Player: Katherine Schuster

Overview: Has been named to the All-ACC Academic team each of her first two years…played in seven tournaments as a sophomore reserve and starter in six of the nine tournaments as a freshman….improved to a 75.15 stroke average as a sophomore for the Tigers NCAA national tournament team….Clemson’s top player in the tournament victory at the Clover Cup in March 2022 with a top 10 finish…joined Melena Barrientos as a freshman starter on Clemson’s NCAA Tournament team of 2021-22…won medalist honors at the 1A-2A High School State Championships in North Carolina all four years of high school to become just the second four-time state champion in the history of women’s high school golf in North Carolina….she joins Jennifer Chang of Raleigh, NC (2014-17) in that accomplishment…Chang went on to be an All-American at Southern California…Schuster ranked as the #1 player in North Carolina, #7 player in the class of 2021 and the #22 overall player in the nation by AJGA when she signed with Clemson in fall of 2020….in 2018, she won the Drive, Chip and Putt national championship at Augusta National in the 14-15 year-old division…Schuster was named an AJGA Honorable Mention All-American in 2020… one of her signature wins took place at the Arizona Silver Belle in November of 2019 when she led all amateurs, junior and collegiate players….she also won the Dixie Amateur, CGA Twin States, The North-South Junior Amateur, The Beth Daniel Azalea, The Hope Valley Championship (twice), and the North Carolina Junior Girls Championship over the last three years….qualified for the 2021 US Women ‘s Amateur on July 6, 2021 with a second-place finish out of 65 players with a score of even par 72 at Carolina Trace (Lake Course) in Sanford, NC…her score has counted 19 of 31 team rounds.