Vivi Nemeth has been crowned as one of the top high school golfers in the state, tying for first in the Class B girls state championship last Friday. <\/p>\n
Nemeth, a junior at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, shot a 23-over round of 95 playing 18 holes at Natanis Golf Course in Vassalboro. That tied Kathryn Peterson of Lake Region and secured Nemeth a place as co-state champion. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s an impressive accomplishment for any golfer. It\u2019s something that players might work an entire high school career toward achieving, spending years practicing and honing their skills. <\/p>\n
But Nemeth has only been playing golf for a few months. And somehow, she\u2019s already a state champion. <\/p>\n
Nemeth has long been a standout on the tennis court. And now she\u2019s added golf to her repertoire.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nemeth explained Monday that her father, a former college golfer, helped get her started playing the game in the last two or three months. She had previously been playing soccer in the fall, but the intense schedule and some injuries had her looking for something else. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was always encouraging me to try it out,\u201d Nemeth explained about her dad and the sport of golf. \u201cSo I just figured I\u2019d try it out and see, see what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
So she and some friends decided to join the golf team during preseason, and she wound up on the varsity team. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t really know how,\u201d said Nemeth, who kept working with her dad and felt like some of her tennis experience translated to the course. \u201cI had a lot of fun playing it, so it motivated me to keep working on it. And I\u2019m excited to see what else we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n
So is John Bapst golf coach Tom Winston. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf she ever can take the next step and go to the next level, she\u2019s gonna be incredible,\u201d Winston said. \u201cShe really has, I think, no limits right now as to where she can go.\u201d <\/p>\n
The coach conceded that tennis is still probably Nemeth\u2019s No. 1 sport given her experience level. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut, boy, she\u2019s awfully good at this game, too,\u201d Winston added. <\/p>\n
Nemeth was one of seven girls to play on the 33-player John Bapst golf team this year, the highest tally of girls players that Winston has seen as a coach. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve done a lot of work,\u201d Winston said about those John Bapst players. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to get better, and Vivi was certainly a great example and a great inspiration \u2014 not only during the season, but certainly by what she accomplished,\u201d<\/p>\n
Nemeth didn\u2019t know what to expect when she and her friends joined the golf team, but she\u2019s glad that they did. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems like it came about pretty randomly, but obviously I\u2019m so happy that it happened and I\u2019m so glad that I\u2019ve had this opportunity,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I love the whole team, so it was great for me to be able to become a part of the golf world.\u201d <\/p>\n
She\u2019s planning to play again next year, and is excited to see what the Crusaders can do on the course.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s so great. So I\u2019m looking forward to keeping that going throughout the next year,\u201d Nemeth said. \u201cAnd I think it\u2019s a really great community, and I\u2019m glad that we\u2019ve become a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vivi Nemeth has been crowned as one of the top high school golfers in the state, tying for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":303814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,154187,62,22672,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-303813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-john-bapst-high-school","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-surprise","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115374997096862102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}