Republic senior Allison Quigley will continue her golf career at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Mo. Quigley put together one of the most successful golf careers in Republic history, joining Payton Rayl as the only two golfers to qualify for the state tournament four times.
“Honestly, I just felt like that was where God was telling me to go,” says Quigley, who adds that one big difference in college will be the amount of family input into her game. Her father is Republic girls golf coach Howard Quigley.
“I won’t have to have my dad as a coach,” she says. “And I’ll get to play a lot of new courses and meet new people.”
Her father says he’s glad to see Allison get an opportunity to continue playing golf at the next level.
I just look at her as my daughter,” he says. “I just want her to be happy and do what she wants to do. She actually shocked me and said she was going to go to college and play golf.”
Howard Quigley says his daughter’s natural talent for the sport was apparent, because she succeeded without the year-round work on her game that many players put in.
“She has a God-given gift, because she literally played three or four months out of the year and went to state four years,” he says. “Her junior year she won the district and shot a 77, and how in the world does a person shoot a 77 that plays golf three or four months out of the year?
“Someone told me ‘She’s going to beat you one of these days,'” Quigley says. “And I said ‘No she won’t, I’ll quit.’ I had to quit this year. I blamed it on my hip.”
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