Sadena Parks, a former Bethel High School student-athlete who now competes on the LPGA women's golf tour, played some of her best golf of the 2015 season during a return to the Pacific Northwest last month. Parks was two over par for four rounds of the Cambia Portland Classic at Columbia Edgewater Country Club in Portland Aug. 13-16. And while she finished in a tie for 69th place, it was a step forward in the LPGA rookie's development. She made the 36-hole cut and played all 72 holes for only the fourth time in 16 tournaments this year, but it was her second made-cut in a row, including another 69th-place finish in the Meijer Classic in July. Parks' best finish so far is a tie for 22nd in the KPMG Women's PGA Championship in June. She finished that tournament with a 67, her lowest one-round score of the season. After the Portland stop, Parks ranked 107th on the tour's money-winning list with $50,154. Parks, who now calls Raleigh, N.C. home, graduated in 2008 from Bethel, where she won two state high school girls individual championships. She later played for the University of Washington before turning pro. Last year, she starred on a Golf Channel national cable television reality show, "Big Break Florida.GÇ¥
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