Coach Cody Lundgren for the girls and Coach Kam Jarman for the boys. The boys took 6th place and Noah Parry was in the top 10 scorers!
Lately, championship trophies have become a familiar sight for
the Rich Rebels.
After winning its first title in 2018, Rich went on to add two
more state championship trophies to its cabinet in 2019 and 2021 (no tournament
in 2020 due to COVID-19).
On Wednesday afternoon at Glendale Golf Course, the Rebels added
a fourth.
With a team score of 400 (+112), Rich took home the 1A state
championship once again, becoming just the third girls golf team in state
history to win at least four consecutive state tournaments. The score of 400
was 10 strokes lower than runner-up Monticello and 11 strokes lower than third
place Manila.
Lundgren said he and the team knew how fast the greens could get
at Glendale, so he and the coaches recommended that the girls go a club less
from the fairway — a strategy that seemed to pay off as the team finished with
only 18 bogeys in the round, tied for first as a team.
The Rebels were steady on all phases of the course, shooting a
tournament-best 61 over par on the front nine and 51 over par on the back nine,
good for second best.
Lundgren had plenty to say about his senior class players, who
got to finish off their careers with yet another piece of hardware, saying that
“they were just mentally tough, didn’t let anything shake them and shot what
they needed to.”
Rich senior Natalee Parry shot a team-high 94 for her round,
finishing in fourth place overall in the tournament, while her senior
classmate, Ambria Lutz, finished in sixth place with a score of 97.
Senior Brittney Lamborn shot a personal best 107 in what would
be her final round of high school golf for the Rebels.
“If COVID wasn’t a thing, we’d have five in a row (as a
school),” Lundgren said. “But we’ve got four in a row now and I’m really proud
of these girls for what they’ve accomplished.”
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