Highly ranked Florida squad starts season with high hopes
By BRITNEE MCCOY< | Jan. 15, 2014Coach Roland Thornqvist is excited to be back in business.
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.
When the season started, Carlos Miranda did not expect to be a contributor on Florida’s cross country team.
Caeleb Dressel is being hailed as one of the best sprint prospects ever despite having never suited up for a college team.
Two more Florida runners will make the trip to Terre Haute, Ind.
Mark Parrish and Jimmy Clark have rewritten Florida’s record books again.
After mixed results at the Southeastern Conference Championships on Nov. 1, Florida’s cross country teams are hoping to boast a strong showing today starting at 11 a.m. at the NCAA South Regional Championships in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
For the past three days, Gators Olivia Janowicz, Kourtney Keegan, Brianna Morgan, Stefani Stojic, and Belinda Woolcock have been participating in the Dick Vitale Intercollegiate Clay Court Classic in Lakewood Ranch, Fla. On Sunday, Florida swept the boards and took home both the singles and doubles titles.
Despite Alex Cercone and Sofie Oyen falling out of the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships, there are still four Gators in action at the Dick Vitale Intercollegiate Clay Court Classic after two days of play.
It was another win for Florida swimming and diving on Thursday night in the O’Connell Center against visiting Alabama as the No. 2 men improved to 4-0 and the No. 5 women drew even at 2-2.
Thursday began the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships, a four-day tournament held at Flushing, N.Y., at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
A little more than a month into the swimming and diving season, the No. 2 Gators men’s team (3-0) and No. 5 women’s team (1-2) will continue their tour of ranked opponents when they face the Crimson Tide tonight.
Beginning today, the Florida women’s tennis team will be splitting up to participate in two separate events.