Florida traveled to Tallahassee for their second meet of the season, the FSU Invitational. The men’s squad finished fourth, while the women’s team finished seventh.
Friday brings the second meet for the Florida cross country team, as they travel to Tallahassee to compete in the FSU Invitational at Apalachee Regional Park. Both the men’s and women’s teams look to finish as they did last year: first.
The opening meet of the season for Florida took place Friday morning as the Mountain Dew Invitational took place at Mark Bostick Golf. The Gators took third as they welcomed three ACC schools to the Swamp in Florida State University, University of Miami, and Georgia Tech.
Every sport has dealt with challenges presented by COVID-19 this year. As a new season begins on Friday for UF, it too has had to change.
University of Florida distance runner Maria Fernandez announced on Instagram Friday that she had tested positive for COVID-19.
Editor’s Note: Quotes from assistant coach Chris Solinsky were received via text message from the team’s SID Carroll Rich on Saturday after the meet.
And then there was one.
Editor’s Note: Quotes from assistant coach Chris Solinsky were received via text message from the team’s SID Carroll Rich on Friday after the meet.
Florida will compete in what may be its final meet of the season in Tallahassee on Friday at 8:30 a.m. when Florida State hosts the NCAA South Regional Championships.
Editor’s Note: Quotes from Jessica Pascoe and assistant coach Chris Solinsky were received via text message from the team's SID Carroll Rich on Friday after the meet.
“I kind of just dropped the bomb on them one night at dinner, and I was like, ‘I want to go to America.’”
The regular season is over for the Florida cross country team. Nobody may be happier than Jessica Pascoe, who quite frankly, might be getting bored of the competition.
Florida will compete in the Arturo Barrios Invitational in College Station, Texas, on Saturday at 9 a.m., hosted by the Texas A&M Aggies. It will be UF’s final meet before the SEC Championship.
Florida’s cross country team came away with wins in the men’s 8K and women’s 5K at the FSU Invitational on Friday to sweep the competition.
The Florida cross country team has seen almost all of its players come down with what one runner called “the plague.”
Florida’s underdog cross country squad littered with redshirts and freshmen nearly swept the competition in Orlando without its top 16 runners.
The Florida cross country team sent its top runners to the UVA Invitational Friday where they finished sixth in the women’s 6K and ninth in the men’s 8K.
Today will be an unconventional day for the Florida cross country team. The team will split into two separate groups — one will compete at the Virginia Invitational and the other will head to Orlando to take part in the UCF Knights Invitational.
After senior Jessica Pascoe crossed the finish line for the Gators and celebrated with fans, she began to wait for her teammates and the rest of the competitors at the finish line. She waited. She waited. And then she waited.
This weekend will mark the first and last home meet of the season for UF’s cross country team. The Gators will host the Mountain Dew Invitational at Mark Bostick Golf Course on Saturday morning, where they hope to impress a home crowd. More than 30 programs will compete against Florida.
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