WSSU Sheets grateful for opportunity

ZACHARY SHEETS
WSSU Rams Golf
Sophomore

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina -- Zach Sheets could be bitter, but that isn't his style. Sheets, a junior on the Winston-Salem State golf team, won't have a place to play next fall because the school is shutting down the program to funnel its scholarship dollars to the football and basketball programs.

"We kind of knew this was coming, because it was rumored they were going to shut the program down," said Sheets, a 27-year-old Kernersville native and WSSU's No. 1 golfer this season. "At the meeting, the track team came in, so we thought maybe we were safe, but it didn't turn out that way."

WSSU will cut men's indoor and outdoor track and field and men's golf from its athletics program starting with the next school year.

"I could be mad, but then I think about the great opportunity I've had here to come to Winston-Salem State, play golf, and to be back in college," said Sheets, a physical-education major who has a 3.9 grade-point average. Sheets — who works at UPS three days a week, starting at 3 a.m. — said that without golf at WSSU, he wouldn't have returned to school.

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