Just Sayin: UMES golf shows success and potential

PRINCESS ANNE, Maryland -- It was 2004 when UMES began its Golf Academy.

Then, it was just a fledgeling idea consisting of a one-credit elective — Golf Instruction 101 as well as a driving range on campus.

At the helm of the academy was Marshall Cropper, and just arriving on the Shore I remember talking to him about the long-range dreams for what could be wrought by the existence of the academy and a lot of hard work.

More than a decade later, I found myself talking to Cropper again.

Now the head coach of a men’s golf team that was only an idea back then, Cropper recently got to see something that has been a long time coming and he couldn’t be happier.

The Hawks won their first ever tournament as a Division I golf program when they captured the Southwestern Athletic Conference/Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Collegiate Challenge.

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