2025-26 Women's Golf Roster
Katie Vu
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Fairfax Station, Va.
- High School:
- Robinson Secondary School
2024-25: Averaged 73.82 over 22 rounds in eight tournaments • Entered the starting lineup in the ACC Championship and NCAA regional • Shot par or better nine times with a season-best 69 in the first round of the Yale Invi-tational West in La Quinta, Calif., and 69 in the final round in the ACC Championship • Best finish was a tie for 10th at even-par 213 in the Cavalier Regional Preview • Shot 140 (71-69) over the final two rounds in the ACC Championship • Was Carolina’s second-best finisher in the NCAA Norman Regional, tying for 26th place at 4-over 220 • Shot 72-70 in the first two rounds in the regional to enter the final round tied for ninth • Member of the ACC Honor Roll.
Prep/Amateur: In 2025, finished 10th in the Women’s Open of Virginia and 18th in the Donna Andrews Invitational and VSGA Amateur • Attended Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax Station, where she played for Coach Marvin Sim • Captained her co-ed team to its first Class 6A state title in 2023 • Shot 5-under 67 to win the 2023 Virginia state championship at Twin Lakes Golf Club in Clifton, Va. • Made the all-state co-ed team and the girls all-state team in 2022 and 2023 • First-team All-MET in 2023 • Won the 2023 Peggy Kirk Bell Junior at the Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C. • Five top-10 finishes in AJGA events, five top-five finishes in Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Tour events and won four times on the Mid-Atlantic PGA Tour • Qualified for the Mid-Atlantic PGA Capital Cup, a mixed team event against Maryland, where she won all three of her matches • Selected to represent her home state in the 2023 and 2024 Mid-Atlantic Challenge and scored five points • Played three years in the Poindexter Team Matches and scored 4.5 points • Finished second at the 2022 Optimist International Junior Golf Championship and the 2021 Bobby Bowers Memorial Junior Championship and won the 2022 PKBGT Dupont Girls Classic.
Personal: Born Katie Elizabeth Vu on Feb. 26, 2006, in Fairfax Station, Va. • Daughter of Nhan and Wendy Vu • Has one brother, Matthew • Wendy played tennis at Davidson • President of the National Honor Society and won a Scholastic Art Silver Key for exceptional ability in art and writing • Hobbies include creating art architecture, baking and cooking • Also enjoys playing ping pong and basketball • Favorite foods are tofu and her father’s fried rice • Favorite vacation spot is Sea Island, Ga. • Listens to most music except rock • Favorite non-golf athlete is gymnast Suni Lee.
Low competitive round is 5-under 67 in 2024 at the Lakes Course at Twin Lakes Golf Club • Favorite courses are the Plantation and Seaside Courses at Sea Island Golf Club • Favorite golfer is Lilia Vu because they share a surname and Lilia hits the ball far • Uses the same pink sharpie to mark her ball • Go-to club under pressure is the driver • Best shot was a hole out from the pine straw for an eagle 2 at the Longleaf Golf Course in Southern Pines • Dream pairing is with Xander Schauffele, Lilia Vu and Collin Morikawa.
