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Golf - Girls' Varsity
Overview
Overview
The golf team practices and plays at the Watertown Golf Club, a championship 18-hole golf course that is part of the 226-acre Taft School campus. Practice facilities include a driving range with unlimited range balls, putting and chipping areas, and an indoor hitting net and mats. Taft golf players receive complimentary afternoon and weekend tee times. The team also travels for spring break training in March of each year.
For years, the team has been involved in supporting local charities, from the Special Olympics to organizations working to support children affected by domestic violence. During the academic year, the team organizes instructional golf clinics for local elementary school children.
Tournament and League Records
| Founders League Tournament (established 2009) | Pippy O’Connor Independent Schools Girls’ Golf Classic | Pippy O’Connor Individual Champions |
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| 2025 Third 2024 Second 2023 First 2022 First 2019 Fourth 2018 First 2017 First 2016 First 2015 First 2014 First 2012 First 2011 First 2010 First 2009 Second |
2025 Sixth 2024 Third 2023 Second 2022 Fifth 2019 Seventh 2018 Tied Fourth 2017 First 2016 Second 2015 Second 2014 Second 2013 Second 2012 First 2011 First 2010 First 2009 First |
2018 Julia Kashimura 2016 Portia Wang 2012 Ali Eleey 2011 Ali Eleey 2010 Bridget Wilcox |
Schedule
Schedule
| Opponent | Date | Time | Location | Advantage | Type | Details | Result | Score | Status |
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vs.
Ethel Walker
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All Day
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About Head Coach Courtney Dignan
Courtney P. Dignan joins Taft from St. Mary’s of Lynn (MA), where he served as Chair of the Mathematics Department. In this role, he directed the department’s curriculum and pedagogical strategy, served as a member of the school’s Instructional Leadership Team, and founded the Advanced Studies Team to mentor St. Mary’s top students. His leadership was instrumental in implementing wholesale curriculum changes and remediation efforts that drove a 100-point increase in the school’s mean math SAT scores over a two-year period. His students achieved exceptional results in AP courses, posting a 100-percent pass rate with a mean score of 4.83.
Prior to teaching, Courtney had a distinguished career in finance, culminating in his role as a Portfolio Manager where he outperformed over 80-percent of his peers and managed a two-time Lipper award-winning financial services fund. Driven by a desire to apply his background in applied mathematics to positively impact young people, he transitioned to education in 2018.
Courtney holds a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a U.S. Department of Defense NSEP scholarship recipient, and is completing his MAT in Mathematics at Salem State University. Courtney lives on campus with his wife, Liz, their children, Jack ’27 and Amelia ’29, and their dog, Oski.
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