AURORA | City teams and athletes won a combined four team state championships and 12 individual state championships in the final weeks of the 2016 spring prep sports season. Here’s a look at one of Aurora’s individual state winners, Class 5A girls state golf champion Regis Jesuit senior Mary Weinstein:
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REGIS JESUIT’S MARY WEINSTEIN: 5A GIRLS GOLF STATE CHAMPION
Though her Regis Jesuit girls golf team fell short of winning a third straight Class 5A state team championship — with another Aurora team, Grandview, edging them by two strokes — senior Mary Weinstein became the first individual state golf champion in Girls Division history with a four-stroke victory after two days of play May 23-24 at Aurora’s CommonGround Golf Course. The Raiders’ standout — whose previous best finished was seventh in 2015 — shot under par in both of her state rounds, beginning with a 1-under 71 on the opening day and a 3-under 69 in the second round, which included a frustrating four-putt on the final hole to keep first-year head coach Eric Ptolemy’s team in contention. Weinstein topped the previous best finish for Regis Jesuit of runner-up, accomplished twice in Regis Jesuit’s 4A days by Kathleen Kershisnik (2009 & 2012) and once in 5A (in 2015 by Sydney Gillespie) and she also became the first girls state golf champ from an Aurora school since Overland’s SeungHa Choi in 2011. Weinstein — whose brother Chris also won a state championship as part of Regis Jesuit’s boys golf team in 2010 — is headed to play at Regis University in Denver for coach Lynn Blevins, who was on hand to watch her at the state tournament.
