BOCA RATON, Fla. – (Sept. 30, 2019) – Ivan Mykhailenko of the Florida Atlantic University men’s soccer team has been selected as the Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week, as announced by the league office on Monday. This is the first honor of its kind for the junior.
Mykhailenko continues to lead the Owls on the offensive side of the ball after recording five points in FAU’s 3-1 victory over Florida Gulf Coast Wednesday night. The Kyiv, Ukraine native scored two goals and tallied an assist, having the most points scored by an Owl since 2014. Mykhailenko scored in the 12th and 28th minute of the game and set up the perfect shot off a header in the second half.
The Owls are 3-3-0 and are off to their best start since 2013. Mykhailenko also leads the team in several offensive categories, including goals (4), points (10), shots (12) and shooting percentage (.333%), and has scored or assisted in all but one goal this season.
The junior is the first men’s soccer player since 2013 to receive a nod for offensive player of the week, which was the first season the Owls joined C-USA.
FAU will head to Orlando, Florida tomorrow to take on No. 12 UCF at 6 p.m.
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Florida Atlantic University Athletics:
FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
