FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The FGCU NIL Store powered by Campus Ink is officially open for business, featuring custom and co-licensed merchandise sold for Florida Gulf Coast University student-athletes.
 
The FGCU NIL Store is every fan's one-stop-shop to score officially licensed FGCU NIL apparel and directly support their favorite student-athletes.
 
"We are excited that Campus Ink has chosen FGCU to support the NIL Store mission, and the opportunity it delivers to our student-athletes," said FGCU Director of Athletics Ken Kavanagh. "Fans of the Green & Blue can directly support their favorite Eagles as well as FGCU Athletics by purchasing merchandise this way – which is a win-win for everyone."
 
Tuesday's grand opening is just the start. The store will continue to onboard athletes and create unique core products and custom merch drops, while also adding jerseys at a later date. Supporters will discover merchandise for basketball, baseball, swimming and more.
 
Each student-athlete's locker room includes a collection of core products which feature personalized names and numbers for applicable athletes.
 
"Campus Ink's NIL store is everything that is right about the NCAA's new NIL legislation," said FGCU head men's basketball coach Pat Chambers. "Allowing college athletes to sell licensed merchandise is one of the many opportunities in our strategic plan.
 
"Being just the 11^th school to launch an NIL store, Ken Kavanagh and his administration have put FGCU on the cutting edge of college athletics."
 
In addition to FGCU, the NIL Store currently has stores with Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Duke, Virginia Tech, Syracuse, UConn, Iowa State, Florida State, SDSU and DePaul, with many more stores currently under construction.
 
Backed by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, Campus Ink expanded into the Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) space in 2021 and launched the NIL Store, which serves as a merchandising solution for student-athletes and schools.
 
The NIL Store operates with the firm belief that every student-athlete has an opportunity to capitalize on their name, image and likeness. Campus Ink was founded in 1947 on the campus of the University of Illinois and was reimagined in 2015 with an office in downtown Chicago and a production facility in Urbana, Ill., where the company handles all of its own production and fulfillment.
 
E.A.G.L.E. CAMPAIGN
IT TAKES A TEAM to achieve our newest goal - a $10 million campaign to address student-athlete needs in continued academic success, life skills, mental health, nutrition, and strength and conditioning as well as departmental needs in facility expansion and improvement as well as mentoring and leadership training for coaches and staff. The name embodies our mission and the purpose of the E.A.G.L.E. Campaign - Eagle Athletics Generating Lifetime Excellence. Join Our Team and pledge your gift today to help the Eagles of tomorrow!
 
#FEEDFGCU
FGCU Athletics sponsors events in November and April to benefit the FGCU Campus Food Pantry (https://www.fgcu.edu/adminservices/foodpantry) and the Harry Chapin Food Bank (www.harrychapinfoodbank.org), FGCU Athletics' charities of choice. For more information, including how to make a contribution, please visit https://www.fgcu.edu/adminservices/foodpantry and utilize the hashtag #FeedFGCU to help raise awareness.
 
ABOUT FGCU
FGCU teams have combined to win an incredible 94 conference regular season and tournament titles in just 15-plus seasons at the Division I level. Additionally, in just 11-plus seasons of D-I postseason eligibility, the Eagles have had a combined 47 teams or individuals compete in NCAA championships. In 2022, the men's golf team became the first program to earn an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament. Eight FGCU programs have earned a top-25 national ranking in their respective sport - including women's basketball (No. 20, 2021-22 and No. 25 in 2022-23) beach volleyball (No. 20, 2022) and both men's soccer (2018, 2019) and women's soccer (2018) as four of the most recent. In 2016-17, the Green & Blue posted a department-best sixth-place finish in the DI-AAA Learfield Directors' Cup and top-100 showing nationally, ahead of several Power-5 and FBS institutions. In 2018-19, the Eagles had an ASUN and state of Florida best seven teams earn the NCAA's Public Recognition Award for their Academic Progress Rate in their sport. FGCU also collectively earned a record 3.66 GPA in the classroom in the fall 2022 semester and has outperformed the general University undergraduate population for 27 consecutive semesters. The past seven semesters (Fall 2019 – Fall 2022) saw another milestone reached as all 15 programs achieved a 3.0-or-higher cumulative team GPA. The Eagles also served an all-time high 7,200 volunteer hours in 2017 - being recognized as one of two runners-up for the inaugural NACDA Community Service Award presented by the Fiesta Bowl.
 
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