For the fourth consecutive year, the Florida Gators softball team started the year with an undefeated record at the USF-Wilson Demarini Tournament in Tampa.
In 2007, then-second year head coach Tim Walton led a then-No. 17 Florida Gator softball team into Los Angeles for a five-game tournament. Two of those games were against the Illinois State Redbirds.
In 2016’s final regular-season game, then-freshman Kelly Barnhill threw her first no-hitter at the college level.
In 1996, author Linda Ellis published a poem titled “The Dash”.
Every morning, senior Delanie Gourley awakens to a text.
After two previous seasons that saw the Florida Gators softball team take home national championships, calling the end of the 2016 season a disappointment is an understatement.
By Matt Brannon
In 2018, another team can attempt a three-peat.
When Kirsti Merritt tried to save her team, she ran into a wall.
One series separates Florida from punching one of eight tickets to the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City.
The Gators blew through their NCAA Regional for the fourth-consecutive year over the weekend, bringing them one step closer to the Women’s College World Series.
Nicole DeWitt has a thing for the postseason.
On her first at-bat, freshman Amanda Lorenz flew out.
Nicole DeWitt’s triple bounced over first base and down the right-field line.
Florida’s one-run loss to Auburn on Friday put a swift end to its hopes of winning the Southeastern Conference Tournament.
No. 1 Florida fell to Auburn on Friday after a first-inning home run created a deficit from which UF couldn’t come back. The Gators’ early exit from the Southeastern Conference Tournament came in the semifinals for the second year in a row.
On a night Florida struggled to score runs, it leaned on what has been steady all season.
No. 1 Florida marches into May with the same swagger that earned it back-to-back national championships.
Kelly Barnhill hogged the spotlight on Sunday.
Kirsti Merritt touched a base for every year she has been a Gator.
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