Coginchaug's DiVincentis Headed to Georgetown [Video]

Liz DiVincentis will continue to wear blue.

On Wednesday afternoon, Coginchaug's star golfer signed a national letter of intent to attend Georgetown University. The Blue Devil senior will join the Hoyas next fall as a member of the school's Division I Women's Golf team.

"It's where I've wanted to go all along," said DiVincentis, who has been named Connecticut PGA Junior Golf Association Player of the Year Award twice.

"[Georgetown's] coach is really enthusiastic and she's really excited and she wants to win. We have a really good schedule. We play at Yale which is the toughest collegiate course to play on," DiVicentis told a small audience including her parents, Al and Dawn DiVincentis of Durham, gathered at Coginchaug High School for the signing.

DiVincentis started golfing at the age of 10, after taking a trip to the driving range with her father.

"It was kinda by accident. He was hitting balls and I was really not interested and then he gave me a club and I hit it pretty well. I started going out to practice with him and then I started taking lessons at Lyman [Golf Club]."

Now 16, DiVincentis has become a leader on the golf course.

"I've learned to be a really good leader. I play on a boys' golf team. It's just a really good experience seeing them all work really, really hard just to beat me," DeVincentis, a team co-captain, said about being a mentor to the younger players.

"She's just a super hard worker a dedicated person who absolutely loves the game of golf, really a coach's dream," Alex Edwards, boys' golf coach at Coginchaug, said about his star player.

"She's going to do well anywhere she goes, her grades are spectacular. Her golf is going to take her a lot of places," he added.

DiVincentis plans to study international business at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business and hopes to eventually attend law school. Golf, she says, has helped set the foundation for any future success.

"It really teaches you life long morals and skills," she says. You have to be honest because you're playing by yourself and you could easily break a rule and get a couple strokes shaved off your score. You learn to have integrity.

When it came to choosing a school, DiVincentis had several options, including Boston College, Siena, Richmond, Old Dominion and Seton Hall, but decided Georgetown was close enough to home.

"I'm extremely proud of Liz. I know one of Liz's goals was to get into the best academic university that she could with golf kicking a couple of doors open and that's certainly happened," said her father.

"You always want the best for your kids and this is about as good as it gets, I think. She's all that a parent could ask for. We're humbled by her success and we try to keep all of that in perspective."

"Liz puts her all into it and has worked years to try to achieve this and I couldn't be more proud. I can't wait for her to be a part of it," her mother added.

Al DiVincentis said he was thankful to the other mentors involved in his daughter's success.

"She wouldn't be where she is without the help of some great people. She was very fortunate to be coached by Alex Edwards and her instructors Dave Bianchi and Kevin Giancola. We'd certainly like to thank those folks for helping Liz out and caring about her and keeping her in the right direction," he said.

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