Kimberly Kim of Pahoa, Hawaii, and Jennie Arseneault of Grinnell, Iowa, were selected to join the PING Junior Solheim Cup U.S. Team as captain's picks, solidifying the final two spots on the team.

The PING Junior Solheim Cup, patterned after The Solheim Cup, features the top 12 girls from the United States against those from Europe. The biennial event will take place at The Bridgewater Club in Westfield, Ind., Sept. 5-7, the days leading up to The Solheim Cup at nearby Crooked Stick.

The U.S. Team's most trumpeted player is undoubtedly Morgan Pressel of Boca Raton, Fla., who confirmed that she will forgo turning professional until after the PING Junior Solheim Cup. She burst onto the scene as a 12-year-old phenom, qualifying for the U.S. Women's Open in 2001 and, in doing so, set the record for the youngest participant ever. She has since qualified for two more U.S. Women's Opens, including her tie for second this year at Cherry Hills. In junior golf, she holds 11 AJGA titles, five of which are AJGA Invitationals. Her career "AJGA Slam" can be matched by only one player in the Association's 27-year history: Kellee Booth in the early 1990s (although back then Booth won four events to have this distinction). Pressel will return to the team after helping win the inaugural event in 2002.

"The PING Junior Solheim Cup is something that I have really been looking forward to playing for quite some time," Pressel said. "I'm excited about the great team and I'm excited about playing for Colleen Walker. Hopefully I can help bring the Cup back to this side of the pond."

The team will be captained by Colleen Walker, nine-time winner on the LPGA Tour, including the 1997 du Maurier Classic major championship. She is playing her 22nd year on the LPGA Tour. In addition to her nine Tour victories and winning the Vare Trophy in 1988, she won the 2002 Hy-Vee Classic Women's Senior Golf Tour event in her first attempt on the senior circuit.

"I feel our team is really strong and think we have a great chance of winning," Walker said. "We have a good mix of young and older players, all of whom bring great experience to the event. It will be an honor and a great learning experience to lead these talented individuals into competition."

Three players on the U.S. team reside in California: Sydney Burlison, Salinas; Sydnee Michaels, Temecula; and Jane Rah, Torrance. Mina Harigae of Monterey, Calif., qualified based on points but is unable to participate. She was replaced by Lila Barton of Dallas, who ranked 11th in points.

Burlison qualified for the 2003 U.S. Women's Open as a 13-year-old. She is now a three-time AJGA champion and was named to the 2004 Rolex Junior All-America second team.

Michaels has won two events thus far in 2005 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Girls' Junior Championship.

Rah, the second-youngest player on the U.S. Team, has 11 top-finishes in her young career, including a victory at the Family Toyota/Family Honda Junior presented by The First American Corporation.

Barton is the lone player representing Texas. She holds the distinction of winning the AJGA's Justin Leonard/Deloitte Junior Team Championship back-to-back in 2004 and 2005, combining efforts with Sydney Burlison both times.

The Northeast is represented by Kimberly Donovan of Hopkinton, Mass., and Megan Grehan of Mamaroneck, N.Y. Donovan won two national junior events so far in 2005 and tied for second at the Rolex Girls Junior Championship with the help of a final-round 66. Grehan is a two-time Rolex Junior All-American who qualified for the U.S. Women's Open in 2004 and 2005.

Catherina Wang, of Orlando, joins Pressel representing Florida. Wang is a second-team Rolex Junior All-American. She added her fourth AJGA title to her resume this year after winning three times in 2004.

Two players from Scottsdale, Ariz., round out the 10 girls who earned their way onto this year's team via points. Esther Choe is a first-team Rolex Junior All-American who won this year's Rolex Tournament of Champions. She and Pressel are the only players with previous PING Junior Solheim Cup experience, as Choe compiled a 2-1-0 record in 2003. Taylore Karle has three AJGA wins despite being only 15 years old. She was medalist during stroke play qualifying at this year's U.S. Girls' Junior Championship, shooting scores of 63 and 67.

Captain's picks Kim and Arseneault are the 12th- and 13th-ranked players based on points, respectively.

Kim won her first AJGA event last year as a 12-year-old at the I.R.I. Golf Group Sun Willows Junior (Pasco, Wash.), setting the record for the youngest player to win an AJGA Open event in the Association's history. This honorable mention Rolex Junior All-American finished tied for fourth at this year's PING Junior at The Woodlands and third at the McDonald's Betsy Rawls Girls Championship.

Arseneault was named an honorable mention Rolex Junior All-American last season after winning the Midwest Junior Players Championship and Pepsi Little Peoples Championship. Although she has yet to ink a stroke play victory in 2005, she has placed in the top three in five of her six AJGA events.

Past U.S. Team PING Junior Solheim Cup participants include Paula Creamer (three-time LPGA Tour champion), Brittany Lang (T-2, 2005 U.S. Women's Open), Brittany Lincicome (LPGA Tour rookie) and Jane Park (2004 U.S. Women's Amateur Champion).

The inaugural competition was staged at Oak Ridge Country Club in Hopkins, Minn., the days leading up to the Solheim Cup at Interlachen in Edina. The United States was victorious 17-7 over the European squad, anchored by Jennifer Pandolfi, now a sophomore at Duke University, and Amanda Blumenherst, who signed a National Letter of Intent to play at Duke starting the fall semester of 2005. Both were undefeated, winning all three matches in which they competed.

In 2003, the event moved to Bokskogan Golf Club in Bara, Sweden. For five of the team's members Blumenherst, Creamer, Lincicome, Pandolfi and Jane Park the 2002 U.S. victory was still fresh in their minds. Although the U.S. Team took an early lead, the European squad responded by winning four of six fourball matches in the afternoon of the first day, taking the first European lead in PING Junior Solheim Cup history. Leading 6.5-5.5 going into the singles matches, both squads took six points, giving Europe a 12.5-11.5 victory.