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Freshman Burks excelling in new ‘sweet home’

Christina Long, Missouri Athletics

When you hear the Southern-sounding guitar twang of Lynard Skynard's "Sweet Home Alabama" play through your speaker, what comes to mind? Most would think of football, barbecue, fast cars and winding country backroads.

Many Alabama natives are known for their love of the "Yellowhammer State" and often never leave. So, when a brown-haired, brown-eyed Southern girl from Montgomery vacates the place where she planted her Southern roots, chances are there's a little something extraordinary about her.

Middle Tennessee freshman Sophie Burks has been nothing short of extraordinary in her five-year career on the golf course.