Two role players key for Gators award-winners
For the second time in school history, the Gators enter the NCAA Tournament with the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year and Coach of the Year.
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For the second time in school history, the Gators enter the NCAA Tournament with the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year and Coach of the Year.
The Gators' 20th Southeastern Conference championship is one for the history books.
The UF cheerleaders have been grounded.
Seniors Betsy Smith, Tangerine Wiggs and Sundai Weston stepped onto the O’Connell Center floor for possibly the last time in their careers on Sunday.
When South Carolina rolls into the O’Connell Center on Sunday, Florida could potentially wrap up its 20th Southeastern Conference championship on the same day Betsy Smith, Tangerine Wiggs and Sundai Weston are honored for Senior Day.
The Gators’ painful pattern of players’ plights will continue when they visit Missouri tonight at 7:30 p.m.
Thanks to Ziva Recek, the Gators have to make more room on their mantel.
The sight of Betsy Smith’s 6-foot-2 frame falling to the floor with a right ankle injury was not encouraging to coach Mary Wise. Smith, who injured her ankle during No. 13 Florida’s loss to No. 11 Florida State on Oct. 24, “some time away,” according to Wise.
Finding consistent offense was problematic for Florida last season, but Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma has an answer for UF and the rest of women’s basketball: lower the rims.
Redshirt senior Tangerine Wiggs has made the most of her three rotations this season by racking up 165 kills, but Friday night she outperformed herself when she set a new school record in Florida’s 3-0 (25-11, 25-8, 25-11) win against Mississippi State.
Florida State delivered more than a gut check to Florida on Wednesday night. The Seminoles punched the Gators square in the mouth with a three-set sweep in Tallahassee, Chloe Mann said.
Coach Mary Wise’s “down 2-0” speech isn’t magic.
The crowd at the O’Connell Center jeered and yelled, but Madison Monserez, mouth agape, couldn’t eke out a word.
The No. 11 Florida Gators travel to Tuscaloosa, Ala., and College Station, Texas, to take on two conference opponents. Florida has won its first nine conference games heading into matchups with Alabama and Texas A&M.
Even as Chloe Mann tied her career high with 20 kills in just three sets, the Gators’ defense stole the show.
Taylor Brauneis doesn’t mind dishing away the ball or the spotlight.
Criminology sophomore Megan Huynh, 18, dives for the ball for her team, Riker Ground, in a game of mud volleyball at the 43rd annual Mudfest on Monday.
As Ziva Recek goes, so do the Gators — for better or for worse.
When Madison Monserez first sees Arkansas send a ball over the net on Friday at 7 p.m. in the O’Connell Center, her mind will be shut off.