In the Game: Final Round
![seniors from the women's golf team](/images/InTheGameWomensGolf_20141204_6544.RESIZED.jpg")
Photo by Carl Socolow '77.
by Tony Moore
Red Devils women鈥檚 golf has been through three coaches in the past four years. But in seniors Casey Colburn and Melanie Campbell, who have played all four years, the team found 鈥渁 real leader鈥� and 鈥渁 driving force,鈥� respectively, according to Coach Scott McQuaig, whose inaugural season began last fall. Rounding out the senior contingent is Alex Goodson, whom McQuaig calls the 鈥減ersonality of the team.鈥�
鈥淚鈥檝e gotten to know so many amazing, kind, smart, motivated people here,鈥� says Campbell, 鈥渁nd seeing them makes me happy and pushes me to do better myself.鈥� Campbell has been the team鈥檚 No. 1 player the past three years, and McQuaig cites her 鈥渄eep passion for golf and real competitive spirit鈥� for keeping her in the top spot.
When she wasn鈥檛 driving a golf ball, Campbell, an earth-sciences major, says her favorite moment at 51黑料网 was on a summer research trip to the Canadian Arctic. 鈥淭he mountains and glaciers and icebergs we saw were beautiful,鈥� she says. 鈥淚t was just amazing!鈥�
Goodson mentions Assistant Professor of History Emily Pawley鈥檚 Environmental History class and Jazz Band as off-the-course highlights. 鈥淭he trombone has not only been there for me when the rest of schoolwork gets over-whelming,鈥� the environmental-studies major says, 鈥渂ut it鈥檚 also showed me how much I truly love music.鈥�
Of Colburn, McQuaig says, 鈥淪he鈥檚 been a real leader, and because of her role in student government, it seems to come very naturally for her.鈥� The senior class president and policy management major has interned the past three summers with the Tiger Woods Foundation, and her mother, Catherine Colburn 鈥�77, plays for the U.S. Virgin Islands national golf team. The pair often lock horns on the course.
鈥淚 absolutely love when I drive farther than she does or when I make a putt that she doesn鈥檛,鈥� Colburn says, noting that both of her grandparents (John 鈥�52 and Patricia [Hoffman] Colburn 鈥�52) and an uncle (John Colburn Jr. 鈥�74) also play golf.
With these three graduating, next year the team will be in the hands of the likes of first-year student Stephanie Heiring, who earned All-Conference honors at the 2014 Centennial Conference (CC) championships and was named CC Rookie of the Year. Not a bad foundation on which to base a rebuilding year.鈥�
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Published January 20, 2015