Butler ready for new season to start
Oct. 12, 2009Amanda Butler has an important dinner date.
Amanda Butler has an important dinner date.
The men's team wanted to bounce back from a disappointing finish at the Notre Dame Invitational and it did.
The UF men's and women's swimming teams began the season in fine fashion with road wins over Virginia. Both teams improved to 8-0 all-time against the Cavaliers.
BATON ROUGE, La. - Just under six minutes into Saturday night's showdown between No. 1 Florida and No. 4 LSU, The Gator Nation held its collective breath.
On Sunday, the Gators dropped the first set of a conference road match for the second time in five days.
Despite extremely impressive starts, none of the Gators were able to traverse the highly competitive fields and win a championship at the ITA All-American tournaments.
BATON ROUGE, La. - For two weeks, everyone waited to see if Tim Tebow would play and how he would respond against LSU under the lights of Tiger Stadium.
The UF soccer team needed to regain respect.
BATON ROUGE, La. - For the second time in three years, I hopped in my Civic and made the eight-hour trip to Louisiana for the Florida-LSU game.
BATON ROUGE, La. - Just under six minutes into Saturday night's showdown between No. 1 Florida and No. 4 LSU, Gator Nation held its collective breath.
BATON ROUTE, La.- No. 1 Florida's offense didn't look its usual explosive self under the lights of Tiger Stadium, but no amount of crowd noise or nerves could keep the Gators' defense from showing up in the 13-3 win.
Can't make it to Gainesville? Follow the No. 1 Gators as they take on the Tigers.
It's 15 minutes from kickoff, deep in the bowels of Tiger Stadium.
It doesn't matter if it's John Brantley or Tim Tebow who gets the start at quarterback, No. 1 Florida (4-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) will face its toughest test of the season Saturday night as it heads to Death Valley to take on No. 4 LSU.
Fullback isn't where senior Charles Scott was supposed to be lining up four games into LSU's season.
When UF travels to Virginia for its season opener this weekend, the Gators will have two experienced seniors leading the way.
During Florida's recent blocking drought, senior libero Elyse Cusack wrote a quote on the whiteboard before practice that the team will play by for the rest of the season.
Despite having to face three ranked opponents in the previous two days, UF freshmen Allie Will and Lauren Embree looked as strong as ever in first-round wins at the ITA All American Championships.
Friday night's match gave the UF soccer team a chance to measure itself.