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STATESBORO, Ga. – The FGCU men’s golf staff sits in 11th place after round certainly one of The Schenkel Invitational on Friday.
“We’ve been working really hard to search out some consistency this week,” said FGCU men’s golf head coach Andrew Danna. “I’m actually happy with our student-athletes. We are wanting ahead to another alternative to compete tomorrow.”
Tournament host and No. 19 Georgia Southern leads the 14-team area at 16-under-par as a group. No. 24 Mississippi State is second at four-under.
FGCU posted a spherical one staff score of 300, 12-over, however lies two strokes ahead of No. 45 North Florida. Round two and transferring day of the three-day tournament is scheduled for Saturday.
Junior Thomas Salanito (Palm Harbor, Fla./Clearwater Central Catholic) paced the Eagles starting five on Friday to currently place tied for 19th on the individual leaderboard, opening with an even-par 72. Salanito locations larger than three high 100 ranked Golftsat.com golfers getting into Saturday’s second spherical.
At 2-over-par, junior Austin Cherichella (Orlando, Fla./Lake Nona HS) is tied for 34th. Cherichella is considered one of just 14 golfers amongst a field of 84 to hold a cumulative under-par score on the par 3s.
Mississippi State’s Hunter Logan is the match leader at 7-under, boasting a round-one 65.
FGCU is ready to tee off spherical two motion beginning at 9:32 a.m. on Saturday.
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HEAD COACH ANDREW DANNA
Danna is in his fourth yr at the helm of the lads’s golf program with the Eagles incomes FGCU’s first-ever NCAA Tournament at-large berth in department history through the 2022 season. He has led the Eagles to second-place finishes on the 2021 and 2022 ASUN Championships and was named this system’s first-ever ASUN Coach of the Year (2021) and repeated in 2022. One of one of the best turnarounds in NCAA history saw the Green and Blue, led by Van Holmgren who turned the first participant to earn PING All-Region honors, leap from No. 257 in the ultimate 2019-20 GolfStat.com rankings to a then program-best 65 to shut out 2020-21. The Eagles set a new program-best through the 2022 season at No. 47 in the GolfStat.com rankings. Holmgren received the ASUN Championship individual title to qualify for the NCAA Regionals. Before taking up in Fort Myers, he served the 2018-19 season as the assistant at LSU. Prior to that he was the ultra-successful head coach for six years at Lynn University where he led them to the 2018 NCAA Division II national championship and was, subsequently, chosen the David Williams National Coach of the Year. He additionally led the Fighting Knights to three nationwide runner-up placements, with a 3rd and eighth place end in his other two seasons.
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FGCU teams have combined to win an unimaginable 96 convention common season and tournament titles in simply 15-plus seasons on the Division I level. Additionally, in just 11-plus seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a mixed 48 teams or people compete in NCAA championships. In 2022, the boys’s golf staff grew to become the first program to earn an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament. Nine FGCU programs have earned a top-25 nationwide rating of their respective sport – including women’s basketball (No. 20, 2021-22 and No. 22 in 2022-23), baseball (No. 20 in 2023), seashore volleyball (No. 20, 2022), and both males’s soccer (2018, 2019) and women’s soccer (2018) as five of the most recent. In 2016-17, the Green & Blue posted a department-best sixth-place end in the DI-AAA Learfield Directors’ Cup and top-100 showing nationally, ahead of several Power-5 and FBS establishments. In 2018-19, the Eagles had an ASUN and state of Florida greatest seven teams earn the NCAA’s Public Recognition Award for his or her Academic Progress Rate in their sport. FGCU also collectively earned a report 3.66 GPA in the classroom within the fall 2022 semester and has outperformed the general University undergraduate inhabitants for 27 consecutive semesters. The previous seven semesters (Fall 2019 – Fall 2022) saw another milestone reached as all 15 programs achieved a 3.0-or-higher cumulative staff GPA. The Eagles additionally served an all-time excessive 7,200 volunteer hours in 2017 – being acknowledged as one of two runners-up for the inaugural NACDA Community Service Award introduced by the Fiesta Bowl.
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