The Seton Hill University (SHU) women’s golf team has faced several obstacles this season. The women’s primary problem was due to a lack of team members and a roster that consisted of only one senior and three freshmen.
According to Jennifer Mohr, it is hard to label them a team at all.
By John Fish,
Contributor
The Seton Hill University (SHU) women’s golf team has faced several obstacles this season. The women’s primary problem was due to a lack of team members and a roster that consisted of only one senior and three freshmen.
According to Jennifer Mohr, it is hard to label them a team at all.
�The first three tournaments we played in it was just me and Stephanie Sinchak,� said Mohr.
Mohr and Sinchak would later be joined by Lisa Hollick, the team’s only senior, golfer and El�Vonda Jacobs, who was completely new to the sport.
Because of a lack of team members, the women had to compete individually, rather than collectively as they had done in the past.
The hardest challenge of the season according to Stephanie Sinchak was this lack of cohesiveness.
�We didn’treally have a team,� she says in agreement with Mohr. �And only one (of the two girls who joined) ended up playing with us in the matches.�
Though the team does not consist of many players, they are still capable of performing well on the greens. Playing St. Vincent College (SVC) twice, the team finished in the top one and two positions both times.
�We got off to a late start,� said head coach Tony Grenek, reflecting on the completed fall season and the assembly of the team, �but once we got organized we showed we could compete with any school.�
The small team had to practice at Mt. Odin Golf Course in Greensburg or at Hannistown.
Even in face of the rough start and undersized team, the women of SHU managed to keep their morale high for the season through simply having fun with each other. This good morale could be what led them to fare as they did, despite the difficulties.
�We normally like to go out and just have fun. We seem to also do better when we are having fun and we don’treally have any one golfer with low morale,� said Sinchak. �If we did, though, I am sure it would affect us.�
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