Gators’ revised strategy on set pieces paying dividends
By JOHN BOOTHE | Oct. 4, 2011With a Southeastern Conference-best 16 players recording a point this season, it was only natural for Florida to find a new way to generate goals last weekend.
With a Southeastern Conference-best 16 players recording a point this season, it was only natural for Florida to find a new way to generate goals last weekend.
After its worst performance of the season, the Gators’ defense knew it had to step up, and it did so in a big way this weekend.
Though McKenzie Barney might be lagging behind her conference-leading scoring pace from a year ago, the Gators’ team captain still has a habit of finding the net when her team needs it the most.
A week after suffering through two slow starts to open Southeastern Conference play, Florida's offense wasted no time getting to work against Vanderbilt on Friday night.
The Florida offense has had no trouble finding its groove as of late.
It’s been a long time since an opposing team has been able to get four goals past Taylor Burke.
After gambling with their back line all season long, the Gators’ streak of good luck ended after only one weekend of Southeastern Conference play.
A dominating second-half performance by Florida against Tennessee on Sunday was not enough to overcome an offensively inefficient and mistake-filled first-half effort.
Five days after their largest offensive explosion of the season, the Gators found themselves in a defensive struggle Friday night against the Bulldogs in their Southeastern Conference opener.
By her junior year of high school, Annie Speese’s road to playing soccer for Georgia was seemingly mapped out.
It is a significant accomplishment for a soccer player to surpass her minute total from the previous season in less than seven games.
Following each of Florida’s nine non-conference games, a video had to be posted online to keep other teams around the Southeastern Conference informed on the Gators’ play.
With light rain slicking the field in Lawrence, Kan., just before warm-ups, all the Gators had to do Sunday was find an open shot and watch as the Jayhawks let the game slip right through their fingers.
Florida talked all week about getting off to a fast start against Missouri after it experienced a pair hot and cold matches offensively against Florida Gulf Coast and Florida State last weekend.
As the Gators head west for their second consecutive two-game weekend, they are hoping the trip resembles only the second half of their last pair of outings.
It’s not every day a former Manchester United footballer favorably compares one of his players to the man most responsible for twice booting his beloved Red Devils from the Champions League Final.
Though the Gators are less than a month into their season, UF coach Becky Burleigh feels like the team has already been through a round of the playoffs.
Less than 48 hours removed from a painful loss to an in-state rival, Florida found the perfect catharsis Sunday in a hapless Florida Gulf Coast squad.
It was a perfect play that won the Gators a game over their biggest rival, but it was a play McKenzie Barney does not want to be in the position to make again tonight.