MESA, Ariz. (March 13, 2016) – With three individual top-15 finishes, the FIU women's golf team finished fifth in this year's Notre Dame Clover Cup from the Longbow Golf Club (par 72, 6,184 yards) in Mesa, Ariz.
The Panthers shot a 14-over, 878, for the three-day tournament. Sitting in seventh place after the first two days, FIU compiled a season-best 285 on Sunday to place fifth among all 17 teams on the final leaderboard.
FIU was led by senior
Meghan MacLaren, who shot a 3-under, 213 to finish tied for fifth. With two rounds under par, the Cambridge, United Kingdom native shot a season-low for her third top-five finish of the season. Senior
Carla Jane posted a season-best, one-over, 217 (one stroke off of her career best - Johnie Imes Invitational - 9/29-9/30/14) to finish tied for 10
th. The top-10 finish was the first of the season for the Santiago, Chile native. Junior
Camila Serrano shot a team-low 69 on the final day for a two-over, 218. The two-over score gave the product of Bogota, Columbia her best finish of the season (tied for 12
th). Rounding out the FIU leaderboard were senior
Sophie Godley, who finished tied for 43rd (14-over, 230) and junior
Coralia Arias, who finished tied for 73
rd (24-over, 240).
FIU will next travel to Dallas, Texas, to take part in the SMU Invitational, April 1-2.
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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 FIU Arena and Ocean Bank Field at FIU 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/.
