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FORT MYERS, Fla. – Florida Gulf Coast University volleyball closes its regular season home slate this weekend at Alico Arena, hosting North Florida Friday, Oct. 30 at 6 p.m. and Jacksonville Sunday, Nov. 1 at 1 p.m. Sunday is Senior Day, and the Eagles will honor Julija Grubisic Cabo, Anna Marzella, Abby Toeniskoetter and Eliska Vytiskova.
 
Florida Gulf Coast (8-11, 5-4 ASUN) returns home after a four-match ASUN road stretch and is 4-1 at Alico Arena in conference play. The Eagles took the opening set in both matches last weekend and won four sets across two five-set battles. They won the first set 25-21 and the third 27-25 at Lipscomb before falling 3-2 (25-21, 20-25, 27-25, 23-25, 13-15), then took the first two sets 26-24 and 25-23 at Bellarmine before falling 3-2 (26-24, 25-23, 24-26, 23-25, 10-15). Six of FGCU’s nine ASUN matches have reached a fifth set. Through nine league matches, the Eagles have out-killed their opponents 469-423, out-dug them 13.54 to 11.46 per set and averaged 1.74 aces per set while holding opponents to .182 hitting.
 
All four of Sunday’s honorees were part of last fall’s ASUN regular season championship team. Grubisic Cabo, a Maribor, Slovenia native, won an NJCAA national championship and was named NJCAA National Player of the Year at Florida SouthWestern State in 2024 before earning First Team All-ASUN honors in her first season at FGCU. She has 1,051 kills across her collegiate career at UMBC, FSW and FGCU, and her eight aces against Stetson on Sept. 26 tied for the most in a three-set match in program history. She will graduate with a degree in Quantitative Economics. Marzella won two NJCAA national championships at FSW and has 824 career digs between FSW and FGCU. She leads the Eagles with 253 digs this season and has set a new career high in a match multiple times this fall, most recently with 30 at Lipscomb. She will graduate with a degree in Psychology.
 
Toeniskoetter won two NJCAA national championships at FSW and was a 2024 NJCAA First-Team All-American. She recently reached 500 career kills, has hit above .400 across her collegiate career and leads FGCU with a .347 hitting percentage this season. She will graduate with a degree in Health Science. Vytiskova has more than 2,800 career assists between Akron and FGCU, including a career-high 60 in a match, and her 823 assists with the Eagles rank 10th in program history, five behind Shanelle Puetz (828) for ninth. She owns the program record for aces in a five-set match, reaching it twice last season with six against FIU on Oct. 21, 2025 and six at West Georgia on Nov. 2, 2025. She will graduate with a degree in Psychology.
 
Freshman opposite Maju Hildebrand set career highs in kills on back-to-back nights last weekend, posting a double-double of 17 kills and 13 digs at Lipscomb and following with 18 kills on .389 hitting, five total blocks and a career-high 20.5 points at Bellarmine. She leads FGCU with 223 kills (2.86 per set) and 252 points (3.23 per set) and has reached double figures in kills in 14 of 19 matches. Grubisic Cabo totaled 26 kills and 27 digs over the weekend, including a double-double of a match-high 18 kills and 12 digs at Lipscomb, where her 68 attempts were the sixth-most in a match in program history. She has six double-doubles this season and leads the team with 29 aces, 20 of them in ASUN play. Sophomore Katie Gielas has reached double figures in kills in four straight matches, totaling 55 kills and 45 digs in that stretch. She posted 16 kills and a career-high 20 digs at Lipscomb and a season-high 17 kills and 20 points at Bellarmine, and she has 145 kills (2.54 per set) this season.
 
Toeniskoetter hit .310 with 16 kills and 12 total blocks last weekend, including six blocks in each match, and her four solo blocks at Lipscomb tied for the sixth-most in a match in program history. The senior middle blocker leads FGCU with 82 total blocks (1.05 per set) and 10 solo blocks and is hitting .397 in conference play. Freshman middle blocker Amany Kuwa has 64 total blocks (0.91 per set) and went 4-for-4 on the attack with four blocks at Bellarmine. Senior setter Dinara Sabitova recorded double-doubles in both matches last weekend, totaling 75 assists and 25 digs, and leads the team with 491 assists (6.29 per set). Marzella followed her 30-dig night at Lipscomb with 21 more at Bellarmine. She averages 3.24 digs per set, ranking third in the ASUN in total digs.
 
North Florida (Friday, Oct. 30, 6 p.m.) 
North Florida is 12-8 (5-3 ASUN) under first-year head coach Abby Gilleland. The Ospreys split a home weekend, falling 3-2 to West Florida on Friday before beating Queens 3-1 (25-20, 25-22, 22-25, 25-21) on Saturday. Friday is North Florida’s first road match since Oct. 9 at Queens.
 
Kaili Doctor leads the ASUN in kills per set (4.01), total kills (321) and points per set (4.58), and she has reached double figures in kills in 19 of 20 matches. She totaled 50 kills last weekend, with 26 on .463 hitting against West Florida and a double-double of 24 kills and 15 digs against Queens. Dakota Spurrier has 259 kills (3.24 per set) and 183 digs and had 18 kills in both matches last weekend. Yarimar Francis Garay leads the league with 1.14 blocks per set and shares the lead with 90 total blocks, and she is hitting .289 with 126 kills. Leah McDonald has 145 kills and 172 digs, including 16 kills against West Florida, and Haleina Bowers is hitting .281 with 52 total blocks. Sofia Dawson, the ASUN Preseason Setter of the Year, leads the league with 819 assists (10.24 per set), and libero Emma Pohlmann leads the ASUN with 3.69 digs per set and posted a season-high 30 digs against Queens. As a team, North Florida is hitting .231 to its opponents’ .211 and averages 14.73 digs and 2.08 blocks per set.
 
Florida Gulf Coast leads the all-time series 37-11, including postseason play, and has won four of its last five meetings with North Florida in Fort Myers. The Eagles won both regular season meetings last season. The first was 3-1 at Alico Arena on Oct. 24, when Grubisic Cabo posted a career-high 21 kills on .486 hitting, and the second was 3-0 at UNF Arena on Nov. 15, a sweep that clinched the outright ASUN regular season title. North Florida won 3-2 in the ASUN Championship quarterfinals on Nov. 20 in Fort Myers and 3-0 in the teams’ first meeting this season on Oct. 17 at UNF Arena.
 
Jacksonville (Sunday, Nov. 1, 1 p.m.) 
Jacksonville is 10-12 (4-4 ASUN) under third-year head coach Alicia Manguiat, the 2025 ASUN Coach of the Year. The Dolphins have played five straight five-set matches, beating Stetson 3-2 on Oct. 17 and splitting a home weekend last week, falling 3-2 to Queens on Friday and edging West Florida 3-2 (22-25, 25-23, 25-20, 22-25, 15-12) on Saturday. Sunday is Jacksonville’s first road match since Oct. 11 at Queens, and the Dolphins are 3-5 away from home this season.
 
Abbie Tuyo leads Jacksonville with 263 kills (3.09 per set) and 309 points (3.64 per set) and has reached double figures in kills in 15 of 22 matches, including a season-high 20 against Alabama A&M. Freshman Jaylyn Tuiasosopo has 213 kills and leads the Dolphins with 34 aces and 169 digs. She totaled 39 kills last weekend, with 20 against Queens and a double-double of 19 kills and 12 digs, plus six blocks, against West Florida. Haley Yount, the ASUN Preseason Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, is hitting .384 with 117 kills and 73 total blocks (0.99 per set), including a team-high 10 solo blocks, and she had 12 kills on .440 hitting and nine blocks against West Florida. Addison Krieger leads the team with 90 total blocks (1.13 per set), including 10 against Queens. Senior Claire Mrukowski, a Preseason All-ASUN pick, is hitting .288 with 151 kills, and Kathryn Adler added 11 kills on .435 hitting against West Florida. Jade Cuya Cobos has led Jacksonville in assists in each of its last four matches and has 350 on the season (5.74 per set), including a double-double of 44 assists and 30 digs against Queens and 51 assists against West Florida. Emersen Strain has 262 assists (4.09 per set), and Ana Nastase has 220 (4.49 per set) with 26 aces. As a team, Jacksonville is hitting .232, with opponents hitting .214, and it averages 1.80 aces and 2.15 blocks per set.
 
Florida Gulf Coast leads the all-time series 34-13. The Eagles won the first meeting this season 3-2 (25-22, 26-24, 23-25, 23-25, 15-12) on Oct. 16 at Swisher Gymnasium, taking the first two sets before closing it out in the fifth. Toeniskoetter posted 16 kills without an error (.696) with seven total blocks, Kuwa added eight blocks and Marzella had 26 digs. The teams split two meetings last season. Jacksonville won 3-1 at Alico Arena on Oct. 26, and FGCU answered with a 3-1 win at Jacksonville on Nov. 14 that clinched a share of the ASUN regular season title.
 
Florida Gulf Coast continues ASUN play next weekend at West Florida Friday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. and Queens Sunday, Nov. 8 at noon.
 
2026 ASUN VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIP TICKETS
Tickets are on sale for the 2026 ASUN Volleyball Championship, set for Nov. 19-22 at Alico Arena. FGCU is hosting the league tournament for the fourth straight year and the 10th time overall, with the top six ASUN teams playing in Fort Myers for the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Single-session tickets start at $14, and all-tournament passes start at $30.
 
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