Marc Foto ’12, By the Numbers
Although he was given a set of golf clubs for his 15th birthday, it would take another 17 years for Marc Foto ’12 to pursue a professional golf career. Now known as the “long drive lawyer,” the attorney-turned-athlete found a hidden ability in this sport that champions whoever can hit the ball the farthest.
181.8 mph:On his first attempt, Foto recorded a staggering ball speed of 181.8 mph. “The average on the PGA Tour at that time for how fast the ball leaves the club on a driver was 167 mph. Having not picked up a club in nine months, having never taken a lesson before in my life, the first time I was on the [Trackman simulator], I hit 181.8 mph. So, I’m like, ‘That’s pretty cool.’”
201 mph:Fastest ball speed, after training
4/2021: “I started training, and I entered my first-ever long drive event a couple of months later in April 2021. I just walked up there and hit the ball, and I won.”
32: Age when he quit his law firm to become a professional long drive golfer. “I have to see what’s here for me. If I don’t do this, I’m going to regret it for the rest of my life.”
15+: Number of golf club shafts that Foto has snapped
9th: Finished place in the 2023 Amateur World Championships
108th: Current world ranking
389 yards: Longest drive
Seven: Foto and his friends play the Seven Oaks golf course every year
Taking Charge
For being the record holder as the all-time leading scorer of Colgate Women’s Ice Hockey and the second overall pick in the 2024 Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) draft, Danielle Serdachny ’24 is surprisingly humble. She’ll tell you, for example, that one of the highlights of her playing career was winning the gold medal with Team Canada in Utica last spring, but she won’t be the one to bring up the fact that she scored the game-winning goal. More about Serdachny:
→Hometown: Edmonton, Alberta
→Position: forward
→Height:5’9″
→Recruited to play for Colgate Women’s Ice Hockey; captained the team her senior and fifth years (she earned an extra year because of the pandemic)
→Played 179 regular season games for Colgate, finishing as theprogram’s all-time leading scorer, with 238 points
→At the PWHL draft in Saint Paul, Minn., last June, Serdachny was presented with her Ottawa Charge stick by Billie Jean King and Ilana Kloss (who were integral in founding the PWHL).
→Hockey News called Serdachny “the best pro from this draft… Serdachny has outproduced every NCAA player in this draft over the past three seasons, and in fact, stretching back to 2021–22, she was already outproducing many of the current pros in the PWHL.”
→She’s the first female ambassador for the Edmonton Oilers’ Every Kid Deserves a Shot organization, serving as a role model for young players.
→Learned from the best: Her dad was a longtime skating and skills coach for the Oilers.