BROOKINGS — When it comes to the game of golf, Delilah Fuls can do it all. She can drive the ball far off the tee. She can put the ball on the green with her short game. She can sink a putt in a big moment and she can teach others how to improve their game.

In many ways, Fuls’s game is multi-faceted. But it pales in comparison to how she navigated her high school career and how she’s approaching her collegiate career at the University of Sioux Falls.

Like many standouts, Fuls was introduced to golf at a young age. Her grandfather, Steve Pierce and father Jeff Fuls played regularly and Delilah found it as a way to spend more time with them.

“When I was younger, I was a big dad’s girl so I always wanted to be with my dad and he would always be golfing,” Fuls recalled. “I just felt like I always wanted to golf with him and be around him while he was doing that.”

Fuls eventually fell in love with the game and began a career of her own. After spending a good chunk of her childhood on the course, Fuls joined the Brookings golf team in sixth grade and a year later, she made a new goal to play golf collegiately.

“I always dreamed of going to college for any sport that I did, but when I started getting offers and I knew that I was doing well and getting better in golf and that I loved the sport, I knew that was what I was going to do,” Fuls said. “That was the one sport I loved and I knew I could just keep going and it would pay off.”

With her new goal in mind, Fuls dedicated herself to getting better. In eighth grade, she started working with a swing coach at the Sanford Sports Academy. In ninth grade, she started visiting with collegiate coaches. She continued to play year-round and made the trip down to Sioux Falls in the winter to continue improving her game and she began to get offers during her junior year.

But while Fuls was working on her golf game, she was managing the tasks of being a three-sport student-athlete. Fuls was a member of the Brookings Cheer team, which finished fourth at the state meet last fall and finished 11th as an All-Around gymnast at the Class AA State Tournament last winter.

In addition to earning all-academic honors in all three sports, Brookings golf coach Holly Sebern believes Fuls' work ethic has not only helped her thrive in golf but succeed in other sports as well.

“Players just don’t get to where they are with just practicing during the season,” Sebern said. “I love her dedication to the sport. I love how she tries to take lessons year round and she fosters other people’s learning as well.”

Fuls had a strong senior season as the MVP of the Bobcat golf team and an All-Eastern South Dakota Conference Selection. She finished first at the Sioux Falls Triangular on April 9 and finished third at the Pierre Invitational on April 23 and the Watertown Invitational on May 14 while racking up five top-10 finishes.

But her accolades in tournaments — which included a 12th-place finish at the Class AA State Tournament — are just part of the story. During her six years with the Bobcat golf program and four as a member of the varsity team, she became tight-knit with her teammates and even helped coach them up during the season.

“She’s been the leader of our team for years,” Sebern said. “That’s who I go to when I need to get the other athletes grouped up or I need to have her send out a message of me. There’s only one of me, so once she’s done with practice, I might tell her to go look at some of the other girls to check out their swing and give them a little bit of advice.”

Even once the season ended, Fuls continued to help others, serving as an instructor at the Bobcat golf summer camp while continuing to work on her own game and Sebern considered Fuls as “a little bit of an assistant” as she helped her teammates.

“People listen to her because she knows what she’s talking about and she has a way of saying it so that they get excited about it,” Sebern said. “She just has a way of showing them what could make it easier and they relate to her. She’s fostering their abilities as well as being an outstanding leader for everybody.”

Fuls’s leadership has also forged a strong relationship with Sebern. A golfer at South Dakota State, Sebern has given Fuls plenty of advice on how to succeed at the next level while also helping her and the rest of the team navigate their way through high school.

“I think just throughout the years, she taught me so much about golf and just being a person,” Fuls said. “Growing up around her was really good for me. She’s just a coach that everyone would want to have.”

That relationship is the same for Sebern, who got emotional as Fuls finished her final high school round at the State Tournament earlier this month.

“It’s tough when you graduate someone that’s been there and so close to you,” Sebern said. “I work at the high school so, she’ll always come in at advisory, stop by and send me little notes and stick them on my desk. She’s a great kid. Inside and out.”

Fuls is excited to get her collegiate career going at Sioux Falls and plans on majoring in radiology. While the game of golf has given her a lot, she plans on giving back with the possibility of becoming a high school coach herself.

It would be another hat of many that Fuls has worn during her career and one she expects to wear for many years to come.