Chip Shots: Team Advance Building Foundation for Season

Hello Illini Nation!

This is Lexanne Halama here to welcome everyone to an exciting new season! We are all very happy to be back on campus with our teammates, coaches, friends and amazing support staff. While the first two weeks are always filled with a little bit of chaos in adjusting to new classes and schedules, that hasn’t stopped us from making time to share with one another. This past Saturday we had our team advance, which provided excellent opportunities to set the foundation for our new goals, team standards, and take time to get to know the incoming freshmen even better. We are so glad to welcome Anna Ritter, Sophia Sulkar and Mattie Frick into our team! We have been able to take them to some of the courses in the area and have enjoyed days playing golf together. Our social and team-building leadership team also planned a fun day at an escape room at the CU Adventures in Time and Space, so we spent an exciting (and slightly scary) morning solving the mystery of a haunted cabin revenge story!

The first two weeks have been dedicated to more than just class and team building events, however. This past week we saw our first team practice and workout of the year, both of which started with a high degree of success; the hard work put in over the summer by all teammates and the energy we now bring into this new season are readily apparent.

All of this energy comes not only from the excitement of a new academic year but also from our annual Classic tournament. This year was especially exciting because we were able to host the event at our new home course Atkins Golf Club! With the course in top shape thanks to the great staff, the tournament proved a fun experience and we especially enjoyed interacting with all of the supporters who came to play. We can’t express our gratitude enough when we say thank you for being a part of our family and for playing in our event. We hope you will continue to support us as we head into a season with anticipation of greatness.

Have a great week and as always,

Go Illini!

– Lexanne Halama