Western Carolina University

Career: Through 57 combined rounds over two seasons, sits atop Western Carolina's career scoring charts with a stroke average of 73.53 … Twice earned the Southern Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week honor.
 
2023-24 (Sophomore): 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 … Named to the 2023-24 All-Southern Conference team ... Named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District At-Large team ... Named to the Spring 2024 Academic All-Southern Conference team ... Named to the 2023-24 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and Received a SoCon Commissioner's Medal ... Selected as a 2023-24 WGCA All-American Scholar.

2022-23 (Freshman): 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 … Named the 2022-23 Southern Conference Freshman of the Year – just the fourth Catamount to earn the top rookie honors all-time – and selected to the 2022-23 All-Southern Conference team … Led WCU at the National Golf Invitational finishing in a tie for third place ... Named to the 2022-23 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll and Received a SoCon Commissioner's Medal ... Selected as a 2022-23 WGCA All-American Scholar.

Prior to Western Carolina: 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: Full name is Brielle Mapanao, but goes by Brie … Is the daughter of Mary Mayo and Dennis Mapanao … Has a brother, Brayden.