FGCU Women's Soccer Dominates A-Sun Honors

Courtesy of Linwood Ferguson

Just like this season, the FGCU Women's Soccer team (12-3-3) dominated the Atlantic Sun awards. The following are Eagles who received honors:

Goalkeeper of the Year: Brittany Brown
Freshman of the Year: Tabby Tindell
Coach of the Year: Jim Blankenship

All-Atlantic Sun First Team
Emma Blackwell- D*
Tabby Tindell- F*
Brittany Brown- GK
Tessa Berger-D
Ally Kasun- MF
Paulina Speckmaier- MF

All-Atlantic Sun Second Team
Melissa Arnold - D
Shannen Wacker - F

All-Atlantic Sun Freshman Team
Tabby Tindell - F*
Paulina Speckmaier - MF*

*=unanimous selection

Since the Eagles captured the A-Sun regular season title, they will be hosting the semifinals and finals. Following a first round bye, FGCU will face the winner of No. 4 Mercer and No. 5 Stetson on Friday, Nov. 8. The Championship, which will be held at the FGCU Soccer Complex, will be broadcasted on ESPN3.

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FGCU Women's Soccer Clinch Four-Peat

Courtesy of Linwood Ferguson

Tonight FGCU Women's Soccer clinched its fourth A-Sun title. They didn't even step onto the field. With Jacksonville losing, the Eagles captured the four-peat and the No. 1 seed in the Atlantic Sun tournament.

With the No. 1 seed, FGCU, along with the No. 2 and 3 seeds, will host the first round. Dunk City will also play host to the Championship Round or Final Four.

In their regular season finale tomorrow (Oct. 26), the Eagles will battle Stetson and look to defend their undefeated conference record.

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Eagles In The Classroom: NCAA Release GSR

Courtesy of Linwood Ferguson

Today the NCAA released its annual Graduation Success Rate (GSR) reports. This is the class that began college in 2006 and is calculated by students who graduated within six years. Headlining FGCU sports are Women's Soccer and Women's Tennis, both of whom had a 100% GSR rate. Here is FGCU's full list.

Men's Sports
Basketball: 53%
Baseball: 60%
Cross Country: 38%
Golf: 80%
Tennis: 73%

Women's Sports
Basketball: 40%
Cross Country: 56%
Golf: 83%
Soccer: 100%
Softball: 72%
Swim & Dive: 67%
Tennis: 100%
Volleyball: 89%

Overall, the Atlantic Sun conference had 26 perfect scores, including every Women's Tennis team (for the 2nd year in a row). Fifty-one A-Sun schools posted a score equal to or higher than the national average.

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FGCU Fall Sports Update

Courtesy of Linwood Ferguson

Here the FGCU Eagles Nest brings you up to date in what has been in happening in all the FGCU fall sports. Enjoy.

Volleyball 3-10 (2-1)
The Eagles started off slow, losing their first five matches, but are now 2-1 in conference play, with wins over UNF and Kennesaw State. They will battle another conference foe, Mercer, tonight (Saturday Sept. 28th) at Alico. Both Karina Mambuca and Kaitlin Holm have been dishing out block parties while Christine Pinder will look to carry over her impressive kill performance from the KSU match.

Men's Soccer 1-5-1 (0-0-0)
Felipe DeSousa and the Eagles finished in dramatic fashion on Friday night, as he scored with only 57 seconds left in OT to give FGCU the win over Penn. The story was not the same against Seattle last weekend, as they lost 3-2 in OT against the Redhawks. FGCU will now take on Princeton on Sunday Sept. 29th at 4:00 p.m in one of their nationally televised matches (ESPNU).

Women's Soccer 6-3-1 (1-0-0)

Courtesy of Linwood Ferguson

Ally Kasun and Co. have been one of the most impressive FGCU programs this fall. They are still defending their A-Sun title, beating Jacksonville, their only conference opponent so far. They have been traveling quite a bit, flying all the way to Honolulu to take part in the University of Hawaii Outrigger Hotels & Resorts Classic. They left 2-0 with wins over Portland State and Idaho State. They take on UNF Sunday Sept. 30th, at the FGCU Soccer Complex.

Men's Tennis
The FGCU Men's Tennis team is currently opening their season at the Bedford Cup (Sept. 27-29) in Tallahassee.

Women's Tennis
The Women's Tennis team is opening their season at the UCF Invitational this weekend (Sept. 27-29)

Men's Golf
The Eagles, led by Blake Biggs (221), tied for 11th in the Golfweek Conference Challenge. Then, they tied for 8th in the Saint Mary's Invitational as Matt Cote sunk his first whole in one. Next, FGCU will travel to Atlanta to battle Kennesaw State (Oct. 21-22).

Women's Golf
They opened their season 3rd out of 4 at the Eat-A-Peach Invitational. Then, the Eagles hosted the Eagle Invitational in which Briana Carlson won the individual championship and FGCU tied for 1st with Barry University.

Swim & Dive
After the Blue/Green Scrimmage, the FGCU Swim/Dive team headed to Gainesville this weekend (Sept. 27-29) to compete in the All-Florida Invitational.

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