Lehigh University Athletics
Women's golfers remain busy during off season
1/5/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. – During the month of November a pair of Lehigh women’s golfers traveled to Paraguay to compete in the 64th South American team match play championship (Copa Los Andes championship). Senior Livia Amado (Brazil) and freshman Ginette Schapira (Uruguay) were hand-picked by their respective countries to compete in the tournament, which took place from November 25-28. Along with Brazil and Uruguay there were competitors from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela in attendance.
Each country that was represented in the tournament selected five women and five men to compete in Paraguay in a round robin style of play. Amado finished with an 11-3-2 record during the tournament as the golfers played all of their matches in stifling heat, with temperatures soaring over 100 degrees. Schapira meanwhile won five of her 11 matches. Amado and Schapira, who played at the number-one spot for their countries, went head-to-head on the second to last day of the tournament with Amado coming out on top. By virtue of her victories Amado will now be ranked as the No. 1 women’s amateur golfer in all of Brazil.
Upon completion of the tournament Amado has remained busy and recently left for Honduras where she is working with a program called Engineers without Borders. This marks the second straight year in which Amado has worked with this program. She is the key spokesperson for Lehigh University to translate languages between members of the program and the townspeople. While in Honduras Amado and others are working on finalizing a water system for the town of Pueblo Nuevo; the project began in 2008.
Schapira meanwhile, earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average during the 2009 fall semester at Lehigh and returned home to Uruguay for the holidays where she is currently preparing for the Mountain Hawks’ 2010 spring schedule.
