Junior Chloe Mann couldn’t be a more different player than she was at this time last year.
During Živa Recek’s first match as a Gator, she was having trouble with the change of pace. In the first set alone, she had one kill against an error in seven total attacks.
Mary Wise can finally breathe. The new offense worked.
After a blowout loss to Miami to begin the season, Florida traveled to Chapel Hill, N.C., to play No. 14 North Carolina.
Will Muschamp continues to hold off on naming Florida's starting quarterback for the season-opener, but he has provided insight as to who will be under center on Sept. 1 against Bowling Green.
When the Gators open their season against Florida International tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the O’Connell Center, they’ll have the opportunity to do something they haven’t done since 2007 — run a 5-1 offense.
This offseason has been a time of major change for coach Mary Wise.
Taylor Travis spent her first two seasons at Florida trying to find a way to score.
When Brent Pease kicks his offense into high gear, confusing opposing defenses with various formations, motions and shifts, Trey Burton and Omarius Hines are expected to present some of the biggest problems.
Two days after coach Will Muschamp announced Colin Thompson would miss about eight weeks due to surgery on his right foot, the Gators have good news at tight end: Jordan Reed is healthy.
For the first time in five months, questions will turn into answers for the Gators.
While everyone is in a tizzy about Brent Pease bringing exotic shifts and new formations to the Gators offense, we here at alligatorSports understand the value of keeping things simple.
Florida's quarterback competition is silly. In fact, the ongoing saga has provided the most ridiculous story coming out of the Gators' fall camp.
Last year, the Gators had five seniors in their starting lineup. Among those five were All-Americans Kelly Murphy and Kristy Jaeckel, who accounted for 43 percent of Florida's kills, 47 percent of assists and 48 percent of the team's service aces in 2011.
There was no doubt that Taylor Brauneis was Louisville's dominant setter for the last two years. The junior led the team with 1,100 assists in 2010, and continued her top performance in 2011 when she was responsible for 85 percent of the Cardinals' assists.
After the first game of the 2012-13 athletic year, Florida is already hoping for a change of pace.
Jacoby Brissett smiled when asked about the potential of starting at quarterback for Florida.
Behind the cluttered facemask that adorned bits of turf and paint from the field, he peered into the roaring depths of orange and blue that drowned the stands of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
Florida coach Will Muschamp called last year’s team soft. With new offensive coordinator Brent Pease, the tone is changing.
With the Gators’ turnovers at a minimum last season, the interceptions naturally followed suit.
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