The final pitch of the season was thrown at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium on Saturday, marking the last time a game will be played in Gainesville this year.
Before the first pitch of the season ever left Stacey Nelson's hand and landed in Kristina Hilberth's glove, the No. 1 Gators (67-3) set one goal - to reach the Women's College World Series.
Now that the team has burst on to the national scene going to the WCWS for the first time in school history, the media coverage has intensified.
After each day of games in Regional and Super Regional competition, a few players from the team would sit with their coach and answer a barrage of questions.
Nelson along with Walton and sophomore Francesca Enea became the faces of a team that tied the NCAA record for most wins in a season. Arizona, Illinois-Chicago and Tennessee have all posted 67 win seasons.
As the team packs its bags and heads to Oklahoma City to take on Louisiana-Lafayette in the first round, a few other Gators played a large part in getting them there.
Throughout the season, Walton and the rest of the team has pointed to the contributions of the freshmen when explaining the team's success.
Aja Paculba has hit second in the Gators' lineup for the majority of the season and showed why she is one of the team's best offensive weapons. The second baseman went 3 for 6 with two walks, two RBIs and two runs scored against the Golden Bears.
She raised her average to .340 and is tied for the team lead with 61 runs over the course of the season.
And anyone who watched the clincher against Cal, either live or on ESPN, knows who got the big hit for the Gators.
Megan Bush led off the ninth inning by taking a 2-0 pitch over the right field wall to put her team up for good.
While her defense has been shaky at times - she leads the team with 15 errors - the team counts on her to produce in big situations.
"That's her 13th home run, I'm not surprised," Walton said of the clutch home run.
When it comes to flying under the radar with media attention, no one has done it better than Hilberth.
The junior has hit .282 as the team's only slap hitter, but has proved her worth, as most catchers do, with the glove instead of the bat.
"Coach always tells me that my defense is my top priority," she said.
With the Gators heading west with winning as their top priority, Hilberth's team attitude epitomizes what the team's season has been about.
"Working for Stacey, getting her pitches and framing her pitches, that's the thing I work the hardest at," she said. "To make sure that she gets every strike and make sure I'm not costing her any strikes."
