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Special Golfer from Lakota West

Lakota West High School senior, and two time GMC player of the year, Korey Ward is headed to the U.S. Amateur.

Ward shot 1-under 139 (74-65) on Tuesday, Aug. 3, at Cincinnati's Camargo Club to earn one of three qualifying spots up for grabs at that site. The U.S. Amateur is Aug. 23-29 at Chambers Bay in Tacoma, Wash. Ward's score tied for second in the Camargo qualifier.

An international field of 312, including players from nine different countries, will play two rounds on Aug. 23-24. The field will then be cut to the top 64 scores for the match play portion of the tournament which culminates with a 36 hole final match to be played on Sunday, August 29.

Chambers Bay will be the longest course in USGA history. At 7,754 yards, it overtakes the South Course at Torrey Pines Golf Club in San Diego, Calif., which measured 7,643 yards for the 2008 U.S. Open.

GMC Athlete in Youth Olympics

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 26, 2010) – The U.S. Girls’ Youth Olympic Volleyball Team lost to Belgium 17-25, 25-20, 25-18, 25-12 on Thursday morning in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games gold-medal match for girls’ indoor volleyball in Singapore and will come home with the silver medal.
The Americans, who played the gold-medal match without an injured 6-6 opposite hitter Liz McMahon (Lakota West High School, Ohio), opened the Youth Olympic Games with a five-set victory (25-22, 15-25, 25-20, 18-25, 15-11) over Belgium in Pool B competition. McMahon produced a team-high 13 points in the first meeting with Belgium and was averaging a team-best 3.45 points per set. According to the FIVB Junior and Youth World Rankings for females, Belgium is the highest ranked team in the Youth Olympics with a No. 6 ranking, while the U.S. is ranked 14th, the fourth-highest in the tournament.
With the absence of McMahon, the team’s leading scorer, heading into the gold-medal match, Coach Wilde mentioned it was unfortunate accident that happens in sport. “Unfortunately in sports there are things that you cannot control,” Wilde said. “Elizabeth was simply walking up to the Village to get something to eat and tripped over a little chain that was across the road and landed on her arm and broke her arm. It’s something we had no control over. You take your top scorer from your team and obviously that’s a big part of your offense and transition. She was our top scorer, so obviously that impacts how well we can play. It didn’t have an effect on our passing, but maybe we could have scored out of some of those situations where we didn’t have good passes.”

Korey Ward at U.S. Amateur

Korey Ward finished strong in the two day stroke play portion of the U.S. Amateur firing a one over par 73 on the 7432 yard Home Course at Puget Sound, Washington. His two day total of 158 left him 9 strokes short of having a chance to advance as one of the final 64 to enter the match play competition. Ward's first day score of 85 on the Chambers Bay golf course left him in a tie for 279th out of a field of 312 of the best amateur players in the world. The Chambers Bay course was set up at a United States Golf Association's record length of 7742 yards, or 1000 to 1500 yards longer than courses typically used for high school competition. Ward's second day efforts advanced him 67 places in the final standings. He finished fifth among the nine players from Ohio, one of which was a veteran competitor who had played in previous U.S. and British Amateur championships, and three who were active intercollegiate players.

Ward is expected to rejoin the Lakota West team later this week.