ATLANTA – The ASUN conference released it men's soccer league slate Thursday afternoon as its seven teams will be split into two divisions.

North Division
Bellarmine
Lipscomb
Liberty

South Division
FGCU
Stetson
Jacksonville
North Florida

Each team in the North Division will play two home and away games, while each club in the South Division will have three home and away matches. More information about the postseason will be released at a later date.

"It's been a very challenging past couple of months but it's exciting to see a schedule out that we can look forward to in 2021," said head coach Jesse Cormier. "The guys have been training hard and I know they are just as excited to get back out there and start competing for an ASUN regular season title and more."

FGCU will open the 2021 year in the River City taking on the Ospreys of UNF before coming home for back-to-back weekends hosting Jacksonville and UNF. The Eagles will then cap off the month of March heading north to face the Stetson Hatters, with the JU Dolphins being the final game of the month. The regular-season finale will take place Apr. 3 as the Eagles welcome the Hatters.

FGCU Men's Soccer Spring Schedule (home matches in bold, times TBA)
Feb. 27 – @ UNF
Mar. 6 – Jacksonville
Mar. 13 – UNF
Mar. 20 – @ Stetson
Mar. 27 – @ Jacksonville
Apr. 3 – Stetson

*This is the tentative schedule as of Oct. 15 and is subject to change

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HEAD COACH JESSE CORMIER
Jesse Cormier completed his third  in 2019 as head coach of the FGCU men's soccer program after being hired in January of 2017 to become just the 2nd head coach in program history. Cormier has guided FGCU to a 26-19-7 (.567) record overall, including a 13-3-2 mark (.778) in ASUN play. The Eagles have reached the ASUN Tournament semifinals for nine-straight seasons (every year of eligibility), as Cormier has coached 23 all-conference selections since his arrival (program-record 10 in 2017). Cormier was the head coach at his alma mater the University of Vermont for the previous 13 seasons. He won 14 games with the Catamounts in 2016 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament Second Round. During his time with Vermont, Cormier guided the program to the America East Tournament in 12 of 13 seasons, making five title game appearances, winning two tournament crowns, claiming a regular-season championship and advancing to three NCAA tournaments, including a pair of Second Round appearances. Cormier holds an overall 140-108-54 (.553) record as a head coach in his fifteen plus seasons at the helm.

#FEEDFGCU
FGCU Athletics sponsors events in November and April to benefit the FGCU Campus Food Pantry (www.fgcu.edu/foodpantry) and the Harry Chapin Food Bank (www.harrychapinfoodbank.org), FGCU Athletics' charities of choice. For more information, including how to make a contribution, please visit www.fgcu.edu/foodpantry and utilize the hashtag #FeedFGCU to help raise awareness.
 
ABOUT FGCU
FGCU teams have combined to win an incredible 82 conference regular season and tournament titles in just 13 seasons at the Division I level. Additionally, in just nine seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a combined 38 teams or individuals compete in NCAA championships. Seven FGCU programs have earned a top-25 national ranking in their respective sport – including women's basketball (No. 24, 2019-20) and both men's soccer (2018, 2019) and women's soccer (2018) as three of the most recent. In 2016-17, the Green and Blue posted a department-best sixth-place finish in the DI-AAA Learfield Directors' Cup and top-100 showing nationally, ahead of several Power-5 and FBS institutions. In 2018-19, the Eagles had an ASUN and state of Florida best seven teams earn the NCAA's Public Recognition Award for their Academic Progress Rate (APR) in their sport and have had the highest percentage of teams so honored from these two groups over each of the past three years. FGCU also collectively earned a record 3.46 GPA in the classroom in the spring 2020 semester and has outperformed the general University undergraduate population for 22 consecutive semesters. The 2019 Fall and 2020 Spring semesters each saw another milestone reached as all 15 programs achieved a 3.0-or-higher team GPA. The Eagles also served an all-time high 7,200 volunteer hours in 2017 – being recognized as one of two runners-up for the inaugural NACDA Community Service Award presented by the Fiesta Bowl.