Unlike many of Florida’s previous tennis teams, this season had no highly acclaimed All-Americans and no trophies to hoist at the end of May.
The UF women’s golf team had a rollercoaster of a season.
It’s my show this week at alligatorSports because our main editor Jonathan Czupryn is at his brother’s graduation.
Kirsti Merritt just wanted to finish it.
The phrase “defense wins championships” proved ever so true on Sunday afternoon as LSU won the Southeastern Conference Tournament in a 2-0 victory over top-seeded Florida.
Despite team competition being over, Florida senior Florent Diep has been playing his heart out trying to seize every moment as his career as a Gator comes to a close.
And on to the championship they go.
No. 5 seed Florida outscored its opponents 29-0 in the regional round of the 2014 NCAA Tournament.
Although it wasn’t the team finish UF might have wanted, Elcin Ulu did her part and also made her last round of collegiate golf a memorable one.
Mississippi State (37-22) entered its Southeastern Conference Tournament fourth-round tilt against No. 1 seed Florida (39-20) with a .981 fielding average, good for seventh in all of Division 1. In the 5-1 loss, the Bulldogs looked anything but stout defensively team behind its pitchers.
The last two Florida players competing at the NCAA Doubles championships were eliminated Friday afternoon.
After the first day of NCAA singles competition, two of the three Florida players were eliminated.
UF played with its back against the wall on Thursday.
During a midgame interview with ESPN, coach Kevin O’Sullivan credited UF’s success late in the regular season to its ability to hit in the clutch.
6-1-1, 6-0-2, 6-2-0. They’re not area codes found in your local phone book, they’re different number combinations to get to the magic number the Southeastern Conference has finally settled on as it pertains to league football games: eight.
One year ago, Florida was coming off a magical 11-2 season that included a berth in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. The Gators were pegged to contend for a Southeastern Conference Eastern Division title and were even labeled as a dark-horse national title candidate in 2013.
Orange clad tables, a silent auction and a packed room of Gators fans greeted coach Will Muschamp on one of the final stops on his offseason speaking tour at the 2014 Gator Gathering at Emerson Alumni Hall — closer to home than any of the other spots around the state.
After UF defeated UCF 7-0 in the final game of the Gainesville Regional on Sunday to advance to its seventh NCAA Super Regional in program history, coach Tim Walton took a moment to remember former Gators pitcher Stacey Nelson.
After defeating No. 1-seed Georgia in the NCAA quarterfinals on Saturday, the Gators couldn’t pull off another upset in the semifinals.
Florida’s quest for a seventh Southeastern Conference tournament championship begins this week as the top-seeded Gators descend upon Hoover Metropolitan Stadium.
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