The 2017 GHSA 4A Girls and Boys State Golf Tournaments were held in Columbus and were hosted by Columbus High School. Girls 4A teams took to the links at Maple Ridge Golf Course, while Boys 4A teams met at Columbus Country Club. Winners of the 4A state championships were the Columbus High School Girls and Boys teams. It was an exciting and unique ending for the teams to be hosts for the tournament and also come away as state champs. Adding to the exceptional situation was that both of the winning coaches, Lady Blue Devils coach Joe McDaniel and Blue Devils boys coach Chris Parker, had a daughter and a son, respectively, playing on the teams.
This golf season McDaniel and Parker will once again experience coaching their children. Mary Catherine McDaniel and Jonathon Parker are both juniors and returning for another season of play. It’s not all that uncommon for coaches to have their own children on their teams, but to have two teams of the same sport from the same school both be state champs last year, well, that is definitely a story worth telling. In the Game takes a look into the lives of these stellar athletes and their fathers who are coaching them this spring.
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