Will Evans Profile

With the Golf season for the Thundering Herd in full swing, one of the golfers, Will Evans, is excited to get going; however, there is more to Will Evans than just Will Evans the sophomore, letter-winning golfer.

So many times the media only shows the athlete. They media does not necessarily show the person. Evans had some interesting comments about his life away from the game, his opinions about his own game, and his expectations for his career.

Growing up in today's era for kids, there are many different sports. With the seasons spread out the way they are, it is common for kids to play multiple sports at a very young age. This could not have been truer for Evans.

"I played a lot of different sports growing up," Evans said. Soccer, football, and basketball were a few that Evans named. "But, I didn't even think about golfing around middle school. My dad was a professional up at a golf club. And I kind of wanted to follow in his footsteps".

Like many athletes his goals started from there. Evans claims that he works his goals for his career one step at a time.

"My goal when I was in high school was to play Division 1 NCAA golf. Now that I am here, I am working on getting better and my next goal would be to try and go professional," Evans said.

But many people realize at some point that they may or may not go play sports at the professional level. If the later is the case for Evans he does have one place that he would love to play.

"Augusta National," Evans said as his eyes lit up. "It is one of the hardest courses in the world and that would be a dream golf course for me to play.

Evans did say that he did not get into golf until mid-high school. So what does the letter-winner do in his free time? It may surprise you.

"I don't do a whole other than play golf and hangout with the team. I work out a little bit. Just a regular college thing to do," Evans explained.

So with his dad being a professional at a golf club, and Evans basically using all of his time to golf, even his free time, there does not seem to be a whole lot else to the life of Will Evans. But another person that knows Evans pretty well would be his coach. Marshall's Golf Coach Matt Grobe had some wonderful things to say about his returning letter winner.

"He spent the whole summer working his tail off and has come back to campus playing some great golf," Grobe said. "One of my favorite things about Will is that he is solid in everything that he does. He is a good student, a good golfer, and a great kid".

Things are looking bright for Evans and the Thundering Herd Golf Team this season. According to Herd Zone Evans shot 1 under 70 during the 45th Annual Joe Feaganes Invitational.

Marshall Men's Golf Joe Feaganes Preview

Marshall University’s Men’s Golf team will start its 2014-’15 season by hosting the 45^th annual Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational today and tomorrow at the Guyan Golf and Country Club in Huntington, West Virginia.

With this being the first event of the 2014-’15 season, the Herd look to stay competitive, not only for the 45^th Joe Feaganes, but for the entire season. There was a lot of focus and work done during the offseason. One of the benefits for opening up the season at the Guyan Golf and Country Club is that it is the Herd’s home course.

“Oh it’s huge,” said Head Golf Coach Matt Grobe. “Being able to start out on your home course gives the guys so much confidence going into the event. For the guys that have been here now a couple of years it will be a help”.

One of the issues that Coach Grobe later mentioned was that there is an issue with the newcomers playing at the Guyan.

“Because practice does not start until the firs week of school, some of the new kids have been here for almost two weeks and did not get to practice on the course yet,” Grobe explained.

But for the more experienced players who have golfed there before they have some other things to worry about.  Junior Logan Lagodich, one of six returning letterwinners explained that he has to work hard all offseason to improve.

“One of the things that I really worked on this offseason was my short game,” Lagodich said. “I had some inconsistencies with it last season that I wanted to improve on.”

However, just working on your game is only one of the many focuses of the offseason.  You also have to eat right.

“I mainly tried to eat meats and vegetables,” Lagodich said.

Another of the Herd’s letterwinners was sophomore Will Evans. Evans said that there are workouts that must take place.

“I worked on a lot of strengthening,” Evans said. “I was at the gym three to four days a week working on just getting stronger”.

But those weren’t the only offseason workouts. During the break in the season during the winter there are many indoor drills that the Herd golfers partake in. But with all that being said both Lagodich and Evans are ready to get back out to the course. They are optimistic for an exciting season. 

La Salle Tops Moeller

The undefeated streak came to an end Friday night for the Fighting Crusaders of Archbishop Moeller High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Crusaders who were ranked 24th in the Nation and 2nd in the state of Ohio, according to MaxPreps.com were beaten by their rival, the La Salle Lancers, and their rushing attack 34-9.

The Crusaders, who are use to winning, have only lost five of their previous 36 games. But the Lancers running back, Jeremy Larkin was a key factor to the win over Moeller. He rushed 32 times for 216 yards and 4 touchdowns.

The Lancers rushed for 267 yards in the game. This is short of their average of 473 yards a game, but still well above the national average of 183.9 yards a game. The Crusaders' defense was able to slow the above average rushing attack, but it was not enough.

Starting defensive back Mitch Brauning believes that it was a simple reason why the Lancers won.

"They straight up just wanted it more than we did," Brauning explained.

Matt Crable, the Crusaders' starting quarterback added by saying it may have even been more mechanical than that.

"I don't know if there was one specific thing that caused the loss. It was a lot of little mistakes that added up in the long run," Crable said. "Penalties, missed assignments, etc. We had a lot of mental mistakes that need to be fixed".

However, even though there may have been many issues during the game, both players explained that they had personal attributes to the game that they needed to improve on.

"I need to improve on personally is making sure the team is focused at all times," Brauning said.

Crable also took more of a team responsibility towards what he believed that he needed to improve on.

"I need to improve on making sure that everyone's head stays up during that game," Crable explained. "We got down on ourselves pretty quick and I didn't do a very good job at keeping people up".

Either way, the Crusaders have a short memory and are already focusing on their next game against the Elder Panthers.

"We have to bounce back. We know what we have to do and we know what we did wrong in that game," Crable said. "The worst thing that we could do is sit around and pout about that game we have to bounce back and take care of business against Elder".