Elliott Orkin waited a long time to play college tennis, and he played a decisive role in his first collegiate dual match.
The Florida men's tennis team will kickoff its dual-match season at home against North Florida on Wednesday at 3 p.m.
With two dual meets remaining this season and the Southeastern Conference Championships a month away for the No. 3 Florida men (6-0, 3-0 SEC) and No. 8 women (4-2, 2-1 SEC), the season’s last head-to-head matchups are being used to gauge how Florida’s swimmers are racing and what final adjustments are needed.
Success is no stranger to Elliott Orkin.
Kourtney Keegan and Sofie Oyen struggled on the final day of the 2014 Freeman Memorial Tennis Championships at the Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas.
It was another win on Saturday for the Florida’s swimming and diving men’s and women’s teams over FAU to keep the undefeated all-time record against the Owls going.
Head coach Roland Thornqvist is already beginning to reap the fruit of his team’s labor.
Head coach Roland Thornqvist isn’t the only one with high hopes for his team this season.
After the first day of competition at the Classic at Southern Methodist University the No. 3 Gators (5-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) men’s swimming and diving team is sitting in second place with 154 points, 21 points behind first place Michigan.
e two-day Southern Methodist University Invitational.
Throughout Cory McGee’s career at UF, she has been a triple-threat.
Coach Roland Thornqvist is excited to be back in business.
Two new recruits have joined the Gators men’s swimming and diving team. Sophomore Nick Alexiou, a transfer from Virginia, and Enzo Martinez, a freshman from Uruguay, both enrolled for the spring semester and have been cleared by the NCAA to compete.
Jaterra Bonds sat on the sidelines, watching her father coach a youth rec-league basketball game. Suddenly, he called her to come onto the court.
Cory McGee thought about one person as she walked up to the starting line at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow on Aug. 11.
It came down to the final day of competition at the Ohio State Buckeye Invitational for the Gators men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams.
Despite a poor overall performance by the Gators at the 2013 NCAA Championships on Saturday, Mark Parrish and Agata Strausa had an eye-opening day in their final cross country race in a Florida uniform.
It was a successful Day 1 at the Ohio State Buckeye Invitational for Florida’s swimming and diving teams that included six NCAA “A” cuts and a school record in the women’s 400-yard medley relay.
Mark Parrish will take the helm for the Gators one last time.
For the second year in a row, the Gators swimming and diving teams will travel to the home of the Buckeyes for the Ohio State Buckeye Invitational today where both teams’ competition will include Purdue, Kentucky, Virginia and host Ohio State in the three-day meet.
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