Skylar English Named ASUN Volleyball Freshman of the Week

FORT MYERS, Fla. – After posting 24 kills on the weekend to assist the FGCU volleyball group decide up three wins throughout crossover play to stay unbeaten in league play, freshman Skylar English (Naples, Fla./Barron Collier HS) was named the ASUN Freshman of the Week on Monday afternoon. The Eagles improved to 19-4 total and 11-0 in ASUN play and prolonged their win streak to 12 video games.
 
“Skylar has actually elevated her recreation over the past month and you’ll see that she is feeling rather more snug on the bottom of the online. This weekend she showcased her skill to impression matches as an attacker, a blocker, and a server,” stated head coach Matt Botsford. “The menace she is offering from the proper aspect actually helps to open issues up for our offense.  She continues to develop with every alternative, and I simply love the best way she processes the sport.”
 
English hit .487 for the weekend which included wins over North Alabama, Central Arkansas, and West Division chief Jacksonville State. She had simply 5 assault errors along with her 24 kills within the three matches and averaged 2.67 kills per set. Her well-rounded play included 15 digs, eight blocks, and 5 aces. In opposition to Jacksonville State, she had 10 kills, eight digs, and three blocks. Within the win over North Alabama, she hit .875 with seven kills on eight makes an attempt whereas serving 4 aces and posting three blocks.
 
For the yr, the freshman has 127 kills, the fifth-most on the group, and has 21 aces, the second-most on the group. Defensively, she has 82 digs and 48 blocks.
 
This marked the fourth weekly honor for the Eagles and the primary for English. Erin Shomaker was named the league’s Participant of the Week on Aug. 30 and Oct. 4, whereas Juliana Lentz was named the Defensive Participant of the Week on Sept. 27.
 
Getting into the upcoming week, FGCU’s 12-match win streak is the fifth-longest within the NCAA and the Eagles rank No. 50 within the NCAA RPI. The Inexperienced and Blue are simply one-win shy of posting its sixth 20-win season within the final seven years, although FGCU performed simply 17 video games within the truncated Spring 21 season as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. The Eagles are additionally closing in on equaling their finest begin to ASUN play in program historical past at 11-0 – in 2012, FGCU opened league play going 14-0.
 
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COACH BOTSFORD

Matt Botsford is in his eighth season as head coach of the FGCU girls’s volleyball program in 2021 after being employed on Feb. 10, 2014. In his tenure, Botsford-led groups have compiled a 175-56 (.757) report total, together with a 91-19 (.826) report in ASUN play. Together with this previous yr’s unprecedented spring season, he has taken this system to heights it has not seen within the Division-I period (2007-present) – registering not less than 20 wins total in 5 of the previous six seasons and not less than 10 wins in convention play each season. In 2018, he led this system to its first common season championship since 2012 (fourth total) and its first-ever ASUN match title, NCAA match look, NCAA match win and victory over a ranked group. His first two campaigns resulted in ASUN common season runner-up finishes, and the next two noticed the Eagles advance to the match championship and now the group has received three straight common season titles, together with a division title and ASUN match runner-up end within the spring 2021 season. On Sept. 10, 2016, Botsford led his group to a five-set win over Indiana in Alico Area, which signified this system’s first-ever win over a group from a Energy-5 convention. In 2018, he led the group to a win over Miami (Fla.) – this system’s first-ever highway Energy 5 win, and the Eagles adopted that up with a straight-set win over the Hurricanes at a impartial web site in 2019.

 

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FGCU groups have mixed to win an unbelievable 85 convention common season and match 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 girls’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 newest. In 2016-17, the Inexperienced and Blue posted a department-best sixth-place end within the DI-AAA Learfield Administrators’ Cup and top-100 exhibiting 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 Charge of their sport. FGCU additionally collectively earned a report 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 group 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 Neighborhood Service Award introduced by the Fiesta Bowl.

 

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