<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/out-of-the-rough.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>05/30/2025 12:14:34 PM</pubDate><title>Out of the rough</title><subtitle>Teen who battled baseball-sized brain tumor to become BC3’s first women’s golfer to compete at nationals</subtitle><description>(Butler, PA) At age 8, Taylor Voloch’s world went dark in a third-grade classroom at Dassa McKinney Elementary in West Sunbury — her brain and life threatened by a tumor the size of a baseball. She would face two surgeries, a year of chemotherapy, and physical therapy to learn to walk again, to control her left side again.</description><author/><image-caption>Taylor Voloch, left, of West Sunbury, discusses a shot with Bill Miller, Butler County Community College golf coach, during the Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference championship at the Links at Spring Church in Apollo on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. Voloch, a 19-year-old BC3 psychology student, battled a baseball-sized brain tumor with two surgeries and chemotherapy, took physical therapy to learn to walk and control her left side again, and on Tuesday will become the college’s first women’s golfer to compete in a national championship tournament.</image-caption><tags><tag>Student Success</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2025/voloch-taylor-golf-a.jpg" alt="This is a photograph of a BC3 golfer discussing a shot."/></image></item>