Walker Jennings – University of South Carolina Athletics

AWARDS/HONORS

 

2022-23 (FRESHMAN)

 

PRIOR TO SOUTH CAROLINA

• Ranked seventh in the final SCJGA rankings for the 2022 class
• Played at Christ Church Episcopal (Greenville, S.C.) ; all-state, all-region and all-county selection for the Cavaliers, helping them to four state titles
• Helped lead Christ Church to victory at the coveted 2021 Southern Cross tournament
• 2022 SCHSL Region 1 Champion and 2022 SCHSL AA Individual State Champion helping team to a state title as well ; shot 67-68 in the state finals winning by six shots over his brother and teammate, William
• Took 1^st at The Players Championship (SCJGA) in November of 2021, winning in a playoff
• Finished T-7^th at the 27^th Bobby Chapman Junior Invite (SCJGA)
• Won the 2021 SCJGA Grant Bennett Junior at Florence Country Club
• Took ninth at the North and South Junior

PERSONAL

• Son of Clayton and Mahaley Jennings – has a younger sister, Annie, and a pair of younger brothers, William and Heyward
• Sister Annie also a student-athlete at South Carolina on the women’s tennis team
• Comes from athletic family as both his parents played tennis at Furman ; has an aunt that played tennis at Florida and an uncle that played football at Wofford
• Enrolled in the business school with an undecided major