Sabrina Ferreri, a junior from Franklin, Ky., has learned to balance being captain of the women’s golf team and a member of the Pi Delta social club at Lipscomb since fall of her sophomore year.
Golf runs in the Ferreri family. Her mother, Robbie, was on the first women’s UK professional golf team and is now a pro-golf teacher. She played in Europe for a while as well as in Japan.
“She is a big influence on me and is the reason I play golf,” Ferreri said, noting that she has been driving and putting pretty seriously since sixth grade.
But golf isn’t the only thing on this athlete’s plate. Ferreri has begun to broaden her horizons by interacting with some new people in a setting a little different than the fairway.
“The best part of being in a social club, for me, is meeting new people besides athletes,” Ferreri said.
When Ferreri decided to pledge her sophomore year, she surveyed the clubs and made the choice based on the members of the club and where she would fit in.
“I liked the girls in Pi Delta the best,” she said of her social club, which has about 50 members. “There seemed to be a good variety of girls in the club.”
With both her club and the golf team requiring a lot of time, Ferreri said she has had to learn a lot about time management.
“Since golf is the reason I came to school here, it takes priority,” she said. “The social club was something I decided to add on.”
According to Ferreri, there have been some hectic days where she begins her day at golf workouts around 6 a.m. and ends her day with some type of social club event.
“During prospective events is when it gets busy,” Ferreri said, “and on top of golf and club stuff, I have school to handle.”
Ferreri said a change in the coaching staff has influenced her priorities this season. The women’s golf team has the same coach as they had last year, but instead of Coach Buddy Harston coaching both men’s and women’s teams, he is solely focusing on the girls this year.
“Now that we have a full-time coach, golf is even more of a priority than it was before,” Ferreri said.
Although pushed for time, Ferreri said she would recommend it to other athletes interested in pursuing both.
“If you can balance your time, then yes, I would say to go for it,” Ferreri said, “but it also depends on how committed you want to be.”