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VILLANOVA, Pa. \u2013 A pair of newcomers will make their way to the Main Line this fall to join the Villanova golf program with AJ Colonna and Evan Rohde forming a two-person freshman class for the ‘Cats.<\/p>\n
AJ Colonna
\nFreshman \/ 5’11
\nJupiter, Fla. \/ Oxbridge Academy
\nInstagram: @ajcolonna<\/p>\n
High School: Two-time Palm Beach County Player of the Year nominee and All-County First Team \u2026 Rhode Island state junior amateur champion in 2025 \u2026 Had three top 10 AJGA Open finishes in 2025-26 \u2026 Member of the Florida Class 1A champion team \u2026 Rhode Island all-state second team as a freshman \u2026 Put forth a low score of four-under par.<\/p>\n
Personal: Born 5\/1\/08 \u2026 One of two children of Terri and Scott \u2026 Has one sibling, Giana \u2026 Father played basketball at Purdue as a guard \u2026 Mom was a member of the track & field team at SUNY Oswego \u2026 Chose to attend Villanova because “My goal was to pursue my athletic career at the highest level possible while attending a well-rounded university that will challenge me academically” \u2026 Plans to major in business \u2026 Noted the strength of the VU business school\u00a0as a factor in his decision.<\/p>\n
Evan Rohde
\nFreshman \/ 5’11
\nHouston, Texas \/ Kinkaid<\/p>\n
The Kinkaid School: Member of the Falcons’ golf team \u2026 Selected as All-SPC three different times \u2026 Set the SPC Tournament individual record.<\/p>\n
Personal: Born 10\/6\/07 \u2026 One of two children of Margaret and Gert Rohde \u2026 Has one sibling, Sophia \u2026 Chose to attend Villanova because of the “great golf and culture” \u2026 Plans to major in business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links VILLANOVA, Pa. \u2013 A pair of newcomers will make their way to the Main…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-769390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}