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Malixi Named to ANNIKA Award Watch List
8/25/2025 10:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
DURHAM, N.C.– Duke women's golf freshman Rianne Malixi was one of 25 golfers recognized Monday as members of the 2025-26 ANNIKA Award Preseason Watch List.
Created in 2014, the ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel is annually given to the top female Division I collegiate golfer. The winner is voted on by players, coaches and members of the college golf media.
Malixi, a native of Manila, Philippines, was the top-rated recruit nationally in the 2025 class. She is coming off a very impressive 2024 campaign, where she won the U.S. Women's Amateur, the U.S. Girls' Junior and the Australian Master of the Amateurs. Malixi became the second golfer to win two United States Golf Association (USGA) championships in the same calendar year.
Over her career on the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA), Malixi tallied seven wins, 18 top-five, 20 top-10 and 25 top-20 finishes. Malixi has been ranked as high as No. 3 in the Women's Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR).
Duke's Leona Maguire won the ANNIKA Award in both 2017 and 2015.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils women's golf, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeWGOLF".
#GoDuke
Created in 2014, the ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel is annually given to the top female Division I collegiate golfer. The winner is voted on by players, coaches and members of the college golf media.
Malixi, a native of Manila, Philippines, was the top-rated recruit nationally in the 2025 class. She is coming off a very impressive 2024 campaign, where she won the U.S. Women's Amateur, the U.S. Girls' Junior and the Australian Master of the Amateurs. Malixi became the second golfer to win two United States Golf Association (USGA) championships in the same calendar year.
Over her career on the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA), Malixi tallied seven wins, 18 top-five, 20 top-10 and 25 top-20 finishes. Malixi has been ranked as high as No. 3 in the Women's Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR).
Duke's Leona Maguire won the ANNIKA Award in both 2017 and 2015.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils women's golf, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeWGOLF".
#GoDuke
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