BROOKINGS The Brookings girls golf team will open the 2025 season on Tuesday and the Bobcats will have some new faces at the varsity level.
Brookings graduated its best golfer from last season in Delilah Fuls but head coach Holly Sebern is excited to see how this years roster performs.
Im really excited about [the team heading into the season]. We did lose Delilah, who was our top scorer and leader of the team, but Miyah Foerster has been showing good progress since the end of last season and the beginning of this year. At practice shes been pretty solid and her rounds so far, we havent played too many because of the weather, but her rounds seem decent. Im hopeful about that. We have four returners and letter winners from state, so were going to have some new ones that havent played before and Im excited to see how they play, Sebern said.
The Bobcats have six juniors on their varsity roster. Those are Josie Bertrand, Lauren Botnem, Foerster, Aubrey Knutzen, Kamryn Streich and Oakley VanMaanen. The final two roster spots belong to freshman Madeline Enderson and seventh grader Tafney Lunn.
Sebern said she likes how she has a solid junior class and they can also help out with the two younger players on the team.
The juniors are good with the younger girls. With [Lunn], Im hopeful that shes ready for [varsity]. I think shes got a good personality for it. Shes been showing great progress and Im excited for her first [round], but you never know. Im excited to see the mix of the roster and see how they grow throughout the season.
Sebern said that the biggest strength of her team is how they hit it off the tee but they will find success if they can putt well.
They can drive the ball pretty far, but it doesnt always go straight and weve been working on the fundamentals of that. Weve also been working a lot on the greens. I keep telling them thats the most important part in my mind, so weve been doing longer drills on the green and chipping and sand shots. But I think their long game is pretty good. We just need to make sure we get those putts and chips in without having to three-putt, Sebern said.
With a bit of a new roster at the varsity level, Sebern said that she just wants to see the team as a whole improve throughout the seasons. If they do that, the results should come.
My goal really is to see them progress. Im not sure how theyre going to start out this year because I havent worked with some of the ones that we pulled up as much until this year. My goal is to just be competitive and improve, Sebern said.
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