Staff Spotlight featuring Communications Coordinator Marie Lipski
Name: Marie Lipski
Hometown: Dacula, GA
Began Full Time: September 2020
College/Graduation date: Auburn University, May 2020
Major/Minor: Journalism, Minors: Photography & Creative Writing
Favorite Teams: Anything Auburn
Favorite food: Chocolate covered strawberries
Who is your favorite artist: AJR
What is your favorite song: Songbird by the Technicolors
Favorite Course you’ve been to: Pebble Beach, would love to go back because I wasn’t even a year old when I went.
What’s your favorite place you played, round of golf, lowest score: The Walker Course, Clemson University, Lowest round of 80 at Maple Ridge Golf Club in Columbus, GA.
What’s one thing people don’t know about you: I am kind of an adrenaline junkie (to an extent). I went skydiving in O’ahu, Hawaii and it was one of the best experiences of my life. Will admit that I almost chickened out but glad I didn’t.
Were you involved in golf before working with the STPGA: I played on my high school golf team. I also interned with the AJGA summer of 2019. In high school I played golf and played the flute in the marching band/concert band.
What’s your favorite way to spend a day off: Go on some kind of adventure.
What would you sing at karaoke night: Probably something by Queen or Mamma Mia. I am a terrible singer but that definitely won’t stop me.
What did you want to be when you were little: I wanted to be either a Cowgirl or an Artist.
What was your first job: I worked at Kohl’s as a cashier.
What’s the farthest you’ve ever been from Texas: Rome, Italy. My Sophomore year of high school, the marching band took a trip to London and Rome over the winter holiday. We marched in a parade in Rome and the New Year’s Parade in London. It rained the entire New Year’s Parade, but the rest of the trip was worth it.
What are some of your favorite hobbies: I love to read (big Harry Potter fan). I love to hike and spend time outdoors. I will always choose being outside versus inside which is one of the great advantages of this job. I like golfing any chance that I get. I definitely enjoy just relaxing and watching a good show. (My favorites are Stranger Things and That 70’s Show)
What’s your favorite golf memory: In 2016, I went to the US Open at Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania and gave Phil Mickelson a high five.
What is your greatest accomplishment/what are you most proud of: Making it on the front page of the Auburn Plainsman newspaper. My senior year of college, I was the Photo Editor for the student newspaper and covered the iron bowl, which we won and my photos covered the whole front page of the newspaper. The whole experience was just exciting and rewarding.
Who is your favorite pga pro? Why?: Either Jordan Spieth, because he became pretty big in golf right around the time I started playing, it is exciting to see him win and work his way back up to the top and I did a whole speech on him in my college public speaking class. Or Viktor Hovland, because he has such a level head on the golf course and always looks like he’s just happy to be out on the course.
What’s your favorite quote: “Why Not?” It’s from a great movie “We Bought a Zoo” and it is something I try to live by everyday, because life is too short to come up with so many excuses as to why not to do something.
