Scarlling Manzanarez

Sports Writer

Scarlling Manzanarez is a sports media journalism student and sports reporter at The Alligator for Fall 2023. She served as the 2022-2023 sports editor at Miami Dade College’s student newspaper, The Reporter. She is a baseball fan and aspires to cover a Major League Baseball team.

Freshman Qavia Lopez prepares to hit the ball during a Gators women's tennis practice.

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Top-ranked recruit Qavia Lopez joins Florida women’s tennis team

By Scarlling Manzanarez | Oct. 2, 2023

Fourteen years ago, Qavia Lopez and her father, Hezron Lopez, passed a line of tennis courts. She was curious and asked her dad what those courts were for. That question changed the trajectory of her life.

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Top-ranked recruit Qavia Lopez joins Florida women’s tennis team

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