Owl Football Spring Game

On Saturday, April 19, at 2 p.m. join the Sun Belt Conference and New Orleans Bowl Champions at the 8th Annual Spring Game held at the Track and Field Complex. The whole family can come out and get a sneak peek of the Owls while enjoying an interactive area for kids, an athletics memorabilia surplus sale and a special appearance by the FAU Cheerleaders and Owsley the mascot.

Parking and admission are free.

The Ring

The rings are here! The rings are here! The FAU Football team finally received their championship rings from the New Orleans Bowl. After four months the guys were presented with there rings before they started practice on April 9, which signified a culmination of their success.

The Bowl Championship ring:

- Comes in gold or platinum

- Has 15 diamonds in the shape of a football with a blue gem in the center

- Owls Sun Belt Champs/ Florida Atlantic on the top

- RL Carrier New Orleans Bowl, on one side

- Owl face on the other side

- Each players name and number engraved on the inside

GOD and Sports...

FAU athletes are not just dedicated to their sport many are also dedicated to God. Every Monday night at 5pm athletes from the many sports at FAU congregate together in the Founders Lounge in the Tom Oxley Center to worship God.

Every week, a Fellowship of Christian Athletes(FCA) member chooses a verse from the bible that touches them in some way, they share it with the group and each person reflects on the verse as well. Each session opens and closes in prayer. Not only are these meetings for the athletes meant to bering them closer to God but it also gives these athletes an outlet for venting any stresses they have had in their everyday lives.

Athlete Spotlight

Hey did you know that we have a lot of international athletes here at FAU. They come all the way from fromplaces like Norway all the way to Australia. Friederike Feil or "Ike" as she is affectionately called by her friends and teammates is a German born Cross Country runner.

She is the top distance runner on the team and for a person who runs no less then 5 miles a day, she better be. She was named All-Conference for the second year in a row and finished 43rd at the NCAA Regional in Gainesville in a time of 22:25.91 in the 6k. Ike is also the first two-time cross country all-conference member in FAU history.

Helping Hands

On Tuesday, April 8, the Lady Owl Volleyball team volunteered at the Boca Helping Hands Center. The team arrived at the facility at 8am and began prepping food to be be cooked and served. The entire orchestration takes about 5 hours to prepare, cook, set-up, serve and clean up. Although many girls left early due to classes a couple stayed to complete the whole process.

Katie Arvidson, the captain of the FAU Volleyball team said, "It was a great experience to do this for the community, I didn't think that it would be that much fun."

Boca Helping Hands first opened as a Food Center in November, 1998, serving nutritious hot lunches 3 days a week and giving out bags of groceries to families. An after-school sandwich program started in March, 1999. Currently we serve 5 after-school programs for low-income children during the school year, making and delivering over 60,000 sandwiches annually to approximately 360 children.

The Food Program has expanded to five days a week and includes delivering home cooked meals to homebound disabled and elderly individuals. In 2005, we served nearly 25,000 lunches to an average of about 100 people per day and delivered over 7,000 meals to the homebound.

BATTLE OF THE BUCKET

On Thursday, March 20 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday, March 21 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Florida Atlantic University competed in the "Battle for the Bucket" blood drive competition. The blood drive took place in the football locker room of the Tom Oxley Athletic Center, Boca Raton Campus.

FAU athletes as well as staff competed against long time rival Florida International University to see who could donate the most blood for the Community Blood Centers of South Florida. The school with the highest percentage of staff and athletes compete will receive a traveling trophy.

The athletes and staff who did donate blood received free T-shirts and pizza.

It's Spring Training Time

For the past two weeks the FAU football team has been having spring training from six to seven am on the FAU track. They have been focusing on conditioning and position specific drills.

On some occasions the condition was so intense that over half the team has actually thrown-up after work out. It's done now, at least it was only two weeks. Other sports don't get the luxury of only having intense training for such a short amount of time. Other FAU sports start training at 5a.m. and do this for months.