Career Bests

Best Finish: T-12th -- Spring Break Shootout (March 17-18, 2025)
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)

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.

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