Bainbridge High School is serious about golf, and its record so far this season shows it. Both the girls and boys teams have just won first place in the Metro League, beating out teams around the Seattle Metropolitan region. This is the second year in a row that both teams have won at the Metro level.
Why? The boys coach Tom Zuzelski says it’s because the Bainbridge community cares about golf and supports young players, making BHS golf a tradition of excellence.
Coach Tom Zuzelski.
The six players with the best record from each team progress to the Districts Tournament, a crucial one-day event that determines who goes on to State. For the boys, the Districts Tournament happens this Monday, October 17. The girls will wait until Spring for their Districts Tournament.
The Spartan boys won their Metro League finals yesterday, moving on their best players with 143 wins out of 144 matches. So who are these Spartan Six? Coach Zuzelski was happy to fill me in on some quirky details about these up-and-comers. (Shown in featured photo from left: Josh, Casey, Rusty, Adam, Will, Kris.)
- First is Will “Dubs” Whealdon. Dubs, a senior, is an aspiring rap star, referred to fondly as “the artist formerly known as Dabbadubs” (double W’s). Zuzelski is more confident in his golf career than his rapping one.
- Casey “C-Mac” McKay, the only junior of the six, is quiet and cool and “just plays,” which is alright by Zuzelski.
- Adam “A. P.” Pool, a senior, is the team’s “mysterious joker,” who Zuzelski claims he knows for a flat fact “has never made it anywhere on time in his life.”
- Kris “Kay-Tee” Thompson, also known as “2 Phones,” is a master multitasker. “The kid talks and texts on his working cell phone while playing games on his broken one,” says Zuzelski. Kay-Tee 2 Phones is a senior.
- Josh “Jabes” Barlet, another senior, has been coached “to be boring.” Zuzelski says that things go awry when he starts the fancy stuff and “sprays everywhere,” so he coaches Jabes that he is “supposed to be boring” to win.
- Rusty “Stoid” Furst is a senior who turned his game right around this year after not making the varsity team last year. Zuzelski says, “There is no explaining Stoid. He is the most stoic creature. You look at him and get nothing; then suddenly he erupts into laughter. He worked his tail off and made the Metro team this year.”
Good luck on Monday guys! And, BHS girl golfers: We’ll cover you and your nicknames in the spring.
Photos courtesy of Tom Zuzelski and BHS Sports.