The Girls’ Varsity Golf Season began with the Shamrock Hills Invitational 18-hole meet in Otsego on August 14. The girls finished 7th out of 17 teams; top finishers were Kaitlyn Keown with a score of 95 and Lexi Triemstra with a score of 98. Congratulations to all the girls on their fine showing and to Kaitlyn and Lexie as they finished in the top 20 individually. On August 18, the Bulldogs traveled to East Jackson for the East Jackson Scramble, an 18-hole meet with tough competition. The varsity girls finished very strong with 2nd place out of 12 teams competing. Top finishers for the girls were Keown and, tied for 3rd place with a super score of 76. Congratulations to the whole ream on a fantastic finish. Then onto the Scott Family Invite – renamed to the Gull Lake Invitational on August 19. This was a very big tournament with lots of good teams from higher divisions. Coach Meyer said, “No one was happy with their scores, but learned some valuable lessons.” The team finished 15th out of 22. Then on August 24 , the varsity girls traveled to Paw Paw for Wolverine 1 at Lake Cora Golf Course. This was the first jamboree of the season and they finished 4th out of 8 teams. Top finisher for Vicksburg was Lexi who finished 9th individually with a good score of 49.
The Girls’ Varsity Golf Team played three Wolverine Conference Jamborees in two days by competing on Wednesday at Otsego and then the next day facing opponents at Niles on Thursday morning and at Edwardsburg on Thursday afternoon. To have three conference meets in two days is playing lots of golf. At Otsego, Lexi Triemstra and Lily Verduzco tied for 12th place. At Niles on Thursday morning, Vicksburg played well and finished in 3rd place as a team. Top finishers were Kaitlyn Keown, 7th place, Lexi, 10th place, Madison Cooley and Madelyn Steigenberg tied for 13th place. Moving onto Edwardsburg on Thursday afternoon from finishing 9 or 18 holes in the morning. The Bulldogs had two top finishers with Kaitlyn 12th place, and Lexi with a 16th place finish. Congratulations to all the girls competing in a whirl- win of two competitive days of golf.
The JV Girls’ Golf Team is doing well under Coach Denny Rohem as on August 21st they finished 2nd out of 10 teams at State’s Golf Course. Traveling to Cedar Creek on August 26th, they took 4th out of 9 teams on an 18-hole event. On September 3rd at Marshall Country Club finished in 3r d place out of 9 teams and finished on top at Pineview taking 1st place out of 6 teams. Coach Denny said, “We have 5 new freshmen on the JV team that are working hard, and we are looking forward to watching them for the next 4 years.”
On September 15th, Vicksburg Varsity hosted a Wolverine Conference Jamboree with a total of 8 schools at Angel Crossing Golf Course. They celebrated senior night before the Jamboree started and Coach Meyer recognized four seniors on the team who have made numerous contributions for the golf team, community and school. The 4 seniors were given a beautiful basket with many good items inside and their future for each was mentioned. Congratulations to all 4 senior golfers: Trinity Northup, Madison Cooley, Emma Boudrie, and Lexi Triemstra. The Girls’ Varsity Golfers finished a solid third place at this Wolverine Jamboree under the leadership of Coach Jared Meyer. The 6 Varsity Girls tonight all finished in the top 20 in the Wolverine Jamboree. Top finishers for the Bulldogs at the meet were: Kaitlyn Keown a super score of 40 who finished in 4th place, Lexi Triemstra with a good score of 47 in 11th place, Lily Verduzco who is a freshman is improving in every golf meet had a score of 51 and 14th place. Finishing in 18th place with a good score of 54 was Madelyn Steigenberg with a good score of 54 and tied with Madison Cooley who also had a score of 54. Trinity Northup finished strong and tied the other 2 girls with a score of 54. Team scores are as follows: Plainwell, 173, Otsego, 183, Vicksburg, 192, Three Rivers, 201, Sturgis, 205, Paw Paw, 211, Niles, 224, and Edwardsburg, 239. Congratulations to the whole team on your strong performance and finishing in 3rd place today.
Coach Jared Meyer commented on his Varsity Girls’ Golf Team: “We caught a tough break when our best returning player, state finalist from 2025 and senior captain moved out of state over the summer. We do have good numbers (17 girls in the program) and a lot of young talent but not much experience. Our top 8 contains 3 seniors (with only 1 of them playing varsity a year ago) 1 junior, 3 sophomores and a freshman.
“We are currently 4th in the conference standings behind Plainwell, Otsego, and Three Rivers with 4 jamborees completed, 4 remaining as well as the conference championship tournament. We’ve finished as high as 3rd and as low as 5th in 9-hole jamborees.
“The varsity team roster is:
- Lexi Triemstra (Sr.)
- Madison Cooley (Sr.)
- Trinity Northup (Sr.)
- Madison Cooper (Jr.)
- Amy Currier (So.)
- Kaitlyn Keown (So.)
- Madelyn Steigenberg (So.)
- Lily Verduzco (Fr.)
“The 6 girls playing in our jamboree this afternoon (September 15th) by seed are:
- Kaitlyn Keown
- Lexi Triemstra
- Madelyn Steigenberg
- Lily Verduzco
- Madison Cooley
- Trinity Northup
“Our girls are working hard and improving but Plainwell and Otsego are extremely good this year and will be hard to catch. I’m looking forward to competing against Three Rivers, Sturgis, and Paw Paw for #3 behind the top #2 school.”
