Charlevoix boys golf team embraces normalcy one year after crash
Charlevoix's coach, Doug Drenth, and one of its players, Joe Gaffney, suffered significant injuries that left them hospitalized for weeks.
Weeks ago, when Doug Drenth got the phone call that his Charlevoix varsity boys golf team was invited back to this year's Traverse City Junior Golf Association tournament at Arcadia Bluffs, he had to think about it. His players — four of them in particular — well, they did not. It was, if you will, a gimme.
We're going back. "It's amazing, the resilience and optimism of kids," Drenth said. "I don't even think there was an ounce of hesitation about going back.
As an older person, I would've thought about it more. But, OK, we're going back. "They just love being together.
Just the chance to go back and stay together and eat together and be in one of the cottages together ... as much as I'd love to say winning is the most special thing in a season, I think that their togetherness has become that. And I love to see that, as a coach.
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