Kathryn Carson - Men's Golf Coach - East Carolina University Athletics

Kathryn Carson

Title:
Assistant Coach Men's & Women's Golf
Email:
carsonka23@ecu.edu

Four-time letterwinner Kathryn Carson has returned to Greenville as the assistant coach of the East Carolina women’s golf team effective June 12, 2023.

The Mooresville, N.C. native was a decorated golfer during her time as a Pirate competing in 140 rounds during her collegiate career and stood among the top 10 on eight occasions while carrying a 74.85 stroke average, which currently ranks fifth all-time in program history.

In her first season with the Pirates, Carson compiled a scoring average of 74.31 and carded three top 10 finishes and 10 rounds of par or better in route to being named AAC Freshman of the Year in 2018 and earning the Kristi Overton Award, which is awarded to a freshman female athlete at ECU with outstanding academic and athletic performance. As a sophomore, Carson finished second on the team in scoring average (74.15), highlighted by a top 10 finish at the Minnesota Invitational (5-under par 211) and Shot 72 or lower 11 times on the year to earn a spot on the AAC All-Conference First Team.

Carson competed in seven events during the 2019-20 campaign with a scoring average of 75.40 before the reminder of the season was canceled due the COVID-19 pandemic. Her lowest round of the season was 4-under par 68 during the final round of the Lady Puerto Rico Classic and she tied for the team lead at the Cardinal Cup at 6-over par 222.

After only competing in six events for the following season, Carson closed out her collegiate career on a strong note as she competed in all 11 events and carded four top 10 finishes for the third-lowest scoring average on the team (74.52) to earn a spot on the All-AAC Team. In her final collegiate event, Carson led ECU with a three-round total of 224 to share a seventh-place finish at the AAC Championships in Pinehurst. Carson has claimed victories at the 2017 North Carolina Junior Girls Championship and 2019 North Carolina Women’s Amateur Championship and was a 2021 participant at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships.

Carson excelled in the classroom as well as she earned selection to the AAC All-Academic Team four times (2018-21), was tabbed a Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) Division I Scholar All-American in 2018 and was named the AAC Women’s Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2022. She graduated from ECU in 2021 with a bachelor of arts in psychology and a minor in exercise in sports science and recently earned her master’s in industrial and organizational psychology in May of 2023.