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2025-2026 Women's Golf Roster

Big West Conference
Ka’anapali Golf Courses

Maline Kraus

  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Highschool:
    Norbert Gymnasium Knechtsteden
  • Prev School:
    Virginia

Summary

Biography

2024-25 (Junior):
All-Big West Honorable Mention
Academic All-Big West
Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll
  • Competed in eight tournaments
  • Named honorable mention all-Big West
  • Team leader with a 74.54 scoring average
  • Recorded a team-best eight rounds of par or better including two in the 60s
  • Posted two Top 10 finishes – tie for fifth at the Ron Moore Intercollegiate and tie for ninth at the Fresno State Classic
  • Tied the program’s 54-hole score record with a 5-under 211 total at the Ron Moore Intercollegiate in Highland Ranch, Colo.
  • Team leader in four tournaments
  • Low round of 3-under 69 at the Ron Moore Intercollegiate and Alice & John Wallace Classic
  • Named academic all-Big West
  • Named to the Big West Commissioners Honor Roll
 
Prior To UH:
  • Attended the University of Virginia for two years
  • Competed in three career tournaments
  • Finished 77th at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic as a sophomore
  • Made collegiate debut at the Stanford Intercollegiate as a freshman
  • Also as a freshman, picked up match play wins vs. UNC’s Krista Junkkair (2&1) and Louisville’s Rylee Suttor (2&1) at Wolfpack Match Play
 
Prep:
  • A 2022 graduate of Norbert Gymnasium Knechtsteden in Dormagen, Germany
  • Finished fifth at 2023 EZM BWGV event in Germany
  • Placed 21st in stroke play at 2022 Irish Women’s & Girls Open
  • Was 11th in stroke play at the 2021 R&A Girls Championship
  • Placed 20th at 2021 Irish Women’s Open Stroke Play Championship
  • Finished 12th at the French International Ladies Stroke Play
  • Was 13th at the German International Amateur during 2021
  • In 2020 she finished fourth in the German Amateur U18 Championship, and had a pair of top-six finishes on the German Golf Federation Youth Challenge tour
 
Personal:
  • Born in Moenchengladbach, Germany
  • Has two older brothers
  • Parents are Heinz and Marina Kraus of Du¨sseldorf, Germany


2024-25
Place Tournament Score
T-70 Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invite 77-80-78=235 (+19)
T-5 Ron Moore Intercollegiate 72-70-69=211 (-5)
T-24 Rainbow Wahine Invitational 75-71-71=217 (+1)
39 Nanea Invitational 78-76-75=229 (+10)
T-27 Alice & John Wallace Classic 73-69-77=219 (+6)
DNF MountainView Collegiate W-W-W
T-72 Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational 78-74-75=227 (+11)
T-9 Fresno State Classic 72-72-78=222 (+6)
34 Big West Championship 77-76-76=229 (+13)

2023-24 (at Virginia)
Place Tournament Score
77 Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic 77-82-79=238 (+22)

2022-23 (at Virginia)
Place Tournament Score
94 Stanford Intercollegiate 76-78-77=231 (+18)
DNF Collegiate Invitational at Guadalajara 84-W-W

Career Statistics
Year TP Rounds Strokes Avg. Low Round Best Finish
2022-23 2 4 315 78.75 76 94
2023-24 1 3 238 79.33 77 77
2024-25 8 24 1,789 74.54 69 T-5
TOTAL 11 31 2,342 75.55 69 T-5

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