Katie Plyler
Katie Plyler

Player Profile
Class:
Freshman

Hometown:
Charlotte, N.C.

High School:
Charlotte Country Day

Height:
5-4

Position:
Midfielder/Forward

Enrolled in the General College

At Charlotte Country Day School: NFHCA All-South Region selection as a senior ... Helped her team to state titles in her sophomore and senior years ... Team captain and MVP as a senior ... All-state her junior and senior years and all-conference sophomore through senior years ... Charlotte Weekly Field Hockey Player of the Year in 2006 and 2007 ... Also played soccer and basketball, finishing high school with 11 varsity letters ... Her soccer team won a state title her sophomore year ... All-state and team captain as a senior ... Also captain of the basketball team her senior year ... Recipient of her school's Victora Ludorum Award as the school's top senior female athlete ... Member of honors chamber choir, Student Senate and the Student Athletic Advisory Board

National/International: Participated in the Futures program her freshman through senior years, at the National Futures Championship 2006-08 ... Played for the PH Strikers U-19 National Festival Team, a two-time pool winner

Personal: Born Kathryn Matheson Plyler on June 6, 1990, in Charlotte ... Daughter of Missy and Bill Plyler ... Has two younger siblings, twins Caroline and Will (15) ... Her father played golf at UNC, earning All-ACC honors in 1982 and helping the Tar Heels to a conference title in 1983 ... Her grandfather, Buzzy Basinger, also played golf at UNC and won the ACC individual championship in 1956.

More on Plyler: Favorite pastimes are reading, hanging out with friends, going to the beach with family and watching movies ... Favorite pregame meal is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich ... Favorite movies are The Holiday and Enchanted ... Favorite books are The Pact and Nineteen Minutes ... Favorite TV show is Brothers and Sisters ... Favorite sports to play besides field hockey are soccer and tennis ... Was an exchange student in South Hampton, England ... After college, hopes to teach high school and coach field hockey ... Dream job is to be editor of a fashion magazine ... Highlight of her athletic career has been scoring the winning stroke in the state championship game ... Her high school coaches - Carrie Chapman, Deb Savino, Mary Beth Luxton and Lisa Thompson - have had the biggest impact on her field hockey career