Waukon girls golf team returns pair of All-Conference senior letterwinners to lead overall young squad for 2018 campaign


2018 Waukon girls golf team ... Left to right - Front row: Hally Holzwarth, Emily Kolsrud, Mia Strub, Carly Palmer, Abby Shelton, Harli Holzwarth. Back row: Alexis Hogan, Margaret Wacker, Carley Sweeney, Emily Clark, Betsy Anderson. Not pictured: Rylee Einck, Kylee Hager, Cassey Urell.

2018 Waukon girls golf returning letterwinners... Left to right: Kylee Hager and Carley Sweeney.

The Waukon girls golf team will be looking to begin building another solid foundation, as just two varsity letterwinners return from a squad that played to a fourthplace finish at the Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament and also advanced to the Regional Finals round of postseason play last spring before having its season brought to a close. On a team of 14 players this season, those two returning veterans will make up half of a group of just four who have ever competed in high school golf before.

“We have a young team with 10 players out for the first time,” Waukon girls golf head coach Kathy McMillan said. “It’s a year of rebuilding with only two returning letterwinners.”

The Indians are scheduled to get their 2018 quest underway with back-to-back nights of golf to start off next week, the Tribe playing at South Winneshiek Monday, April 2 before hosting both Charles City and Clayton Ridge Tuesday, April 3. The golf Tribe will then have another pair of back-to-back nights of competition to look forward to the following week, playing at Waverly-Shell Rock Monday, April 9 before hosting MFL/MarMac and Postville Tuesday, April 10.

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