TOPEKA (KSNT) – Washburn College is including a 17th sport to its competitors: ladies’s golf.
The ladies’s golf program will start within the fall of 2024. Males’s golf head coach Ronnie McHenry will oversee each groups. It’s the first sport added since males’s and ladies’s cross nation and observe and area had been added within the fall of 2016.
“Topeka and Shawnee County have a protracted historical past of success in highschool golf and we’re excited to offer one other alternative for native student-athletes to proceed their schooling at Washburn and compete in a sport they love,” Loren Ferré, director of the division. Washburn Athletics mentioned in a information launch.
Washburn turns into the 12th member of the MIAA to area a ladies’s golf group.
“Including a ladies’s golf program will likely be nice,” McHenry mentioned. “It can assist extra student-athletes pursue their ardour, preserve native expertise at dwelling and be a good way for Washburn to additional develop its alumni athletes. Anytime you’ll be able to add to a program, it speaks volumes about our college and our mission to develop. President Mazachek and our athletic division solely need the most effective for our student-athletes. It is simply one other nice day to be an Ichabod!”