That team, composed of Beth Cooper, Danielle Strong, twins Jaclyn and Michelle Biro and Sheree Hoover, was as close to perfect as can be. Every year our goals are to win the conference and to qualify for state. This year we set a new standard in women's golf. It's not hard to set standards for others when you demand a great deal of yourself. Callahan expects his players to be the best they can be.
Golf lends itself to that because it is a social game.
In addition to guiding his team to a state championship threepeat, Callahan had an outstanding year personally on the golf course. He also won the Greater Kalamazoo Golf Association's senior Match Play championship at Heritage Glen Golf Course. That one proved to me that I could win something by myself. The road to the top in golf was long and circuitous. Callahan was born and raised in Sheldon, Ill., a little town about 100 miles south of Chicago on the Illinois-Indiana border.