2007-08 Season
VILLA MADONNA ACADEMY GIRLS GOLF TEAM
TO BE HONORED ON FOUNTAIN SQUARE
A new flag will be flying on Fountain Square Monday Feb. 18 to honor yet another local sports team that has won a state championship. This time, it’s the girl’s golf team at Villa Madonna Academy in Villa Hills, Ky.
In September, the “Blue Lighting” girl’s golf team won the Kentucky All A State Golf Championship. For the fourth time in five years, the team also won the NKAC Championship.
A Villa Madonna Academy banner will fly on the Fountain Square flag pole from February 18 to March 2. A highlight video of the championship season will run on Monday, Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. The school is closed for President’s Day and students, faculty, staff and parents are encouraged to come to the Square that day to watch the 45-minute video and skate on the Fountain Square skating rink.
This tribute to our hometown state high school championship teams started over the holidays with flags and videos for St. Xavier and Anderson. Those schools won 2007 football championships in the state of Ohio. They were followed by Mother of Mercy, Ohio state volleyball champs, St. Ursula, Ohio state soccer champs, Highlands and Beechwood, which both won Kentucky state football championships and now the Villa Madonna championship girl’s golf team.
Laura McGehee will be playing Golf at the University of Kentucky
The Cincinnati Enquirer has named Senior Laura McGehee to it's Girls Golf All-Star Team
This is the 3rd year that Laura has been named to this honor!
October 6, 2007
11th in the State
KHSAA Region 6 Runners-up
NKAC Division II Champions
All A Girls Golf Classic State Champions
2006-07 Season
2006-07 can be defined as one of the most exciting years in Villa Girls Golf history !!
Our planning started early, securing matches and developing strategies as early as February- and in an attempt to begin thinking down the road for the future, Coaches Gretchen and Ken Theissen addressed the girls in grades 4 through 7 with a goal to hopefully add 4 or 5 girls to the JV roster for the future. Well, sometimes you get more than what you ask for, because when we actually had our spring parent/player meeting in March, eighteen new girls, primarily 5th, 6th, and 7th graders, and their parents, showed up to find out what this Villa Girls Golf program was all about !! In the end, we had enough girls to support Varsity, JV, and a new developmental squad that we call “Blues and Whites”. 24 girls in all !!
It was a long stretch from March until our first official practice on July 22nd- some of our veterans spent the first six weeks of summer playing in junior golf events throughout Kentucky. Some of our newest girls spent that time in junior golf clinics preparing for official practice.
And on July 22nd, at 9:00am, Villa Girls Golf began a new chapter in it’s existence.
Twenty-four girls, from 5th grade to 11th grade, converged with their parents on the World of Sports Golf facility to begin our 2006-07 season. What an incredible day!
Through the next two weeks, we determined which girls would fit on which teams, and we set out to plan our rosters for matches and invitationals.
We planned a full intrasquad schedule for our Blues and Whites squad, to insure that the younger girls got plenty of on course time and would begin to learn the game properly while playing on the shorter par three World of Sports course. By playing the younger girls on the par three course, we would hopefully eliminate frustration and build confidence. The Blues & Whites played in eight matches, and some were actual scored matches, while some were “on course “ playing lessons with varsity players acting as mentors.
Our JV team played in 13 nine hole matches, all but two of them at the World of Sports Golf facility. In those matches, our record was 4 – 9. However, when considering that we played 3 grade school players as part of our starting roster, and three of our players had little experience, it was a great season! All of the teams we played had high school players in the matches.
Our Varsity team played in in 8 multi-team Invitational Tournaments and 7 day matches with one or two opponents- in those matches, our record was 6-3-1.
In the Invitationals, our team scores for 18 holes were 348, 389, 379, 365, 408, 368,
361, 379, 354, and 359. Those Invitationals were played in Lexington, Louisville,
Bowling Green, Frankfort, Warsaw, and Crittenden, KY.
In the very first tournament of the season, we won the first annual “All A Classic”,
with a score of 348. We advanced to the “All A Classic” State Championship in Richmond, KY, and unfortunately, after a 3 hour rain/thunder delay, the tournament was cancelled for 2006-07. Our girls were heartbroken-they know they could have won.
Over the next few weeks, the varsity team mixed up day matches with weekend Invitationals, continuing to show improvement each time out.
And on September 18, we clearly shocked everyone in the field when Villa Girls Golf posted the lowest score (354) in either division (large or small school) and claimed the NKAC Championship for the 4th time in 5 years!!
On September 25, in the KHSAA Region 6 Championship, played at Henry County CC, we placed 3rd of 20 teams, and were edged out of a spot in the State Championship by only 15 strokes.
Junior Laura McGehee, shot an 81 that day and qualified for a spot as an at-large individual competitor!
At the State Championship, played at Bowling Green Country Club, Laura shot a score of 90 on the first day of competition and missed the cut by only 2 strokes.
