COLORADO SPRINGS – USA Volleyball has selected Tar Heel redshirt freshman Holly Carlton to the 12-player U.S. Women's Junior National Team (WJNT) roster which will compete in the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship. The event will be held July 14-23 in Boca del Rio and Cordoba, Mexico. Carlton was also a part of the WJNT team that won gold at the 2017 Women's U20 Pan American Cup in May, which served as a qualifying event for the FIVB World Championship.
The World Championship roster was chosen from a 16-player training group who was evaluated July 2-11 at the U.