FORT MYERS, Florida. Former FGCU excessive volleyball participant and outdoors hitterCortney VanLiewsigned knowledgeable contract to play in Europe. VanLiew has signed with Polkky Kuusamo, a company in Finland and can be part of the crew on September 1.
The Seymour, Ind. native competed for the Eagles for 5 seasons, 2017-2021, perpetually leaving her mark on the FGCU program. VanLiew stays one in every of 5 Eagles to document greater than 1,000 profession wins, breaking this system’s all-time document with 1,657.
“That is such an thrilling and well-deserved alternative for Cortney,” the FGCU volleyball coach stated.Matt Botsford. “She has had profession aspirations since becoming a member of FGCU, and seeing her obtain that objective is rewarding for all of us in this system. Together with her skills and keenness for the sport, Cortney shall be an asset to her new crew from the beginning. and I am unable to wait to see her in motion!”
VanLiew was a unanimous ASUN Participant of the 12 months (2018) and a three-time ASUN First Crew recipient (2018, 2019, Spring 2021), three-time ASUN Educational Crew member (2018, 2019, Spring 2021) who guided the Eagles to a few ASUN common season crowns, two ASUN Event Championships and two NCAA Event wins over No. 13 UCF and Texas Tech.
She was a part of 117 wins within the Inexperienced & Blue, together with three 27-win campaigns to tie this system’s single-season successful document. VanLiew’s crew in 2018 picked up FGCU’s first-ever ranked win and NCAA Event win.
Over his five-year profession, VanLiew earned high seven honors from the ASUN Participant of the Week program and gained ASUN Winner for Life in Spring 2020 (2010-19).
As a junior, VanLiew was named a VolleyballMag.com All-American Honorable Point out and AVCA All-Southeast Area Honorable Point out recipient.
VanLiew was inducted into the 2021 FGCU Corridor of Fame, turning into the second FGCU volleyball participant and ninth FGCU student-athlete to earn the respect.
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COACHBOTSFORD
Matt Botsfordaccomplished his ninth season as the pinnacle coach of the FGCU ladies’s volleyball program after being employed on February 10, 2014. Throughout his tenure, Botsford-led groups compiled an total document of 210- 66 (.761), together with a 109-23 (.826) score in ASUNplay. Botsford is the winningest coach in FGCU historical past and ranks eleventh within the nation amongst all lively DI coaches in successful share in profession. He is taken this system to heights it is by no means seen within the Division I period (2007-present), recording not less than 20 wins in eight of the previous 9 seasons (excluding COVID2020) and not less than 10 convention wins annually. This season (2022), Botsford recorded his two hundredth profession FGCU victory with a 3-0 sweep of Queens en path to back-to-back ASUN Event titles and a 3rd NCAA Event look. In 2018, he led the Eagles program to its first common season championship since 2012 and its first-ever ASUNTournament title, NCAA Event look, NCAA Event win, and victory over a ranked crew. His first two campaigns resulted in second-place end within the ASUN common season, and the following two noticed the Eagles advance to the event championship. Now FGCU has made seven straight appearances in ASUN title matches, gained 4 straight common season titles (5 in whole beneath Botsford), together with three ASUNTournament Championship crowns. On September 10, 2016, Botsford led the Eagles to a five-set victory over Indiana at AlicoArena, which marked this system’s first-ever victory in opposition to a crew from a Energy-5 convention. In 2018, he additionally led his crew to a victory over Miami (Florida) – the first-ever highway win of the Energy 5 program and the Eagles adopted that up with a straight-sets win over the Hurricanes at a impartial website in 2019. 2021, the Inexperienced & Blue posted its greatest RPI of 31 and picked up 27 wins, tying this system document beforehand set within the 2016, 2018 and 2019 seasons, and notched an NCAA first-round victory over Texas Tech. The win over the Crimson Raiders marked the Eagles’ second NCAA first-round win following their 3-2 victory over No. 13 UCF in Orlando in 2018 season.
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ABOUT THE FGCU
FGCU groups have mixed to win an unimaginable 98 convention common season and event titles in simply 15+ seasons on the Division I stage. Moreover, in simply over 11 seasons of playoff eligibility DI, the Eagles have had a complete of 48 groups or people competing within the NCAA Championships. In 2022, the lads’s golf crew grew to become the primary program to earn an NCAA Event berth. NineFGCUprograms has earned nationwide high 25 rankings of their respective sports activities, together with ladies’s basketball (#20 in 2021-22 and #22 in 2022-23), baseball (#15 in 2023), volleyball seashore (No. 20 in 2022), and males’s soccer (2018, 2019) and ladies’s soccer (2018) as 5 of the newest. In 2016-17, the Greens and Blues posted the division’s greatest sixth place end within the DI-AAALearfieldDirectors’ Cup and high 100 nationally, forward of a number of Energy-5 and FBS establishments. In 2018-19, the Eagles had an ASUN and Florida State’s high seven groups gained the NCAA Public Recognition Award for his or her charge of educational development of their sport. basic undergraduate inhabitants for 27 consecutive semesters. Over the previous seven semesters (Fall 2019, Fall 2022), one other milestone has been achieved, with all 15 packages reaching a cumulative crew common of three.0 or greater. The Eagles additionally served an all-time excessive of seven,200 volunteer hours in 2017, being acknowledged as one in every of two finalists for the inaugural NACDACommunity Service Award introduced by the Fiesta Bowl.
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