Katherine (Perry) Hamski, a 2012 All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection and seven-year veteran of the LPGA Tour, is joining the University of North Carolina women’s golf team as assistant coach, head coach Aimee Neff announced today.
Hamski played in 41 tournaments as a Tar Heel from 2010-14 and was a member of Carolina’s 2011 team that won the ACC Championship her freshman season.
The Cary, N.C., native tied for fifth in the 2014 ACC Championship, placed sixth in 2011 and played in two NCAA Championships, where she tied for 24th as a freshman and eighth as a sophomore. She earned seven top 10s, including third-place efforts at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate as a sophomore and the UCF Challenge as a junior.
“Katherine wants nothing more than to help her alma mater contend for and win ACC and national championships,” says Neff. “Her knowledge, passion, demeanor, adaptability and work ethic all will be assets to our program, and we are thrilled to have her back at UNC.”
A two-time captain of the Tar Heels, she earned honorable mention All-America honors in 2012, made the ACC Honor Roll four times and was a three-time member of the Academic All-ACC team.
“I am so excited to be back at the University of North Carolina with the incredible opportunity to combine my love of this University with the golf knowledge I’ve learned over seven years playing professionally on the LPGA Tour,” says Hamski, who was a volunteer assistant with the Tar Heels this season during the spring semester. “I’m looking forward to working with Aimee to help our amazing student-athletes reach their goals, both academically and on the golf course.”
A 2014 UNC graduate (exercise and sports science and psychology), Hamski played two seasons on the Symetra Tour and joined the LPGA Tour in 2017. She also is a member of the Board of Directors at Girls Golf of America and is a tournament assistant with the Peggy Kirk Bell Golf Tour.
She has two career top-10 finishes on the LPGA Tour, including a tie for sixth in the 2019 Volunteers for America Classic, when she shot 66 in the third round.
Hamski attended Athens Drive High School in Cary where she won the 2009 North Carolina 4-A state championship. She and her husband, Kevin, have a two-year-old son, John.
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