Katherine Sung Represents Dartmouth, Women’s Golf with NCAA Woman of Year Nomination

HANOVER, N.H. – Ivy League Champion, two-time All-Ivy League First Team, an All-Ivy League Second Team selection, a three-time WGCA All-American Scholar, and now an NCAA Woman of the Year Nominee. What can Katherine Sung not do?

The NCAA Woman of the Year award was created in 1991, recognizing academic achievements, athletic excellence, community service, and leadership qualities of graduating female student-athletes.

Sung, an economics modified with mathematics major and an English minor, made her mark on the Dartmouth community, in the classroom, and on the golf course, working through adversity even before she stepped on campus.
After committing to Dartmouth, the women's golf program was eliminated, leaving Sung questioning whether or not Dartmouth was the right place for her.

Despite losing collegiate golf, Sung moved from California to New Hampshire with an open mind. The stresses of moving across the country were elevated by online classes and the COVID-19 pandemic. But Sung kept her sanity, golf, close, walking close to an hour to hit balls at the Big Green's practice facility. She also joined the Smart Women Securities Technology Group as an analyst during her first year.

At the start of 2021, everything started to fall into place. The golf program was reinstated, Sung declared her major and explored possible career paths. While the program was brought back, Sung led the charge of an uphill battle. They trained with the men's team during the 2021 season, rebuilt during the 2022 season, and with Sung serving as a captain in 2023, won their first major tournament.

The Cinderella story continued in 2024 as Sung and the Big Green opened the season with an Ivy League Record for the lowest team score for a single round, a tournament Sung finished tied for first. She finished fifth overall only one tournament later, tied for third at the Lady Bison Classic at the end of March, and wrapped up the season with back-to-back finishes tied for second, one of which helped the Big Green clinch the program's first ever Ivy League Championship, less than four years after the program was once eliminated.

Sung and the Big Green finished eleventh overall at their first NCAA Regional appearance in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The accolades and accomplishments continued to pour in for Sung, despite her season and collegiate career coming to an end.

Sung was named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District At-Large Team. She earned her third career All-Ivy League selection. She won Dartmouth Athletics' Kenneth Archibald Prize, the department's top honor, for being the top all-around athlete with regard to moral worth and significant academic achievement. She earned her third career WGCA All-American Scholar honor. She crossed the stage with Cume Laude honors and was a member of the Third Honor Group three times, including her senior year, being recognized academically in the top 35% of her class.

While Sung finished her golf career at Dartmouth with the lowest career stroke average, two career individual tournament wins, 11 individual top three finishes, and five top five finishes, she also left an impact beyond the course.
Part of Smart Women Securities, the Dartmouth Real Estate Club, Women in Business, and serving as the vice president of finance for the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, Sung has had touch points across campus, leaving an impact that will be felt for years to come.

Sung will now take her talents back to her home state of California, serving as a Technology Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley. This will be Sung's fourth investment analyst role, her first since graduating. She previously worked as a Technology Investment Banking Summer Analyst for Bank of America, a Technology Investment Banking Winter Analyst for DBO Partners, and a summer analyst Intern for Elephant.

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