Katherine Hamski

Biography

Katherine (Perry) Hamski, a 2012 All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection and seven-year veteran of the LPGA Tour, is in her third season as assistant coach at her alma mater. 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. She is the most recent Tar Heel to finish in the top 10 in an NCAA Championship, tying for eighth in 2012 at the Legends Course in Nashville. In 2024-25, the Tar Heels won the Cavalier Regional Preview and the Yale Invitational West, both with school-record scoring. Inez Ng won at Virginia, setting the UNC recird with a 12-under-par 201. Carolina was ranked 13th in the nation in the final poll and played in an NCAA regional for a fourth-straight season. The Tar Heels had seven top-five finishes in 10 events and carded four of the 10-best rounds and three of the lowest four 54-hole totals in Carolina history. Megan Streicher earned All-ACC honors for the second year in a row, Ng shot a UNC-record 12 under par in winning in Charlottesville. Streicher, Ing Iadpluem and Helen Yeung finished the season with the second-, fourth- and eighth-lowest stroke averages in UNC history. Yeung set the freshman scoring record, breaking the standard Streicher set in Hamski’s first season on staff. In 2023-24, Carolina won three tournaments, advanced to match play in the ACC Championship and qualified for the NCAA Championship. The Tar Heels won the St Andrews Links Collegia