Gators fall short at Disney tennis tournament
Nov. 4, 2012The Gators may have left the happiest place on earth without a smile.
The Gators may have left the happiest place on earth without a smile.
Though the Florida men’s tennis team enters the weekend competing in a tournament for the fifth time this fall, it will still face a new challenge to overcome—playing on a clay court.
Florida entered Tuesday's final round of the Betsy Rawls Invite tied for first place with Southeastern Conference foe Alabama.
Camilla Hedberg is on pace to exit the fall season the way she entered it — with an outright victory.
After competing in 36 NCAA singles matches, Florida junior Florent Diep won his first tournament championship on Monday.
Florida’s final tournament of the fall has proven to be the toughest.
The Gators capped off the SMU Classic in Dallas with a third-place showing. Florida tallied 289 points, which trailed first place USC’s 366 and North Carolina’s 292.5.
Despite positing a 66-19 career singles record, Florida junior Alexander Cercone has hasn’t duplicated that kind of success in her junior season.
The No. 10 Florida swimming and diving team is coming off a first place showing in the third-annual All Florida Invitational.
Competing in his first tournament since last year’s Gator Invitational, senior Tommy Mou has powered Florida into first place at the Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate in Vestavia Hills, Ala.
Senior Isabelle Lendl earned her second consecutive outright victory at the Tar Heel Invite. She carded a 3-under 69, which was good enough to best Baylor’s Hayley Davis by three strokes.
The 2012 Pre-Nationals Meet was a success for both sides of the Gator cross country team on Saturday. The men and women each garnered top-ten finishes in a field heavy with talent while getting a preview of the course the NCAA Championships will be run on this fall.
After a tumultuous first round, senior Isabelle Lendl and sophomore Camilla Hedberg powered a resurgence that aided Florida to leapfrog five spots at the Tar Heel Invitational on Saturday.
Competing against yet another strong field, Florida continued its season in Charlotte, N.C., where the team wrapped up the first round of play at the Tar Heel Invite in a tie for ninth place.
Through two tournaments, Florida's Emily Bastel has lived up to the hype.
Florida senior Lauren Embree was the No. 1 recruit coming out of high school, won two Southeastern Conference Player of the Year awards and secured the Gators’ national championship with a comeback victory in 2011.
Florida Gator Lauren Embree advanced to the round of 16 last season in the Riviera/ITA All-American Tournament before losing out to 35th-ranked Petra Niedermayerova of Kansas State, 6-1, 6-4. But this year, she has come back with a vengeance.
Florida junior Sofie Oyen and freshman Danielle Collins traveled different roads to get to the qualifying round of the Riviera/ITA All-American Tournament in Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Florida junior Olivia Janowicz is off to the best start of her career, and she doesn’t look to be slowing down. In her first six matches, she is undefeated.
Freshman Danielle Collins and junior Olivia Janowicz have still not faced the taste of defeat after going a combined 4-0 in their respective matches in the pre-qualifying round of the Riviera/ITA All-American Championship. After Saturday, both players are 5-0 in singles matches this season.