Golf coach named for women’s
team

Talk about good and lucky.

Even before she took her first tee shot as a qualified golf pro, Tara Smetany had already
relished the thrill of two holes-in-one. Superstitious golfers should note that both aces came
on seventh holes and, yes, she drained both using a seven iron.

Now Smetany’s talents come to Douglas College as she takes on the responsibility of
coaching the fledgling women’s golf program. The team begins competing with squads
from Malaspina and Camosun Colleges in the newly formed BCCAA women’s golf
division this fall. Douglas College has captured the men’s title for the last four seasons.

Smetany is now
recruiting from the
College’s student
body to begin
forming the women’s
squad. She can’t’
predict the level of
experience her
players will possess,
but says her first
priority is simply
making them feel at
home on the course.

“The most
important things are
to build a solid swing
so they will feel
comfortable,” says
Smetany, “and to go
out and learn to enjoy
the game and not be
intimidated by it.

I’m excited about
starting a program
from the ground level
and I’m sure that
developing players

will find it a
wonderful
experience.”

Smetany first Douglas College women’s golf coach Tara Smetany hits
decided she might out of the sand at Westwood Plateau. She’s now putting
like a future in golf together a team of students to compete in the newly formed
while she was a i2- BCCAA women’s golf division beginning this fall.
year-old challenging

the wind-swept

Henderson Lake Golf Club in her home town of Lethbridge, Alberta. She then played for
several years with the Alberta team at the Canadian Junior Girls championships, winning a
gold medal at age 15.

Later she was accepted at the San Diego Golf Academy, where she learned everything
from turf management and supervising a pro shop to teaching duffers how to traverse a
550-yard dogleg. The rigorous curriculum also required students to golf daily on their
choice of four plush Southern California courses with names like Whispering Palms.

Smetany now teaches at the Westwood Plateau Golf Academy in Coquitlam and will
enter the 36-hole qualifying event for the Canadian Professional Golfers’ Association this
fall.

For more information about the Douglas College women’s golf program,
call 527-5042. 8

 

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za Policy Alert

A new College Policy has received
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Use of Douglas College Concourse. A
revision was also approved to E04.01.12,
now titled Academic Dishonesty, previously
titled Plagiarism/Cheating.

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