It’s cliché to say that in most college athletic programs, your teammates become your family. But for Florida’s softball team, it’s exactly that kind of mentality that helps its program succeed when it faces long road-game stretches.
If the Florida women’s tennis team was expecting an ordinary contest walking into its match against Texas at the USTA Campus on Easter Sunday, it was sorely mistaken.
Lloydricia Cameron waited four years to hear her name called over the speakers at James G. Pressly Stadium.
The Gators have every reason to be happy. The team remains undefeated in conference play, and its only three losses of the season came against ranked opponents.
Week 3 of spring practices saw a couple new developments for Florida’s football team.
McClain Kessler had no energy left to give as he walked off Court 6 of the Carolina Tennis Center.
The outcome between No. 2 Florida and No. 8 Vanderbilt on Sunday at McKethan Stadium had become nothing more than a sideshow. Even though it was still a ballgame — just 5-2 in Florida’s favor in the bottom of the fourth — everyone’s focus was solely on UF third baseman Jonathan India.
Split-second decisions can make the difference in any kind of outcome.
KeAndre Bates had the crowd banging its hands together.
Senior Anna Danilina crouched on the court as the crowd behind her at the Ring Tennis Complex clapped in unison. Her opponent, Missouri’s Selena Nash, was one point away from losing to Danilia in a singles match and it was her turn to serve.
Whenever a player has to miss time due to injury, it isn’t uncommon for him or her to take a few games to settle back into a rhythm.
The blazing Florida sun finally warmed up the bats of a couple slumping Gators on Saturday afternoon.
If there’s one indication that a game is over before it’s actually finished, it’s when Kelly Barnhill steps into the batter’s box.
The No. 10 Florida men’s tennis team handed No. 1 Wake Forest its first home loss of the season Friday with a 4-3 win in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to push the team’s win streak to five in a row.
Cory Poole rounded the corner of the wet track with no one near him.
Empty seats, wet bleachers and dampened ponchos of anxious Gators fans surrounded the tarp-covered infield at McKethan Stadium. At 6:30, when second-ranked Florida was supposed to begin its first contest of a three-game set against the No. 8 Vanderbilt Commodores, not one player for either team could be seen on the field.
After 21 years of history on the diamond, Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium, home to Florida’s softball program, will have a whole new look for the 2019 season.
The Florida men’s tennis team will begin a four-match road trip on Friday.
He did it last season in front of almost 90,000 fans, sending Ben Hill Griffin Stadium into a frenzy as he hurled a game-winning 63-yard touchdown to beat Tennessee.
Caroline May felt devastated as she lay on the ground.
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