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Following his daughter's birth, Walter Clayton Jr. made extensive efforts to spend as much time as possible with his family as he could while emerging as a standout for Florida basketball.
A November referendum's passing converted the Alachua County Commission back to an at-large structure.
The UF triathlon team took home first, second and third place in the men’s division and first, second and fourth in the women’s division of the Miami Man Meet.
Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a type of depression that reoccurs in a pattern about four months out of the year — often during the winter. SAD doesn’t occur often among Floridians, with people from Alaska or New England more likely to develop the disorder. But many Floridians still suffer from a less extreme version: the “winter blues” or “holiday blues.”
The Florida Gators football program has made all kinds of noise on the recruiting trail as of late. UF has flipped six recruits in the last week alone and currently has the No. 15 recruiting class in the country for 2025.
They will head to Lawrence, Kansas, where they will start the NCAA Tournament against NC State (16-12, 11-9 ACC). That first round matchup is set for Friday, Dec. 6th, at 5 p.m.
Jaela Auguste’s impressive freshman volleyball season at UF has been capped off with an SEC Freshman of the Year award, as well as nods for the All-SEC Second and SEC-All Freshman Teams.
The trajectory of the Florida football team has reached its highest level in the Billy Napier era. The Gators are fresh off a rivalry win against Florida State, marking the first time UF has defeated three straight FBS teams in Napier’s tenure.
The Florida Gators (6-5, 4-4 SEC) look to keep building on their momentum as they take on intense rival Florida State Seminoles (2-9, 1-7 ACC), who have won the last two meetings between the teams.
In its final regular season match of the regular season, Florida volleyball fell short in a four-set defeat against Georgia.
Head coach Todd Golden has preached throughout Florida’s young season that the Gators need to construct a full 40-minute performance from start to finish. Despite its undefeated record, there have been spurts in the early minutes and back end of games where UF has seemingly taken its foot off the gas.
The Gators concluded their St. Pete Showcase slate with a 77-72 loss to James Madison on Friday afternoon. The defeat brought UF’s recent losing skid to four consecutive games, marking a stark contrast from the Gators’ start to the season.
Despite its lowest scoring game this season, No. 18 Florida (7-0) held Wake Forest (6-2) to under 60 points in a 75-58 opening-round victory at the ESPN Events Invitational in Kissimmee, Florida.
Florida women’s basketball opened its weekend in the St. Pete Showcase with a narrow loss to the Tulane Green Wave.
The Alachua County Sheriff's Office received a tip Oct. 2 that Flores threatened to commit a mass shooting via Instagram direct messages. According to the arrest report, he later used the platform to exchange sexually explicit material with a minor.
South Carolina beat Florida in Columbia, ending a 10-game winning streak for the Gators.
Florida football head coach Billy Napier has been hot on the recruiting trail as of late, and that continued Monday with three new commits to UF’s 2025 class.
Throughout Saturday afternoon, Florida junior Rachel Gailis and senior Alicia Dudeney traded points against the No. 3 Virginia senior pair of Elaine Chervinsky and Melodie Collard.
Florida volleyball (21-5) honored its six seniors before playing its last home game of the 2024-2025 season where they beat its in-state opponent UCF (9-16) in four sets.
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