2025-26 Women's Golf Roster
Brielle Mapanao
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Quakers Hill, New South Wales, Australia
- High School:
- St. Mark's Catholic College
- Prev School:
- Western Carolina
Career Bests
Best Finish: T-9th -- Big Ten Championships (April 24-26, 2026)
Low Round: 68 (-4) -- Illini Women's Invitational at Medinah (Oct. 7-8, 2024)
Low 54-Hole Score: 212 (-4) -- The Chevron Collegiate (Feb. 24-25, 2025)
SENIOR 2025-26
- Illinois Outstanding Scholar-Athlete
- Played 36 rounds across 12 events, tallying a 74.03 stroke average.
- Added a new career-best finish at the Big Ten Championships, finishing ninth as the squad’s low scorer, carding a 214 (+4).
- Earned a tenth-place finish at the Boilermaker Spring Classic, notching a 219 (+3), and assisting Illinois to its second consecutive team title at the event.
- Fired a season-low 54-hole round, 213 (-3), at the Windy City Collegiate Classic, to finish tied for 11th place as the team’s low scorer.
JUNIOR 2024-25
- WGCA All-American Scholar
- Played 36 rounds in 12 events, recording a 75.17 scoring average in her debut season at Illinois.
- Fired a season-low 68 (-4) in the final round of the Illini Women's Invitational at Medinah on Oct. 8.
- Her 54-hole score of 212 (-4) at The Chevron Collegiate from Feb. 24-25 was a season-low mark.
- Finished a season-best tied for 12th at the Spring Break Shootout from March 17-18.
SOPHOMORE 2023-24 (WESTERN CAROLINA)
- All-Southern Conference Team
- CSC Academic All-District
- Academic All-Southern Conference Team
- Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and received a SoCon Commissioner's Medal
- WGCA All-American Scholar
- Competed in all 10 seasonal events as a part of WCU’s scoring five including nine stroke-play tournament and one in match play.
- Rewrote her own WCU single-season scoring record, usurping the 73.63 over 30 rounds as a true freshman with a seasonal stroke average of 73.41 over 27 combined rounds.
- Ranked sixth on the Southern Conference scoring charts.
- A combined 26 of her 27 seasonal rounds were carded in the 70s including a career-low round of 66 in the middle round of the fall-ending Terrier Intercollegiate.
- Over nine stroke-play events during the season, Mapanao posted five Top 10 finishes including a pair of podium tallies.
- Carded her career-best 54-hole score at 211 (70-71-70) – the third-best, three-round score in program history – in a runner-up tally at the Jupiter Women's Invitational in October.
- Closed the fall semester by collecting her first career victory on the strength of the second-best 54-hole score, winning the Terrier Intercollegiate.
- Named the Southern Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week on Oct. 26.
- Finished in a seventh-place tie at the Puerto Rico Classic and collected a fourth-place tie at the Mimosa Hills Intercollegiate.
- Closed the season by leading WCU at the 2024 Southern Conference Women's Golf Championship with a fifth-place finish, her second Top 10 showing at the conference champion crowning event.
FRESHMAN 2022-23 (WESTERN CAROLINA)
- Southern Conference Freshman of the Year
- All-Southern Conference team
- Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and received a SoCon Commissioner's Medal
- WGCA All-American Scholar
- Played in all 11 of the team’s tournaments as a part of the scoring five.
- Led the team with a seasonal stroke average of 73.63, a WCU single-season record and the third-best stroke average in the Southern Conference as the top-ranked freshman.
- All 30 rounds were shot in the 70s or better including one in the 60s – nine rounds were shot at 72-or-better.
- Recorded seven individual top-10 finishes including four that landed her on the podium.
- Shot her career-low, 54-hole score with a 214 (71-72-71) at the Aggie Invitational.
- Posted a career-best second-place finish at the Buccaneer Classic with a three-round score of 216 that included a career-low round of 67.
- Earned her first Southern Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week after her 5-over par 221 at Charleston Southern’s Buccaneer Classic, averaging 73.67 strokes through three rounds and finished with 34 pars and nine birdies throughout the tournament.
- Capped her freshman season by placing in a 10th-place tie at the conference championship.
- Led WCU at the National Golf Invitational finishing in a tie for third place.
HIGH SCHOOL
- Member of The Australian Golf Club.
- Competing as an amateur, recorded three Top 10 finishes including a third-place showing at the Concord Cup held in Oceania, Australia, shooting a three-round score of 224 (76-76-72).
- Went undefeated in the preliminary rounds of the New South Wales (NSW) Division I Major Pennant competitions in both 2019 and 2020 and finished as the top female finisher in the Junior 6S Tour at Royal Sydney.
- Was additionally chosen by Golf NSW to join an eight-person, mixed-gender team in the Australian Interstate Teams match-play at Sorrento Golf Club in April 2022.
- Amateur resume also includes an individual championship at the Faldo Series Australia Championship in the Girls’ Under-16 age group, rallying with a final-round 70 before winning in a playoff.
- Also scored wins as a youth at the NSW Junior Championships, Brett Ogle Junior Masters, and claimed the girls’ division of the prestigious Harvey Norman Sydney Week of Golf in 2018.
PERSONAL
- Born on Feb. 4, 2004.
- Daughter of Mary Mayo-Mapanao and Dennis Mapanao.
- Has one brother, Brayden.
- Chose Illinois because, "of the great support both academically and in athletics. Illinois is a place where I can grow and develop as a student-athlete."
- Majoring in kinesiology.
Career Statistics
| Year | Events | Rds. | Strokes | Avg. | Low Rd. | Low Tour. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 12 | 36 | 2,706 | 75.17 | 68 (-4) | 212 (-4) |
| 2025-26 | 12 | 36 | 2,665 | 74.03 | 70 (-2) | 213 (-3) |
| Totals | 24 | 72 | 5,371 | 74.60 | 68 (-4) | 212 (-4) |
Individual Results
| 2024-25 | Tournament | Score | Finish |
| Sept. 8-10 | Bettie Lou Evans Invitational | 73-79-75 = 227 (+11) | T-30th |
| Sept. 23-24 | Cavalier Regional Preview | 78-71-79 = 228 (+15) | T-39th |
| Sept. 30-Oct. 1 | Windy City Collegiate Classic | 74-78-79 = 231 (+15) | T-51st |
| Oct. 7-8 | Illini Women's Invitational at Medinah | 72-75-68 = 215 (-1) | T-34th |
| Oct. 25-27 | Landfall Tradition | 73-76-74 = 223 (+7) | T-42nd |
| Feb. 16-17 | Spartan Suncoast Invitational | 74-74-75 = 223 (+7) | T-42nd |
| Feb. 24-25 | The Chevron Collegiate | 74-69-69 = 212 (-4) | T-20th |
| March 17-18 | Spring Break Shootout | 76-71-74 = 221 (+8) | T-12th |
| March 21-23 | Florida State Match Up | 80-79-79 = 238 (+22) | T-59th |
| April 6-7 | Boilermaker Spring Classic | 76-79-75 = 230 (+14) | T-48th |
| April 18-20 | Big Ten Championships | 76-80-74 = 230 (+14) | T-68th |
| May 5-7 | NCAA Columbus Regional | 74-80-74 = 228 (+12) | T-45th |
| 2025-26 | Tournament | Score | Finish |
| Sept. 7-8 | Wolverine Invitational | 74-71-75 = 220 (+6) | T-14th |
| Sept. 14-16 | Badger Invitational | 72-75-73 = 220 (+4) | T-17th |
| Sept. 29-30 | Windy City Collegiate Classic | 71-71-71 = 213 (-3) | T-11th^ |
| Oct. 6-7 | Illini Women's Invitational | 70-72-73 = 215 (-1) | T-31st |
| Oct. 24-26 | Landfall Tradition | 79-76-81 = 236 (+20) | T-88th |
| Feb. 15-16 | Spartan Suncoast | 79+81+77 =237 (+21) | T-65th |
| Feb. 23-24 | Chevron Collegiate | 73+73+73 = 219 (+3) | T-41st |
| March 20-22 | Florida State Match Up | 74+73+74 = 221 (+5) | T-16th |
| March 30-31 | Coach Mo Classic | 74+74+78 = 226 (+10) | T-36th |
| April 12-13 | Boilermaker Spring Classic | 73+74+72 = 219 (+3) | 10th |
| April 24-26 | Big Ten Championships | 73+70+71 = 214 (+4) | T-9th^ |
| May 11-13 | NCAA Stanford Regional | 77+69+79 = 225 (+12) | 44th |
^ Led the team
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