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USA Today
07-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Top seniors head to Grandover for Golfweek Senior National Championship
Top seniors head to Grandover for Golfweek Senior National Championship Grandover Resort has a rich history when it comes to hosting college golf events. The Greensboro, North Carolina, resort has welcomed everything from the NCAA Division III National Championship to NCAA Division I Men's Regionals to the ACC Women's Golf Championship. And now, once again, it's the seniors' turn. Two years after extensive course renovations, Grandover will welcome a national field of senior amateurs for the Golfweek Senior National Championship. The 54-hole tournament will be played June 9-11 and players will compete in the usual four age divisions: Senior (ages 55-64), Super Senior (65-69), Legends (70-74) and Super Legends (75 and over). The tournament will take place on Grandover's East Course, which features many tree-lined fairways as well as several holes that have a 'stadium-type effect.' The East, as well as Grandover's neighboring West Course, was designed by David Graham and Gary Panks. A year ago, Trent Gregory won the senior division title after making birdie on the first extra hole against Michael Arasin. But neither Gregory nor Arasin will not be in the field this week, clearing the way for a new Senior Division winner. Undoubtedly, the favorite entering the event is Bryan Hoops, a Tempe, Arizona, resident who turned 56 in February and made his debut on the Golfweek senior circuit the same month. Hoops lost to Bob Royak, a former U.S. Senior Amateur champion, after a lengthy playoff at the Golfweek Pirates Classic but then won back-to-back Golfweek senior events in the Southern California desert in April. After that he just kept on winning, claiming the Society of Seniors' Senior Masters trophy days after his Golfweek wins. Hoops also won the Trans-Mississippi Senior Championship in Rancho Mirage, California, and the Huddleston Cup in Carrollton, Texas, earlier this year. The senior division, however, also includes two-time defending Golfweek Senior Player of the Year Kevin VandenBerg, who won this event in 2022. VandenBerg and Hoops are Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, in the Golfweek National Senior Amateur Rankings. In the Super Senior division, the top four players in the Golfweek rankings will all tee it up: Marcus Beck, Greg Goode, James Starnes and Stevie Cannady. That division also includes 2023 champion Bob Edens. Golfweek's top-ranked Legends player, Greg Osborne, is among the field in that division at Grandover and so is No. 2-ranked Jeff Knox. Defending champion George Owens is back in the Super Legends division.
Boston Globe
16-04-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
Weston family killed in N.Y. plane crash laid to rest in funeral service
The Advertisement The crash is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. The cause of the crash has not been determined. NTSB officials said Advertisement NTSB officials said the pilot 'reported a missed approach' and asked air traffic control for a new approach plan. Traffic controllers reached out to the pilot three additional times to relay a low altitude alert, but there was no response, officials said. No distress call was made from the plane. Michael Groff was certified to pilot commercial aircraft as well as private aircraft, according to Federal Aviation Administration records. Groff's family said flying was his longtime passion, learning from his father when he was 16. Groff and Saini were longtime surgeons in Boston. Groff was a top neuroscientist at Mass General Brigham until last summer when he took over as the executive medical director of neurosciences at Their children, Karenna and Jared, were accomplished student-athletes embarking on their careers. Karenna Groff was a four-year starter for MIT's soccer team and in 2022 was named NCAA Woman of the Year. While studying at MIT, she worked with Dr. Mustafa Sahin at Boston Children's Hospital, searching for a genetic understanding — and possible cures — for epilepsy. Groff followed her academic successes at MIT with admission to New York University Medical School's highly selective program for accelerated study in neuroscience. Jared Groff graduated from Swarthmore College in 2022, where he was a member of the basketball team and helped squads that won a Centennial Conference championship and reached the NCAA Division III National Championship game for the first time in program history. Before college, Groff was a 1,000-point scorer in his basketball career at Weston High School. Groff was working as a paralegal in New York and was preparing to enter law school next fall. Advertisement The family's youngest daughter, Anika, who was not on the plane, is set to graduate high school this year. Jared Groff and Alexia Couyutas Duarte were both graduates of Swarthmore College. Couyutas Duarte Family Alexia Couyutas Duarte, Jared Groff's partner, also graduated from Swarthmore and planned to attend Harvard Law School this fall. Couyutas Duarte began her career as a legal intake specialist at the Rian Immigrant Center in Boston and most recently worked as a paralegal in the pro bono initiative unit at MetroWest Legal Services in Framingham, Swarthmore officials said. James Santoro, Karenna Groff's boyfriend, was also a recent MIT graduate, earning a bachelor's degree in finance in 2022 and playing lacrosse. They met when they were MIT freshmen, and Santoro planned to propose to Groff this summer, according to his father, John Santoro. Santoro grew up in Tewksbury, N.J. Nick Stoico can be reached at
CBS News
14-04-2025
- General
- CBS News
Multiple members of Swarthmore College community killed in New York small plane crash
Multiple family members and three alumni of a Pennsylvania college community were killed in a small plane crash in Copake, New York, Saturday afternoon. In a statement Monday, Swarthmore College identified the members of the school community as Alexia Couyutas Duarte, Jared Groff and Groff's parents, Michael Groff and Joy Saini, and sister Karenna Groff and her partner, James Santoro. The six victims were going to a Passover celebration for the weekend. The plane, which was a twin-engine Mitsubishi MU-2B, left Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, and was heading to Columbia County Airport in Hudson, New York, when it crashed. It's still unclear what caused the crash. Swarthmore College remembered the three "extraordinary" alumni in an announcement to the school community. According to the Delaware County college, Duarte was a Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree in economics and political science. The 2023 graduate recently worked as a paralegal in the pro bono initiative unit at MetroWest Legal Services in Miami, Florida, and planned to attend Harvard Law School in the fall. Jared Groff also graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics and political science. The 2022 graduate played on the men's basketball team and reached the NCAA Division III National Championship during his time at Swarthmore. He most recently worked as a paralegal at DW Partners in New York and also planned to attend law school in the fall. Michael Groff was a neurosurgeon and served as the executive medical director of neuroscience at Rochester Regional Health in New York. He and his wife, Saini, a pelvic surgeon, met at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The couple is survived by their daughter, Anika, who was accepted to Swarthmore's class of 2029, according to the school. Duarte is survived by her sister, Ariana Couyutas Duarte, who was studying abroad at the time of the crash. "Our hearts go out to the families and friends of those we lost on Saturday, and to everyone affected by their tragic passing. Please join us in sending them peace and light," the announcement read in part. Swarthmore College said it plans to honor and remember the lives lost from their community when the time is right and when their families feel it's most meaningful.
