COLUMBUS, Ohio (May 7, 2017) -- Chilly weather awaits the NCAA Columbus Regional, which starts Monday at the Scarlet Course at The OSU Golf Course, hosted by The Ohio State University. FIU senior Camila Serrano will be playing at the Columbus Regional as an individual, and is scheduled to tee off from the first hole with two of the other five individuals at this tournament.
 
Her tee time, originally scheduled for 8:15 a.m., has been officially postponed at least one hour Monday morning due to expected frost on the course. A delay was experienced for the practice round Sunday morning. The temperature is expected to drop to the mid 30s overnight. She will be playing with Hee Ying Loy of East Tennessee and Michaela Fletcher of Memphis.  
 
The regional is a three-day event, with 18 teams and six individuals competing for spots into the NCAA Championships. The top six teams at each of the four regional events, plus the top three individual scores from players not on teams advancing will earn a spot in the National Championships. Serrano aims for one of those three individual spots.
 
FIUSports.com spoke with Serrano earlier this week as she prepared for her first NCAA postseason.
 
The Conference USA Women's Golfer of the Year, Serrano was the highest-ranked player in C-USA by Golfstat after the Conference Championships, and the only one ranked among the Top 200 players in Division I, finishing the season ranked 81^st in women's golf. She was 658-85 in 10 tournaments this season. Serrano posted four finishes in the top five at 10 tournaments for the season, three more times in the top 10, including a tie for ninth at the C-USA Championships in late April. Her average finish was in the 89^th percentile, finishing with a stroke average of 72.57, which was the best of her career by more than a stroke.
 
Serrano's senior season lowered her career average by more than half a stroke over 101 tournament rounds. She also earned First-Team All-C-USA honors for her outstanding season. She is a four-time all-conference selection and the third-straight Golfer of the Year from FIU. Serrano took home four Golfer of the Week honors this season and was the 2014 C-USA Women's Golf Freshman of the Year.

Live results links are posted at FIUSports.com.

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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 seven different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including Lime Court at FIU Arena and at 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/.