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Okaw Valley Golfer Grace Harlin swings at Ironhorse

•October 18, 2017•

By Jason Brown
NP Sports

When Grace Harlin hears someone say you swing like a girl, she takes it as a compliment.

The Okaw Valley High School golfer has been playing and practicing on the OV boys’ team since her sophomore year.

The OV girls’ team dissolved after Harlin’s freshman year because of lack of participation numbers, so she joined the boys’ golf team.

Her sophomore year she would have to complete with boy golfers in practice to see who would qualify to play in each match.

“Sometimes I would beat some of the boys, and other times I wouldn’t,” said Harlin. “Junior year a few of us would rotate on who would be the five and six (spots on the varsity team).”

But the battles against the boys paid off for Harlin during her senior year.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.