Female Golfer with Down Syndrome to Compete for National College Title

Amy Bockerstette will make history next week as she will be the first person with Down Syndrome to compete in a national collegiate athletic championship.

Bockerstette, who will be competing in the NJCAA National Championship with her Paradise Valley Community College teammates, is no stranger to the world of golf.

In High School, Amy excelled in golf becoming the first person with Down Syndrome to qualify for the Arizona state high school tournament. She would qualify for the state’s tournament two times while in high school.

Bockerstette earned a full-ride athletic scholarship to play in college, and even earned headlines for paring the famous 16th hole at TPS Scottsdale in the Special Olympics with PGA Tour player Gary Woodland on site watching.

Woodland said that Bockerstette was, “phenomenal” adding that to then, “step up in front of all the people and the crowd and everything and to hit the shots that she hit and made par. I’ve never rooted so hard for somebody on a golf course and it was an emotional, emotional really cool experience.”

Arizona’s local 12 News featured Amy in a Sunday interest story, the video footage of her interview is shared below:

Amy and her family also launched the I Got This Foundation, inspired by her catch phrase she repeated to herself before her famous par on TPC Scottsdale’s 16th hole.

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