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FLADOOS, Jacque
Fladoos, Jacque. (Dubuque, IA-- ). A 1965 graduate of Senior, Fladoos was a four-time state medalist in golf from 1962 to 1965, leading the Rams to state team championships in 1962, 1964, and 1965. During that time, the Senior team won four straight district titles with Jacque as the district medallist in all four. She was a state finalist in speech for three straight years, winning a championship in oratory. Jacque also excelled in theater productions and she was a two-year member of the National Honor Society. (1)
Fladoos won the Iowa State Junior golf tournament four times. She was a runner-up in the United States Junior golf tournament and won the Iowa State Women's Amateur three times.
Along with her sister Sharon FLADOOS, Jacque was in the first group of inductees into the Iowa High School Coaches Association's Hall of Fame Class of 2008.
In 1966 Fladoos, a student at CLARKE COLLEGE, was among the championship qualifiers in the Women's Collegiate Golf Tournament at Ohio State University. The tournament was the equivalent of the NCAA tournament for men without NCAA sanction. (2) In the same year she won her first women's amateur state title. (3) She repeated the win in 1967. (4) Art Cooper and Jacque Fladoos won the state mixed two-ball golf championship in 1966. (5)
Fladoos won the Ladies Golf Invitational at the DUBUQUE GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB in 1967. Fladoos, of the host club, and Judy Lehnis of the Bunker Hill Ladies Golf Association both carded a 72 over the eighteen holes. Fladoos won first place on the first hole of a sudden death playoff. (6) In 1969 she was the winner of the 43rd Iowa Eomen's Amateur Golf Championship. She was unable to defend her title in 1970 due to summer school conflicts. (7)
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Source:
1. Dubuque Senior High School Sports Hall of Fame (1996). Online: http://senior.dbqschools.org/athletics/sports-hall-of-fame/sports-hall-of-fame-1996/
2. "Jacque Fladoos Qualifies with 77," Telegraph Herald, June 21, 1966, p. 9
3. "Jacque Defends State Title," Telegraph Herald, July 16, 1967, p. 15
4. "Mitchell Wins State Amateur," Telegraph Herald, August 15, 1980, p. 9
5. "Cooper-Fladoos Win State Meet," Telegraph Herald, September 4, 1966
6. "Jacque Fladoos Wins Ladies Golf Invitational," Telegraph Herald, August 2, 1967, p. 10
7. "44th Iowa Women's Golf Tourney Opens at Country Club," Telegraph Herald, July 5, 1970, p. 11