- December 16th, 2014, 3:44 pm
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Coach Shell will love this one ...
Ft. Myers (FL) News-Press wrote:FGCU swim: Eagles have score to settle with LibertyHere's my favorite part ...
Seth Soffian, ssoffian@news-press.com
6:06 p.m. EST December 15, 2014
Friday was the last day of final exams for the fall semester, but FGCU senior swimming team captain Devon Robins, for one, won't be going home to England for the break.
It's nothing against her family. She's just got more important business to attend to.
Liberty University, which has ruffled some FGCU feathers after snapping the Eagles' five-year winning streak in the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association championship, is coming to town on Jan. 3, and FGCU doesn't want to wait until this season's conference meet in February to make its intentions clear.
Still, a photo Liberty posted on Twitter last December of the team posing in front of the FGCU fountain outside Alico Arena – with two swimmers standing in the fountain, including one in the wing of the Eagle – struck FGCU the wrong way.Click Here for Full Story
In September, comments from Flames team captain Meghan Babcock, one of two Liberty swimmers posed in the FGCU fountain, further left FGCU feeling a previously one-sided rivalry had turned unfriendly.