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2024-25 Catamount Women's Golf Roster

Mark Haskett
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Mark Haskett

Kaitlyn Wingnean

  • Hometown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Class Senior

Biography

Career: Competed in 29 stroke-play events with a 79.67 scoring average over 84 combined rounds.

2024-25 (Senior): Played in six events on the year, completing 15 combined rounds with a seasonal stroke average of 84.27 … Carded her best seasonal round of 78 over the first 18 holes at the Tiger Classic in the fall … Posted a season-best finish in a tie for 33rd at The Robbie, hosted by Lipscomb … Competed in the first two rounds of the 2025 SoCon Women’s Golf Championship before being substituted for the final 18 holes ... Named to the Spring 2025 Academic All-Southern Conference team ... Named to the 2024-25 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.
 
2023-24 (Junior): Competed in nine of the team’s 10 events on the season, eight in stroke-play and one in match-play … Played five events unattached as an individual … Finished with a seasonal scoring average of 80.38 over 24 rounds … 12 of her seasonal rounds were carded in the 70s with a season-low round of 69 over the final 18 holes at the Jupiter Women’s Invitational in Florida … Recorded her season-best finish in the opener in Japan, coming home after a 27th-place finish at the Pan Pacific Collegiate Super League event.

2022-23 (Sophomore): Played in nine of the team’s 11 tournaments – five as an individual and four as a part of the team’s scoring five including four straight to conclude the season … Finished the year with a seasonal scoring average of 77.56 over 27 rounds … A combined 20 of her 27 rounds were carded in the 70s including two rounds at 72 … Posted a pair of top-10 finishes including her career-best fifth-place showing at the Aggie Invitational, carding her second-best 54-hole score of 222 (72-75-75) … Recorded a sixth-place showing at the Mimosa Hills Intercollegiate ... Named to the Spring 2023 Academic All-Southern Conference team ... Named to the 2022-23 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll ... Selected as a 2022-23 WGCA All-American Scholar.

2021-22 (Freshman): Competed in six of WCU’s eight stroke-play tournaments on the season … Finished the year with a scoring average of 78.06 over 18 rounds to finish fourth on the team and 36th in the final SoCon rankings … Shot 12 of her 18 seasonal rounds in the 70s-or-better including a career-low round of 68 shot in the first round of the Mimosa Hills Intercollegiate in the spring, recording her career-best finish in a tie for 16th … Made her collegiate debut at the season-opening F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate … Posted a 4-2 record in her six individual matches in the two match-play events ... Selected as a 2021-22 WGCA All-American Scholar ... Named to the 2021-22 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll.

Prior to Western Carolina: Earned position onto Interprovincial team to represent Alberta at the Canadian Junior Girls Championships three consecutive years ... Earned a spot on Team Alberta for Junior Girls America’s Cup and for Western Canada Summer Games ... Won the Juvenile Provincial Championship and placed second in Alberta’s (U18) Junior Girls Championship in 2019 … Posted a third-place finish at the 2018 Alberta Junior & Juvenile Girls Championships … Won Edmonton High School Championship in 2019 and helped her high school team win Provincials in 2018 and 2019 ... Finished 10th at the Alberta Ladies Amateur in 2017 … Won six of seven events in 2017 on the McLennan Ross Junior Tour as a 14-year-old ...  Alberta Bantam Girls Player of the Year in 2017 … Earned the McLennan Ross Junior Golf Tour’s Srixon Order of Merit three-straight years … Was an accomplished National level Rhythmic gymnast prior to specializing in golf.  

Personal: Is the daughter of Karen and Dr. David Wingnean … Has two younger sisters, Alexa and Delainey, who also play competitive golf ... Was the captain of her 2019 high school Bike-A-Thon fundraiser - collectively as a school, raised more than $500K to the charity, Doctors Without Borders, the largest high school fundraiser in North America.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

  • 2022-23Sophomore

  • 2023-24Junior

  • 2024-25Senior