Hoping to gain experience

Coaches at Burbank and Burroughs highs don’t expect their girls’ golf

teams to shock the world this season.

With young squads, the coaches are just hoping their teams can be

competitive.

“We are very young, and we don’t have a lot of experience,” Indian

Coach Mike Krose said. “It won’t be as much about us winning matches

this season, but instead how we improve from match to match.

“But we went out [last week] and I was pleasantly pleased with how

we shot.”

Burbank Coach Jackie Friedman said her team will have to gain

experience to be successful.

“We have a lot of new girls, and some of them haven’t played a lot

of golf,” she said. “We just have to go out and play as much as

possible.”

Neither the Indians or Bulldogs made it to the postseason last

season.

This will also be the final season the teams take part in the

Foothill League, as they will move to the Pacific League in 2006.

Here is a look at how the season is shaping up.

BURROUGHS

The Indians have just two returning varsity players from a year

ago, and Krose expects them to help lead the squad.

The two returners are sophomores Sydnay Dunivant and Alexa

Petroski.

Up from the junior varsity team are sophomores Michelle Arredondo

and Natalia Perala, who will play alongside junior Morgan Gunnell,

sophomore transfer Ashleigh Moro and freshman Katie Hodgens.

In league, Krose said he expects Valencia to possibility be the

toughest team in the league.

“The league is going to be tough, like usual,” said Krose, who

also lost his share of seniors to graduation. “But Valencia should be

pretty good.”

BURBANK

The Bulldogs are dealing with their share of departures.

The biggest is the graduation of Grace Woo, the most successful

female golfer from the area. Woo was a three-time Foothill League

Player of the Year and a three-time CIF Southern Section postseason

qualifier. Last season, she placed second in the CIF-Women’s State

Championship.

The team also lost its secondbest athlete, sophomore Bethany

Glassford, who transferred. Another freshman, Jenna Todd, had surgery

on her knee and will not play this season.

That leaves sophomore Amanda Keith as Burbank’s most accomplished

golfers.

“Amanda has really been working hard,” Friedman said. She is very

competitive.

“I have a feeling that Amanda is going to make it to CIF this

season. She is really working to do that.”

Complimenting Keith will be junior Michelle Chon and sophomores

Christine Lee, Kierra McIntyre, Lexi Vay, Deborah Gatton, Christina

Wyle and Emily Chon.