Foust earns Joplin Golf Foundation scholarship
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Former Carthage High School and future Missouri Southern State University golfer Addie Foust didn’t start playing the sport until her freshman year of high school.
The decision to take up the game reaped immediate rewards for Foust. That first year and each year after that, she was an all-conference performer on the links, and she was Ozark Conference champion both her junior and senior years.
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Foust also qualified for the state tournament her last three years of high school and finished seventh this year.
On Tuesday, the game paid Foust back as she was honored with a $10,000 scholarship from the Joplin Golf Foundation.
Funded by the annual Ditto-Sapp tournament in September at Twin Hills and presented by the foundation, the scholarship will be awarded in $1,250 disbursements for eight semesters as long as Foust remains a collegiate golfer and maintains a grade-point average of 2.25.
Foust, who hopes to attend medical school, talked about what the scholarship means to her and her golf career.
“It’s really cool,” she said. “It’s going to allow me to put a lot more time and effort into golf, and I’m just really appreciative.”
Foust also talked about her decision to become a Lion.
“It just feels like home,” Foust said. “My mom went there, and my coach (Carthage High School head coach Jamie Newman) went there. I talked to the (MSSU) coaches, and they seem super nice, so I am excited about it.”
Foust said hard work and a strong support system helped her succeed on the links.
“I have had great teammates, a great coach and obviously, a very great family,” Foust said. “I am really fortunate to have such an awesome support system.”
Newman said it is Foust’s own work ethic that has led to her success.
“She talks about the other people around her — and I hear that — but she works so hard and has done so much for what she has earned,” Newman said. “That comes from her drive and her hard work. She always keeps the end in sight and is so quick to give flowers to other around her. She has got such a mature sense about her.”
Foust’s mom, Beth, talked about the evolution of her daughter as a golfer.
“Growing up, she always played T-ball, softball and basketball in junior high,” Beth Foust said. “Then she got to high school and said, ‘You know what?’ Her dad was a golfer in high school and college, so that’s where it all kind of stemmed from. They would go out and hit balls and go play and she caught the bug.”
Her dad, Steve Foust, shared what he thought has led to his daughter’s success.
“It’s her dedication to practice. She will go out and play nine or 18, look at what she did wrong and go back and fix it,” he said. “Her mental side of the game is really what saves her because when she’s pulling a shot or blocking it into an area, she will look to get herself out of trouble with the least amount of strokes.”
Beth Foust said the scholarship means that the money the family has put aside for Addie Foust’s college can now be used to help her go to medical school, where she hopes to become a physical medicine/rehabilitation doctor.