NCHSAA Crowns Women’s Golf State Champions Newton-Conover’s Celeste Little tied for 5th place in 1A/2A event; Little ends prep career with 2 program state titles
CHAPEL HILL – The North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s Women’s Golf Championships concluded on Tuesday at three different sites across the state.
At the 3A Championship, South Brunswick’s Jillian Fatkin came home with an even par 36 on the back nine at the Red Course at the Foxfire Resort and Golf Club (Par 72/5,577 yards) to win the NCHSAA individual championship by two strokes over a three-way tie for second.
Fatkin is the first Cougar to claim a women’s golf individual title.
South Central senior Haley Paramore, Jacksonville junior Sanaa Carter and Hibriten’s Trinity White tied for second as they all posted 11-over, 155. Fike senior Bree Council and South Central freshman Mary McCarlie tied for fifth.
South Central captured the team title by 28 strokes over Hibriten for the first
NCHSAA Women’sGolf State Championship in school history. Southern Alamance edged defending champion Fike by one stroke for third place. Lake Norman Charter was one shot behind Fike to round out the top five.
The NCHSAA is committed to recognizing outstanding sportsmanship in each of our State Championship events. The Association has partnered with North Carolina Farm Bureau to award a pair of Sportsmanship Awards at each championship event, recognizing players who have demonstrated the ideals of outstanding character and sportsmanship throughout the 2023 season. The winners of the 3A Women’s Golf NC Farm Bureau Sportsmanship Awards are Trinity White from Hibriten and Peyton Nichols from South Central.
At the 1A/2A State Championship at Stonebridge Golf Club (Par 72/5,248 yards) Pine Lake Prep earned its first NCHSAA Women’s Golf Team Championship by finishing 16 shots ahead of Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy.
Pine Lake Prep was powered by a second-place finish from freshman Paisley Freda, who carded a 77, the second-best round of the day on Tuesday.
The best round of day two, and day one for that matter, came from Malerie Lague, a junior from Christ the King and the newest 1A/2A NCHSAA Women’s Golf State
Champion. Lague fired a 72-75 to win the event by nine strokes. She is the first women’s golfer from Christ the King to claim an individual title.
East Duplin senior Beaty Lanier fished in third and Bradford Prep’s Emily Rosenchein took fourth. Newton-Conover’s Celeste Little and West Lincoln’s Melony Hoffman finished tied for fifth (shot a 164).
The NCHSAA is committed to recognizing outstanding sportsmanship in each of our State Championship events. The Association has partnered with North Carolina Farm Bureau to award a pair of Sportsmanship Awards at each championship event, recognizing players who have demonstrated the ideals of outstanding character and sportsmanship throughout the 2023 season. The winners of the 1A/2A Women’s Golf NC Farm Bureau Sportsmanship Awards are Delaney Kinter from Thomas Jefferson and Taylor Pike form Pine Lake Prep.