VIRGINIA TECH Golf Guide | 2018 Edition

9 Following his induction into the Golf Coaches Association of America Hall of Fame, Jay Hardwick and his wife, Celia, are pictured with golf legend the late 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. 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. When the Virginia Tech community was rocked by the tragedy of April 16, 2007, Hardwick mourned with his players and then went about helping the community in the best way he knew how: he and his team of