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Florida women's tennis finished the 2025 spring season with a 9-14 record, going 4-11 in conference play, marking UF’s lowest winning percentage since 1981 and the first time they've failed to qualify for the NCAA National Championships since 1986.
Newly graduated students and other members of Gainesville’s musical scene came together Saturday night for a nostalgic and atypical backyard show headlined by Good Neighbours.
A little less than five years ago, UF’s campus looked completely different. With everyone having just started to pick the pieces of their life back up amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Florida Gators football cautiously made its return to Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Among the team was an eagle-eyed 18-year-old Derek Wingo, preparing for his collegiate debut.
Florida took home its first national championship in 18 years after a neck-and-neck game between the Houston Cougars on Monday night. The Alamodome supported a boxing ring, much by Houston’s invention, and with a national championship hanging in the balance, top-seeded Florida and Houston traded haymakers.
When UF’s Final Four matchup against the Auburn Tigers ended in triumph, Gainesville roared. Students stormed the streets. Bar floors shook. Fireworks exploded. The Gators had just advanced to their first National Championship since 2007.
Weather, back-and-forth matches and limited court availability resulted in a nearly four-and-a-half hour long contest between Florida and Kentucky.
In San Antonio, Gators men’s basketball is gearing up to take on the Auburn Tigers on Saturday night. But back at home in Gainesville, Florida fans will have their eyes glued to the TV, whether that screen is at a bar, home or on campus.
“Shells.” That was the story from Florida football’s third spring practice. The term would be only loosely interesting if you were at the beach. It’s even less intriguing in the context of college football. But on Tuesday, the Gators took the next step of the NCAA’s mandated spring football schedule, putting on guardian cap-less helmets and shoulder pads — shells — as they completed their third practice.
Right in the middle of downtown Gainesville lies The Wooly, a venue characterized by warm lighting, comfortable seating and, on March 8, energetic French house music. Daft Disko, hosted by DJ Ricardo Ponce, brought in enthusiastic crowds who danced fervently for as long as the music was playing.
The spring signifies a lot of things: a much-needed time change, the blooming of irises in Gainesville’s swamps and the ability to hear music blaring any direction within half a mile of the Heavener Football Center. The latter would be because the Gators are back on the field.
The only typical thing is the opening.
With the Gators down 2-0, junior Rachel Gailis came back to secure a major upset over Auburn junior and national No. 2 DJ Bennett. Senior Alicia Dudeney followed suit by winning her singles match, providing a positive light to Florida’s tough defeat.
When customers walk through the doors of Ideal Nutrition, they won’t find aisles of ingredients. Instead, they’ll find a row of glass-door refrigerators filled with prepared, microwavable meals.
In the 7th grade after listening to Kanye West’s album, “The College Dropout,” Gainesville native Sean Momberger began experimenting with music on a $100 drum machine. He’d have no idea that 20 years later, he would be producing a song off of West’s most recent album, “Vultures 2.”
With a deafening bass and hues of neon colors dancing across the walls, Gainesville locals celebrated the end of syllabus week with a bang.
With back-to-back losing seasons, the attitude around the Florida Gators football team had lacked the fervor it normally possessed heading into 2024.
As the 2024 Gasparilla Bowl winded down to its final moments, the crowd of fans dressed primarily in orange and blue broke out into a familiar cheer: “It’s great to be a Florida Gator.”
The Florida Gators (7-5, 4-4 SEC) are at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa this afternoon for the 2024 Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl, where they will take on the Tulane Green Wave (9-4, 7-1 AAC). Kickoff time is set for 3:30 p.m. Follow along here for live game updates.
The closer the holiday season comes to fruition, the more stressful it can be to find the perfect gift, especially for loved ones or a person who appears to have everything they could want. Here are five gift ideas for the UF student.
There’s been concern surrounding the Florida football program that the team has struggled to gain positive momentum throughout head coach Billy Napier’s tenure at UF. As the Gators loaded up the buses to head back home from Tallahassee, this narrative seemed to have taken a complete 180.
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