Having already secured the Southeastern Conference regular-season title and top seed in the SEC Tournament, the Gators only have a perfect conference record and a high national seeding to play for.
The UF soccer team has developed a habit coach Becky Burleigh would like to break.
For the first 66 minutes of the match, it appeared UF would have its fourth 1-0 game in a row with Arkansas.
Last year, the Gators needed all 11 Southeastern Conference games to win the regular-season title. This season they will have three chances to clinch at least a share of the top spot, starting tonight with a match against Arkansas.
Players on the UF soccer team will get to enjoy one less practice this week, but they will also be taken out of the comfortable rhythm they are in.
Megan Kerns recorded a hat trick, but it was Angela Napolitano's lone goal that broke the game open for the Gators.
No matter what the board with the Southeastern Conference standings in the UF locker room implies, every game is going to be a challenge.
To opposing teams' defenses, it sometimes appears as if the entire UF soccer team is attacking them.
While the Gators have played their way to a 6-0 start in Southeastern Conference play, the toughest roads may still be ahead of them.
Although just three of the 30 players on the UF soccer team are seniors, they have had a huge impact all season.
On a night when the 1998 national championship Gators soccer team returned to Pressly Stadium, No. 12 UF didn't wait long to impress.
While the Gators only have one true forward on the field, she is not the only person they count on to score.
With 16 freshmen on the squad, the No. 15 Gators needed some of them to make an impact right away to be successful.
When a team has to claw back from a two-goal hole, it has to find some sort of motivation to drive it harder than before.
Heading into this weekend's matchups, the UF soccer team decided to take a lesson from the Gator football team.
It didn't take long for this freshman to make an impact.
When a team scores seven goals in one weekend, it's clear that the offense is doing something right.
When some of its upperclassmen addressed the rest of the UF soccer team on Tuesday, the other players listened closely.
Megan Kerns didn't just score the winning overtime goal for UF on Friday night against Georgia. She did it with a knot the size of a golf ball on her forehead.
Ashlee Elliott is not a fan of hard conditioning, but it will be crucial if she is to be more assertive on offense.
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