State Champion

    Growing up and playing sports in high school you always knew you would make it to playoffs and go a couple rounds in then you would come face to face with a team stronger, bigger, and honestly just better then you and be knocked out. It would suck for the time being and you would probably cry and hate the world for a bit but then you realize that its not the end of the world and you always have next year to try again. My freshman through junior years of high school I played softball and volleyball. They were the love of my life. I attended school and made good grades only for those tuesday and friday games. It meant the world to me, until i realized that i wouldn't get anywhere in life with these two sports. I would graduate high school and that would be it, its over. I could play inter-mural in college but it just wouldn't be that same. So I up and quit both sports the end of my junior year. I know what you're thinking, how could someone with such a love for the sport just quit. Well theres a complicated story to that question but thats not what I'm here to talk about today. Today I'm here to talk about how I won the state championship my senior year of high school.

   In May of my junior year right before summer two of my best friends made it to state with our golf team and i decided to skip school and surprise them in Austin. The drive was long and the day was hot but it was worth it. My friend Nina and I walked the 18 holes in the heat of the day and it sucked  but I couldn't help but me amazed. Amazed by this new sport, one i had never had an interest of watching or learning. About half way through I started catching on to what par, bogey, and birdie meant, and i instantly grew in love with the simple game of golf.

In the end they came in 5th place which was still amazing for little ole Huntsville Highschool. We said our goodbyes and on 3 hour car ride home all i could think of was how much I wished i could of played golf. Well little did i know i could.  When i returned home i told my golf obsessed father about my experience and he was thrilled. We went the next day to get golf clubs and he started working with me and home with my game. He said i had a natural swing and he was going to do everything in his power to get me ready for next years golf season.

He wasn't lying! We worked all day everyday in the 105 degree weather. Most days I would walk off the golf course because i would get so frustrated and I've never had to have the kind of patience that golf required. I progressed immensely, and by the fall I was ready for the season. I played in the 5th spot and we went throughout the season with an impressive record and a promising state tournament.

State.. The most intimidating place you could ever be. The people there were amazing, but so were we. Sate is a two day golf tournament and after the first day my girls pulled through and we ended the day in first place tromping our rival team, Montgomery. By the second day we were exhausted and warn out and really ready to be done but we still had 18 to play, and play at our best. My shoulders ached like no body's business and my feet were numb. We didn't have much experience playing in the hill country so the hills were a killer. I have never been so miserable while playing golf but i knew that i had to keep going for my team because i know they would do the same. Coming around to the 18 green I was so incredibility relived. If you've never played golf i would see how it hard to imagine but just picture your self with a 40 pound bag on your back walking up and down the hills of a desert for 4 hours straight, with no break. Yep, it sucks. I was the first group in so i sat and watched all my team mates come in. Looking exhausted and pissed of and ready to die they surprisingly brought in good scores to keep us in first place and win the tournament.

Ive never in my life felt like a celebrity till that day. Everyone wanted a picture and to meet you, people from news channels were interviewing us for TV. It was a bit overwhelming but by far the greatest experience of my life. I think sometimes what it would be like if i would of played all 4 years but then i just think God for the one year he did bless me with and the life long sport i now know and love.