Bonds works to build on strong freshman year
By JOE MORGAN< | Oct. 18, 2011During a trying season, Jaterra Bonds helped the Gators hold it together.
During a trying season, Jaterra Bonds helped the Gators hold it together.
Halftime often marked a shift for Florida last season but rarely in the right direction.
With every key player returning from last season, Florida will not experience much change in its lineup.
Clearly defined or not, there is a standard of excellence encompassing Florida athletics.
Florida women’s basketball coach Amanda Butler has made the goal of the program perfectly clear.
A perplexing season for the Florida women’s basketball team ended in a familiar and heartbreaking fashion Thursday night.
Programs like Florida don’t aspire to simply make the postseason; they want to win NCAA titles. A trip to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament is merely a consolation prize.
Florida showed Monday why there’s no substitute for size.
Instead of cats and dogs or stacks of money, it will be raining three-pointers tonight in Fort Myers.
The
The Gators have something in common with their opening-round opponent in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament on Friday.
The Florida women’s basketball team will finish its season exactly where it began: in the National Invitation Tournament.
A season full of humongous highs and devastating lows for the Florida women’s basketball team continued in much the same manner Thursday against Arkansas.
Every week, coach Amanda Butler plasters the Gators’ practice facility with reminders. On the door to the training room and again as you enter the gym, even posted on the walls under the baskets, are signs with the week’s emphasis.
Since the first time she set foot on the wooden floor of the O’Connell Center, freshman Jaterra Bonds has shown she is capable of being a big-time player.
Labeling the final chapter to a tough season for Florida, only one word seems to fit.
Before Friday’s matchup against Vanderbilt, team captain Jordan Jones said the Gators needed to grow up.
It’s a well-known fact that Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gym is a difficult place to play. Just ask the Florida women’s basketball team.