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Team shows promise amid pandemic-plagued season
The 2020-21 FGCU men’s basketball team makes no excuses. The Eagles didn’t get it done in the postseason – losing to North Alabama in the semifinals of the ASUN Tournament in early March – and fell achingly short yet again of the destination that all in the program make clear is still everyone’s expectation: the…
Women’s team rules ASUN, ranks 24 nationally
FGCU women’s basketball players Kierstan Bell and Tishara “TK” Morehouse looked at each other and laughed in unison, their friendship off the court as evident as their cohesion on it. “You can talk,” the diminutive Morehouse said shyly to the taller, more vocal Bell when asked about their uncanny success in their first season with…
Athletics names its inaugural Hall of Fame class
The FGCU Athletics Hall of Fame has its inaugural class. It includes one of the most well-known basketball teams in NCAA history – the 2012-13 men’s basketball team – two standout student-athletes – Chris Sale and Brooke Youngquist Sweat – and a trio of men who helped make Eagle Athletics possible – Dr. Ben Hill…
COVID-19 causes merger of fall, spring sports seasons
If 2020 was the year like no other, then this has been the spring like no other. COVID-19 rocked the world, and the ensuing developments shifted FGCU’s athletics program into a period of unprecedented logistical mayhem. When the ASUN Conference announced last August that the fall sports schedule was postponed and would resume in the…
Alumna finds fulfillment working with children of farmworkers
Gloria Gonzalez has found her calling. And that’s extremely calming. Gonzalez got her start with Redlands Christian Migrant Association (RCMA) in 2004 as an assistant center coordinator at LaBelle’s Krome Child Development Center, which provides high-quality early education, health care and support services for children of farmworkers and other low-income rural families. Sixteen years later,…
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