The school golf switch portal had some extra motion Friday as Dylan Menante has left Pepperdine for North Carolina.
Menante helped the Waves to the nationwide championship on the 2021 NCAA Males’s Golf Championship. He was additionally the West Coast Convention Participant of the 12 months that season.
However after three seasons taking part in for the southern California faculty, he’ll end his school profession in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
“I selected UNC as a result of the varsity and coaches supply a crucial steadiness between golf, rising as an individual, lecturers and top-notch friends to encompass my recreation” Menante mentioned in a launch despatched by the Tar Heels athletic division. “I’m trying ahead to becoming a member of the Tar Heel program, however I additionally admire the assist the Pepperdine neighborhood gave me the final three years.”
Menante is ranked fifteenth within the World Beginner Golf Rankings.
Within the 2022 NCAA Championship, Pepperdine and North Carolina have been among the many eight groups to advance to the match-play portion of the occasion, with Pepperdine eliminating North Carolina to advance. Menante gained his quarterfinal match however misplaced his semifinal match as Pepperdine was eradicated by Arizona State.
“All of us with Carolina Golf are thrilled Dylan selected to be a Tar Heel and is becoming a member of our household” UNC head coach Andrew DiBitetto mentioned in a launch. “He’s a winner, an All-American, a nationwide champion and most significantly, an unbelievable younger man. He’s probably the greatest amateurs on this planet and instantly makes an already sturdy group even higher. Clarkie (assistant coach Matt Clark), all our guys and I can’t wait to work together, compete and work with Dylan. We additionally look ahead to serving to him enhance on and off the course.”
The Tar Heels return 4 starters: Ryan Burnett, David Ford, Peter Fountain and Austin Greaser.