MIAMI, Fla. – The FGCU women's swimming and diving team (9-1, 3-0 CCSA) makes the trip across Alligator Alley in search of their eighth straight win and 10th on the season against Florida International University on Saturday morning at 11 a.m.  This is the first time in the New Year that the Eagles have a meet away from home.

FIU
The Panthers will look to improve on their 5-0 dual-meet record as they host their last home meet of the 2015 season. The FIU swimming and diving team broke three pool records last time out during their FIU Relay event. The Panthers last dual-meet was against the Ospreys of North Florida on Dec. 17 where they won eight events and went on to beat UNF by a tally of 64-38.

LAST TIME OUT
FGCU won 10 of 11 events to cruise past B1G foe Nebraska on Jan. 10 by a final score of 126-77. Katie Armitage (Bushey, United Kingdom/Queens School Bushey), Emma Svensson (Uppsala, Sweden/Celsiusskolan) and Lani Cabrera (Barbados/St. Ursala's Secondary School) all picked up multiple individual victories to pace the Eagles who continue to pick up big victories during this 2014-15 campaign.

CONFERENCE HONOR QUEENS
After the win against Nebraska the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association announced Cabrera as the Swimmer of the Week. The junior picked up the first of her two distance wins in the 1000 yard freestyle with a time of 10:21.13. She would also go on to win the 500 yard free with a time of 5:00.19 against the Big Ten opponent.

The Eagles have earned nine CCSA weekly honors this season. FGCU swept the first wave of CCSA weekly honors on Oct. 7 with Svensson named Swimmer of the Week and Cayla Collins (Largo, Fla./Osceola High School) Diver of the Week following their success at the season-opening All Florida Invite. Svensson continued on to earn another Swimmer of the Week title on Oct. 21 after three first-place touches in FGCU's 175-120 defeat of Incarnate Word. She would pick up a third a few weeks ago. Collins, along with Yee Wong (Hong Kong, China/Dlocesan Girls' School) swept the awards after the Eagles' quad meet versus Liberty, Campbell and Central Connecticut State on Jan. 3.

EMMA SVENSSON
After posting two Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association record-breaking performances at the Georgia Tech Invitational where she also earned four NCAA 'B' cuts, set an FGCU program record and finished second or third in six events, senior Emma Svensson was named the CCSA Swimmer of the Week for the third time this year.

The honor for Svensson is the 12th of her career and comes after helping lead FGCU to a fourth-place finish at the competitive Georgia Tech Invite as the Eagles finished behind only Florida, Arkansas and Florida State in the 16-team field.

Svensson added to her already illustrious career by posting the following finishes and records at Georgia Tech:

FGCU Program Record:

100-yard freestyle (48.59, 2nd Place)
*Previous Record: Svensson (2014), 49.13

CCSA Records:

400-yard freestyle relay (3:18.06, 2nd Place) with splits of 23.14 and 48.76
*Previous Record: FGCU, 3:20.13
100-yard freestyle (48.59, 2nd Place)
*Previous Record: Svensson, 49.13

NCAA 'B' Cut:

400-yard freestyle relay (3:18.06, 2nd Place) with splits of 23.14 and 48.76
100-yard freestyle (48.59, 2nd Place)
50-yard freestyle (22.18, 2nd Place)
100-yard butterfly (54.46, 6th Place)
100-yard backstroke (54.91, 6th Place)

In addition to those finishes, Svensson helped FGCU to third-place finishes in both the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:30.89) and 200-yard medley relay (1:39.26) with splits of 21.73 and 23.15, respectively. Svensson also helped the 800-yard freestyle relay team touch in 7:26.56 for fourth place and the 400-yard medley relay team also finished in fourth place with a time of 3:39.06.

UP NEXT
The Eagles will be off until Jan. 30-31 when they host the Seminoles of Florida State at the FGCU Aquatics Complex. The meet is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. on the 30th and 10 a.m. on the 31st. FGCU will then be off until Feb. 18-21 when they travel to Athens, Ga. to compete in the CCSA Championship.

For complete coverage of FGCU women's swimming and diving, follow us on Twitter @FGCU_WSWIM and visit www.FGCUAthletics.com where full recaps and results will be available at the end of the meet.

FGCU is led by Neal Studd, who has garnered four CCSA Coach of the Year awards, won five CCSA Championships (2009-13) and guided the Eagles to a 25-1 CCSA all-time record since FGCU started its program in 2007. In just three years of postseason eligibility, Studd has coached NCAA Championship Meet qualifiers and competitors each of the three years, with 2014 yielding the best results to date as the Eagles claimed 32nd place and produced two CSCAA All-America honorees.

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