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Cottage Grove Girls Golf
Jennifer Husk discusses how to hold a golf club with the team.
A Cottage Grove golfer takes some chip shots at practice.
Team Rundown:
Team Perspective with Jennifer Husk:
From Taiwan to China to Rhode
Island to Cottage Grove, first year
head coach Jennifer Husk has had a
journey to where she is today. Husk
who moved to the area in November
with her husband to be a part of the
church Hope in the Grove, was ex-
cited to see that there was a coaching
position open.
“I used to be a professional golfer
so this was like my dream job to be a
coach so here I am,” she said.
After having a small team last year
that saw players graduate or move
to new sports this year, Husk is cur-
rently unsure if she will have one or
two players on her team this season.
“I’m excited. And I know, I know
I was hoping to have a huge team.
Let’s have 10 kids out here, that’d
be great. But you know, you got to
start somewhere and I’m excited
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Husk.
She plans to stay around in Cot-
tage Grove and is looking to work to
build up a program. And to do that,
she sees an important step is getting
kids interested.
“That’s the thought to build a
program. (Athletic Director) Gary
(Roberts) and I have been talking
about how to do that. And I think
we really need to get in the middle
school. And get some help out there
somehow with the PE program and
get golf in that,” she said.
“So that’s what I’m kind of hoping
to do. ...Having a couple of junior
clinics and then trying to keep that
interest because that’s the hard part.
Because golf takes a lot of time, a
lot of time, a lot of effort.”
On when she started golfing
I was 14. Like these two girls, their
dad’s played. My whole family played
my mom, my dad and my brother. I
was in to other sports but they were
always on the golf course so I started
taking it up and got serious proba-
bly by the time I was in high school.
By the end of high school I was a
lot more serious, went to college on
a golf scholarship and after school I
played professionally.
It was a lot of fun. And playing
professionally you’re basically living
in a hotel every week and living out
of your car. The hardest question to
answer is where are you from. I had
no home but my car, my little Hon-
da. So I did that for awhile. And had
fun playing.
On what she’s excited about
For coaching I’m excited to take
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these girls here that I do have, I don’t
think they’ve ever had this one-on-
one kind of attention with golf. So
they just play because their families
started playing. And just to share that
excitement that this game can bring.
Frustration too but more the excite-
ment, we’re focusing on that side.
I mean this is one of those games
that you can do forever. It’s not like
football or baseball or basketball or
soccer where after you get injured so
many times you’re not going to be
able to walk.
On living in Cottage Grove
Somebody once asked me where
would you want to live if you could
live anywhere, near the mountains or
near the ocean. And I was like both.
I didn’t know a place existed so here
we are between the mountains and
oceans.