A dominating second-half performance by Florida against Tennessee on Sunday was not enough to overcome an offensively inefficient and mistake-filled first-half effort.
Five days after their largest offensive explosion of the season, the Gators found themselves in a defensive struggle Friday night against the Bulldogs in their Southeastern Conference opener.
By her junior year of high school, Annie Speese’s road to playing soccer for Georgia was seemingly mapped out.
It is a significant accomplishment for a soccer player to surpass her minute total from the previous season in less than seven games.
Following each of Florida’s nine non-conference games, a video had to be posted online to keep other teams around the Southeastern Conference informed on the Gators’ play.
With light rain slicking the field in Lawrence, Kan., just before warm-ups, all the Gators had to do Sunday was find an open shot and watch as the Jayhawks let the game slip right through their fingers.
Florida talked all week about getting off to a fast start against Missouri after it experienced a pair hot and cold matches offensively against Florida Gulf Coast and Florida State last weekend.
As the Gators head west for their second consecutive two-game weekend, they are hoping the trip resembles only the second half of their last pair of outings.
It’s not every day a former Manchester United footballer favorably compares one of his players to the man most responsible for twice booting his beloved Red Devils from the Champions League Final.
Though the Gators are less than a month into their season, UF coach Becky Burleigh feels like the team has already been through a round of the playoffs.
Less than 48 hours removed from a painful loss to an in-state rival, Florida found the perfect catharsis Sunday in a hapless Florida Gulf Coast squad.
It was a perfect play that won the Gators a game over their biggest rival, but it was a play McKenzie Barney does not want to be in the position to make again tonight.
After two years of former UF goalkeeper Katie Fraine making life easy on the Gators’ coaching staff, the decision for who will play between the pipes each week has gotten a little tougher in 2011.
Though it has been 10 years since U.S. women’s national team members Abby Wambach and Heather Mitts last dressed out in orange and blue, memories of their time in Gainesville flood back in an instant.
On a night when U.S. women’s national team stars and former Gators Abby Wambach and Heather Mitts were in attendance, it was a current UF player with international aspirations who stole the show.
After a record four-game road trip to begin the 2011 season, Florida plays its home opener tonight against Texas Tech at home.
From their glory days at Gainesville Buchholz High to rooming together in college, freshmen Havana Solaun and Kim Sapienza have shared nearly every experience in their young soccer careers.
The Gators found themselves trailing in the first half Sunday afternoon for the second time in as many games.
After 45 minutes of futility, one strike by McKenzie Barney with 15 seconds to spare turned everything around for the Gators.
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