{"id":5901,"date":"2019-04-01T19:18:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T23:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2019-04-01T19:19:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T23:19:33","slug":"lady-falcons-take-a-swing-a-another-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/lady-falcons-take-a-swing-a-another-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Falcons Take a Swing a Another National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sadie Chlapowski –\u00a0In Motion Special<\/p>\n

Since\u00a0its\u00a0inception\u00a0in Scotland in 1457, golf has been known as a sport for men. An old proverb claims that the word golf is an acronym for \u201cGentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden,\u201d<\/p>\n

But over the past decade that has\u00a0not only been ridiculed, it been elegantly disproven as well.\u00a0Women\u2019s golf is now a big\u00a0commodity in the United States and all around the globe, with the women\u2019s pre-eminent professional golf event, the LPGA Tour, hosting prestigious traveling tournaments, creating stars and millionaires out of female golfers.<\/p>\n

Before you look at the LPGA superstars and\u00a0all\u00a0their\u00a0success, first glance back at where it began. There is one dream that many little girls who golf share and that is playing in college. Today, many are reaching that dream.<\/p>\n

Asked to name some of the top sports schools,\u00a0universities\u00a0like\u00a0Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, and the University of California, Los Angeles, come to mind for many. Not many people would think of a small college like Daytona\u00a0State,\u00a0but this began to chance almost a year ago when Women\u2019s golf Coach Laura Brown signed on at the school, leading her teams to national titles and ensuring students maintain high academic standards.<\/p>\n

Since her hiring and the team\u2019s\u00a0creation in 1998, the Daytona State College Women\u2019s Golf team has been a powerhouse. Last year the team ended the 2017-2018 season with a win, celebrating their 10th<\/sup>\u00a0National Championship Title in 20 seasons. Brown is a not only a top-notch head coach, she earns high marks from students and colleagues as a recruiter, instructor and role model, both on the golf course and in the classroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s rather impressive and it all goes back to Coach Brown,\u201d says Austin Dreher, a sophomore on the Daytona State Baseball Team, who has been around the team for the past three years. \u201cIt is not easy to be both national golf champions and academic award\u00a0recipients\u00a0year after year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sophomore Brandon Stone, another member of the baseball team adds, \u201cWhen\u00a0you\u00a0face a lot of\u00a0competitors\u00a0our golf team is going\u00a0to compete, whether it is in the classroom or on the links.\u201d<\/p>\n

The success of the team is celebrated by many, including other Daytona State sports teams, and the athletic staff, and not just because of\u00a0 its National Championships. While the Lady Falcons compete in both fall and spring tournaments, and travel to NCAA Division One events, Coach Brown has a long track record of helping players transfer to\u00a0Division\u00a0One\u00a0universities, including all of which were mentioned earlier. And the list is only growing.<\/p>\n

The pride of the school and faculty is\u00a0obvious,\u00a0but Lady Falcons have a large, extended support group too.<\/p>\n

Lonnie Thompson, the Director of Equity and Inclusion and Director of Title IX at Daytona State College, is a big fan\u00a0and\u00a0attends\u00a0several tournaments to watch and support players each season.<\/p>\n

Thomson says, \u201cIt is a great joy to see the program succeed. I am very happy for the success of the players, and proud to see the team succeed as it has.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lady Falcons began their Spring season in\u00a0Fernandina\u00a0Beach in\u00a0February, but the National Championship prep is in full swing.
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\nHollie Muse, who is a current Golf Team member says, \u201cWe are excited for the Spring season. We have a great group of players and we are practicing and getting ready for\u00a0Nationals. I believe that if we keep working\u00a0hard,\u00a0we\u00a0will be prepared for whatever comes our way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sadie Chlapowski –\u00a0In Motion Special Since\u00a0its\u00a0inception\u00a0in Scotland in 1457, golf has been known as a sport for men. An old proverb claims that the word golf is an acronym for \u201cGentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden,\u201d But over the past decade that has\u00a0not only been ridiculed, it been elegantly disproven as well.\u00a0Women\u2019s Continue reading Lady Falcons Take a Swing a Another National Championship<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5902,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions\/5902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}