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FORT MYERS, Fla. – FGCU swimming and diving senior diver Reese Wakefield (Guelph, Ontario, Canada/Bishop Macdonelle CHS) was named the Coastal Collegiate Sports activities Affiliation Girls’s Diver of the Week on Tuesday.

Tuesday’s honor marked the eleventh time during which Wakefield has taken house the award — the primary time this season. Wakefield joined Kylie Palian (Aurora, Ohio/Aurora HS) as the one FGCU Eagles to win a CCSA weekly award this yr. Wakefield now trails program chief Ashley Wright for essentially the most diver of the week recognitions with 12.

“Congratulations Reese on this nicely deserved honor,” stated FGCU head swimming and diving coach Dave Rollins stated. “Re-qualifying for zones is a implausible accomplishment, and units us up very nicely for the CCSA Championships.”

Final week in opposition to Florida Worldwide, the senior posted season finest scores in each the 3-meter (275.48) and 1-meter diving occasions, incomes two silvers behind NCAA qualifier and Egyptian Olympian Maha Gouda.

Wakefield’s 1-meter rating of 271.78 certified herself for the upcoming NCAA Zone Championships in March, 5-8 from Knoxville, Tenn. In complete, she earned eight factors towards the Eagles’ trigger in opposition to the Panthers.

Wakefield and the Inexperienced & Blue will spring off the boards as soon as once more at 4 p.m. Friday and at midday Saturday for Senior Day — twice internet hosting CCSA foe North Florida on the Lee County/FGCU Aquatics Heart.

CCSA Swimmers and Divers of the Week:

Males’s Swimmer: Matej Dusa (Queens) 

Males’s Diver: Brandon Shepherd (Florida Atlantic)

Girls’s Swimmer: Danielle Melilli (Queens)

Girls’s Diver: Reese Wakefield (FGCU)

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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 39-30-1 (.557) twin meet report, which features a 16-3 (.842) mark in opposition to CCSA opponents, in his seventh season. Rollins guided FGCU to back-to-back CCSA titles (2017, 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 Yr 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 report holder and group captain.

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ABOUT FGCU

FGCU groups have mixed to win an unbelievable 94 convention common season and match 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 boys’s golf group turned the primary program to earn an at-large berth to the NCAA Match. Eight FGCU applications 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) seaside volleyball (No. 20, 2022) and each males’s soccer (2018, 2019) and girls’s soccer (2018) as 4 of the newest. In 2016-17, the Inexperienced & 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 Price of their sport. FGCU additionally collectively earned a report 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 applications achieved a 3.0-or-higher cumulative group GPA. 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 offered by the Fiesta Bowl.

 

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