FORT MYERS, Fla. – FGCU swimming and diving head coach Dave Rollins has announced the full 2022-23 schedule. The Eagles are looking for their 11^th CCSA Championship and will begin that quest on October 14-15 in Fort Myers when the Eagles welcome Campbell for a two-day meet to open the season.

"New season brings new opportunities!" said Rollins. "We are looking forward to welcoming some new faces to the Nest, while also having the opportunity to get on the road and compete.  We have created some different opportunities this year for our program, and I am excited to see how we grow and develop leading into our championships."

Following the season-opener against the Camels, FGCU will head to Louisville for the Bellarmine Duals in which the Eagles will take on the Knights as well as Gardner-Webb and Southern Indiana. It will be a special homecoming meet for a trio of Eagles as Claire McAtee, Emma Hixenbaugh, and Anna Hogan will all return to their hometown.

The Eagles will have a big week from November 16-19 as the swimmers will head off to Columbia, South Carolina for the Gamecock Invite while the divers head to Knoxville for the first of a potential three times this season for the Tennessee Diving Invite.

Over winter break, the Eagles will welcome two squads to Fort Myers beginning with UNC Asheville on December 20^th. Eastern Michigan will come down a couple of weeks later on January 5^th, making a return trip from a couple of years ago when the Eagles visited Ypsilanti. Also during winter break, the divers will head to Athens, Georgia for the UGA Diving Invite from January 3-5.

After the break, the Eagles head to Miami to take on the Hurricanes on January 13^th before returning home on the 18^th against FIU. The Green and Blue will remain home on January 27^th and 28^th for a meet against North Florida with that Saturday being Senior Day.

The regular season wraps up on February 4^th as the Eagle divers will compete at the South Florida Diving Invite in Coral Springs.

The CCSA Championships will be held from February 15-18 in Knoxville at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center on the campus of the University of Tennessee. Should any Eagles swim qualifying times throughout the season, they will advance to the NCAA Championships in Knoxville on March 15-18. The NCAA Zone Diving Regionals will also be held in Knoxville and will run from March 5-8 with the Eagles looking to make a splash as they return all three divers who qualified last season.

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HEAD COACH DAVE ROLLINS
Head coach Dave Rollins is only the second coach in program history. He was hired Sept. 1, 2016 and owns a 35-26-1 (.573) dual meet record, which includes a 14-2 (.875) mark against CCSA opponents, in his sixth season. Rollins guided FGCU to back-to-back CCSA titles (2017, 2018), as well as the program's fourth-straight title in 2018, marking the ninth championship in 10 years before winning the 10th championship in program history in 2021. In addition, he has been awarded CCSA Coach of the Year in two of his seasons at the helm. Previously, Rollins was the associate head men's swimming coach at The Ohio State University. Rollins brings over a decade of coaching experience to The Nest, which includes helping to develop Olympians, NCAA Champions and All-Americans, along with multiple conference champions. A native of Brockton, Mass., he was a standout collegiate swimmer in his own right and was inducted into the University of Arizona's Hall of Fame in 2017, as a nine-time NCAA All-American, national champion, school record holder and team captain.
 
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FGCU teams have combined to win an incredible 92 conference regular season and tournament titles in just 15 seasons at the Division I level. Additionally, in just 11 seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a combined 45 teams or individuals compete in NCAA championships. In 2022, the men's golf team became the first program to earn at at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament. Eight FGCU programs have earned a top-25 national ranking in their respective sport - including women's basketball (No. 20, 2021-22), beach volleyball (No. 20, 2022) and both men's soccer (2018, 2019) and women's soccer (2018) as four 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 in their sport. FGCU also collectively earned a record 3.50 GPA in the classroom in the fall 2020 semester and has outperformed the general University undergraduate population for 26 consecutive semesters. The past five semesters (Fall 2019 – Spring 2022) saw another milestone reached as all 15 programs achieved a 3.0-or-higher cumulative 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.