Usually it’s not hard to improve on doing something when you only started doing it a couple years ago, but to improve so much that it’s statistically the best in the country? That deserves an award.

And that’s precisely what the Geneva College women’s golf team received when they were honored with the Mark Laesch Award for greatest improvement by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA). The WGCA gives the award to the top team in each of the three divisions of the NCAA based on total strokes, and Geneva’s improved stroke total of 101.96 in Division III far outdistanced the totals of Division I Fairfield (11.75) and Division II Arkansas-Fort Smith (25.86).

Andrew Fee, the coach behind the team’s marked improvement, spoke about the achievement with Matt Drzik on the August 3 edition of A.M. Beaver County, speaking about how grand of an accomplishment it is to take a program that only started in the Fall of 2019 to their current status. The women’s golf squad will be joined, as Fee also mentioned, by a new men’s golf squad that will play its first season in the Fall of 2021.

Fee is also the Assistant Athletic Director at Geneva, and he took some time to talk about the continuing growth of athletics as a whole at the Beaver Falls campus, as well as the consistently strong prioritization of the academic side of student-athletes who don the black and gold for the Golden Tornadoes. He also previewed the upcoming Fall 2021 semester, one he hopes will not only be a relatively “normal” one, but a successful one that will include the return of the Homecoming Parade connecting the city to the campus.

For the full interview between Matt and Andrew, click on the player below!