Honors
• 2015 SEC Academic Honor Roll
• 2014 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
• 2011 SEC Community Service Team
• 2011 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
• 2011 NGCA All-American Scholar Team

Graduate Student (2014-15):
Played in three rounds in 2015…Only appearance of the season was at the Mason Rudolph Championship.

Graduate Student (2013-14):
Played in six rounds in 2014 after transferring from the University of South Carolina… Attends graduate school in the Peabody College and is majoring in Leadership and Organizational Performance.

Prior to Vanderbilt:
Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 4.0 GPA from the University of South Carolina with a degree in Accounting with a minor in Finance in the spring of 2013…Played collegiately for the Gamecocks in 2010-11 and 2011-12 in 18 total events, with her best finish coming at the 2011 SEC Championship when she finished in a tie for 24th…Will attend graduate school in the Peabody College and will major in Leadership and Organizational Performance.

Amateur and High School Highlights:
Won the 2012 and 2013 Carolinas Women’s Amateur, and won the 2013 Carolina’s Women’s Match Play…Has also advanced to the match play portion of the U.S. Women’s Pub Links on two occasions…Was the 2009 South Carolina Junior Champion…Competed for the First Baptist Church School’s boys’ golf team…Was named team MVP, SCISA all-region and the region player of the year…Won the Jimmy Self Invitational championship, breaking the tournament record by seven strokes…Upstate Junior Champion…Beth Daniel Junior Azalea Champion… Was a member of the victorious South Carolina team that defeated Georgia in the Georgia/South Carolina Junior Challenge Match…played basketball and volleyball for the Hurricanes…Was named the MVP of the volleyball team as a freshman and a sophomore…Helped the basketball team to the regional championship…Was the student body president…Member of National Honor Society.

Personal
Kathleen Rose Higgins…Born Jan. 3, 1992, in Bethlehem, Pa….Parents are Kevin and Kay Higgins…Father is head football coach at The Citadel…Has a brother, Tim, and a sister, Meaghan…Graduate school major is Leadership and Organizational Performance…Her brother, Tim, played football at the University of Florida.