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Hebron girls golf team looking for state title
The Hebron girls golf team is ready to bring home a state championship. (Credit: Mike Cianciolo, Logo: Hebron High School)

Hebron girls golf team looking for state title

HEBRON, Texas (BVM) — Every high school team has aspirations to win a state title. The Hebron girls golf team is one step closer to the goal after winning the District 6-6A tournament. 

“We were just coming off of spring break,” head golf coach Mercedes Trent said. “Me and the girls had been prepping a few weeks before that [the tournament], and I knew where their games were, and I felt like we are hitting a really good stride at the right time. Just seeing their scores consistently get lower, seeing them [her golfers] be a little more consistent, I was pretty confident in our goal.”

The team’s goal was to win district, and when it came time for Trent’s team to compete, her squad answered the bell. 

The tournament started on March 22 with windy and rainy weather conditions. That didn’t matter for this Hawks team. They came out wanting to make a statement on that first day, and they did just that. With a 13-stroke lead after the first day, Trent’s team never looked back on the second day. After posting a team score of 305 on the first day and 298 on the second day. With a total score of 603, the next-closest score was Coppell High School with 627.

Winning the tournament by 24 strokes is the statement that the team wanted to make. 

“I was excited to see them come out with that same intensity that we [wanted] from them,” Trent said.

But looking back on the season before winning the district tournament, coach Trent and her team overcame the hurdle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We [couldn’t] do practices the same, we [couldn’t] go to tournaments the same way that we used to, [and] we usually do an out of town trip we’re not able to do those the way we’re used to doing. Honestly, all of our kids have kept such a positive attitude the entire time. I think they all just felt so lucky they were in place they could actually still play. We’re in a sport where they can practice without seeing any differences. We’re not a contact sport and were not an indoor sport, so we could practice similarly to what we would usually do. Overall, they [the kids] were resilient and have had the best attitudes [with the ongoing pandemic].

“It’s just them being competitors. That’s something I’ve been trying to ingrain in them is that you’re never done competing. Until that last ball goes in the last hole, you’re competing. … being able to not quit and keep the positivity even if you have a bad shot or a bad hole, you’re still going to stay out and still work hard. That’s the biggest thing I’ve seen from them; they’re not going to give up on themselves or their team.”

For a high school team to have that strength is something you rarely see in a group. But this group wouldn’t have that resilience if Trent hadn’t learned what she’d been taught from her former swing instructor, Justin Poynter. 

“My swing instructor is the one who really ingrained that [resiliency mindset] in me,” Trent said. “He was my instructor all through high school and all through college. He’s really the whole reason, besides my parents, I was the golfer that I was. [He taught me] to have belief in yourself, have the desire to win, and to not quit.”

With a district championship under their belt and the right mindset, the Hawks are readying for the regional championship. If they can advance through that, they’ll be in the state tournament. It would be the first time golf state would be back in Hebron since the 2004-05 season. 

“Thinking about it, I get emotional,” Trent said. “It would mean a lot to the school, and it would mean a lot to everybody who’s supported us. I know how I felt when I won state; it’s something that can’t ever be taken away from you. That’s my goal, to bring a state championship back to Hebron, and if we can do that, it would mean the world [to this team].”