Photos by Parrish Ruiz De Velasco
Steph and Gary Amel la of Castle Rock did not set out to raise a golf family. So perhaps it is not entirely a surprise that as their two children grew – Gavin, now 18, and Aiven, 15 – each ended up focusing on golf. Amel la said she and her husband made the conscious decision to let their children play whatever they wanted, but each gradually drifted back to the game of golf.
Steph is a first-grade teacher at Soaring Hawk Elementary School and grew up in Pueblo considering golf as something of a leisure activity. Her game was tennis, and she was very good at it, playing for the CSU Pueblo team in college…