Amy Bockerstette's historic appearance at the NJCAA women's golf national championship came to an unexpected and early end Thursday when the final round was reduced to the top 15 teams and other golfers in the top 24 because of weather conditions.
Bockerstette, who's in her third season at Paradise Valley Community College in Arizona, became the first person with Down syndrome to play in a collegiate championship on any level this week when she teed off Monday in the first round at the Plantation Bay Golf and Country Club in Ormond Beach, Florida.
Playing through temperatures in the mid-80s to low 90s with high levels of humidity -- an unfamiliar feeling for someone coming from Arizona -- Bockerstette finished 108th out of 113 golfers, a win in the eyes of her parents, Joe and Jenny.