A LOOK BACK AT 2007-08

Even though the Moccasins did not add another national championship to their already crowded trophy case, the 2007-08 athletic season was still a very successful year.

Eight teams qualified for NCAA postseason play capped by the men's golf team finishing sixth nationally. In addition, the men's cross country team advanced to the national meet where it finished 21st overall. Individually, two Moccasin golfers finished as nationally runners-up as Jude Eustaquio tied for first and then lost in a playoff for the men's title and Heather Burgner placed second, just four strokes behind the women's champion. Carloyne Kwambai also represented FSC at nationals, placing 55th in women's cross country.

In the Sunshine State Conference, men's basketball went from worst to first capturing both the regular season and tournament titles just one year after finishing last in the standings. The men's golf and cross country teams also claimed SSC titles while baseball, women's cross country, women's golf and volleyball also placed second in the SSC standings.

The SSC titles won in 2007-08 give FSC a total of 256 league championships, 81 more than has been won by any other Sunshine State Conference program.

The men's program captured the SSC Mayors Cup for a 10th time while the women's program, which has also captured 10 SSC All-Sports Trophies, finished third in 2007-08. FSC has now won twice as many Mayors Cups as any other SSC institution. Nationally, FSC placed 39th out of 232 Division II schools in the U.S. Sports Academy Directors' Cup national all-sports standings.

Twelve Moccasins were named to their respective All-American teams while Jude Eustaquio was honored with the Phil Mickelson Award as the Most Outstanding Freshman in NCAA Division II men's golf. Amy Clampitt-Holsenbeck became the first FSC women's soccer player to earn All-American honors when she was selected to the Daktronics first-team.

Retired cross country coach Buck Dawson joined former softball pitcher Julianne Coleman Dunham and two-time national champion women's golfer Jana Peterkova in the SSC Hall of Fame giving Florida Southern 41 inductees in the hall, 15 more than any other SSC school. Dawson was also named to the Polk County Sports Hall of Fame.

Championship Athletics
A Florida Southern Tradition

"Florida Southern College is proud of our student-athletes' accomplishments both on and off the fields and courts of competition. Moccasin athletic teams have won 26 NCAA Division II national championships and have finished as national runners-up 16 times. Florida Southern has won 156 conference championships and produced over 400 All-Americans. We are exceptionally proud of our NCAA graduation rate of 82 percent and our 69 Academic All-Americans and All-American Scholars. Come be part of one of the pre-eminent athletic programs in the nation and help maintain our championship tradition at Florida Southern College.” -- Pete Meyer, FSC Director of Athletics.

Florida Southern competes in the NCAA Division II and is a charter member of the Sunshine State Conference. The Mocs offer 18 intercollegiate sports including men's teams in: baseball, basketball, cross country/track*, golf, lacrosse**, soccer, swimming, and tennis; and women's teams in basketball, cross country/track*, golf, soccer, softball, swimming,  tennis, and volleyball.

* Florida Southern offers the opportunity for runners to compete intercollegiately in distance events in track. However, FSC does not compete in field events.

**Men's Lacrosse will begin with the 2008-09 season and will compete in the Deep South Conference.