Hoping for a Hurricanes’ storm on national front
Holland College in Ontario for national collegiate golf championships
The Holland Hurricanes are in Oshawa, Ont., this week for the PING Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association national golf championships at the Royal Ashburn Golf Club hosted by the Durham College Lords.
The ‘Canes are represented by Spencer Compton (Morell), Guillaume Côté-Généreux (Drummondville, Que.), Jason Poley (Stratford), Alex Taylor (Nine Mile Creek) and Jacob Ward (Burton, N.B.) on the men’s team while Daria Leidenius (Panoka, Alta.) is playing as the Hurricanes’ women’s individual entry.
Round 1 starts today at 10 a.m. Atlantic.
This season, Leidenius was the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association individual champion.
The men’s team captured the silver medals behind the UNB Varsity Reds.
Hurricanes head coach Daniel Cudmore is pleased with the direction the team has been moving as of late.
“Our team has been preparing for this event over the past several weeks, and their hard work and focus have been paying off,” he said.
“This is a new experience for these players as this is the first CCAA nationals for four of our six travelling studentathletes.
“We’ve done our homework to prepare for Royal Ashburn and we’re hoping that it will give us an edge when we reach Oshawa this week.”
The men’s Hurricanes were No. 9 in the recent CCAA National rankings.
The ‘Canes claimed men’s national gold in 2014, silver in 2011 and bronze in 2006 while the women took home silver in 2012 and 2007.
In 2016 the Hurricanes men finished in seventh place at the event hosted by Holland College at the Fox Meadow Golf Club while Leidenius finished 23rd individually.