Esty Dwek came to Princeton last year from Geneva, Switzerland and was a freshman star, leading the Tigers to an Ivy League Championship.
She was Princeton's top finisher in three of five tournaments last spring, which included a first place finish at the Jacksonville State Classic. As a sophomore, Esty Dwek has watched Avery Kiser become the next freshman star.
Avery has led the Tigers in every tournament this spring except the Northeast Championship, where Junior Vanessa Redman took the individual title. Kiser also won individual titles at the William & Mary Invitational and the Ivy League Championship.
Overall, this year has been a disappointing one for Dwek. She started the spring out slowly with a 47th place finish at the Hawaii Invitational, but was able to respond with a top 10 finish at the William & Mary Invitational a week and a half later. She also finished in the top 10 at the Ivy League Championship where she took ninth overall. In the last tournament of the year, the Northeast Championship, Dwek tied for eighth to help Princeton win its first tournament of the year.
"Ending the season with a win was nice," Dwek said. "We've had a bunch of second and third place finishes this year, but this was our first win."
This win will take some of the pain away from the second place finish at the Ivy League Championship in Trenton. The Tigers were unable to claim a second straight Ivy League title, which would have given them an automatic bid to the NCAA Regional.
As a team, Princeton played poorly, allowing Yale to come away with the victory. This was a surprise to many people because Princeton had beaten Yale a couple times earlier in the spring.
"We were very disappointed with the second place finish at the Ivies this year," Dwek said. "We had beaten Yale many times earlier this spring but we were unable to play good golf when it mattered most. Maybe we wanted it too much and tried too hard to win instead of having fun."
Princeton will train hard this summer to sharpen their skills and prepare for what could be a great season next year.
Dwek will head back to Switzerland where she will play for the national team. She plans on building up her strength by adding distance to her shots. The sophomore will also continue to work on her swing, which she has been doing all this season. Not playing up to her potential early on this year encouraged her to try a few things differently.
"I had been working on my swing a lot this spring," Dwek replied. "I changed a few things but nothing really seemed to work".
Although she did not play as well as she knows she could have this year, Dwek helped Princeton have a great season, not including the Ivies. If the Tigers train over the summer and nobody gets injured, the team next year will be even better than this year and will be tough to beat. The Tigers are not losing any players to graduation, and they expect at least one good recruit to come to the University next year. Such experience should lend itself to confidence.
"We are all very excited about next year. I think we will win it all", said Dwek.
Even with the Elis as the defending champions, the Tigers may be the prohibitive favorites to do just that.
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