The Liberty girls golf team successfully won the Gateway Athletic Conference for their second year in a row and a week later won the district championship. 

At the conference meet, it wasn’t a close one as the team ended up winning by 40 strokes. Coach Sodemann doesn’t think much has changed about this year and last year’s GAC championship team.

“The girls on the team are obviously a change but other than that our mentality and mindset has stayed the same as last year,” Sodemann said.

Freshman golfer Kelly Karre was proud winning the GAC title in her first year on the team. She says she is also proud of how the team itself performed at the tournament on the path to victory.

“It was a very new feeling to win a conference title especially being a freshman on the team winning it,” Karre said.

Coach Sodemann is preparing his team for districts by practicing on the golf course they will be playing at to help them prepare for the tournament.

“We are practicing on the course so we can get a feel of what we’re going to play on,” Sodemann says.

Looking to be victorious once again, the team competed in districts at Woods Fort Golf Course in Troy. Madeline Larouere, Zoee Harrington, Maya Schnable, Kelly Karre and Kelsey Fletcher became district champions as they shot a team total of 337.

Schnable took fifth place as an individual with an 85, Larouere took third with a 78 and Harrington was the individual champion with a 76.