Meeting their goals, the Revere girls’ golf team placed fifth in the Suburban League Tournament with captains receiving individual honors.

The golf season started August 1, and the team started playing in tournaments the following week. Coach Moira Alfieri shared some of the team’s goals coming into the season.

“We wanted to have a program that would be very competitive in the Suburban League and in Northeast Ohio. Even though it is an individual sport, it is a team sport. Each team member has to do well enough that the team places well. It was more important…to develop the team atmosphere of being on the girls’ golf team. I wanted to create something the girls would enjoy playing,” Alfieri said.

Co-captains Laura Leventhal and Mandy Pavlich have played on the girls’ golf team all four years and on Varsity since their sophomore year. Currently, they are the only two seniors on the team. The Suburban League recognized Pavlich and Leventhal as two of the top 24 players in the league. Leventhal described some other highlights of the season.

“Mandy got a hole in one! We finished 4-3 in the season…which is really cool because we were [in] sixth place beginning of last year,” Leventhal said.

Alfieri told the story behind Pavlich’s hole in one.

“We were playing against Wadsworth, and we knew it was going to be a close match, but Mandy Pavlich was on her final hole in the Suburban League match, the final one of her career since she is a senior, and she ended up getting a hole in one. We ended up winning our match by two points…Those were the two strokes we needed to win the match,” Alfieri said.
Besides her hole in one, Pavlich expanded on some of her other season highlights.

“[My highlights were] getting to know everyone on the team this year and getting to be really good friends with my teammates,” Pavlich said.

Leventhal believes the focus on team bonding enabled them to improve this season and explained its significance.

“You are friends, so it is not as uncomfortable on the course. You can talk to each other about different strategies, and you can teach each other some things you know about different holes, so it is nice having that bond,” Leventhal said.

The girls’ golf team ended their season in early October after various tournaments outside the Suburban League.