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March 1, 2013
Caddy earns full scholarship to Purdue Western Golf Association sponsors Hotel Fitness Championship at Sycamore Hills By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcnews.net
Karly Gotschall has never played a round of golf, but she has caddied. Thanks to the Western Golf Association, the Homestead High School senior won’t have to caddy her way through college. Gotschall received a Chick Evans Caddie Scholarship, good for full tuition and housing at Purdue University. Gotschall carried golf bags last summer at Sycamore Hills Golf Club, where the WGA will conduct the Hotel Fitness Championship again his year, from Aug. 26 to Sept. 1. All proceeds from the tournament will be donated to Evans Scholars and Fort Wayne charities. “I learned a lot about the game. I learned a lot more respect for it.,” Gotschall said. “Now I know the skill and the patience that it takes to play it.” The hours can be long, she said, sometimes four or five hours with a group. “We carry the bag, we obtain the yardages, we clean clubs,” she said. “There are sprinkler heads through the golf course,” she explained. Caddies use those sprin-
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kler heads as markers and then step off the yardage to the green, to aid golfers in their club selection. Though a round of golf can take four or five hours, Gotschall said, she hears interesting conversation. “I like hearing about their jobs,” she said. Scholarship recipients were selected based on four criteria: a strong caddie record, excellent academics, demonstrated financial need and outstanding character. Recipients were chosen after their individual interviews. Gotschall said she attended an interview in South Bend, and received the good news about the scholarship about a week later.Gotschall said she had to mesh her caddie duties with her soccer schedule last year. She played travel soccer in the summer, and then was captain of the Homestead women’s soccer league in the fall. Homestead finished with a 202 record, falling to Leo in sudden-death overtime. “I loved Homestead soccer. It was a great experience overall,” she said. She said she also enjoyed travel soccer, getting to know girls from other schools. In all, the WGA awarded four scholarships in the Fort Wayne area. Other recipients are: Maria Schafer, Bishop Dwenger High
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Karly Gotschall participates in a South Bend interview for a Chick Evans Golf Scholarship. About a week later, she was notified that she earned a four-year scholarship to Purdue University. School, caddy at Fort Wayne Country Club; Frank Vandeputte, Bishop Dwenger High School, caddy at Sycamore Hills Golf Club; and, Benjamin Eichhorn, Bellmont High School, Decatur, caddy at Orchard Ridge Country Club. The WGA, with headquarters in Golf, Ill., has overseen the Chick See GOLF, Page A3
Canterbury junior returns to national honor choir By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcnews.net
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Cecelia Snow portrays the Baker’s Wife in Canterbury High School’s 2012 production of “Into the Woods.” Snow has been selected to sing with a national honors choir. done musically through my high school career through that piece.” In a news release, Fort Wayne Children’s Choir Executive Director Denice Beights said Snow sings in the organizaSee CHOIR, Page A2
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Canterbury High School junior Cecelia Snow has been chosen to perform with a 300-member honors choir for mixed voices. Snow, a nine-year member of the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir, also was selected for the biennial conference two years ago, as a freshman. She is the daughter of Rob and Mary Snow, of Fort Wayne. The American Choral Directors Association convention March 13-16 in Dallas will attract about 3,600 middle school and high school singers from across the country. Snow will perform with the select Honors Choir. Snow said the choirs will rehearse extensively before they perform. For the audition tape, each singer performed “My Countrys ‘Tis of Thee” and another song of the singer’s choosing. Snow chose an aria that she had performed for Canterbury’s fall production. “O Mio Babbino Caro” (“Oh, My Beloved Papa”) is from the Puccini opera “Gianni Schicchi.” “It really demonstrates my range and my voice’s flexibility and I worked really hard on it,” Snow said. “So I felt like I was prepared to express the work that I’ve
Doctor’s friends plan run/walk and dinner Friends of a Fort Wayne woman will brave the elements in early March, for one of the first local outdoors runs of the season. Supporters of Dr. Sue Steffy are holding the run/walk and dinner to benefit the avid runner. The PMP Running Bee 5K steps off at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 3, from the Aboite Township Trustee’s Office, adjacent to the fire station at 11321 Aboite Center Road. The suggested fee is $35, though some friends have donated more. Runners can get a T-shirt for an extra $3. The prerace, pasta dinner is 5:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at Fort Wayne Sport Club, 3102 Ardmore Ave. A free-will offering is requested. Benefit organizer Tracy Bellavance asked participants to register in advance. The rare form of appendix cancer — pseudomyxoma peritonei — requires treatment outside of Indiana. Steffy has been away from home
for weeks, requiring extensive expenses to the family. Details on Steffy’s medical condition and registration information are available at GiveForward.com/SueQue enOfTheRegion. Bellavance said both Steffy and her husband, Dave Krabach, are avid runners. Fliers for the benefit carry the slogan “I Support Sue, Queen of the Region.” Bellavance said Steffy is from the Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana. “She talks about that a lot, how she’s from The Region,” Bellavance said. The organizer described Steffy as “just a caring, warm person.” She said she has received a favorable response to the benefit. “She knows so many people through church and work and the neighborhood,” Bellavance said. Bellavance said March might not be the best time for a benefit run, “But I think you can do anything for less than an hour.”