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Has not yet declared a major ... Is attending UNC on a Morehead-Cain Scholarship, the most prestigious merit scholarship awarded at the University ... Only two previous field hockey letterwinners have been Morehead Scholars ... Participates in the Carolina Leadership Academy as part of the Rising Stars program 2006: Did not see action and will count the year as a redshirt season ... Named to the Dean's List for the spring of 2007 and the ACC Academic Honor Roll for the 2006-07 school year At Chapel Hill (N.C.) High School: Earned all-conference honors all four years of high school and was team MVP her junior and senior years ... Also lettered four years in lacrosse, earning all-conference honors her junior and senior years and MVP recognition as a junior National/International: Played in the National Hockey Festival in 2003 and 2005 and in the National Indoor Tournament in 2004 and 2005 Personal: Born Catherine Shepherd Burns on Dec. 13, 1987, in Chapel Hill, N.C. ... Daughter of Gary and Jami Burns ... Has a younger brother, Stephen (16) ... Her father played lacrosse at UNC from 1979-82 and was a member of NCAA and ACC championship teams in 1981 and '82 More on Burns: Favorite pastimes are reading, shopping and drinking coffee ... Favorite book is The Motorcycle Diaries ... Favorite TV shows are The Sopranos and Entourage ... Favorite food is sushi (crunchy crab rolls) ... Fun fact: Spent the summer in Lima, Peru, working as a volunteer and playing field hockey ... Biggest pet peeve: Procrastination ... After graduation, hopes to travel ... Dream job: Traveling journalist ... Greatest athletic moment: Winning the state championship her senior year of high school ... With a completely free day would lie by the pool ... Speaks Spanish ... Dream vacation is a trip to Venice, Italy ... First thing she'd buy if she won the lottery: The yellow Victorian house on the corner of Franklin and Boundary streets |
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