Rothbart, the Wildcats senior captain, has done her best to drum up support on campus for a girls team, seeking any potential players at school assemblies, club meetings and other events. With the cost of travel, uniforms, renting time at Peacock Gap Golf Club for matches and practices and other expenses, the girls golf program represents an investment of $15-20,000, comparable to the cost of the boys golf program, according to Rafeh. These experiences are all things we want for students.” “We will find the resources when we have students who are committed. “It’s about the student experience,” Marin Academy athletics director Rob Rafeh said. Haight had also coached Tam’s girls team for the past 15 years. Haight was tapped to take over coaching duties for the girls team as well as the boys team. With some prodding by Rothbart and a show of encouragement from the students, the school supported the idea and declared in the spring that it would field a girls golf team for the first time this fall. It was really cool to play in that sort of atmosphere, but I was always hoping that I would be able to have a girls golf team that I could play on.”
“My sophomore year, I was not really good, but I kind of built up from there and eventually I was in the starting lineup and playing with the boys. “He said, ‘No we don’t have a girls team, but you’re welcome to play on the boys team’,” Rothbart recalled. This season is already a success for Rothbart, who asked Marin Academy boys golf head coach John Haight in 2020 if the school had a girls golf team. “It’s going to be an adjustment, but I’m excited,” said Colpitts, who is also a member of the school’s girls soccer team and is in the player pool for the Canadian girls under-17 soccer team. Colpitts acknowledged the girls still didn’t play a lot of matches as part of the coed team, so she’s looking forward to having more time on the course. “The boys were nice about helping me and encouraging me, but it was a different environment.”īefore this season, the girls were so eager to play golf for their school, they would rather compete against the boys on a coed team than not play at all. They hit farther than I do, but it was still a great way to get into the game,” Rothbart said. “I knew I’d never be the best on the boys team. Head coach John Haight expects that experience to pay off for Rothbart. Rothbart proved last season that she was good enough to break into the starting lineup on the Wildcats coed team.
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