The last time UF's men and women won Southeastern Conference Indoor titles was 2004 in Lexington, Ky. This weekend, UF track and field returns to this familiar site, hoping for the same result.
The Gators are focused.
Senior Kelsy Smith has this weekend left to qualify for the NCAA Championships, and the pressure is on.
The Gators will get good news on March 15. After a one-year hiatus, they'll be back in the NCAA Tournament. The UF logo will flash on the television screen, and the players and coaching staff will be able to breathe a sigh of relief. Their reputation as a prominent basketball program will be back.
Anything Eastern Michigan can do, UF can do better.
After taking down the No. 6 team in the nation, Stacey Nelson felt like she was just getting started.
It's amazing what one win can do for a team in a funk.
It's a minute and a half of pure euphoria and a demonstration of personality unlike any other gymnastics event.
Despite not winning the tournament, the UF women's golf team will return to Gainesville a better squad.
For someone who had not pitched in a game in close to two years, Justin Poovey showed very little rust.
Most teams use the first games of their seasons to prepare for their conference schedule and the postseason, but not the UF softball team.
In an interview with The Orlando Sentinel earlier this week, UF president Bernie Machen said he fears football coach Urban Meyer will burn out eventually.
Seconds can mean the difference between millions of dollars.
Coming off a sweep of a top-25 team and with a weekend matchup with perennial powerhouse Miami looming, UF cannot overlook its weekday games sandwiched in between.
Six weeks after UF quarterback Tim Tebow announced his intent to lead his team to a third national championship in four years, a different group of Gators athletes quietly beat him to it.
The second round of the Kiawah Island Intercollegiate in South Carolina on Monday gave the UF women's golf team a chance at instant redemption after a difficult first round Sunday.
It was a win-or-go-home scenario for the Santa Fe College men's basketball team Monday.
The Santa Fe College women's basketball team finished its regular season with a solid home victory against Florida Community College at Jacksonville on Monday.
In a four-day 2009 SEC Championship meet that came down to the very last relay, the No. 5 UF women won their 17th SEC crown, the first since 2002, after edging out second-place finisher Auburn and third-place Georgia. The win for the Gators was the third-closest competition in SEC history, UF with 744 points, Auburn with 730.5 and Georgia with 725. On the men's side, the No. 8 Gators claimed second place (626) at the 2009 league meet for the eighth-consecutive year to the men's team from Auburn (880.5).
Sha Brooks and Marshae Dotson had that look in their eyes - the one that says they're not going to be denied.
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