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Bidding is now open for the 2023 Night at the Nest Gala! Head over to the Mobile Bidding Page to register and bid on items: brnw.ch/21wEQ5H The auction will close throughout the night on 12/1 but you can participate even if you cannot attend the event.

Welcome to The Nest Emily! #WingsUp 🦅

Introducing our newest Eagle Isabelle! #WingsUp 🦅

A new Eagle has landed in The Nest! Welcome Kata! #WingsUp 🦅

Congratulations @KavEagle on not only an incredible career but for setting the foundation for us at FGCU to grow ON! I’ll be forever grateful for you, taking a chance on a young coach 8 years ago, bringing my family and me to beautiful SWFL. Congratulations, Wings Up and GBGE 🤙

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer. He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice. Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.” Coach replied, “Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.” Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.” And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department. Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.” Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.” “So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'” “And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.” Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.” Takeaway 1: Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban. “People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.” “I just tell them, 'Be great.'” “The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.' “So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.' Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.” Takeaway 2: I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success. The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.” To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control. Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success. In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?” Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.” - - - “I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

@DodokrollDorte @fgcu_wswimdive In college duel meets, relays are 11-4-2 (1st 2nd 3rd) while individual races are 9-4-3-2-1 (1st-5th). Teams can score 2 relays and a maximum of 3 individuals per event. If a team swims 1-2-3 in a relay, only the top 2 will score and the other team earns 3rd place.

@fgcu_wswimdive How are the points made up?

Score Update: (thru event 10) FGCU 126, Bellarmine 60 #WingsUp

Meet 1 ✅ #WingsUp

New conference. Same championship mindset. 😤 #WingsUp 🤙🦅🏊‍♀️

𝗪𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀...👀 The ASUN will now sponsor Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving beginning in the upcoming season! 💯🏊‍♂️🏊‍♀️ Read the full story ⬇️ 📰 | asunsports.org/news/2023/8/15… #ASUNBuilt

Time to Down the Devils! #ForksDown #WingsUp Let’s go @FGCU_VB !!!

This also applies to camp season. Campers love those tenders!

Camp season is off and running (Yes, so is recruiting) But it’s incredible to see the growth our little camp has made. From a modest start, with mostly local swimmers, we have over 200 campers we will get to work with this year from all over the US as well as Ireland and Tunisia!

It’s a great day to be the @FGCUEagles #WingsUp

Extremely proud to represent our wonderful ⁦@FGCUEagles⁩ student-athletes in receiving the ⁦@ASUNSports⁩ annual Academic Progress Rate (APR) Award & ⁦@FGCU_Baseball ⁦@brianelliss⁩ Beam Award (#117) #WingsUp #HailToTheEagles #Priorities #WeAreFGCU 🦅📚🎓🤙

8 - 4.0s 25 - 3.5+ GPAs 90% of team over a 3.25 🤓 🦅

Looks like we gotta get a couple more relays rolling! #LFG #WingsUp

I spy with my little eye 5 @fgcu_wswimdive 🦅 on this list! #WingsUp

Happy Birthday @mikeandcheesee !!