FIU Golf Looks for Redemption at C-USA Championships

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The FIU women's golf program will attempt to make a return to the NCAA Regionals as a unit when the Panthers compete in the Conference USA Championships, held Monday through Wednesday at the Verandah Club in Fort Myers, Florida. The 54-hole event will feature three-straight days of 18 holes at the Old Orange Course. The Panthers will be paired with Middle Tennessee and UTEP and tee off in the opening group from the first tee at 8 a.m. The tournament will play with split tees, with some groups going off on the 10th hole each day. Pairings will reset after the first and second rounds, with the leading teams going off last from the first tee at approximately 8:50 a.m. The Panthers finished sixth at last year's championships, and come in this season ranked fourth among C-USA programs by Golfstat, at 75 in the country. ODU (63), Southern Miss (73) and UTSA (74) barely sit ahead of the Panthers according to those rankings. The winner of the tournament will earn the conference's automatic big to the NCAA Regionals, though teams and individuals can earn at-large entries if selected by the NCAA golf committee. FIU's top five golfers this season will represent the Panthers in Fort Myers. Senior Camila Serrano (Bogota, Colombia) turned in the lowest average on the team this season and is the highest-ranked individual in the conference at Golfstat.com. Serrano, ranked at No. 49, won C-USA Golfer of the week four times (out of her nine events played) and finished with a career-best 72.4 stroke average. She produced four top-five finishes, including three second-place results, and finished in the top 10 in six of the nine regular-season events. Individually, she posted a mark of 615-77 for the season, shooting par of better in 13 of the 25 rounds of golf this season. "We have been so focused on playing good golf, that the ending of ...

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