Gators hope to start strong
Sep. 4, 2008As the UF women's golf team prepares for its first tournament of the season this weekend with the Preview Invitational, the team will try to dwell on successes from last year.
As the UF women's golf team prepares for its first tournament of the season this weekend with the Preview Invitational, the team will try to dwell on successes from last year.
Forty-one-year-old Dara Torres was the anchor on the U.S. team that won the 400-freestyle relay Saturday night, leading them to a silver medal. The former Gator might have been able to catch the Netherlands team if there were just 50 to 100 more meters in the race, but the Dutch were too far ahead when she started her leg.
Senior Maureen Farrell jumps into the pool and pulls herself up on to the blocks. She grasps the handles closely as if she's holding on to the last remnants of her slowly evaporating career.
Former UF cross country coach Jeff Pigg has left the program for the same position at Georgia, the Bulldogs athletic association announced Monday.
The swimming world should be jealous of Gregg Troy.
Talk about girl power.
Leah Martindale-Stancil is coming back home.
Calvin Smith has always wanted to be just like his father.
Call her the ageless wonder.
There's nothing like a chance to go for the gold to provide a little motivation.
Sometimes even when the first and second times are charms, it still holds true the third time around.
Lakecia Ealey waved goodbye to her collegiate career Friday at the NCAA Track and Field championships.
The sun hangs high in the hot summer, and Lakecia Ealey steps into the blocks - just as she has done so many times before.
The Gators raced their way to an impressive opening day at the NCAA Track and Field Championships.
Two brothers from UF will compete at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. However, there will be no sibling rivalr, as this pair of swimmers will be competing as teammates.
UF men's golf coach Buddy Alexander called some of them "trainwrecks."
It was deja vu in Tallahassee for the UF track and field teams this weekend.
It shouldn't come as any surprise that when the No. 6 UF men's golf team opened play on Wednesday, it was Billy Horschel who stole the show.
After winning its first regional title since 1986, the UF women's golf team had national championship aspirations.
Nestor Briceno got a head start to the courtroom a little sooner than he would've liked.