‘Big Break’ contestant still looking for hers

If Shannon Fish’s life had gone according to her original plan, she wouldn’t be golfing on a Wednesday afternoon.

“Probably just be working at a law firm somewhere in Houston,” said Fish, laughing. “Picking up dry cleaning and filing papers.”

The 2010 graduate from the University of Texas put a law career on hold to take a shot at professional golf. She is playing this week at the Texas Women’s Open, a tournament she won as an amateur in 2007. Read more.

Experience Is An Arc

My adventure on Big Break Atlantis was breath taking, frightening, thrilling and overall, simply wonderful. Participating in Big Break was an enormous undertaking that frequently leaves me speechless when people ask me what the experience was like. Frankly, it was unlike anything I have ever experienced and will quite possibly remain in a category all by itself for the rest of my life.

I cannot recall an event, golf or not, in my brief 23 years that has evoked loads of emotions in such a fleeting amount of time. Confusion, uncertainty, exhilaration, frustration, dejection all overcame me in just a few days. I am certain, however, that I would by no means trade my time in Atlantis for anything. Read more.