Women’s Golf makes history despite the odds

Fiona Legesse-Sinha | The CougarA brand new sports team will tend to struggle during its opening season. Its staff tends not to have the experience or history to attract big names, forcing the team to start small and slowly build itself up.

There are far more stories like the Houston Texans’, who had five losing seasons starting out, than the Las Vegas Golden Knights, who went to the Stanley Cup in its first year of existence.

But UH’s Women’s Golf team has taken a path rarely walked and won two conference championships and made four NCAA Regional appearances in its first five years.

As unlikely as it was, head coach Gerrod Chadwell said he was never in doubt.

“I never saw it not happening,”…