Eagles Post Solid Results but Fall to FIU

FORT MYERS, Fla. –  The FGCU swim and dive workforce confronted a troublesome job in opposition to seven-time defending Convention USA champion FIU, Saturday afternoon on the FGCU Aquatics Advanced, in the end falling to the Panthers. 189.5-110.5. Regardless of the outcomes, the Eagles walked away with performances to construct from.

“General, very strong day for the Eagles,” mentioned head coach Dave Rollins. “For us, that is all the time a transitional time of the season. Generally we see some wonderful performances, typically we do not, and that is alright. Our focus is locked in on being our greatest when it issues most, and I am excited to see the place we’re. Now we have some work to do, however that is what makes it enjoyable.”

Seniors Petra Halmai (Dombovar, Hungary/Lanczos Kornel Secondari Grammar College) and Wiktoria Czarnecka (Lublin, Poland/Liceum 10 NR W Lublinie) once more produced a few of the quickest occasions within the CCSA in addition to the nation. Halmai secured NCAA “B” lower occasions in each the 100 and 200 breaststroke with occasions of 1:01.06 and a pair of:11.17, respectively. Her time within the 200 is 10^th quickest within the nation whereas her 100 time is nineteen^th.

Czarnecka, already with the highest CCSA occasions in each the 50 free and 100 fly, added one other prime CCSA time within the 100 free with a time of 51.79, carrying out the mark because the lead leg of the 400 free relay. She additionally picked up a victory on Saturday, touching first within the 50 free with a time of 23.50.

Junior Sara Niepelova (Piestany, Slovakia/Gymnazium Pierra de Coubertina/ECU) additionally picked up a win on the day as she claimed victory within the 1000y free with a time of 10:38.87. She additionally completed second within the 500 free with a time of 5:07.93.

Within the diving occasions, Reese Wakefield (Guelph, Ontario, Canada/Bishop Macdonelle CHS) led the way in which for the Eagles, ending third total in each the 1m (261.45) and the 3m (256.13). Her 3m rating is a season-best and is the second-best mark within the CCSA this season. Her 1m rating of 268.95 in opposition to Vanderbilt continues to be the highest mark within the CCSA.

Many of the Eagles will return to the pool on November 18-20 once they host the FGCU Invitational. A number of Eagles’ swimmers will head to Atlanta to compete within the Georgia Tech Invite that very same weekend.

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HEAD COACH DAVE ROLLINS

Head coach Dave Rollins is just the second coach in program historical past. He was employed Sept. 1, 2016 and owns a 34-24-1 (.585) twin meet file, which features a 13-2 (.857) mark in opposition to CCSA opponents, in his fourth season. Rollins guided FGCU to back-to-back CCSA titles (2017, 2018), in addition to this system’s fourth-straight title in 2018, marking the ninth championship in 10 years earlier than successful the tenth championship in program historical past in 2021. As well as, he has been awarded CCSA Coach of the 12 months in two of his seasons on the helm. Beforehand, Rollins was the affiliate head males’s swimming coach at The Ohio State College. Rollins brings over a decade of teaching expertise to The Nest, which incorporates serving to to develop Olympians, NCAA Champions and All-Individuals, together with a number of convention champions. A local of Brockton, Mass., he was a standout collegiate swimmer in his personal proper and was inducted into the College of Arizona’s Corridor of Fame in 2017, as a nine-time NCAA All-American, nationwide champion, college file holder and workforce captain.

 

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ABOUT FGCU

FGCU groups have mixed to win an unbelievable 85 convention common season and event titles in simply 14+ seasons on the Division I stage. Moreover, in simply 9 seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a mixed 42 groups or people compete in NCAA championships. Eight FGCU applications have earned a top-25 nationwide rating of their respective sport – together with ladies’s basketball (No. 21, 2020-21), seaside volleyball (No. 20, 2021) and each males’s soccer (2018, 2019) and girls’s soccer (2018) as three of the latest. In 2016-17, the Inexperienced and Blue posted a department-best sixth-place end within the DI-AAA Learfield Administrators’ Cup and top-100 displaying nationally, forward of a number of Energy-5 and FBS establishments. In 2018-19, the Eagles had an ASUN and state of Florida finest seven groups earn the NCAA’s Public Recognition Award for his or her Educational Progress Fee of their sport. FGCU additionally collectively earned a file 3.50 GPA within the classroom within the fall 2020 semester and has outperformed the overall College undergraduate inhabitants for twenty-four consecutive semesters. The 2019 Fall, 2020 Spring, 2020 Fall, and 2021 Spring semesters every noticed one other milestone reached as all 15 applications achieved a 3.0-or-higher workforce GPA in every. The Eagles additionally served an all-time excessive 7,200 volunteer hours in 2017 – being acknowledged as certainly one of two runners-up for the inaugural NACDA Group Service Award introduced by the Fiesta Bowl.

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