The girls’ golf team finished 5th in the UIL state golf tournament on Monday and Tuesday to end another successful campaign.

The team of Makenna Davidson, Darby Deans, Loren Matrone, Rakhi Shah, and Sarah Buss continued the school’s success in the golfing world, with top 10 finishes at the state tournament the last three years.

“I felt like we played as well as we could,” head coach Shannon Glidwell said. “The girls all played hard. It was a tough fight, with a tough golf course. We left a couple of strokes out there, but we rallied hard, we played our best golf at the end, and I think if we had another 18 holes to play, we could’ve caught anybody.”

The team is returning most of their key golfers for the next season. With the team next year more experienced than ever, the girls will look to get over the hump, and place in the top three.

“We’ll expect to go down there again and win,” Glidwell said. “The program is in a place where we have a tradition that we want to protect. This is the 4th time we’ve been down [at state] in the past five years. Next year we will have the most experience team we will take. Makenna [Davidson] is going to be difficult to replace because she was a really good leader and could get us a really good score. We have some people that I think will step up, and I think the girls’ that are returning next year are going to really be hungry to go back and do better than this year.”