TYGA Announces 2014 N.C. Girls' All-State Teams

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. -- 30 young ladies have been named to the 2014 N.C. Girls' All-State Golf Team by the Tarheel Youth Golf Association and the Carolinas Golf Association honoring those junior golfers who have had the most success in amateur and junior golf events at the local, state, regional and national levels over the past 12 months.

The girls' first team is led by Gina Kim of Chapel Hill, the 2014 N.C. Junior Girls’ Player of the Year.  Kim, a high school freshman, won the Ballantyne Junior Girls' Open in February, was the medalist in the USGA US Junior Girls' qualifying in June along with winning the NCHSAA 3A central regional this past October.  Also named to the first team are Catherine Ashworth of Fuquay-Varina, Jennifer Chang of Cary, Holly McCann of Raleigh, Emilia Migliaccio of Cary, Anna Redding of Concord, Siranon Shoomee of Sanford, Carolinas Golf Association Junior Girls' Player of the Year Jessica Spicer of Bahama, Sarah Spicer of Bahama and Grace Yatawara of Salisbury.

2014 N.C. All-State Girls' Golf Team

 

First Team

Catherine Ashworth
Fuquay-Varina

  Jennifer Chang
Cary

  Gina Kim
Chapel Hill

  Holly McCann
Raleigh

  Emilia Migliaccio
Cary

  Anna Redding
Concord

  Siranon Shoomee
Sanford

  Jessica Spicer
Bahama

  Sarah Spicer
Bahama

  Grace Yatawara
Salisbury

Second Team

Rhea Bhatia
Wake Forest

  Kathryn Carson
Mooresville

  Killian Casson
Greenville

  Annie Collom
Davidson

  Savannah Gowarty
Raleigh

  Grace Massengill
Hickory

  Madison Moosa
Charlotte

  Callista Rice
Mars Hill

  Isabella Rusher
Salisbury

  Haeley Wotnosky
Wake Forest

Third Team

Moon Cheong
Charlotte

  Carley Cox
China Grove

  Kendall Dobbins
Summerfield

  Joliana Elias
Jamestown

  Hailey Freedman
Chapel Hill

  Abbey Hartsell
Hickory

  Morgan Laird
Waxhaw

  Anna McDonald
Hickory

  Elizabeth Nguyen
Pinehurst

Samantha Vodry
Mooresville


To be eligible, girls must have played in a minimum of five TYGA N.C. rankings events in 2014.  The awards were determined by a combination of each player's scoring differential and the total points earned in the rankings events.

These outstanding juniors will be honored at the N.C. Junior Golf Night Awards Banquet on Saturday, February 21, 2015 at Pine Needles Resort in Southern Pines, NC.

 
About the Tarheel Youth Golf Association :
The Tarheel Youth Golf Association (TYGA), a division of the Carolinas Golf Association, a 501 (c) 3 organization, provides playing opportunities for its members, conducts educational seminars and events, acts as a junior golf informational clearinghouse, provides free USGA handicaps to junior golfers in North Carolina, recruits sponsor clubs that grant junior access to golf facilities in North Carolina, publishes monthly North Carolina junior rankings, and awards Junior Player of the Year and All-State awards to the top juniors in North Carolina.  Membership is open to any boy or girl who are legal residents of N.C; are 18 years of age and under; and who have not started college.

 

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