SBCC Golfer Carolin Chang Crowned Champion
Taiwan Native Leads Vaqueros to Glory; Plus, Heather O’Reilly Makes Soccer Stop and More
An eloquent golf game and a desire to improve her command of the English language brought Carolin Chang to Santa Barbara for the 2015-16 school year. She was a welcome addition to the SBCC women’s golf team, winners of three state community college championship trophies.
“We have a hard time finding women who can shoot in the 70s,” Vaqueros coach Chuck Melendez said. Those were Chang’s credentials at the IMG Academy in Florida. “A guy there put her in contact with me,” Melendez said. “I invited her out. She visited and loved it.”
Although rules prevented him from putting her through a tryout, it was a no-brainer for Melendez to put Chang on the team. She is a native of Taiwan, where golf is a sporting passion (former world No. 1 Yani Tseng hails from that country).
