I'm finally blogging :)

So first off I'd like to apologize to all the avid blog readers who have been long awaiting my blog post, and I'd like to promise them that I will be more faithful about blogging the the future :) Anyways, since I hadn't blogged yet, I'll give a season overview...So we started practice pretty much right away as soon as school started up, and we had our first tournament a few weeks later. Our first tournament was our jacket invitational which we played a creekwood. Creekwood was an interesting course to say the least...there was this one par 3...the par 3 of death which is documented earlier in the blog. Then from then on out we had a tournament every weekend for about the next 4 weeks. We had a super fun season! On the road, in the van, and on the course, where ever we were, we had fun together. The switch from high school golf to college golf was a struggle for me this season. I had been used to all 9 hole matches from the women's tee, not 2 day 18 hole tournaments played from then men's tee. So that was a hard adjustment I had to make this fall which caused me to shoot high scores then I was used to getting in high school. But I have high hopes for the spring season, and I can't wait to be back out on the course with the team! :)

-Sarah T.

Leaves are falling, but spring is soon to come

This is the last weekend of the fall season. Wow. It's gone by so fast. Before I get all nostalgic, I'll tell you about the past couple weekends.

They have been a blast. The Heildelburg tournament wasn't too bad. The weather was kind of questionable and it was pretty cold in the mornings, but nothing too hard to handle. We're golfers. Come on. We can do anything.

Include survive coach's daughter in the swimming pool (in which Sam wore a bra. Thank God). Taryn is a little bundle of energy. Rebecca was yelling at me because I would let her win during pickle in the middle. Yes, Sam. PICKLE in the middle. Not monkey. But she was a lot of fun when she wasn't splashing water in my face and doing cannonballs right next to me. Like I said. Bundle of energy.

But aside from that, I've really started to enjoy our long car rides and hotel stays. They're actually a lot of fun, especially when we're in the middle of nowhere and we see goats chained up in people's front yards. We must note that that will probably be Caci in a few years.

I'm looking forward to this weekend and playing over in Erie despite the cold weather and craziness that that will be.

But now I must go off to do homework before practice. I have a fiction paper, english questions, and religion questions due tomorrow. Good stuff. And I'm going to see the Naked Plays tonight! Yay!

And....last but definitely not least...HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY!!!!

Hiiii

Hi, everyone!! I can't believe our fall season is almost over!!! This is starting to make me feel old... before I know it, I'lll be a SENIOR... ahhh! =0! Anyways, this weekend is our last fall tourney at Gannon. I have high hopes of breaking my career-low (or around it at least). These past few weekends have been on some rough courses. Like Caci said, this past weekend was soooo weird. I shot a 59 on the back and a 47 on the front... YIKES!! But needless to say, we've been having oodles of fun! haha. Between Caci's hair looking so good 24/7, Coach saying "oh ma gawd", Sam's hedgehog and getting "warnings" by Coach Taryn... we've been having a blast. We're really growing as a team and everyone is learning each week on things that need improvement. For having such a young team that we do, we've started to learn and grow very quickly which I think is going to prepare us big time for the spring. In the meantime, we are practicing for this weekend. We'll be going to Erie, PA and I think we're having dinner at Em's!! That should be pretty cool. Speaking of Em, happy almost birthday (her birthday is tomorrow)!! :) Today we're off to the driving range since it's winter conditions outside (which I LOVE by the way... SIKE). Hoooopefully it will be nice for us this weekend! I don't want to play in the snow just YET haha. My teachers also love making everything due at once soooo I guess I'll probably move into the library within the next day or two... that should be fun. Well, I'm off to hit the books. Come out and watch us this weekend - we'll be coming in HOT!! :)

Peace out girl scouts!

NiCoLe

Rebecca its fall season is almost over not spring... lol .. Anyways this weekend was tons of fun! Even though i didnt play as well as i had hoped. The course was crazy. the one side was like super easy and the other side was constructed by another person so it was full of hills and dog legs and just lots of crap that didnt need to be there. sat we ate at the golfcourse and the food was sooooo good. then we went to the AMAZING hotel and brought our bathing suits with hopes of going in the hot tub but they didnt have one :(. So nicole emily and i decided to take a nap. After that we ate some pizza, watched some u tube and went to sleep. Emily and i figured that once again nicole would set her alarm but her alarm snooze button is broken or something so instead of waking up at 7 we got up at 740 with the van leaving at 8.... :0 . for the second overnight trip in a row. So for the past 2 days the weather has completely sucked so practice is at the range today!! To bad teachers are giving us a lot of work and exams... my days are full to the max... lol ... ttyl

Great Weekend <3

So we have had two fun weekends away at golf tournaments!!!! This weekend we were at Heidelberg and last weekend we were at JCU and Muskingum. I really am proud of the team and the 1^st and 2^nd place wins that we just pulled off and I know that we will continue to do well.  If there has been one thing that I have learned from playing golf in college is that you cannot let one bad hole ruin a round.  Coach tells me this AT LEAST once a day! Being on the road with the team has been soooo much fun! You never know what could happen with the seven of us traveling in big red and staying in the LUXURIOUS Hampton hotel for a night.  In big red there is Caci and Emily sleeping in the back, Nicole and I rocking out to “Party in the U.S.A” and “She Wolf” in the middle, Brooke and Sarah repin’ in the first row, and coach and Sam guiding us in the front. “Oh Mah Gawd” (lol) traveling with the team is amazing and I am so sad that we only have one more weekend until the spring season is over :(

 

Par 3 of Death and More!

Hey, everyone!! So, our fall golf season actually has only 2 more weeks left... I can't believe it! At our 1st tournament this fall (the B-W invite), there was a par 3 which we had to play. We nicknamed this hole the "par 3 of death" because there are woods to the right, a creek in front of the green, a huge tree to the left and a massive tree to the right. Basically, you have to hit the ultimate perfect shot to make it through the small space of trees and hit it long enough to stay on or behind the green. This hole didn't treat me as bad during the tournament as it did in previous practice rounds where I would lose close to 4 balls total... on just that hole. On Saturday of the tournament, my ball was RIGHT on the edge of the hazard so I had some serious luck!! And then the next day I hooked it waaaay left so that was ugly. It will always be a horrible hole. This past weekend we played at John Carroll on Saturday and Sunday and then played at Muskingum on Monday! The JCU course is pretty tough to play but I'm sure we'll get some more practice in there before our OACs are held there in the spring! On Monday, we WON our 1st tourney in quite a few years!! That was awesome!! :) We are continuing practice this week and play up at Heidelburg this weekend. Sleepovers are the best so we're all really excited (just as long as it's not a murder motel haha!)!! GO B-W GOLF!! WOOO! :)

-Nicole

PS- Note to Caci: 10+ Tums is straight poison... just thought you should know! 

Let me just explain this pic... i was trying to 

talk to nicole but she just thought she would be

 a smart butt and take a picture of me... 

Thats all i got to say

Team Pic : sam,brooke,nicole,caci, sarah, rebecca,raeanne and emily...

why i never listen to coaches...

so the par 3 of death... i was actually playing really well for half the day on saturday until i came to the par 3 of death... and let me tell you that hole ate 2 of my balls.. one in the trees to the right and one in the water so i think i ended up tripling that hole and the rest of my golf game went down hill fast... anyways thats not the exciting part.. on sunday i hit the ball ( an amazing shot i must say) well it went right into the water in front of the green.. technically it wasnt a hazard so i could hit out of it. the mount union coach advised me that it prolly wasnt the best idea to hit out of it cuz my ball was on a totally verticle lie. but i said " WATCH ME". so i got down into the muddy crap and hit the ball onto the green bringing up the biggest chunk of mud ever seen in my life.... but hey it was worth seeing that coaches face when i proved to him i could do it. anyways i pard the hole in the end!!

HEY HEY

HEY EVERYONE!

soooo we have had a couple practices so far and they have already been eventful.....on friday we were playing with hearing and seeing lightning and thunder every 2 seconds. I saw the lightning first and everyone though I was just going crazy lol! Coach insisted that we were okay because the siren never went off. however we found out on probably the fourth hole that there was a tornado watch a couple miles away, we finally made the decision to get out of there so we packed 6 people onto 1 golf cart and i freaked out the entire way back to the car hahahaha but everything turned out okay. We have also had our team pictures in our sharp new golf shirts and matching shoes. So far i have had soososos much fun with all of the girls and i love everyone! I have a feeling that the rest of the season is going to be really fun and wild!!

Emmmmmmmmmmm

Blood Thirsty Branches

First, I wanted to say congrats to the whole team on doing a good job at the tournament! I think we're off to a good start and can only get better. It's gonna be a good year.

So..there's this one hole in Creekwood that we have dubbed the Par 3 of DEATH!! Lol. XD But anyway, it is my duty to tell you my experience on it. I'm sure you'll find it entertaining.

Day one of the tournament and I got off to a good start and I'm just going along until I get to the Par 3of DEATH. I hit my first ball, which goes right and into the woods. So I hit a provisional which ends up just off the back of the green. I'm thinking that that's okay. I'll just shoot for double, because that's all I could get with a chip and one putt.

So we go over and start looking for my ball. Which we find. Not out of bounds. Which would have been perfectly fine with me. But it is down in this ditch right by a tree root. And I get to hit it out. So I'm like okay. Let's try this. Then...CRACK! My club hits the root and I don't see where the ball goes. (The next day, the girl I was playing with thought I broke my wrist when I hit the root. Lol.) But then I hear it bounce on the cart path behind me and see it bounce further into the woods. Great.

So my ball is further in the woods surrounded by a ton of branches. Small, very sharp branches. I wedge my way into them and try to uncover my ball by throwing the branches aside, and I finally got it somewhat cleared away. So I try a practice swing. I can't take the club straight back. I can only pick up up and basically karate chop the ball. And to my amazement, this works, and the ball pops out into the middle of the fairway, safely.

I chipped the ball up and to my excitement, one putted. I got away with my double in a very odd fashion.

But the best part of the story is when I looked at my legs. Four scratches on my legs from the branches that actually drew blood! Yup. The Par 3 of DEATH is really blood thirsty. And it got me. Oh well. The next day I parred and was happy. So I got back at it.

Alright. You've heard my experience. Good luck. I really think they should put a sign over there that says "Abandon all hope ye who play this hole."

Tournament One

Wow. This is pretty crazy. First college tournament. I'm pretty nervous. All this college stuff isn't too bad, it just seems to get thrown at you all at once. It's a lot of learning how to manage your time and figure out what you need to do when. I'm currently working on two papers (this is my cool down time before go back to work) and an exam, all next week. It's pretty crazy. But I'm so thankful that golf doesn't take up obscene amounts of time. Even though my schedule seems pretty tight, I actually have a lot of time to do my work, which is essential to my sanity.

See...I'm nervous and so excited tho. I'm excited to jump into the college golf world. It's great. I want to do well but still make friends. I think that's very possible, especially with the girls on the team. The team is so nice and I think we're ready to take this challenge on. I look forward to tomorrow and to see how well we're going to do.

Go Jackets!

It's Golf Season :)

Hi, everyone! :) Our golf season is in full gear! TOMORROW (wow, I can't believe it) is our first tournament! It's the 2-day invitational held by us at Creekwood golf course. We've been practicing for a little over 2 weeks now as a team. Our team is really coming together. We have a strong group of girls and I think we're ready for this weekend. It's going to be a big tournament for us and we're really looking forward to it! We've shared some memorable moments together since golf season started up - we survived a tornado while on the golf course... but no big deal or anything. Haha just kidding! We've never been so scared in our lives but it was kind of funny now that we look back on it! Caci and I went out for a practice round yesterday and hit close to 5 balls each on a par 3... aka the par 3 of death. We had a lot of fun though and got in some good practice as to what clubs to use where etc etc. We've been doing some different practice methods which seem to be working and helping us pretty well (thanks, Coach!). We have practice today which is going to get us pumped up for tomorrow and Sunday! This is what we've been waiting for so let's go get 'em, ladies!! :) Goodluck to everyone!

Nicole

The First Week

Ok so I can't even begin to explain how nervous I was for the first week of golf!! Never playing on a girls team before and finally having true competition was overwhelming for me.  I don't know why I was ever so scared!! The BW womens golf team is AMAZING. Nicole, Caci, and Sam are the most welcoming upperclassmen ever and the five new freshman really seem to click! Also, coach is always there supporting us whether we hit the best or the worst shot of our round.  

I can honestly say that even though one week has passed....we DEFINITELY have made some great memories so far.  Everyday that we practiced last week the sky looked awful and we would ask coach if it was going to rain.  He would respond NO and tell us it was going the other direction.  So finally on Friday we were going out to play at Creekwood and once again the sky did not look promising, but coach reassured us that the storm was not going to hit.  After playing about 4 and a half holes and the sky turning darker every minute, coach calmly stated that after we putted we should hop into the cart because we were going in.  All of us SCARED to death, we asked coach what was wrong and he would NOT tell us! Finally, as we were back to the van the thunder and lightening was louder and more visible than before.  After the loudest strike Nicole threw her clubs into the van and jumped over three rows of seats to ensure her safety! As we began to drive back coach told us that there was a tornado warning in the Berea area!  About twenty minutes later we were finally back at BW and in the safety of our dorms. With only one week done I can tell this is going to be a great season!! :)

~Rebecca

P.S- I would like to thank Mrs. Strickland for calling coach and telling us about the tornado warning! 

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

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!

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! 

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

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

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

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.

What I do, Instead of Homework. hahaha

Just a Side Note..

Lydia and I just posted at the same time... great minds think alike.

Pink Nailed Golfers.. We're Comin' in HOT!

Hi everyone! :) This past weekend we had our OAC Championship. We all played really hard and we had a great last weekend together. Lydia, our senior captain, received Honorable Mention so high five to that! And Lindsey, our other senior, shot her career low of 90! Woohoo!! :) On Friday, we drove down to River Greens for our practice round which was very useful because we got to test out how to play in the wind for Saturday. After a day of practice, Ali's family had a big cookout for us, which was AWESOME! We are so thankful for everything they do for us!! We had a lot of fun and it was great weather to be outside having some fun! On Saturday we played with Otterbein and Capital and on Sunday we played with Muskingum and Wilmington. At the end of the tournament on Sunday, we stayed for the awards session which our seniors were recognized and Lydia received her awards. I have to say that the best part of the weekend would be our pink nailpolish. I painted everyone's nails bright pink for Sunday and we looked stunning!! :) Overall, we had  a great weekend and really bonded as a team. Thank you so much to Coach who was battling strep throat all weekend for sticking it out for us. We appreciate it so much and wouldn't be able to do it without you! The spring season ended on a good note and we are certainly going to miss our seniors. We have had so much fun over the course of the year and we have all improved our golf game a lot. Next year is right around the corner and we are looking forward to it already! Have a great week!! :)

- Nicole AKA "Doyle"

COMIN IN HOT!!!!

So this past weekend we had OACs. It was by far the best weather we (I) have ever played OACs in. It was so hot!!!! I didn't play very well this weekend, actually I can't lie....I played awful. I'm not sure what my problem was but all I have to say is stuff happens you have an off day. I just hope I never have another one. lol On a better note Linds had her career low (90). It was a great way for her to end the year. She played the rounds so fast we were on hole 12 by the time she was on 18. WOW. Other then this we had a great weekend. It was great to see parents come out for the event. Nicole,linds, ali, and caci all had family come down at some point during the weekend.
It will be sad leaving such a great team. We have really bonded this year and have really come together as a golf team. The new coach has really put some structure into the team which I think we needed. I know that the team will only improve from here...i just wish i had more time to spend.
So over all golf this weekend was great. Coach was sick but he hung in there. We had a great time at Mr. Lees (we ate there) and hanging out in the hotel room. Ali had a great time at PROM :) and we all got our nails painted bright pink for the last day of OACs. I don' t think that really helped me at all...lol. We have the team dinner on Thursday and are going to get shirts that say coming in hot before we leave from summer. :) Ok thats all I got for right now!

Also, I want to thank coach for having a great first year for coaching golf at Baldwin-Wallace!! You have been great and made the season even more enjoyable!! Thanks for all your time, commitment, and understanding. 

By the way I forgot to say that my nickname is Alice!!! 

So first I want to say I'm on a boat lol!!! Anyways...this weekend was our OAC tournament and it was absolutely gorgeous weather. We were very lucky in that aspect, and it felt good to play in my first college championship. Like coach said we needed to appreciate the chance to get to play in the OAC championship, and I felt honored to play for Baldwin-Wallace.

 All I have to say is our team is so awesome!!! We all get along so well, and we have had a great spring season. These girls are my family, and this season was the best experience because we had so much fun while we working on our golf game!!! I want to say thanks to Lydia and Lindsey for being awesome seniors and role models!! I will greatly miss both of you very much!!! Also, congrats to Lydia for making All-OAC Honorable Mentioned. Finally I want to thank all the girls for making my freshman golf season unforgettable.

Comin in hot!

Us with coach.

Ali && Me...being real mature. as always :)

Ali, Caci && Me...

Nicole && Me hahahaha

Me, Lydia, Caci, Ali && Nicole.
"Comin' it hot!!!"

Caci && Me

Me && Ali

Me && Nicole.
I'm on a boat!!!! hahahah

Me && Lydia

Me, Coach && Lydia


--Keep it realllllllllllllllllllll

Just a Quote : ]

"You can pay for school, but you can't buy class."

haha. i love it. :)

wednesdayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

soo today was a pretty fun day at golf practice. we like to have fun while we golf, so we def. talk about the most random and funniest things ever. Coach told me I was allowed to put some of the words on here ;) haha. its all good tho. Not many geese at The Big Met today...just creepy men as usual haha. Tomorrow is picture day. yay. hahah. we're pretty excited about it. lol, not really, but I'm sure the pretty princesses will get all dolled up ;) hahha love you girlsss. lol. I might wear my hair down, ahhahahahah yeah right. won't happen. lol. But anyways, OAC's are this weekend and were all pretty pumped. haha well I am, i hope we do good. actually we're just excited cuz we have a nice hotel, which isnt a murder motel and it has a swimming pool. hahah yessssss. Oh & apparently we also love drama. hahah but who doesnt?

keep it realllllllllllllllll.

soo we get lost sometimes..

Soo yesterday we decided to go to the driving range to hit golf balls, since it was pretty wet outside and kind of raining. The only problem was that we were going to go to The Oaks driving range instead of Stonebrook where we usually go. Well coach with his amazing sense of directions couldnt find the driving range and instead we drove to Mallard Creek and just hit balls there instead. Which is okay, because apparently they love us out there. hahah.

Today we are going to The Big Met to golf, should be a good time considering there was always a ton of geese to chase around and a ton of poop that they leave behind for us to walk in. hahah, but its mostly fun chasing them.

This weekend, Saturday and Sunday we have a tournament in Wittenberg at Windy Knoll. We love all the huge fake horses that are all over the course. and last time i actually hit one with my ball, true story. hahah, but we also all shot a career low there last time we played there in the fall, so hopefully we will do good and hopefully coach wont put us in a murder motel (a hotel that the doors open to the outside) hahah. It never really bothers me, but the pretty princesses cant handle it and get scared. lol go figure.

My Spring Break Experience!

Seeing as a few days of blogging have been skipped, I am going to write about my Spring Break experience (in a nutshell). :) First of all, we left cold, rainy and snowy Ohio and arrived in Tampa, Florida. From there we drove to Homosassa Springs (Crystal River area) where we stayed in a condo for a few nights. None of us had been there before so it was definitely a new experience! haha! We had a free day the first day and we just layed out in the 80 degree weather (which we all miss!!) and got some rafts! The rafts were a fantastic purchase. :) The next few days we just hung around in the mornings and had some fun then played golf in the afternoon. We played at Southern Woods where we got some great lessons from the pro there, Rick Kelso. He was awesome!! The first day we played some golf then the next day we got lessons, which helped us all a lot! :) We went out to a few team dinners.. one of which we ate GATOR TAIL (well, I didn't.. but almost everyone else did! yuck!!!). After leaving Homosassa, we traveled up to the Tampa area to play St. Leo! The course was beautiful and it was actually a PGA qualifiers course- awesome, huh!? The girls from St. Leo were great and we had a lot of fun playing with them. After playing in our tournament, we had team dinner and then drove back to Tampa. We stayed there until we left on Friday morning for home, where the weather was quite a difference compared to what we were just in for a week!! Overall, our trip to Florida was really good- we all had a blast and the team bonded really well! :) I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter tomorrow and enjoys some time with their families! Adios! PS- Pretty, Pretty Princesses STILL rule and Mighty Ducks STILL drool! :)

More Pictures and Stufffffff

So today me & Ali went to the driving range to hit balls, and we are pretty sure there was a Brown's player hitting balls next to us. But we are unsure, but we think it could of been Jamal Lewis, or we might of made that up. haha true story :)



But here's some more pictures from Spring Break :)



St. Leo && us (Lindsey, Caci, Nicole, Lydia & Ali)



Nicole, Lindsey && Lydia. apparently I'm a creeper :)



Lydia && Lindsey (a.k.a. The Seniors, a.k.a. The Mighty Ducks)



Nicole, Ali && Caci (a.k.a. The Pretty Princesses)
oh && there representin' UNC :)



The Team at dinner, where we ate gator tail.
Front: Nicole, Lindsey && Lydia.
Back: Caci && Ali



Before going to dinner. looks like we got some sun :)
Nicole, Lindsey, Ali, Lydia && Caci



Layin' out at the pool. The rafts were the best idea ever.



-Keep it real-
Lindsey

It's Winter Again!

Hello, everyone! The snow has graced us with its presence, yet again. Aren't you thrilled? :) We probably won't have practice the rest of the week due to the weather. After we get back on Tuesday from Easter, we will be back in action with practicing and preparing for the Wittenberg tournament. That's where the majority of the team shot career lows ending our fall season! So, hopefullyyy we will see the same results (as Lydia mentioned). We only have one more tournament until OACs (dun dun dun!) so these next few weeks are really important. The team is really coming together and with a few more weeks of solid practice, we'll be GOLDEN.. haha (not that we aren't already)! Have a fun Easter and eat lots of candy! PS- I can drink pop again since Lent will be over on Sunday!! :) (But I actually should extend it by a day since I ACCIDENTLY took a swig of Sprite in the van on Spring Break after playing St. Leo hahaha). See ya later!

PSS- Pretty Pretty Princesses RULE!!!! and Mighty Ducks DROOL!!

We played at foxfire/players club this past weekend. What a time that was!!!. On Friday it was at least a three club wind and very wet and cold :( but we played through it and Saturday was beautiful. Once again it's Ohio and guess what....it's snowing. As a result of this crappy weather we didn't have practice today. Well I can't wait for this snow to go away for a long time. This next week and a half we will be getting ready for Wittenburg and hopefully will have another career low for everyone on the team. -Lydia-

Capital Tourny

Sooo friday at the capital tournament, I would have to say that it was a bit cold, wet & windy. hahah okay so maybe it was alot! hahah it was so windy that the flags were blowing out of the holes and pratice swings were blowing mud & water into your face. hahah. but it was okay, we made it through. and Saturday the weather was alot nicer and i think everyone enjoyed them selves alot more the second day.

Oh && the mighty ducks got the pretty princesses back for bragging about their win in the putting contest, we gave them a 4am wake up call at the hotel, which scared them, go figure :) lol. hahah.

OK....So I think that the pretty princesses need to get over the fact that they won. Remember that in the fall Mighty Ducks won.....by a lot!!! Just saying.(We all did a very good job...it was great practice.)

Some Pictures

Oh, we also visited Clear Water Beach, one day while we were down there, it was pretty cool, better than the first "beach" we stopped at.

Our pool @ the hotel, where we laid out everyday :) Oh, we had rafts too haha

Southern Woods in Florida.

The Team @ Southern Woods in Florida.

Hi everyone!!! Today it was a beautiful day for golfing!!! Like Caci said we practiced on our short game, but mostly putting. At the end of practicing we decided we all wanted to have a contest, so it was the Pretty Princesses against the Mighty Ducks!!! The Pretty Princess group consists of Nicole, Caci, and Ali. The Mighty Ducks are Lydia, Lindsey and Coach. Anyways it was pretty close until the very end and the Pretty Princesses won!! Good job girls!! So now to the good stuff, tomorrow is our second spring tournament. Our tournament is two days Friday and Saturday. It should be lots of fun because we are staying all night!!! I hope it is good weather!!! I am excited!

First of all the pretty princesses only won because we had coach on our team :) hahahaha. Sooo wednesday we played at big met where we had to fight the many geese off of the course. It's actually entertaining hahaha. We like to chase them away, but yesterday they kept coming back and fighting with each other. hahah.


And because coach told me to write about of Spring Break Trip i will :) We went to Florida and stayed in the Crystal Rivers area, we did alot of fun things besides golfing. Me & Lydia went kyvacking with the manatees, it was pretty sweet, even though they are huge, we also layed out in the sun everyday we were there :) But the best part of the trip by far as Rick Kelso ;) haha. He was the pro that helped us out on our games while we were down there, we also played a match against St. Leo, they were pretty cool, so it was fun.

Today we tryed to played at mastik woods and the little bit but they were packed for some reason, but we had a fun time watching some of the people tee off, while we waited to tee off. But the wait was too long and we just went to The Big Met to practice putting in chipping. Where, the pretty princesses (Nicole, Caci & Ali) beat the Mighty Ducks (Lydia & Me, oh and coach) haha we are blaming the loss in the putting contest on coach, even though he did sink one in the end. hahaha.

Tommorrow & Saturday we play at Capital and spend the night, should be a good time, plus it should be a good time for us to bond even more & continue to make a million inside jokes :)

--Lindsey

PRETTY PRINCESSES WIN!!

Today at practice we had a putting contest and we won.... YAYYYYYY!!

Second Tournament Coming Up!

Well, well, well.. spring season has finally arrived. Our spring break trip was a lot of fun and we played against a D2 school on a PGA qualifiers course - it was pretty sweet! After our spring break trip to Florida and playing in our first tournament, I think we are all feeling pretty confident about this season. After last weekend, we shot decent scores and most of us feel pretty confident with our game. Yesterday at practice was a lot of short game and it was pretty beneficial (besides the fact that I was all angry about scheduling for classes, which actually ended up being just fine haha). I have this small issue with chipping OVER a sand trap onto the green.. it's some sort of phobia that you get when you are going to par a hole until your ball goes in the sand and you lose 3 strokes because of it (I am still salty about that at the Grove City tournament). Anyways, working on that at practice really helped me out! I'm really excited for this weekend. We'll be playing at Capital and hopefully shooting near (or will be shooting) our season goal... 360. Right now, I think short game is what most of us need to work on. If we keep working at it a lot, we should be prime for OACs. We are going to be playing tomorrow and should be getting in some good practice for this weekend! Anyways, that's all for now! :) Go pretty princesses and mighty ducks!!!

this past weekend was an interesting start of the spring season. Some of us didnt play as well as we had hoped but it was still a lot of fun. Lindsey is now killing the ball. haha and i think some of us need some major work in the bunkers. I thought practice yesterday was very productive. We worked mainly on short game and drives. Coach told me to hit the ball off my back foot.. well no wonder i was going in the sand all the time. Ali and I played a few holes. Then before we left on 18 coach thought of this WONDERFUL idea to play it as a competition and have the two with the highest scores carry the bags to the van. Well ill just say no one had to carry anyone elses bag...  

SPRING SEASON BEGINS!!

Spring season began yesterday with our first official tournament. I say official because we actually played an exhibition against Division II nationally ranked St. Leo while we were on spring break in Florida at the beginning of the month. However, I will let the players tell you more about their "adventures" from the spring break trip as they start blogging this week.

We played yesterday in a one day event at Grove City Country Club in Grove City, PA. I liked going there because I coached for 4 years in neighboring Slippery Rock, so it was good to be back "home" and see some people I hadn't seen in a while. The team didn't seem to mind either as it was 60 and sunny when we left Cleveland. However, something happened right before we were going to tee off and sunny and warm turned into cloudy, windy, and cold. Not exactly nice weather from the hosts!(ha ha)

The team did a great job of fighting off the tough elements and finished in the top half of the 6 team field. Lindsey had a career low which is AWESOME!!! It was a great end to the week as we also had a great week of practice. I was already really excited coming into the spring season because I felt our last tournament of the fall really brought us closer as a team, and sure enough this first week has been a blast!! Our team chemistry is really good right now and everyone is working hard at improving their game. Our goal is to keep improving every day and give it all we can at the OAC Championships at the end of April. I have a good feeling that it is going to be a good spring for us and we will keep getting better and better!

This week is the Purple and White Invitational host by Capital University in Columbus. We are looking for another week of improvement and fun....and hopefully a little bit warmer weather. Although in the spring I guess any time it doesn't snow for an event, it should be considered a good thing : )

Can't wait to see how we do this week!!

Coach Strickland