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Following his induction into the Golf
Coaches Association of America Hall of
Fame, Jay Hardwick and his wife, Celia,
are pictured with golf legend Arnold
Palmer, who received the association’s
Lifetime Achievement Award.
Coach Jay Hardwick, with his wife Celia, receives the PGA’s 2005 Bill Strasbaugh
Award from Paul Michaelian, president of the Middle Atlantic PGA, at the MAPGA
Honor Awards banquet.
Metro Conference in 1993 and 1994, and again in the Atlantic 10
Conference in 1996 and 1997. Virginia Tech claimed the BIG EAST
Conference Championship in 2001, its first season of competition in
the league, duplicated the feat in 2002, and made it a three-peat in
2003, staging a dramatic come-from-behind victory over Notre Dame
on the Irish’s home course, where the team overcame an 11-stroke
deficit on the last three holes.