Honors & Awards
- Team Captain (2024)
- Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (2024)
- Nebraska Academic Bronze Medallion (2023)
- Five-Time Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll Member
- Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2022, 2023, 2024)
Junior Season (2024)
- Serving as one of four team captains this season
- Has played in 28 games with four starts
- Has started one game at catcher and three games at first base
- Has scored a career-high 12 runs
- Made her season debut as a pinch runner against Long Beach State
- Started at catcher at New Mexico State and had her first career RBI
- Scored the first run of her career as a pinch runner vs. Sacramento State
- Scored a run as a pinch runner vs. No. 19 UCLA
- Scored another run as a pinch runner against No. 20 Utah
- Scored in her fourth straight pinch-running appearance vs. No. 14 Missouri
- Scored as a pinch runner against Northern Colorado on March 12
- Made her first career start at first base against Maine
- Went 1-for-2 with her first career hit against Maine
- Had a career-high two RBIs against the Black Bears
- Had a hit in a start at first base against Northern Colorado on March 14
- Drove in a run against North Dakota the next day
- Scored a run as a pinch runner in game two against Penn State
- Came in to catch in game one at Rutgers
- Scored a run as a pinch runner in game two and three at Rutgers
- Scored a run as a pinch runner in game three at Michigan
Sophomore Season (2023)
- Started three games as the catcher and appeared in seven games
- Made her first career start as a Husker behind the plate against South Dakota State (2/10/23)
- Was the starting catcher against No. 8 Virginia Tech at the TaxAct Clearwater Invitational
- Started as the catcher in the win over CSU Bakersfield (Feb. 25)
- Came in as the catcher in the win over Kansas City
- Went in as the catcher in game one against Michigan
Freshman Season (2022)
- Appeared in the game against Northern Colorado as a pinch runner
Before Nebraska (Lakeville North HS)
- Nebraska's first player from Minnesota since All-American Anne Steffan, who competed for the Huskers from 2002-2005
- All-state catcher from Lakeville North
- Served as the team captain her sophomore, junior and senior seasons
- Had her junior season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- One of 22 players from her class statewide voted for a series of Minnesota High School all-star games
- Played club ball with Midwest Speed, claiming the 18U USSSA Nationals Championship in 2020
- Varsity starter at Lakeville North High School as an eighth grader
- Newcomer of the Year at Lakeville North as an eighth grader
- Three-Time All-Conference selection
- Three-Time All-Region selection
- Minneapolis Tribune All-Metro Selection
- Minnesota Coaches Association All-State selection
- Academic All-State selection
- Helped Lakeville North to Class 4AAAA State Tournament appearances in 2018 and 2021
- Was a member of the National Honor Society
- Graduated summa cum laude
Personal
- Born on Nov. 16, 2002
- Majoring in management and marketing
- Daughter of Brian and Jennifer Malecha
- Has three siblings, Madison, Mason and Morgan