Tournament Details
FIU – Third-Place Finish of 15
40th Annual Pat Bradley Invitational
Monday, October 23 | Lakewood Ranch, Fla. | Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club
The Basics
- FIU climbed three spots over the course of the final two rounds to finish third at the 40th Annual Pat Bradley Invitational at Lakewood Ranch Golf & Country Club. FIU finished at 29-over (301-296-296 893), their best finish of the young season.
- Freshman Carolina Andrade (Bogota, Colombia) led the Panthers by finishing tied for 11th at 4-over par (72-76-72 220) after carding two rounds of even-par 72.
- Sophomore Diana Velez (Dorado, Puerto Rico) was second on the team at 8-over (76-72-76 224) and produced a pair of 4-over rounds of 76. She was tied for 20th.
- Senior Katerina Krasova (Ricany, Czech Republic) was two strokes behind Velez and landed in a tie for 26th at 10-over (77-76-73 226) and the only Panther to improve every round.
- Freshman Hannah Leiner (Pompano Beach, Florida / North Broward Prep) produced a second-round par-72 and landed in a tie for 32nd of the 78-player field at 12-over par (81-72-75 228).
- Sophomore Carolina Rotzinger (Puebla, Mexico) fell to 62nd at 19-over (76-78-81 235).
- Freshmen Agueda Cortilla (Barcelona, Spain) and Gabriela Powel (West Palm Beach, Florida / William T. Dwyer) played as individuals. Cortilla had one bad round and two excellent ones to land in a tie for 26th at 10-over (72-81-73 226). Powel was 32-over (82-87-79 248).
- Southern Miss took the team title at 9-over (297-289-287 873), which tied for the third-lowest team score in the 40-year history of the event. Wyoming's Gabrielle Gibson was the medalist, at 5-under par (71-70-70 211), tying for the tenth-lowest final score in the tournament's history.
Next up for the Panthers
FIU has completed the fall portion of the 2017-18 schedule. The student-athletes will transition into individual instruction and regroup in the spring semester. The next event on the calendar will be the Florida Challenge, a one-day event with schools only from the state of Florida in competition, on January 29 in Locanto, Florida.
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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in eight different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including Lime Court at FIU Arena and Riccardo Silva Stadium.
About FIU: Florida International University is classified by Carnegie as a "R1: Doctoral Universities - Highest Research Activity" and recognized as a Carnegie Community Engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as business, engineering, computer science, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes almost $9 billion each year to the local economy and is ranked second in Florida in Forbes Magazine's "America's Best Employers" list. FIU graduates are consistently among the highest paid college graduates in Florida and are among the leaders of public and private organizations throughout South Florida. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission with multiple state-of-the-art research facilities including the Wall of Wind Research and Testing Facility, FIU's Medina Aquarius Program and the Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute. FIU has awarded more than 220,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, the Miami Beach Urban Studios, and Tianjin, China. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and more than 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.
