Wednesday, April 23, 2025
After many years of mulling over the topic, Clifton-Clyde is bringing back a varsity sport to add to the spring competition… that sport being golf.
Boasting 26 day-one participants, that would put 25% of the schools’ roster of 104 (per KSHSAA) students on the team roster. There are also students doubling from the track team.
“I’m glad there’s a lot of interest in golf here, especially being the first year,” said head coach Austin Swanson. “Us, as a school, has talked about it over the last few years to gauge that interest. We had some surveys to the kids and the board really pushed us to have a golf team. The support from the community has been huge. The amount of donations, the amount of support and help, is a really good thing and shows how much the people in this area wanted a golf team.”
With eight seniors on the roster, there is a lot of high end talent in the senior class with a lot of recognizable names from other sports.
“It is really good to have a bunch of seniors out. A lot of them have played other varsity sports. They know what it takes. I am trying to teach them a little more of the specific golf, but they have the leadership capabilities to help. The girls are really good leaders and the boys want to be leaders.”
The top four current seniors, Oliver Nobert, Jack Skocny, Rylie Wunderlee, and Sevy Wurtz, have emerged early on as leaders and top players before the first meet.
The season opens up on April 10 at the St. John’s meet, hosted at Glasco, with the primary goal for the meet to just see how the team matches up. With Lakeside, Rock Hills, and St. John’s, top teams from last year, competing, it will be a strong indication of where this team stands early on.
