all, my summer this year has been pretty boring. A lot of it has been going to graduation parties, hanging out with my boyfriend, working, and golfing. I think the best event of my summer has been a highlighter party. It was so cool. We would draw on each other in highlighter under a blacklight, and it looked so awesome! My friends and I like doing random stuff like that. But aside from that, I've been shopping around for stuff to bring to my dorm and working so I could pay for it. My job's not that bad, either. Let me tell you, florists are an interesting group of people. Lol.
That's about it for my summer, but why did I choose BW? I actually didn't want to at first, if you can believe it. My dad actually told Coach not to call because I wasn't interested in the school. XD Go figure. But the more I looked at it and after visiting a couple of times, I realized that it really was a cool place. All of the people that I talked to loved the place, plus my favorite English teacher from high school got her degree here. The campus is really nice, and I really enjoyed talking to the students about classes and what they were like. I wanted to come to a place that would seem like a family, and I think this is the best place for that to happen.
And I hope the golf team will be a nice little family of its own. I'm really looking forward to getting to know all of you and to an awesome golf season!
Sunday, August 9, 2009
The Long Road to BW
Hi everyone! I hope your summer is FANTASTIC and everything is going well!!! So basically “why I choose BW” is a VERY long story, but it began with me visiting about 16 schools, applying to 11 and still not knowing where I wanted to go. The first time I stepped on BW’s campus it didn’t really click with me and I put it on the back burner. Then I started getting interested in playing golf and coach called me and we began talking about coming on campus and taking another tour. After that day I COULDN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT!!!! In the end it came down to Wittenberg and BW where everything seemed similar. I eventually stayed on campus one night with Sam and realized that BW felt like home. I love everything about it and can’t wait to be with the team. In high school I had to play on the boy’s team and that got really old, so FINALLY I will be on a girls team and I couldn’t be more excited!! This year is going to be great and I am proud to call myself a yellow jacket!
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Summer and Why I Chose B-W!
Hello again!! :) I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their summer so far. I am so excited for the season to begin and to meet all the new members. We're going to have a great year with an awesome team! I have been staying pretty busy this summer with all sorts of things! I have been helping the PGA Professional, Doug Lemons, of the Ohio Junior Golf Academy out this summer with a number of things. Every Tuesday and Thursday I assist him in coaching the "Little Tee" class (4-6 year olds). It's a ton of fun and the kids really enjoy it! I also have been helping him with the U.S. Kids Tour, which he runs in the Canton area. The tournaments are on the weekends at all different courses in surrounding cities of Canton. The tournaments have grown each week and we are looking forward to the tour Championship in a little less than a month! You can visit www.ohiojuniorgolfacademy.com to learn more about the programs and what I help out with! I have also been caddying for Portage Country Club when I can. That's been a great experience. I've caddied for some very good golfers and been able to network with a lot of people! Babysitting has also been a large part of my summer. I babysit a 3 year old little boy who is so much fun! I've been playing golf whenever I can and have been playing pretty well (thank goodness). I've been getting some lessons here and there and am set for a new driver fitting this week! :) I will also be leaving this week for Atlanta, GA to visit my boyfriend who just recently moved there! I'm very excited! :) So, why did I choose to come to Baldwin-Wallace? Our assistant coach for volleyball in 7th and 8th grade went to B-W and always talked so highly of it. So I always said "that's where I want to go to College" and that thought pretty much followed me through high school. I gained and interest in playing golf and being a cheerleader after high school and as I looked into it, I knew B-W was where I could make that happen. I visited other schools but I knew right as I stepped on campus for the first time that this was where I wanted to be. I'm very happy with my decision to come here and I think the freshman are going to love it just as much as I do! Well, now that I've wrote an entire book, I'm off to bed! Talk to you all soon and have a great rest of your summer!! :)
-Nicole Carlone
Monday, May 11, 2009
Graduation!
Sooo, I graduated college yesterday. wow crazy. And I'm so glad that I decided to golf this year, after playing softball for 3 years at BW, i went out of golf this year and I'm really glad that I did. I have made some of the best friends one could ever ask for this year while golfing, it was such a great experience and I'm really glad that I had the privaledge to meet all of you and spend tons of time with you. Like the picture says that i picniked, friends that turned into family, you guys will always be my little golf family and i hope that we stay in touch, which i know that we will specially since were playing in a 3-on-3 basketball tournament at the end of may. But i guess i really wanna thank you guys for being part of my senior year and being great friends. I love you all and cant wait til we hang out soon! and get our amazing neon green shirts!!! Love all of you!!! Pretty Princesses and Mighty Ducks ruleeeeeeeeeee.
I also wanna thank you coach, for putting up with all my crap haha. I know that I can be difficult at times, but thanks for working with me. :) And always being there for us!
Dont forget,
You can pay for school but you cant buy class! :-)
oh & BW GOLF-"COMIN IN HOT!"
PEACEEEEE OUTTTT BWWWWW :-)
ITS BEEN REAL
I also wanna thank you coach, for putting up with all my crap haha. I know that I can be difficult at times, but thanks for working with me. :) And always being there for us!
Dont forget,
You can pay for school but you cant buy class! :-)
oh & BW GOLF-"COMIN IN HOT!"
PEACEEEEE OUTTTT BWWWWW :-)
ITS BEEN REAL
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Thanks Ladies!!
It’s been a couple of weeks since our year ended and I finally have a chance to sit down and recap our year a little bit. It has been an exciting year in which we are rebuilding the program to get back to the days when BW was one of the better golf teams in the nation. Our captain, Lydia Cole, was named All-OAC and received BW’s Senior Female Athlete of the Year award. We competed in the most tournaments BW has competed in since the 2003-04 season when the team was ranked #25 in the nation coming into the season. On top of that, and just as important, the team has formed special friendships that will last a lifetime : ) It has been a very fun year and has me very excited about what is to come for the future of women’s golf at Baldwin-Wallace!
First, I have to recap our OAC Conference Championship tournament. Our goal at OAC’s was to finish 3rd as a team. The top 2 teams, Otterbein and Ohio Northern, were in the top 20 in the nation so no one was catching them this year (notice I said this year!). So our goal was to be the best of the rest and finish 3rd in the conference. The great thing about setting that goal is the whole team completely bought into it and it was the big motivating force of our spring season.
Unfortunately we did not reach that goal. However, what I liked the best about how the team handled not reaching our goal was that they didn’t make any excuses. We lost our overall #3 and #4 best scorers for the year due to injury and early graduation. We also had a rough weekend at OAC’s where not everyone had the type of rounds they thought they should have. But yet there was never an excuse made. They just kept fighting through the adversity and really believed they could still reach their goal.
Sometimes when you go through a season you are so caught up in it that you don’t take time to realize what all is happening. That’s why it’s great to have an end of the year get-together or dinner to kind of wrap everything up. We did that as a team as we had a team dinner at Macaroni Grill. It was so great to look around and see just how much this team really got along. They laughed and shared stories of the season and had a great time together. The underclassmen even got the seniors some gifts which was really nice. From the words expressed to each other, and just the overall feeling of the night, it was very apparent that this team had grown very close as a team.
Honestly, I couldn’t be more proud of our team for all they accomplished and how far they have brought the program in just one short year. Our biggest thing to do this year was to change the culture of women’s collegiate golf at BW. We weren’t as concerned with how we did golfing this year because we had so much adversity to overcome, but we did want to change the overall culture inside the golf program. We needed to be more disciplined; more committed; and take more pride in being a golfer on the BW women’s golf team! These ladies not only reached that goal, but they exceeded it. They have laid a GREAT foundation for the future of the program which is so very important!
Less than 10 years ago the team was back to back conference champs and finished in the top 10 in the nation. It’s our goal to get the program back to that point! The ladies this year have taken care of changing the culture inside the program, which I think was a HUGE part in the fact we were able to recruit a very good freshmen class. The team worked very hard at making sure that recruits saw what they were all about and where we were headed as a golf program. I expect this momentum in recruiting to continue as we head into recruiting another very good class with 2010 graduates! The future looks VERY bright for the golf program here at BW!
Thanks for a GREAT year ladies!! As the BW women’s golf program continues to grow and improve, I want you to be able to look back at this year and see what a huge difference you all have made to make the program better. You should take great pride in the fact you did the hardest part of building a program, which is to lay the foundation for success. It might not have shown up in our win-loss record, or where we finished at OAC’s, but it will show up in the future success of the program. And you all were a BIG part of the reason that BW women’s golf will be back on top! Thanks Ladies….you are the best!!
Coach Strickland
First, I have to recap our OAC Conference Championship tournament. Our goal at OAC’s was to finish 3rd as a team. The top 2 teams, Otterbein and Ohio Northern, were in the top 20 in the nation so no one was catching them this year (notice I said this year!). So our goal was to be the best of the rest and finish 3rd in the conference. The great thing about setting that goal is the whole team completely bought into it and it was the big motivating force of our spring season.
Unfortunately we did not reach that goal. However, what I liked the best about how the team handled not reaching our goal was that they didn’t make any excuses. We lost our overall #3 and #4 best scorers for the year due to injury and early graduation. We also had a rough weekend at OAC’s where not everyone had the type of rounds they thought they should have. But yet there was never an excuse made. They just kept fighting through the adversity and really believed they could still reach their goal.
Sometimes when you go through a season you are so caught up in it that you don’t take time to realize what all is happening. That’s why it’s great to have an end of the year get-together or dinner to kind of wrap everything up. We did that as a team as we had a team dinner at Macaroni Grill. It was so great to look around and see just how much this team really got along. They laughed and shared stories of the season and had a great time together. The underclassmen even got the seniors some gifts which was really nice. From the words expressed to each other, and just the overall feeling of the night, it was very apparent that this team had grown very close as a team.
Honestly, I couldn’t be more proud of our team for all they accomplished and how far they have brought the program in just one short year. Our biggest thing to do this year was to change the culture of women’s collegiate golf at BW. We weren’t as concerned with how we did golfing this year because we had so much adversity to overcome, but we did want to change the overall culture inside the golf program. We needed to be more disciplined; more committed; and take more pride in being a golfer on the BW women’s golf team! These ladies not only reached that goal, but they exceeded it. They have laid a GREAT foundation for the future of the program which is so very important!
Less than 10 years ago the team was back to back conference champs and finished in the top 10 in the nation. It’s our goal to get the program back to that point! The ladies this year have taken care of changing the culture inside the program, which I think was a HUGE part in the fact we were able to recruit a very good freshmen class. The team worked very hard at making sure that recruits saw what they were all about and where we were headed as a golf program. I expect this momentum in recruiting to continue as we head into recruiting another very good class with 2010 graduates! The future looks VERY bright for the golf program here at BW!
Thanks for a GREAT year ladies!! As the BW women’s golf program continues to grow and improve, I want you to be able to look back at this year and see what a huge difference you all have made to make the program better. You should take great pride in the fact you did the hardest part of building a program, which is to lay the foundation for success. It might not have shown up in our win-loss record, or where we finished at OAC’s, but it will show up in the future success of the program. And you all were a BIG part of the reason that BW women’s golf will be back on top! Thanks Ladies….you are the best!!
Coach Strickland
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Some Pictures From OACs!
Ali sporting her Prom dress for us!
Our whole team at OACs!
Our seniors, Lindsey and Lydia, being recognized with Coach.
Honorable Mention - Lydia Cole!
All the OAC seniors with their coaches.
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