MIAMI (March 16, 2017) -- FIU women's golf has its quickest turnaround of the season and longest trip of the year when the Panthers travel to Mesa, Arizona, for the Notre Dame Clover Cup. The 54-hole tournament is contested over three days at the Longbow Golf Club. The teams will play three, 18-hole rounds across the three days, with pairings reset each day by order of finish. The Longbow Golf Club layout for the weekend will be Par-72 at 6,184 yards.
FIU's last tournament finished on Sunday in Gainesville, making the five days between tournaments the shortest span of the year, but manageable during Spring Break.
The Panthers are led by senior
Camila Serrano (Bogota, Colombia), who is the back-to-back reigning Conference USA Golfer of the Week. She is currently ranked 47
th as an individual in the nation by Golfstat and has won the Golfer of the Week award four times this season, with only one other league golfer winning the award twice.
This weekend's tournament field includes six teams in the Golfstat Top 50. Including the host Fighting Irish, the field features No. 5 Arizona State, Cincinnati, No. 4 Florida State, No. 50 Houston, Indiana, IUPUI, No. 46 Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, No. 25 Oklahoma, No. 30 TCU, UNC Greensboro and Vanderbilt.
FIU will be in the first group out of the day, paired with Houston and Vanderbilt, set to tee off at 11 a.m. Eastern from the first tee. Serrano is joined by senior
Coralia Arias (Quito, Ecuador), junior
Katerina Krasova (Ricany, Czech Republic) and freshmen
Carolina Rotzinger (Puebla, Mexico) and
Diana Velez (Dorado, Puerto Rico) as the FIU golfers in competition this weekend.
Links are posted at FIUSports.com for fans to follow along live during the weekend.
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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports, and is a proud member of Conference USA. Athletic events are played in seven different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including FIU Arena and the FIU Football Stadium.
About FIU: Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers more than 180 bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes $9.8 billion each year to the local economy. 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. FIU has awarded over 200,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and has over 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.
