Faculty & Staff News
Sophomore swimmer Sasha Maslova earned her second-career Sunshine State Conference Female Swimmer of the Week award after an impressive outing in a dual meet against Lynn this past Friday, as announced by the conference office on Monday afternoon. FULL RELEASE
Run by the coaching staff of the defending NCAA South Region Champion Nova Southeastern men’s basketball team, the 2019 Sharks Elite Camp of the Year has officially been scheduled for Sun., Dec. 22 at the Rick Case Arena on the campus of Nova Southeastern. FULL RELEASE
The Nova Southeastern University women’s basketball team has been recognized as one of the favorites to take home the conference crown, as voted on by the league’s coaches and announced by the conference office on Tuesday afternoon. FULL RELEASE
With the calendar set to flip to November, signaling the start of basketball season, Nova Southeastern will tip-off its 2019-20 campaign ranked as the No. 2 team in the nation following the release of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Preseason Poll on Tuesday. FULL RELEASE
In the Division II Media Poll, sponsored by D2SIDA, the NSU women’s basketball team has been pegged the team to beat in the South Region after receiving the No. 1 overall ranking regionally late Tuesday night. The Sharks were also recognized as one of the top programs in the country after the national poll featured NSU at No. 10. FULL RELEASE
Following a historic 2018-19 run in which Nova Southeastern collected the program’s first-ever Sunshine State Conference regular season title, the Sharks have been selected to repeat once again this winter, as they garnered the top spot in Wednesday’s release of the SSC Preseason Coaches’ Poll. FULL RELEASE
Last month, over the Labor Day holiday, Nova Southeastern University men’s basketball coach Jim Crutchfield found himself in Boston as a guest speaker invited by Celtics coach Brad Stevens.
Earlier this year, Crutchfield got a spring-time call from another NBA coach, the Heat’s Erik Spoelstra, who came to the NSU campus to talk hoops. Yes, it’s been quite a summer for the NSU Sharks.
But that’s what happens when you reach the NCAA Division II Elite Eight for the first time in program history, and you do it in just the second year under Crutchfield.
NSU, which finished 6-20 the season before Crutchfield arrived, went 29-4 in 2018-2019, and that attracted NBA attention.
“Those [NBA] guys will talk to anyone they think they can learn from,” said Dave Halberstam, who was the Heat radio voice for six years and also called about 20 NSU games last season. “That ‘Spo’ would visit [Crutchfield] speaks volumes. I’m sure ‘Spo’ was seeking to talk basketball with a coach whose kids play hard-nosed defense.”
Crutchfield said he didn’t know Stevens before he was offered the invitation to Boston. Crutchfield also didn’t know Celtics assistant Jay Larranaga, son of Miami Hurricanes coach Jim Larranaga.
For the second-straight week, the Nova Southeastern men and women’s swim teams earned both sides of the Sunshine State Conference Swimmer of the Week Awards, as announced by the conference office on Monday afternoon. On the women’s side, sophomore Sasha Maslova earned the first honor of her career while junior men’s swimmer Magnus Poulsen picked up his third all-time. FULL RELEASE
The Nova Southeastern men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams have each been ranked in the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Div. II Preseason Dual Meet Poll, as announced by the CSCAA office on Wednesday. The women sit in fourth place while the men are currently ranked ninth.
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Authentic, young, passionate and humble, Natalie Espinal is admirable on and off the court. At the age of just 17, she left her home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to join the Nova Southeastern women’s tennis team, competing at what she loves and quickly proving how well she can do it – while creating a pathway for her pursuit of a college degree. The payoff for all adversity surmounted is already beginning to manifest, despite the very early stage of her career.
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