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FIU shortstop Garrett Wittels signed with the St. Louis Cardinals July 2. Wittels will be reunited with former FIU teammate Jeremy Patton and start his professional career playing for the Batavia Muckdogs — the same team Patton is playing for right now. Wittels finishes his FIU career hitting .352 with [...]
Wittels will pursue NCAA baseball record at home opener The defending Sun Belt Conference baseball champions begin their 2011 season Feb. 18-20 against Southeastern Louisiana, with high expectations and 15 new faces. Last season, the Panthers went 36-25 capturing the Sun Belt Tournament crown for the first time since 1999. [...]
Trail of the Torch is one of the most cherished Panther traditions. More than 1,500 students gathered Aug. 26 for the seventh annual event in the Housing Quad at MMC to celebrate the start of the academic year. Hosted by the Student Alumni Association, the welcome-back party included performances by Alpha [...]
Many reasons to show your FIU pride By Mark B. Rosenberg I recently had the pleasure of meeting Stephanie, Michelle and Kristen Ferrare, triplets who graduated from Our Lady of Lourdes Academy in Miami and started classes at FIU this fall. The Ferrare sisters are just three of the many [...]
FIU’s Garrett Wittels is just two games shy of tying the Division I all-time hit streak record By Sissi Aguila ’99, MA ’08 It was his first homerun of the season. Teammates had been teasing Garrett Wittels for weeks. He’d had a hit in 36 straight games. Amazing. But, he [...]
Fishing Tournament reels in dollars for student scholarships By Martin Haro ’05 Bianca Anghel is already anticipating next summer’s 9th Annual FIU Scholarship Fishing Tournament. A Legacy Scholarship ($1,000) recipient this year, the senior special education student – she is graduating this year – looks forward to participating in the [...]
He’s the talk of baseball. The talk of the town, really. Garrett Wittels’ 56-game hitting streak, second all-time in Division I baseball, has electrified the FIU community, South Florida and baseball fans – all rooting for him to make history. ESPN took note and named Wittels one of four ESPY [...]
There are only two days left to cast your vote for FIU’s own Garrett Wittels as ESPN’s Best Male College Athlete of 2010. So vote now! go.fiu.edu/espy Then share this link with everyone you know – family, friends, colleagues and all their friends too via email, facebook, twitter and any [...]
FIU All-American infielder Garrett Wittels has been selected as an ESPY nominee in the Best Male College Athlete category. Wittels finished the 2010 season with a 56-game hitting streak, second all-time in Division I baseball to Robin Ventura who hit safely in 58-straight games in 1987. Wittels’ hitting streak has [...]
Thirteen students received scholarships at the June 19 event, which raised $15,000 in scholarship funds to be distributed in 2011. Everyone knew it would be a hot day. No one could anticipate just how high the Fahrenheit would climb thanks to the spirit of the approximately 200 FIU alumni, family and [...]
