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2021-22 Catamount Men's Golf Roster

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Kyle Kushnir

  • Position Player
  • Class Freshman
  • Hometown Raleigh, N.C.
  • High School Ravenscroft School

Biography

2021-22 (Freshman): Played in six of WCU’s 12 seasonal events – four in the fall and two in the spring, each as a member of WCU’s scoring five … Finished second on the squad overall with a scoring average of 73.72 over 18 rounds, ranked 26th in the final SoCon men’s golf rankings … Posted his career-low round in his collegiate debut, shooting 64 – tied for the second-lowest single-round in program history – at the EKU Intercollegiate … Finished in a career-best fourth-place tie in helping WCU to the team championship in the season opener … Led the Catamount scoring five at the fall semester finale, the Daniel Island Intercollegiate, by shooting 219 (73-72-74) and finishing tied for 21st overall ... Named to the 2021-22 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.

Prior to Western Carolina: Ranked seventh in North Carolina and No. 337 in the class of 2021 at the time of his signing … Finished tied for seventh in the NCISAA 4-A State Championship, earning third-team All-State from HighSchoolOT.com … Earned the Raleigh News & Observer Athlete of the Week honor in March 2021 ... Named to the second-team 2020 North Carolina Boys’ All-State team … Finished third at the 2020 North Carolina Junior Boys and finished eighth at the 2020 Dogwood State Junior (July 2020) … Was a part of the NCISAA 3-A boys’ golf championship team at Ravenscroft ad an eighth-grader in 2017.