After a late-season bye week, the No. 5 Gators will try to shake off any rust and bring home a Southeastern Conference title.
It makes the sounds that are heard when there is complete silence. It does its best to get into the opposition’s head and helps the home team anyway it can.
Florida came home with more than a pair of victories after winning on the road against LSU and Texas A&M last weekend.
It took one lucky bounce for the Gators to maintain their Southeastern Conference title aspirations in College Station, Texas.
Redshirt senior middle blocker Chloe Mann did exactly what she had been doing all night on Friday — she notched a kill in the fourth and final set. Except this kill didn’t just earn Florida a set win.
When Texas A&M and Missouri joined the Southeastern Conference, the emphasis was on the impact it would have on the football field.
If Taylor Unroe keeps digging, Florida will have to replace the O’Connell Center floor.
With the score tied at 21 in the second set, it appeared that Florida could be in for a battle with Tennessee.
One long streak in the second set was all Florida needed to snap out of its recent slump and put Auburn away.
Despite sweeping nine consecutive opponents earlier this season, the Gators are still battling to win the program’s 20th Southeastern Conference title.
Alex Holston played well in high school, but she never thought her success would translate to the college game so quickly.
The Gators were riding high following nine straight sweeps and 13 consecutive wins entering the weekend.
A combination of team and individual errors led to the Gators’ first Southeastern Conference loss of 2013.
With a match looming Sunday against undefeated Missouri, Florida almost got caught flat-footed in Fayetteville, Ark., on Friday.
As Florida gears up for arguably its toughest road weekend so far this season, coach Mary Wise is playing it cool and urging her players to do the same.
The No. 2 Gators (17-1, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) did more than collect their eighth and ninth consecutive sweeps last weekend.
Under Mary Wise’s tenure as coach, the Gators have lost to the Bulldogs only once.
It took everything the Gators had, but they were able to keep their sweep streak alive Friday.
When No. 15 Kentucky travels to Gainesville on Friday, it will have more than a chance to beat a rival.
Florida was forced to mount a three-set comeback to survive its most recent home matchup against Kentucky.
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