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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…
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…
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,…
Brian Blomberg was never sick as a kid. From kindergarten through his senior year of high school growing up on Long Island in Farmingville, New York, he didn’t miss a day of school. Then, as a model student and diehard sports fan at FGCU a decade ago, his boundless dedication and enthusiasm came across in…
Care for a burgeoning elderly population is something this country must come to grips with – and quickly. The Urban Institute reports that by 2030 all baby boomers will be 65 or older and one in 5 people will be retirement age. That means that caregivers for those who are aging will be in greater…
Video: Tim Clark & Dale Ward/FGCU The Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation has honored four new Foundation Fellows. Richard Ackert, Lee Seidler, Linda Taylor and Charles Winton were recognized in March for their support to the university. They join a select group that includes Barron Collier III, J. Dudley Goodlette, Alan Korest, W. Bernard Lester, David…