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- 0:05Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week, Oswego Co-ops Ali Viertel. Written by
- 0:10Skylar Casellus. This article is being read by an automated voice brought
- 0:16to you by Everlett. Name, Allie Vertel School, Oswego Co-op Sport, Girls
- 0:21Golf Year, Junior. Why she was selected. Wertel fired a five under
- 0:25par 66 to win the individual title in The Class two A
- 0:29Plainfield Central Regional at Wedgwood Golf Course. She didn't hit over par
- 0:33on any hole of the course, birding holes 1 2 6, 11
- 0:36and 18. The junior later shot at even seventy two during Monday's
- 0:41Class two, a normal sectional, to win the meet and advance to
- 0:45the ISA State Tournament, where she'll look to defend the state title
- 0:49she won last year. Ali is the ultimate competitor, Azwego co-op coach
- 0:54Steve Tubman said. Her consistency, competitiveness, mental toughness, and ability to perform
- 0:59at a high level in pressure situations separate her from other players.
- 1:03She puts in the work and expects excellence from herself every time
- 1:07she steps on the course. I am incredibly proud of everything she
- 1:11has accomplished this season, and I look forward to watching her compete
- 1:15and defend Here
- 1:16ESA Class IIA title this weekend. Weartel was selected as the Athlete
- 1:21of the Week in an online vote, other nominees were Oswego golf's
- 1:25Carter Anderson, Newark Volleyball Zoe Carlson and Yorkville Soccer's Emanuel Contreras. Where
- 1:31is Virtel's QA with sports reporter Skylar Casellas. Does it feel any
- 1:36different for you heading into the statement tournament this year than it
- 1:40did last year? Vertel. I would say similar type of feeling where
- 1:45I'm going there trying to compete. I know what it's gonna take
- 1:48and I know I have the ability to win again. So just
- 1:51mindsets going to compete and make a bunch of birdies and I
- 1:54get to see a lot of my friends there, so have fun
- 1:57with them. But honestly, just same type of mindset. Competitive. It’ll have
- 2:02strategies when I get there, practice around, prep. Giselle Resendez will once
- 2:07again be joining you at state. Is there a level of comfort
- 2:11to having a teammate there with you in that setting? Vertel, it'll
- 2:15be fun.
- 2:15I'm happy for her that she made it again. She has been
- 2:18playing very well, so I'm happy that she's gonna make it again,
- 2:21get to go back and try to perform better than last year,
- 2:24and I think it'll just be fun. You've already won regional, sectional,
- 2:29and state titles, and you're only a junior. What left for you
- 2:33to accomplish in your high school career? Vertel, I'd like to win
- 2:37state again for sure. It'll be cool to see if I can
- 2:39do that again, back to back, maybe even senior year. But high
- 2:43school golf, it's fun. So see what I can do if I
- 2:46can just do that again. You've talked in the past about wanting
- 2:50to play for a Power Force school. What are your prospects looking
- 2:53like at this point? Vertel. This summer I actually committed pretty early.
- 2:58I committed to Alabama, so I'm going to Alabama for golf and
- 3:01I'm so so excited. It's amazing and my team actually just won.
- 3:05I'm just excited to go there. I was just on my official
- 3:07visit to knowing what I have for me at Alabama and I'm
- 3:11so excited. Why do you love golf? Vertel, honestly, there's so many
- 3:15reasons why I love it. The people I meet, some of my
- 3:19best relationships have come from golf. The travel that comes with it,
- 3:22just. The hard work, and I just love trying to get better.
- 3:25It's just the practice. I enjoy practicing, some people don't, and I
- 3:29feel like that something that's special about me. I really enjoy just
- 3:33trying to get better and competing. So there's so many aspects of
- 3:36golf that I just I don't know. I'm just lucky that I
- 3:40love this is my sport so much. What are some of the
- 3:43biggest challenges of golf that people might not realize? Vertel, definitely mental.
- 3:49Golf is such a mental game and it truly is. The mentality
- 3:53is so important. I feel like that's something that people don't realize
- 3:56is. Such a big part of golf. Just having the right mindset
- 3:59and seeing things clearly, it's very important in golf. What's your favorite
- 4:04hole you've ever played and why? Weirtel Pinehurst No. Four is one
- 4:09of my favorite golf courses. I
- 4:11would say maybe hole fourteen I think it is. It's a par
- 4:14five. It's just a gettable par five. I just think that area
- 4:17there is really pretty. The resort to just the golf course is
- 4:20so beautiful. What do you’d like to do when you're not on
- 4:23the green? Vittel, I just enjoy hanging with my friends, just hanging
- 4:28with my friends, family. Everyone's always asking like, oh, do you have
- 4:32any other hobbies? I just really enjoy spending time with the people
- 4:36I love. If you had never gotten into golf, what do you
- 4:39think you'd be doing now? Virtel, I'd probably be playing a different
- 4:45sport. When I was younger I played a lot of sports. Basketball
- 4:48was always my favorite sport until about seventh grade, when I just
- 4:52decided I loved golf more. So I'd probably be playing basketball or
- 4:56volleyball. My little sister plays volleyball. I think volleyball is a very
- 5:00fun sport, but I'd probably be playing basketball. I was pretty good.
- 5:05If you had a chance to tell a younger Allie about the
- 5:08things she'd do in her golf career, how would you describe them
- 5:11to her? Vertel, I would say that I've had some amazing accomplishments
- 5:16that have come with a lot of hard work and discipline, and
- 5:19that to trust the process, and that to be proud of my
- 5:22accomplishments. You can always get better, so telling myself, yeah, I have
- 5:26great accomplishments, but still to continue to do even better.