The Florida softball team has a chance to do something incredible this year — become the second team in history to three-peat in the Women’s College World Series.
UF assistant softball coach Jen Rocha on Wednesday was named head coach of the Dallas Charge, a team in the National Pro Fastpitch League.
Lauren Haeger continues to pile on the awards.
With the start of the Summer B semester and the end of the 2014-2015 collegiate athletic season, it’s time for another installment of the annual Alligator Awards. This week, Alligator editor-in-chief Jordan McPherson and alligatorSports assistant editor Luis Torres debate which of UF’s national championship winning teams — the softball team or the gymnastics team — deserves the title of "Best Team."
The Florida softball team has just lost one of its most important pieces on the team.
Tim Walton knew a repeat wasn’t going to be easy.
Florida softball’s outgoing senior class should be remembered forever.
With the Florida softball team winning its second-consecutive national title following its 4-1 win over Michigan in Wednesday’s decisive third game of the championship series, the quest for a three-peat has officially begun. And while coach Tim Walton has a heavy task ahead of him in replacing his six-player senior class — highlighted by 2015 National Player of the Year Lauren Haeger — he has pieces in place to make another deep postseason run. And with that, here’s your way-too-early list of five players to watch out for in the 2016 season.
Tim Walton is building something special in Gainesville.
Haylie Wagner wasn’t ready to go home.
On softball’s biggest stage, Florida leaned on the nation’s best player — Lauren Haeger.
Freshman Nicole DeWitt didn’t get her chance to win the game in the bottom of the seventh inning.
Lauren Haeger was probably waiting for another chance to face the LSU Tigers.
Lauren Haeger had never homered in the Women’s College World Series — until today.
The Capital One Cup has become one of the most sought after awards in collegiate athletics the past couple of years.
It might be easy to assume that Florida softball, the No. 1 overall seed and defending national champions, should win another title the following year.
Lauren Haeger has been named the 2015 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. She was presented the award in Oklahoma City at a banquet on Tuesday night.
The Florida softball team is headed back to Oklahoma City for the Women’s College World Series.
Lauren Haeger chucked her glove into the air. She had just fired a 67-MPH rise ball to Kentucky’s Ansley Smith on an 0-2 count with two outs in the 7th inning with a 1-0 lead.
Lauren Haeger was five outs away from softball immortality.
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