{"id":365926,"date":"2025-12-23T17:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365926\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:49:12","slug":"varsity-maine-girls-golfer-of-the-year-stella-foy-thornton-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365926\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsity Maine Girls Golfer of the Year: Stella Foy, Thornton Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\tThornton Academy golfer Stella Foy is the Varsity Maine Girls Golfer of the Year after a season highlighted by a Class A title. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette\/Staff Photographer)<\/p>\n

Stella Foy was just happy to play. Winning a state championship? Even better.<\/p>\n

The Thornton Academy senior has idiopathic rheumatoid arthritis, which makes her more prone to colds and flus. She wasn\u2019t feeling well before the Class A championship, but decided to play anyway.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t her best round, but she finished with four straight pars to shoot a 90 and claim the girls individual title by one stroke over Hampden Academy\u2019s Lily Blanchard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely didn\u2019t play the way I normally do,\u201d Foy said. \u201cI mean, I shot 90, so that\u2019s never what you want, but I was really sick before state. I was out of school for like 10 days. So I was just honestly happy to play states. It definitely taught me that you have to have grit, even when you\u2019re playing bad. You got to stick through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winning the state title and then shooting a 79 to tie for 11th at the New England championship makes Foy the 2025 Varsity Maine Girls Golfer of the Year.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has a great attitude, always in the learning mode,\u201d Thornton Academy coach Jeff Camire said. \u201cShe just looks at everything \u2014 it\u2019s very rare that she gets down on herself. So that kind of attitude has really helped her push through some of the tougher moments that she had this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Foy\u2019s health kept her from the SMAA qualifier, Camire was glad Foy had a chance to prove herself at the New England championship.<\/p>\n

It capped a high school career that began with a 54 handicap as a freshman.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, this year, I\u2019m a 6.8, so that jump and that, like, it just took a lot of hard work to get there,\u201d Foy said. \u201cI think the biggest thing that helped me was playing in tournaments and just being determined to want to be better, and just a lot of hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Thornton Academy senior Stella Foy prepares to putt on Sept. 30. (Derek Davis\/Staff Photographer)<\/p>\n

Camire said improvement is a year-round pursuit for Foy.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was so dedicated, and I\u2019m not saying just during the season,\u201d Camire said. \u201c\u2026 She would do, as I said, fitness things. She\u2019d become stronger, just in better shape. She had lessons with (seven-time Maine Women\u2019s Amateur champion) Abby Spector multiple times throughout the winter, and has done that for the last few years. It\u2019s been amazing to see her process, and she just trusted that the last three years of high school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Golf became Foy\u2019s passion, so practicing four or five hours a day was easy. Now she wants to turn that passion into a career. She plans to attend Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina, to join the school\u2019s PGA Management program.<\/p>\n

So what exactly does Foy want to do in golf after college?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I tell people when they ask me that is that I want to make an impact, especially for junior golf and specifically girls golf,\u201d Foy said. \u201cI\u2019m the only (girl) golfer on my varsity team. \u2026 In most of my local tournaments, I\u2019ve been the only girl in so many situations. Also, being a girl in a male-dominated sport, there are experiences I\u2019ve had that my peers (who) play my sport never would have had. Being underestimated, you don\u2019t always feel the most included. That\u2019s something I really want to change and pioneer. Get more girls involved in golf and get more girls to love the game like I love the game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thornton Academy golfer Stella Foy is the Varsity Maine Girls Golfer of the Year after a season highlighted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-365926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}