Tar Heels top No. 7 Michigan in final home game of the regular season.
Majoring in communication studies ... Graduate of the Carolina Leadership Academy's Rising Stars program ... Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll
2010: As a junior, played in 23 games and scored two goals, against Wake Forest (at home on Oct. 2) and against Connecticut at B.C.
2009: As a redshirt freshman, came off the bench to appear in 10 games ... Scored the first goal of her career in the Sept. 8 game at Davidson, near her hometown of Charlotte
2008: Did not see action and will count the year as a redshirt season
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
National/International: Played for Junior Mid-Atlantic National Team in 2010 ... Participated in the Futures program her freshman through senior years of high school, 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 ... 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, traveling, going to the beach, watching movies, and spending time with friends and family... Favorite pregame meal is a toasted peanut butter and jelly sandwich ... Favorite movies are The Holiday and The Girl Next Door ... Favorite TV shows are True Blood and Entourage ... Favorite sports to play besides field hockey are soccer and tennis ... Was an exchange student in South Hampton, England ... After college, hopes to live and work in a big city, and would like to live abroad at some point ... Dream job is one that would allow her to travel around the world ... Fun fact is that her grandfather and father both played golf at UNC and her grandfather, Buzzy Basinger, was the first Tar Heel to win an individual ACC championship in golf ... Athletes she most admires are Mia Hamm and Roger Federer ... Highlight of her athletic career has been scoring the winning stroke in the high school state championship game ... Her parents have had the biggest impact on her field hockey career
