HATTIESBURG, Miss. (May 10, 2017) -- FIU redshirt senior Dani Mowry (Cocoa, Florida / Space Coast HS) has been named to the 2017 Conference USA InTouch Credit Union All-Academic Team as voted on by the Media Relations contacts at each member institution.
 
Mowry, who graduated last year with a degree in Recreation and Sport Management, has gone back to complete her prerequisite courses in the Pre-Nursing program. She currently possesses a 3.91 grade point average in psychology, and intends to attend nursing school after her playing career.
 
After losing two full seasons due to different injuries, Mowry has stayed healthy the past two seasons, setting career high this season in at bats, runs, hits, doubles, home runs, RBI and the three major offensive averages (batting, slugging and on-base). She produced four game-winning RBI this season, including two from her career-high six home runs. She was one of four players in the league to drive in five runs in a single C-USA game this season, when she broke her own career mark at Charlotte on April 22.
 
Last season, Mowry played most of her season at third base, with time at second and the designated player role, but this year is the everyday starting left fielder as a player who cannot be left out of the batting order. In conference games only, she finished the season in a tie for sixth in the league with 18 RBI, as part of her 31 this season, fourth-most on the team.
 
Mowry and the FIU squad will begin their C-USA Championship as the second seed, playing at 3:30 p.m. Eastern against the winner of the bottom half of the single-elimination bracket from Wednesday, taking on either seventh-seeded North Texas, sixth-seeded Charlotte, or three-seed Louisiana Tech. FIU was 7-1 against that group of teams this season and Mowry batted .391, with two homers and nine RBI in those eight games.
 
The Panthers play Thursday afternoon at 5:30 p.m. against either Charlotte, North Texas or Louisiana Tech for their opening game as the number-two seed in the Conference USA Championships, from Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in seven different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including Lime Court at FIU Arena and at Riccardo Silva Stadium.
 
About FIU: Florida International University is classified by Carnegie as a "R1: Doctoral Universities - Highest Research Activity" and recognized as a Carnegie Community Engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as business, engineering, computer science, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes almost $9 billion each year to the local economy and is ranked second in Florida in Forbes Magazine's "America's Best Employers" list. FIU graduates are consistently among the highest paid college graduates in Florida and are among the leaders of public and private organizations throughout South Florida. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission with multiple state-of-the-art research facilities including the Wall of Wind Research and Testing Facility, FIU's Medina Aquarius Program and the Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute.  FIU has awarded more than 220,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, the Miami Beach Urban Studios, and Tianjin, China. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and more than 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.