FORT MYERS, Fla. –
The FGCU males’s tennis staff opens up its 2023 spring season this weekend as they welcome Southern Miss. and 2022 Patriot League semifinalist Bucknell to Southwest Florida.The weekend will get began on Friday night when the Eagles tackle the Golden Eagles at 5 p.m. earlier than returning to motion to battle the Bisons Saturday night.
FGCU returns eight members from its 2022 roster together with Magnus Johnson (Naples, Fla./Homeschool/UCF) who repeated as ASUN Participant of the 12 months, and likewise was chosen to the ASUN All-Tutorial.
Redshirt-junior Marcelo Sepulveda (Monterrey, Mexico/Penn Foster/Alabama) and redshirt-junior Randy Wilson (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic/Miami Palmetto/Louisville) had been named All-Convention Second Group.
Within the ASUN preseason ballot, FGCU was picked third, and picked up 121 factors. Liberty was picked to repeat as champions, receiving 9 first-place votes and 139 general factors. North Florida was second with two first-place votes and 129 factors. Kennesaw State (98), Jacksonville State (97), Stetson (94), Queens (N.C.) (52), Lipscomb (51), Bellarmine (51), North Alabama (45), Jap Kentucky (42) and Austin Peay (13) spherical out the ballot.
4 Eagles tallied double-digit wins in singles motion, with Johnson main the best way with 21 victories. Doubles teammates Sepulveda and Wilson every gained 15 matches
FGCU defeated #68 Liberty and #70 Kennesaw State whereas additionally selecting up two factors in opposition to No. 26 Memphis.
After this weekend’s two house matches, FGCU will stay house going through off in opposition to USF (Jan. 20), Florida Atlantic (Jan. 25), Georgia State (Feb.10), and can host back-to-back matches in opposition to Mercer on Feb.17 and 18. The Inexperienced & Blue will then drive throughout Alligator Alley to batter ACC member Miami (Feb. 25). earlier than returning house for ASUN Convention competitors in opposition to Stetson on March 3 on the FGCU Tennis Advanced.
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Within the classroom, the Eagles posted a staff GPA of three.45 and earned ITA All-Tutorial Group honors as 5 staff members had been named scholar-athletes.
Southern Miss. recorded a 9-10 marketing campaign and went 0-3 within the C-USA convention in 2022. Bucknell registered a 10-17 season with 4-3 in league motion.
FGCU is led by three-time ASUN Coach of the 12 months CJ Weber, who has coached 32 ASUN All-Convention picks since becoming a member of the Inexperienced and Blue in 2011. In his twelfth 12 months, Weber has compiled a 123-95 (.564) general file and a 51-19 (.729) file in ASUN play. In 2014-15, Weber guided the Eagles to their first-ever ASUN Championship and first-ever ASUN Common Season title after a program-best 17 wins. In his third season, Weber led Jordi Vives to a No. 35 nationwide rating, a nation-leading 14-match unbeaten streak and the spherical of 32 within the 2014 NCAA Match – this system’s first look. The Eagles accomplished an ideal ASUN common season in each 2015 and 2016, ending with convention titles in addition to a Coach of the 12 months honor for Weber. FGCU once more gained the 2017 ASUN Championship and made its second NCAA look. The Eagles returned to the mountaintop by claiming the 2019 common season and event championships. Weber earned his third ASUN Coach of the 12 months honor and led the Inexperienced and Blue to their third journey to the NCAA Match. In 2022, Weber led the Eagles to one other ASUN regular-season title whereas reaching #65 within the ITA rankings, the best in program historical past.
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FGCU groups have mixed to win an unbelievable 94 convention common season and event titles in simply 15-plus seasons on the Division I degree. Moreover, in simply eleven-plus seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a mixed 47 groups or people compete in NCAA championships. In 2022, the lads’s golf staff turned the primary program to earn an at-large berth to the NCAA Match. Eight FGCU packages have earned a top-25 nationwide rating of their respective sport – together with ladies’s basketball (No. 20, 2021-22 and No. 25 in 2022-23) seashore volleyball (No. 20, 2022) and each males’s soccer (2018, 2019) and ladies’s soccer (2018) as 4 of the latest. In 2016-17, the Inexperienced & 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 Tutorial Progress Fee of their sport. FGCU additionally collectively earned a file 3.66 GPA within the classroom within the fall 2022 semester and has outperformed the overall College undergraduate inhabitants for 27 consecutive semesters. The previous seven semesters (Fall 2019 – Fall 2022) noticed one other milestone reached as all 15 packages achieved a 3.0-or-higher cumulative staff GPA. The Eagles additionally served an all-time excessive 7,200 volunteer hours in 2017 – being acknowledged as considered one of two runners-up for the inaugural NACDA Group Service Award offered by the Fiesta Bowl.
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