{"id":312992,"date":"2026-08-04T00:10:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312992\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:10:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:10:56","slug":"fico-signs-jakubuwski-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312992\/","title":{"rendered":"Fico signs Jakubuwski for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gulf Coast softball head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/coaches\/lindsay-fico\/5478\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5478\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsay Fico<\/a> announced Makayla Jakubuwski as the seventh signee out of the 2026 transfer portal on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Makayla is a special addition to our program and we are excited to have her continue her journey right here at FGCU,&#8221; Fico said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve watched her compete and grow as a player at FSW and look forward to her contributions as an Eagle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Makayla Jakubuwski | 5&#8217;10 | Jr. | OF | L\/R | Evangelical Christian HS | FSW | Fort Myers, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Jakubuwski slashed .349\/.401\/.411 over two years at FSW, and reached base at a .423 clip with just five strikeouts in 2026. She recorded 42 RBIs on 45 hits, and scored 23 runs. She tallied four multi-hit games as a sophomore, including a 13-game on-base streak that spanned from mid-April to May. The Fort Myers native helped FSW to a 57-7 record and NJCAA World Series semifinal appearance.<\/p>\n<p>In high school, she won a 2A State Championship in 2023 at Evangelical Christian HS. As a senior, she hit .505 with 11 doubles and nine triples while driving in 41 runs. She played club for coach Scott Peratoni at Rock Gold.<\/p>\n<p>Academically, she was named to the Dean&#8217;s List at FSW and the 2025 FCSAA All-Academic Team. The daughter of Danny and Lisa Jakubuwski, Makayla has an older brother, Zach.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on FGCU Softball, follow @FGCUSoftball on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fgcusoftball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FGCU_Softball\" rel=\"nofollow\">X (Twitter)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FGCUSoftball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, and visit <a href=\"http:\/\/fgcuathletics.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fgcuathletics.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2013 Florida Gulf Coast softball head coach Lindsay Fico announced Makayla&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-312992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}