Tiger Woods was giving high fives and embraces in the crowd on Saturday when her daughter Sam Woods and the Benjamin School girls' soccer team won the Florida 2A FHSAA state championship.
Sam, a 17-year-old senior at Benjamin School in Palm Beach and the team captain, helped beat Jacksonville's Episco Pulse School 1-0 at Speck Martin Stadium in Deland, Florida, winning the program's first state title.
The father-daughter duo shared a sweet embrace and was seen hugging in a video filmed by Palm Beach Post.
Freshman Emma Bartoli scored the only goal in the game.
The Buccaneers' defense, led by Sam and her best friend, fellow senior Emily Simon, was key in the team's championship run.
“The defense led the team all year round,” said Benjamin head coach Hilary Carney. “I knew I would leave the door closed and not get a score and get one, maybe two. So it's really a stubborn defense that Emily has in the finish line and Sam is just the senior that calms everything down.”
Sam will attend Stanford University in the fall.
It was Cinderella season for the Buccaneers.
The women's varsity soccer team only won four games during the regular season before winning seven games in a row in the postseason.
The Buccaneers defeated the region's top seed King Academy twice, hitting state champion Lakeland Christian four times for the title.
The start of Woods' next PGA tour is still in question.
Sam joined his younger brother Charlie after helping Benjamin secure a golf title as a freshman in 2023.
Woods, 49, shares Sam and Charlie, 16, with his ex-wife, Erin Nordegren.
