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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – June 20, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Baylor WGOLF Tabs Maddie Luitwieler-Caruana as New Assistant Coach<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-style:normal">The Texas native won three Big 12 Championships as a player at the University of Texas
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For more information, contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280, </span><a href="mailto:wm_roberts@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">wm_roberts@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a name="OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">WACO, Texas – </span></strong></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="color:black;background:white">Baylor
women’s golf head coach Jay Goble announced the addition of assistant coach Maddie Luitwieler-Caruana to his staff on Thursday.</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="color:black;background:white">The Katy, Texas, native joins Goble’s staff after a season as the director of operations and assistant coach for the 2024
Big 12 Champion Texas Longhorns. BU’s head coach has been familiar with Luitwieler-Caruana dating back to her time at Cinco Ranch High School, and he is thrilled to be able to bring her to Waco.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="color:black;background:white">"I’m very happy and excited to add Maddie to our staff,” he said. “I recruited her 10 years ago to play for me at Baylor,
and even though she chose to play at a school a little bit south of us on IH-35, we have remained friends. She did an amazing job walking with her players last year, and I am confident her golf knowledge and outgoing personality will be a great asset to our
team moving forward.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="color:black;background:white">A 2019 sports management graduate from Texas, Luitwieler-Caruana played professionally on the Epson and Women’s All-Pro
Tours. She made six starts on the Epson Tour in 2021 after a very successful debut season on the Women’s All-Pro Tour in 2020.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="color:black;background:white">Finishing tied for 14<sup>th</sup> in her second event as a pro, she closed the season strong with top-10s in six of her
final eight events, including a win at the Paragon Casino Championship in October of 2020. Over the next three seasons, she made 30 more starts, highlighted by a tie for fifth at the Delta Downs Invitational in September of 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="color:black;background:white">A four-time letterwinner with the Longhorns, Luitwieler-Caruana was a part of three-straight Big 12 Championship teams
in Austin from 2017-19. In all four seasons on the 40 Acres, she took home Academic All-Big 12 honors and made the Big 12 Academic Honor Roll. On the course, she competed in 27 tournaments across her career, notching a pair of top-10 finishes, including her
career-best finish, a tie for 6<sup>th</sup>, at the Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational. As a senior, she added another top-10 with a tie for eighth at the Allstate Sugar Bowl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="color:black;background:white">Luitwieler-Caruana joins Goble and Director of Operations Collin Toner on the Baylor staff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="color:black;background:white">Formerly Madison Luitwieler, the native Texan married Liam Caruana earlier this year.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">For more information on Baylor Women’s Golf, follow @BaylorWGolf on X, Instagram and Facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">—BaylorBears.com</span></i></span></span><i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">—<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF) <br>
Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
C: 254-227-2280</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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