Gary Hartman takes over as Cardinal girls' golf coach

Gary Hartman knows all about fixing things as the head of maintenance for the Medical Lake School District.

Now the hope is the avid golfer can translate some of those skills to coaching the Cardinal girls’ in their defense of the Northeast A League title.

Hartman takes over the program for Ivan Gustafson who accepted a teaching job last year closer to home at Mead. And like golf coaches before him, he’s trying to get players ready for NEA – and hopefully state – competition with time limited by weather.

“There has not been a lot of time on the course so far other than practice,” Hartman said....