This week she was in Tampa Florida trying to make the LPGA's Futures tour which is the minor leagues of LPGA golf. I am proud to say out of the 252 golfers who tried to make the tour Lauren finished seventh which means she has made the tour.
However, she will not declare herself as a professional until sometime during the summer after she graduates from N.C. State. A couple of weeks back, Lauren hurt her wrist in a tournament in Chapel Hill which will require surgery. This means she will miss the rest of the spring golfing season as she recovers from surgery.
If Lauren had of declared to turn pro, she would by finishing seventh in the Futures tour qualifying tournament received her first check for playing golf.
I think she is planning on waiting until after she has another shot at the U.S. Women's Amateur before turning pro.
Now for Terrell Hudgins:
Going into Saturday's game against Western Carolina ,Terrell needed 37 yards to break the all- time career yardage receiving record at Elon.
What is the importance of this record in the history of Elon University? It is the last receiving record at Elon that Terrell Hudgins name is not at the top of the list.
If it has anything to do with a receiving record in a game Terrell owns it. If it has anything to do with receiving record for a season Terrell owns it and Saturday the last career record that Terrell didn't already own became his.
Terrell tried the best he could to make this career yardage total with a big splash but his first catch of the day for a 79-yard touchdown catch was called back for offensive holding.
In the second quarter, he had to settle for a 39-yard catch his first grab of the day to break the record by two yards.
In order to keep the rest of the game from being a complete bore for Terrell now that he has no more Elon Record to break his seventh catch of the game was good for 13 yards which gave him 106 yards in the game. That broke the Southern Conference total yardage receiving record.
Now remember that the Southern Conference is the league where State, Carolina, Duke and Wake use to call home in the first half of the 20th century.
Terrell finished the day with seven catches which gives him 262 for his career. He is 38 short of the all-time FCS record of 300 in a career. Terrell has two regular season games and ever how many playoff games than Elon will get to break the record this year. We are talking what use to be a Division II record.
So Terrell has gone past Elon records. He still has a few Southern conference records to get but now he is after all time records in college football
Also Terrell broke the career Southern Conference record of 18 games getting at least 100 in a game.
I think we have to go back to Phil Ford and Buck Williams to see a Rocky Mount player have the impact on his college sport the way Terrell has.
He was the North Carolina High School Athlete of the Year in 2005. He excelled in football basketball and baseball.
The only major college to offer Terrell a football scholarship was East Carolina and off to Greenville he went.
The visit did not last long as it became apparent that being a D-I quarterback was not in the cards for the pirates.
Transferring to Elon it didn't take long there either before he found himself split out away from the backfield at wide receiver.
Terrell found a home at wide receiver and from his very first game Elon had found maybe there best football player in the history of the school.
That is not to shabby considering that Elon won two national NAIA championship back to back in the late 70s.
Terrell will have a decision to make come this spring as he will be eligible for the NFL Draft. It is hard to believe but he still has one more year at Elon if he chooses to do so.
Not bad for a player that wanted to be a college quarterback.
No comments:
Post a Comment