IRVING, Texas (April 14, 2016) – FIU senior
Meghan MacLaren has been named to the 2016 Conference USA Women's Golf All-Academic Team the league announced on Thursday.
MacLaren highlights the five-woman squad as a three-time winner of the award.
MacLaren earns her third all-academic nod as she wraps up a stellar career for the Panthers. The 2015 C-USA Golfer of the Year, MacLaren is a two-time All-Conference USA honoree and a seven-time C-USA Golfer of the Week. MacLaren is the defending C-USA Championship individual medalist after winning the 2015 C-USA Women's Golf Championship with a record-breaking performance, setting both the 18-hole (65, -7) and 54-hole (206, -10) C-USA Championship records. During the 2015-16 campaign, the Cambridge, United Kingdom, native has notched five top-10 finishes and three top-five placements, carding a 73.04 season stroke average through 26 rounds played. MacLaren is a six-time member of the FIU Dean's List, a four-time member of the C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll and a C-USA Academic Medal recipient. She is on pace to graduate this year with a 3.76 GPA in English with a minor in political science.
MacLaren and over 50 other individuals are scheduled to represent their teams at the 2016 Conference USA Women's Golf Championship April 18-20 at Verandah Club in Fort Myers, Florida. For the second-straight year, the three-day, 54-hole championship will be held on the Bob Cupp-designed Old Orange, a par 72, 6,194-yard Verandah course.
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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 offer 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 $8.9 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/.
