UF men clinch SEC Championship, women finish third
By Logan McGuire | Feb. 23, 2014For the second consecutive year, the Southeastern Conference crown belongs to the top-ranked Gators men’s swimming and diving team.
For the second consecutive year, the Southeastern Conference crown belongs to the top-ranked Gators men’s swimming and diving team.
CORAL GABLES, Fla.—Florida dug its own grave on Saturday against Miami. Early miscues led to an early two-run deficit. One mistake in the sixth inning killed any chances of a comeback.
On Saturday, No. 5 Florida swept No. 38 St. Mary’s 4-0 in the first ever meeting between the two programs. The Gators captured their third straight victory and improved to 8-1 on the season.
After throwing a no-hitter against Wisconsin on Feb. 9, Lauren Haeger thought she had room for improvement.
The Gators traveled to Oxford, Miss., with the memory of Marshall Henderson’s Gator chomping spectacle on their minds.
Delanie Gourley’s freshman season has been almost errorless.
There are two names on the University of Florida gymnastics roster that will send a crowd into a frenzy.
James Madison has not been this embarrassed since the War of 1812.
It was a defining day for Florida’s No. 1 men’s and No. 5 women’s swimming and diving teams at the Southeastern Conference Championships.
With 21 seconds remaining and the game tied at 66, Florida faced the possibility of seeing its 17-game winning streak snap and losing its first home contest in nearly two years.
The clock read 9:13 p.m. when the second-ranked Gators basketball team finished off the Tigers on the hardwood. Cheers coming from Auburn’s implosion at the O’Connell Center drowned out the 2,740 fans that turned down the air conditioning for the brisk Gainesville night.
When Taylore Fuller hits the ball, it leaves the park.
Florida is out for redemption against Missouri.
The No. 1 Gators men’s swimming and diving team is second on the leaderboard after picking up two gold medals, two school records and an SEC record performance for Florida’s relay squads on Day 1 of the Southeastern Conference Championships and three gold medals and another school record on Day 2.
A chance encounter for Braden Mattson put the Texas-bred catcher on a one-way ticket to Gainesville. He played his freshman season at Texas Christian, where Chuck Jeroloman, the brother of former Gators catcher Brian Jeroloman, served as a volunteer assistant in 2011.
For an in-state rivalry that always draws a large crowd, Gators-Seminoles matches are rarely close.
After two successful years at the plate and in the pitcher’s circle, Lauren Haeger knows what is expected of her.
During the past two weeks, Scottie Wilbekin has been everything the No. 2 Gators have needed him to be — and then some.
The five-day Southeastern Conference Championships begin today as the nation’s top-ranked Gators men’s swimming and diving team (8-0, 5-0 SEC) and the No. 5 women’s team (5-3, 3-2 SEC) will each take on five of the top-25 teams in the country in Athens, Ga.
Florida struggled to score runs throughout the 2013 season, but in its opening series against Maryland, the bats showed that 2014 would not be a repeat.