University of North Carolina Athletics
UNC Women's Golf Inks Two Recruits
November 21, 2007 | Women's Golf
Nov. 21, 2007
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - North Carolina women's golf coach Sally Austin announced Wednesday the signing of Catherine O'Donnell, from Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.., and Allie White, from Lancaster, Ohio, who will join the Tar Heel team in the fall of 2008.
"We are excited to announce that Allie and Catherine will join our team in the fall of 2008," says Austin. "Both are incredible athletes, having had success in high school in several sports and having won junior golf tournaments at the national level. They have shown they are both extraordinary athletes, students and leaders. We are thrilled they have chosen to become Tar Heels."
O'Donnell, who attended Nease High School, was the 2007 Optimist Junior Champion after finishing fourth in 2006. She advanced to the second round of the 2007 U.S. Women's Amateur and was named the High School Golfer of the Year in 2005 and 2006 by the St. Augustine Record. O'Donnell finished third at the 2007 Women's Western National Junior Championship. She has been the starting goalie on the Nease High School soccer team for the last three years (2005, 2006, 2007) and was voted Best Female Athlete at Nease High School.
White, currently ranked seventh in the Golfweek Rankings, is a 2007 Rolex Junior First-Team All-America. She lettered at Lancaster High School and was the Ohio state high school champion in 2006 and 2007. A member of the 2007 Junior Solheim Cup Team, White won the 2006 Hudson Junior Invitational, was the runner-up at the 2007 McDonald's Betsy Rawls Championship, tied for fifth place at the 2007 Rolex Junior Girls Championship and placed fifth at the 2007 Westfield Junior PGA Championship. She is a two-time HP Scholastic All-America, in 2006 and 2007, and received an invitation to compete in the Germany matches. Also in 2007, White played #2 on the Lancaster High School's boys championship tennis team.
