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2007-08 Golf Team
Front row, left to right: Hardin Powell, Jessica Thomas, Brooke Holterman, Jessica McCormick, Paige Miller, Kelly Hollins
Back row, left to right: Elizabeth Almond, Amy Wambach, Emma Kirks, Lucinda Knoop, Radford Thomas, Vicki Kazsa |
Ashley Plantation Golf Club
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| The Hollins University Golf Team calls Ashley Plantation Golf Club home. Ashley Plantation is located less than five miles from campus. The golf club offers 27 holes, a driving range, chipping and putting greens, and a fully stocked pro shop. For the fourth year in a row, Ashley Plantation has been voted the #1 course in the Roanoke Valley.
The Hollins golf team's second place finish in the Franklin & Marshall Invitational ended the fall 2007 season on a high note. The team faced strong competition in all three classifications of the NCAA. Vicky Kasza '09 won two of the three events in which she entered and finished 16th in the third. She beat every Division III golfer she faced this fall, finishing only behind Division I golfers. The team showed continued improvement throughout the season, and in the final tournament at Franklin & Marshall, Elizabeth Almond '08 and Brooke Holterman (Horizon) joined Kasza in cracking the top 10, finishing seventh and ninth respectively.
First-year head coach Bill Mannino has a lot to look forward to this spring when the team starts its traditional season.
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| Outstanding Hollins Golfers |
Carol Semple Thompson '70
Thompson, who has been one of the country's premier amateur players for more than three decades, was elected to the National Golf Coaches Association Hall of Fame for 2007. She was also named recipient of the 2005 PGA First Lady of Golf Award. Thompson is a veteran of 99 USGA championships, and owns seven national titles that include the 1973 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship, four U.S. Senior Women's Championships and two U.S. Mid-Amateur Championships. Only legendary Bob Jones (nine), JoAnne Gunderson Carner, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods (eight) have won more.
Thompson also has competed a record 12 times in the Curtis Cup, compiling a record 18 match victories in the most prestigious women's amateur team competition. In 2002, Thompson clinched the U.S. victory by making a 27-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole.
Thompson was among the first women inducted into Hollins' Athletic Hall of Fame.
Ann Patrick '72
Former Virginia State Champion, Roanoke City Champion, and Richmond Champion.
Mary Watkins '73
Runner-up, Virginia Association Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, and recent inductee into Hollins' Athletic Hall of Fame. |
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Bill Mannino was named head golf coach at Hollins University in the summer of 2007. He enjoyed a distinguished collegiate golfing career at Temple University, leading the Owls to an Atlantic 10 Conference title and four NCAA Tournament qualifications between 1993 and 1996. Mannino’s individual highlights include an Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament medalist championship in 1993 and winning the Fairleigh Dickinson Tournament in 1996. That same year, he captained the Temple golf team as a senior.
After graduating in 1997, Mannino competed as a professional on the Teardrop, South Florida and Triangle Golf Tours. He went on to serve as an assistant golf professional at the Cricket Club of Philadelphia and the Roanoke (Virginia) Country Club.
Mannino returned to Temple to become head golf coach from 2001 – 2004. During his tenure, the Owls won the Delaware Invitational and the Philadelphia Big 5 Classic, and finished in the top five or better in 16 events. He coached the 2002 Atlantic 10 individual medalist as well as two other individual tournament winners, and lead Temple to a top 100 ranking.
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CONTACT
Bill Mannino
Golf Coach
Athletics Department
Hollins University
P.O. Box 9553
Roanoke, VA 24020
(540) 362-7436
Fax: (540) 362-6553
bmannino@hollins.edu |
Congratulations to Vicki Kasza '09, who is heading to Waverly, Iowa, to compete in the NCAA Division III National Women's Golf Championships, to be held May 13-16 at Centennial Oaks Golf Club.
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The 2005-06 golf team at the Pinehurst Resort and Country Club, Pinehurst, North Carolina
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