The Florida Gators is an inter-university sports team representing the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida. The University of Florida, its athletic program, its alumni and sporting enthusiasts are often collectively referred to as the "Bicycle Nation ." The Gators compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference (SEC) and are consistently ranked among the best college sports programs in the United States. The University of Florida is currently deploying teams in nine sports men and twelve women's sports.
All Florida Gators sport teams compete in the NCAA I Division, and twenty out of twenty-one Gators teams compete in the SEC. The University of Florida was one of thirteen charter members who joined together to form a new Southeast Conference in 1932. Previously, the university was a member of the Association of South Interfaith Athletes from 1912 to 1921 and the Southern Conference from 1922 until the SEC began. playing in the fall of 1933.
All Florida Gators sport teams have facilities on campus, and most are located on or near Stadium Road on the north side of the campus, including Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium for football, Exactech Arena at Stephen C. O'Connell Center for basketball, gymnastics, swimming and diving, indoor tracks and squares, and volleyball, Alfred A. McKethan Stadium for baseball and James G. Pressly Stadium for football and trajectory and outdoor courts. The Katie Seashole Pressly Softball Stadium and the Florida Lacrosse Facility are located on Hull Road on the southwest side of the campus. Mark Bostick Golf Course and Scott Linder Stadium for tennis are located in S.W. Second Avenue on the northwest side of the campus.
The Florida Gators athletics program is managed by University Athletic Association, Inc. (UAA), a non-profit private company reporting to the university president and his supervisory board. For the 2014-15 academic year, the UAA has an operating budget of $ 103,310,001, projected revenues of $ 104,064,487, and contributes $ 3.5 million to university general funds. Scott Stricklin has been a Florida athletic director since 2016.
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Awards and recordings
Beginning in the early 1990s, the Florida Gators have been recognized as one of the major athletic programs at the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and one of the best in the country. The SEC has awarded the All-Sports Trophy for the best overall sports program at the conference since 1984, and Florida has won the award 27 times in 2017. Florida is the only school in the SEC and one of four national schools that has won a national championship in football , men's basketball, and baseball. Every year since 1983, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) has recognized the Gators athletics program as one of the ten best Division I athletic programs in the country in the NACDA Board of Directors' annual standings. The male athletic program is also the winner of the 2010-11 and 2011-12 Capital One Cups; The women's athletic program won the Capital One Cup in 2013-14, and both programs have been placed in the top five in the standings on several other occasions.
Among Gator's recent national championships, the Florida Gators men's basketball team won the NCAA Men's Division I NCAA Division I 2006 and 2007, and the Florida Gators football team won the 2007 BCS National Championship in soccer, all within 366 days. Florida is the only school in the history of the NCAA Division I to hold men's basketball and soccer championships during the same school year. In January 2009, the Gators football team won the 2009 BCS National Championship with a 24-14 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners. The Florida Gators baseball team brought home its first championship in the 2017 NCAA championship, defeating the SEC rival, LSU Tigers in two games. Gators won in the NCAA indoor and indoor championships in three consecutive seasons in 2010, 2011 and 2012, NCAA's national swimming championships and diving in 2010, NCAA women's tennis championships in 2011, 2012 and 2017, NCAA men's outdoor Championships track and field in 2012, 2013 and 2016, NCAA women's gymnastic championships in 2013, 2014 and 2015, and NCAA softball championships in 2014 and 2015. Individual Gator athletes have won 279 individual NCAA championships in boxing, golf, gymnastics, swimming and diving, tennis, and trajectory and field. In 2017, Florida won a national baseball championship for the first time. The Gators swept LSU in the best of the three national title series. This results in a total of 39 university national team championships. In addition, this puts the University of Florida in an exclusive company. With the 2017 national baseball championship, Florida became the fourth school in history to win national championships in soccer, men's basketball and baseball. Florida, along with Michigan, Ohio State, and UCLA are the only schools that have ever achieved triple crown status. It also puts Florida in a category by itself. Florida is the only Southeastern Conference school to achieve this achievement, as well, Florida is the only school in history that has achieved the status of three crowns in a short span of time. The Florida national championships in three major sports (soccer, men's basketball and baseball) were won over a span of more than two decades.
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The University of Florida has been included in the list of ten NCAA Division I athletics programs each year since 1983-84, an overall ranking that includes both men's and women's sports - the only college sports program listed in the top ten in the United States for thirty-two years last in a row. The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) has recognized the University of Florida as ranked among the top seven Division I in the NACDA Directors's Cup each year since NACDA and USA Today began awarding. trophy in 1993-94. The academic year 2014-15 marks the thirty consecutive years of Gator among the top ten best university programs in the world, and twenty consecutive years ranked among the top seven Divisions in the NACDA Board of Directors standings. Only one other Division I athletic program matches that achievement, and Florida has achieved this record while lowering more sports teams than many of the other top-level college athletics programs. In the twenty-two years of the NACDA Board of Directors, the Gators finished fifth or better in fifteen years, and never finished lower than the seventh; the only other program that ranks in the top ten of Division I every year since 1993-94 is Stanford Cardinal's Stanford University sports program.
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Towards the end of the 2014-15 academic year, the Florida Gators have won the 224 Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships, at most in conference history.
The SEC All-Sports Trophy began in 1973 as the Bernie Moore Trophy and tabulated the best men's league sports program. In 1983, the SEC also began to recognize the best women's sports program at the conference, as well as the best overall SEC sports program. In 1994, the New York Times Regional Newspapers Group accepted responsibility for awarding trophies. In a 39-year history of awards, Florida has won nineteen Women's Cups, sixteen Men's Cups, and twenty-five Overall SEC All-Sports Trophies (including twenty-five of the last twenty-seven).
Georgia's rival SEC won the 2005-06 All-Sports Trophy to take a Florida straight record in fourteen straight (1990-91 to 2004-05). Florida reclaimed the SEC World Cup for all Sports in the 2006-07 academic year, and the Gators re-swept the all-sports trophy overall, men and women every year since then. Gators is the only SEC sports program to get all three trophies of all SEC sports in a year, and has swept three trophies twelve times.
Championship
NCAA team championship
In the 108-year history of competition among colleges, the university's athletic team of Florida has won 40 national team championships (including 35 sponsored by the National Athletic Association Association (NCAA), two by the Association of Athletics for Women (AIAW), two by Bowl Championship Series ( BCS), and one by the Bowl Alliance), and individual athletes have won 279 NCAA national championships. Florida is the only Division I school to host major men's championships at the same time (as BCS 2006 football champion and NCAA 2006 and 2007 men's basketball champions).
Men's national championship
- Baseball (1): 2017
- Basketball (2): 2006 o 2007
- Football (3): 1996 o 2006 o 2008
- Golf (4): 1968 o 1973 o 1993 o 2001
- Tracks and indoor fields (4): 2010 o 2011 o 2012 o 2018
- Tracks and outdoor fields (4): 2012 o 2013 o 2016 o 2017
- Swim and dive (2): 1983 o 1984
Women's national championship
The above national college sports championships listed above are sponsored by the NCAA unless otherwise noted in the footnotes.
Conference Championships
The University of Florida is a founding member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), one of the leading inter-club sports conferences in the country, and twenty of the twenty-one sports teams of the Gators compete at the SEC. Since the SEC began playing in 1933, university athletics teams in Florida have won 240 SEC teams, more than any other conference member. Among the 13 other SEC members, the University of Tennessee has won the next highest number of SEC team championships, with 154. The women's lacrosse team played at the now-defunct Lacrosse Conference (ALC) for the first five seasons and played at the Grand Four Seasons Conference next, and has won four ALC championships of the Big East season and four regular seasons. The lacrosse team will join the American Athletic Conference starting with the 2019 season. All Florida conference champions are from the SEC unless otherwise stated include:
Men's conference championship
- Baseball (15): 1952 1956 1962 1981 1982 1984 1988 1996 1998 2005, 2010 2011, 2014 2017 2018 Tournament (7): 1981 1982 1984 1988 1991 2011 2015
- Basketball (7): 1989 2000 2001 2007 2011 2013 2014 Tournament (4): 2005 2006 2007 2014
- cross country (3) 1955 1986 1987
- Football (8): 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2006, 2008
- Golf (15): 1955 1956 1968 1973 1974 1975 1985 1989 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2003, 2011
- Swim and dive (39): 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1953 1954 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1970 1971 1980 1981 1981 1983 1984 1985 1986 1991, 1990 1992, 1993 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
- Tennis (9): 1950 1961 1968 1969 1975 1994 2000 2003 2005 Tournament (5): 1994, 2000, 2005, 2011, 2016
- Indoor and field tracks (7): 1975, 1976, 1987, 1988, 2004, 2011, 2015
- outdoor track and field (6): 1953 1987 1956 2010 2015 2018
- wrestling (1): 1975
Women's conference competition
(9): 1981 o 1982 o 1984 o 1986 o 1987 o 1991 o 1995 o 2008 o 2017
Wrestling is no longer offered at the university level since 1979.
For the purpose of counting the "official" SEC championship in baseball basketball, men and women, soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis, and volleyball, the SEC currently only includes the regular season champions, not the tournament championships. The Gators have won an additional 64 SEC title tournaments in this sport which are not included in the total Florida 240 championship team.
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Baseball
Coach Andy Lopez took over the Gators baseball program in 1994, one season after leading the Pepperdine Wave to their first College World Series championship. In 1996, he trained the Gator into a fifty-wins season and offered the World College Series. In 2000, the program appeared to have reached the plateau and Lopez was replaced.
Pat McMahon became head coach of the Gators in 2001 after training the State of Mississippi Bulldogs. The 2005 Gators baseball season is the most successful to date, with the team winning the SEC title, and earning a place in the World College Series for the fifth time in school history. The team advanced to the championship round against the Texas Longhorns, eventually losing two games to none.
After they run the 2005 College World Series, Gators opened the 2006 season ranked number one in the poll, but struggled to complete the 28-28 (10-20 SEC) record, and failed to qualify for the NCAA Regional. After losing Regional NCAA again in 2007, McMahon was dismissed.
Clemson Tigers' former head coach Kevin O'Sullivan became the new head coach of the Gators header on 13 June 2007. Team Gator O'Sullivan showed an immediate improvement and the Gators completed the regular season 2008 with a 30-24 (17-13) SEC record), and accepted the invitation to NCAA Regional in Tallahassee. The 2009 squad finished the regular season with a 38-18 record (19-11 SEC), won the NCAA Region in Gainesville, and advanced to the Super Regional before losing to the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles.
O'Sullivan 2010 and 2011 Gators completed their regular SEC season playing with identical 22-8 notes, winning the eleventh and twelfth SEC championship, earned a place in the College World Series in both years, and advanced to the World College Series final in 2011 before losing to two games to South Carolina did not exist.
The Gators return to the World Series of Colleges in 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2017. In June 2017, Florida won their first World Championship World Championship, beating LSU two games with the best in three finals.
The Gators baseball team played a home game at Alfred A. McKethan Stadium at Perry Field.
Men's basket
Florida enjoyed limited success in men's basketball before the mid-1980s. Coach Norm Sloan Gators was invited to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) - only the second time the team was invited to the post-season tournament. They returned to NIT in 1985 and 1986, and made their first appearance at the NCAA Basketball Tournament in 1987, when guard Vernon Maxwell led the team to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. The Gators received invitations to the NCAA Tournament in 1988 and 1989, but Sloan was forced to resign at the start of the 1989-90 season as a result of the violation of the NCAA.
Coach Lon Kruger brought a new success, and his Gators reached four NIT finals in 1991-92. During the 1993-94 season, Andrew DeClercq and Dametri Hill led the Gators to their final NCAA Final Tournament four after a dramatic victory over Connecticut Huskies in the NCAA Regional Final.
Athletic Director Jeremy Foley hired Billy Donovan as a substitute for Kruger in 1996. Donovan's proven recruitment capabilities from the start, when he earned recruitment classes with future NBA players Mike Miller, Udonis Haslem and Matt Bonner. Donovan's Gators advanced to the final of the NCAA Tournament before losing to Spartan Michigan State in 2000, and showed consistency that was previously unknown to the program as they received invitations to the NCAA Tournament every year from 1999 to 2007, a team-winning eight-year record.
Under Donovan, Florida won the first SEC Men's Basketball Tournament in 2005, when they defeated the Kentucky Wildcats in the SEC title game.
The 17-0 opening on the 2005-06 team was the best in team history, surprising many people with a selfless squad led by four second year students. The team started the season without a rating, but won the SEC championship in the second tournament in a row. On April 3, 2006, the Gators defeated the UCLA Bruins 73-57 in the NCAA Tournament championship to win the first men's national basketball championship in Florida. Within days, the five starters announced that they would be back for another season to try to win back-to-back championships.
At the start of the 2006-07 season, Gators was No. 1. 1 in both main polls for the first time. Gators won the second NCAA national basketball championship in a row on April 2, 2007, beating the Ohio State Buckeyes 84-75. They became the first team since Duke in 1991-92 to win back-to-back tournaments and the first in NCAA history to do so with the same starting line-up. After that, four-star junior Florida announced they would enter the NBA draft.
Donovan Gators returned to the championship form in 2010-11, winning the SEC regular fifth regular championship and battling into the NCAA regional semifinals ("Eight Elites") before losing 74-71 to the Butler Bulldogs overtime. In 2011-12, Gators received No. No. 7 in the NCAA tournament, exceeded expectations, and advanced to the Eight Eight, entitled by new star drama Bradley Beal and point guard Erving Walker, before falling into Louisville. During the 2013-14 season, Gators ranked No. 1. 1 in the country, won the SEC championship with 36 consecutive wins during the regular season and tournament matches, went on to record a record 30 school wins, and advanced to the NCAA Final Four, titled by four senior veteran dramas: Patric Young, Scottie Wilbekin, Will Yeguete , and Casey Prather.
The Gators men's basketball team is currently led by coach Michael White, and plays his home game at O'Connell Center. The White Gators return to the NCAA Tournament in 2016-17 after a two-year hiatus despite finishing second in the SEC during the regular season and suffering an early exit from the SEC Tournament. The Gators, as # 4 seeds, eventually reached Eight Eight before failing to reach fellow South Carolina conference partners.
Female Women's basket
The women's basketball was approved as a new female university sport by Florida in March 1972, but began playing in 1973 as a club team. In 1975, Lady Gators debuted as a university program under the head coach. Paula Welch. Gators made local headlines in 1976 by winning "state championships", beating three other women's college teams in the state at the time.
While traditionally overshadowed by the Tennessee and Georgia national basketball and basketball conferences, Lady Gators has made several NCAA Tournament appearances and sent players to the WNBA, including DeLisha Milton-Jones. Carol Ross garnered more triumphs than any other women's basketball coaches in Florida history, and guided the team for twelve seasons from 1991 to 2003, but went to receive a head coach job at his alma mater, Ole Miss.
From 2002 to 2006, the women's basketball team was coached by Carolyn Peck, the former WNBA coach who won the national title with Purdue. Peck was sacked in mid-2006 (despite being allowed to finish the season) after surviving the worst defeat of any Gator sport.
Former Gator player and former Charlotte coach Amanda Butler was named the new women's basketball coach on 13 April 2007. During the 2008-09 season, Lady Gators accepted the NCAA tournament offer, and won the first round match before being defeated by finally the Connecticut tournament champion in the second round. Butler resigned after the 2016-17 season.
The women's basketball team Gators played his home game at O'Connell Center.
Cross country
The Florida Gators cross-country team has won three Southeast Conference championships (SEC), and has competed in eight National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournaments. The women's cross-country team has also won five SEC Championships (including the latest), and competed in ten NCAA tournaments. In 2009, Lady Gators occupied seventh position in the NCAA cross country championship; in 2010, they won the SEC championship for the second year in a row.
Coach Mike Holloway is the head coach of the men's and women's cross-country team.
Football
The University of Florida unveiled its first official football team in 1906, beating Gainesville Athletic Club 6-0 in its first match. Since then, the Gators have played in thirty-seven games, won three national championships (1996, 2006, 2008) and eight Southeastern Conference championships, and produced 138 All-American, forty-two National Football League (NFL) first round draft of choice and three Heisman Cup winners.
Today's most prominent football contenders in the Gators are enemies of the Eastern Division of SEC, Georgia and Tennessee, the Western Division of the SEC, against LSU, and the Florida State state of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Florida has historically shared the competition with Auburn and Miami, too, but the game is no longer played every year and its intensity is reduced.
Gator's football team has gained more wins than any other program in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) since 1990, the year the Heisman Trophy-winning midfielder Steve Spurrier returned to his alma mater as head coach. The 1996 team, trained by Spurrier and led by another Heisman Gator winner, Danny Wuerffel, finished with a 12-1 record and won a national championship at Sugar Bowl, unraveling rivals Florida State 52-20.
Urban Meyer became head coach of Florida football in December 2004, and his six teams had great success from 2005 to 2010. The 2006 team won the second national championship school on January 8, 2007, beating the number one ranking of Ohio State Buckeyes 41-14. Quarterback Tim Tebow won the Heisman Trophy in 2007, and the Florida Tebow team led in 2008 won the 2009 BCS National Championship on January 8, 2009, beating the top rated Oklahoma Sooners 24-14, for the third national Gators championship.
The Gators have won the SEC Championship Game record seven times in eleven appearances since the SEC instituted the championship game in 1992. The Gators won their first official conference title in 1991, the year before the first SEC conference championship game played, for a total of eight SEC championships in twenty the last four seasons.
The soccer team Gators played his home game at Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, better known as the The Swamp , field team house since 1930. Dan Mullen is the current head coach of Florida Gators Football.
Men's golf course
The men's golf team has won four NCAA Championships (1968, 1973, 1993, 2001), and has produced two individual NCAA champions Bob Murphy in 1966 and Nick Gilliam in 2001. The men's golf team also won the fifteen Southeastern Conference (SEC) Championships: 1955-56, 1968, 1973-75, 1985, 1989, 1991-94, 1999, 2003, 2011.
Many former Gator golfers have represented the University of Florida on the PGA Tour, and the program has produced over thirty male athletes who have competed professionally.
Buddy Alexander, the longtime head coach for the men's golf team, retired after the 2013-14 season. J. C. Deacon was employed in June 2014, and the 2014-15 season will be his first. The men's golf team Gators played his home game at Mark Bostick Golf Course (formerly known as "University Golf Course").
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The daughter's golf team has won two NCAA team championships (1985, 1986), and has produced one individual champion NCAA, Page Dunlap. The women's golf team also won eight Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships.
The former golfer Lady Gator regularly represents the University of Florida on the LPGA Tour, and the program has produced more than twenty female athletes who have competed in the professional ranks.
Emily Glaser is the head coach for the women's team. The women's golf team Gators played his home game at Mark Bostick Golf Course (formerly known as "University Golf Course").
Women's gymnastics
Gymnastics was one of the first female sports to be added at the University of Florida and achieved initial success by winning the 1982 national championship AIAW. Since the NCAA took over the sponsorship of the national gymnastics championship in 1982, Florida usually gets invited to the NCAA nationalchampionships (the top twelve national teams ), and advanced to the NCAA "Super Six" eighteen times. Florida won the NCAA national championships 2013, 2014 and 2015, finished in second place in 1998 and 2012, and the team has only failed to qualify for the NCAA championships once in the last thirty-three seasons.
Gators have won a total of nine SEC strings since 1982. The biggest SEC teams are Alabama and Georgia, both of which are also perennial national competitors. Gator Coach Rhonda Faehn is the SEC champion in both 2012 and 2013, and won the NCAA national team championships in 2013, 2014 and 2015 (2014 as co-champions with Oklahoma).
Faehn trained Gators' gymnastics team from 2003 to 2015. Under Faehn, Gator gymnasts are nationally competitive and very consistent - finishing in the top seven every year and winning three NCAA national championships.
The Gators gymnastic team is currently trained by Jenny Rowland. The Gators held their home meetings at O'Connell Center.
Female lacrosse
In June 2006, the University Athletics Association announced the creation of a new female Gators lacrosse program, citing high school lacrosse growth across the country and increased availability of the Division I competition. Florida became the second Southeastern University member university offering lacrosse as a university sport, following Vanderbilt University and playing its inaugural 2010 season at the American Lacrosse Conference (ALC) along with Commodores. The Gators and Commodores continue to play in the ALC until a realignment conference leads to the collapse of ALC after the 2014 season, after which both programs become the sole sports members of the Big East Conference. The upcoming 2018 season will be the last for Gators and Commodores in Big East lacros; after that season, both teams will become members of the new women's lacrosse league charter from the American Athletic Conference. The lacrosse Gators team is the only Gator team that does not compete in the SEC.
The lacrosse Gators team has been successful for its first seven seasons, including four regular season championships ALC (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014); two ALC tournament titles (2012, 2014); both regular season and tournament titles in all of his first three Big East seasons (2015, 2016, 2017); four consecutive appearances at the NCAA National quarterfinal tournament ("Elite Eight"); and one performance in the NCAA semifinals The national tournament ("Final Four") in 2012. The Gators have been ranked among the top ten women's lacrosse teams in their respective countries from the last five seasons, and have been ranked as high as No. 1. 1.
Amanda O'Leary is the head coach of the Gators. Before he was named to start a new Florida program, O'Leary was head coach at Yale University for 14 seasons, and was honored as an All-American quarterback twice at Temple University, where he led his team to the NCAA championship in 1988.
In just the second season of the lacrosse Gators program, most sophomores teams defeated the ALC champions defending the Northwestern Wildcats to win their first regular conference championship. Gators completed a perfect 5-0 season three days later by beating Vanderbilt Commodores in Nasvhille.
The women's lacrosse team Gators played his home game at the 1,500-seat Donald R. Dizney Stadium.
Women's soccer
Becky Burleigh has been the head coach since the first women's soccer team began playing a university sport in 1995. Under Burleigh's leadership, the team quickly became a national competitor. In 1998, in the fourth season of the program, Gators won the NCAA national championship by defeating North Carolina national champions Tar Heels 1-0 in the national final of the NCAA Tournament. the women's soccer team has also won thirteen Southeastern Conference regular-season championships and ten SEC tournament titles in eighteen seasons of play.
Notable former Gator footballers include Abby Wambach, who is a member of the US women's national team and scored the winning goal in the last Olympic games of 2004 in Athens, Greece; Heather Mitts, who played for the US national team in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China; Melanie Booth, who currently plays for Canadian women's national football team; and Danielle Fotopoulos, who played professionally with Carolina Courage. Savannah Jordan plays for Portland Thorns and ranks second in Gators' history behind Wambach for scored goals.
Women's soccer team Gators played most of their home games at James G. Pressly Stadium. Softball
The University's Athletic Association decided to create a women's university softball program in 1995, and the Florida Gators softball team officially began to compete at Southeastern Conference in 1997 under former head trainer Larry Ray. Since the beginning of the program, Florida Gators has had several notable successes, including four SEC championships, eight appearances in the Women's World Series College (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, & 2017), and two national College championships World Series (2014 & amp; 2015).
The Gators won regular SEC championships in 1998, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2016, and 2017, as well as SEC titles in 2008, 2009 and 2013. In 2009, they played for the NCAA softball championship at Women's College World Series, lost to the Washington Huskies in the final round. The Gator returned to the final of the Women's World Series 2011 before falling to the Sun Devils in Arizona State. In 2014, Gators beat Alabama Crimson Tide in the first two games of three World College Women series to win their first NCAA national championship. In 2015, Gators repeated as national champions by beating Wolverines Michigan in three full games. The Gators will return to the WCWS final in 2017 before losing to Oklahoma Sooners in two games.
The current head coach is Tim Walton; The 2015-2016 season will be tenth as a Gator coach. He was previously the head coach at Wichita State University and he played baseball for the University of Oklahoma and a small league team affiliated with Phillies Phillies. Until the end of the 2018 season, Tim Walton has gained a record of 722-149, while in Florida. Following the conclusion of the 2018 season, Tim Walton was given a 10-year contract extension.
The Gates softball team played their home games at Katie Seashole Pressly Softball Stadium.
Swimming and diving
The Florida Gators' swim and diving team won the NCAA national championships in 1983 and 1984, and also won 35 Southeastern Conference team championships - including 2013 and 2014. Women's swimming and diving teams won the AIAW and NCAA national championships in 1979, 1982 and 2010, and also won seventeen SEC championship teams.
The famous female swimmer at the Florida Gators includes three Olympic gold medalists Tracy Caulkins, Olympic gold medalist Nicole Haislett, and four-time Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres, who was also the first American swimmer to compete in five Olympics. Notable male Gators swimmers include Olympic gold medalists Matt Cetlinski, Mike Heath, David Larson, Ryan Lochte, Caeleb Dressel, Anthony Nesty and Martin Zubero.
The Gators have had an international flavor since the 1980s, when the Olympic swimmer Gator's success began to attract Canadian, European and Latin American swimmers to train under coach Randy Reese. The tradition continues in the present under Gregg Troy, head coach of the men's and women's pool Gators team. Troy served as head coach of the US Olympic men's swimming team in 2012. Dale Schultz is the new head coach of the men's and women's diving team, replacing the old coach Donnie Craine in 2014.
Pool gators and diving teams hold their home meetings at the O'Connell Center Natatorium and train at the Carse Swimming Complex.
Tennis
Florida Gators has one of the strongest and most storied women's tennis programs in NCAA history, and the women's tennis team has won seven NCAA team championships (1992, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2011, 2012, 2017). The team has also produced three individual Gators who have won four NCAA single championships: Shaun Stafford (1988), Lisa Raymond (1992, 1993), and Jill Craybas (1996). In the doubles match of the NCAA championship, three Gators double pairs have won four NCAA double championships: Jillian Alexander and Nicole Arendt (1991); Dawn Buth and Stephanie Nickitas (1996, 1997); and Whitney Laiho and Jessica Lehnhoff (2001). The Gator women have also won seven indoor championships of the Interollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) (1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2017), and twenty-seven SEC championship teams. The Gators have also claimed five SEC Tournament titles (1994, 2000, 2005, 2011, and 2016) in Tennis Men and 20 in Tennis Women (1982, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2016).
The men's tennis team Gators has a winning tradition and has won nine Southeastern Conference Team championships. The Gator men have also produced two single NCAA champions Mark Merklein (1993) and Jeff Morrison (1999). Merklein and partner David Blair join to win the NCAA double championship (1994).
Bryan Shelton is head coach of the men's tennis team, and coach Roland Thornqvist leads the women's tennis team. The Florida Gators tennis team played their home game at Linder Stadium on the Ring Tennis Complex on the university campus.
Track and put
The Florida Gators' athletics and field teams have won six Southeastern Conference indoor championships, and four outdoor SEC championships. After finishing runners-up in both indoor and outdoor NCAAs meeting in 2009, the men's team won three NCAA indoor titles in a row (2010-2012) and the first outdoor NCAA (2012) for the next three years.
The women's athletic team and the field team won the NCAA indoor championship in 1992. In addition, the women's team has won six indoor SEC championships, and four outside SEC championships.
The head coach for the track and field program is Mike Holloway, and he is responsible for the men's and women's teams. Assistant coaches are Steve Lemke, Adrain Mann, Nic Petersen, Chris Solinsky, & amp; Mellanee Welty.
The athletic and field teams of male and female Gators hold a meeting outside their home on the Percy Beard Track, which is part of the James G. Pressly Stadium.
Former sports university
In the past, Florida Gators fielded university teams in men's boxing and men's wrestling. Gator boxer John Joca, a member of the "Great Gator" of the University of Florida Athletics Hall of Fame, won the NCAA national boxing championship in a 135-pound weight class in 1940. The Gators boxing team, however, was discontinued in 1943 during World War II, never lived again after the war. The men's Gators wrestling team is a SEC sponsored sport from 1970 to 1979; the team won the 1975 SEC championship tournament and finished second for four more seasons. The wrestling team was eliminated as a result of cost cutting and compliance issues Title IX in 1979. The University's Athletics Association, under the athletic director Ray Graves and associate director Ruth Alexander, wanted to take a proactive role in Title IX compliance by balancing the number of male and female athletic scholarships available, and strict athletic budget results eventually resulted in the elimination of the men's wrestling program.
Athletic facilities
The University of Florida has invested significant capital and effort in the development, expansion and improvement of key sports facilities, including outdoor stadiums, indoor arenas, and the following training and training facilities:
Alfred A. McKethan Stadium at Perry Field
- Originally built in 1988, McKethan Stadium has hosted home games for the Gators baseball team and NCAA regional baseball tournaments for more than two decades. Renovated in 2007, the facility is expanded to accommodate up to 6,000 fans, and the locker rooms and offices are also upgraded.
Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
- The Gators soccer team played its home game at Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. The stadium was originally built in 1930, and is only known as "Florida Field." In 1989, his name was changed in honor of Ben Hill Griffin, Jr., an alumnus and generous philanthropist to his university and athletic program. Since the arrival of coach Steve Spurrier in 1990, the stadium became a national known as "Swamp." The marsh has been renovated and expanded several times, and has included natural grass surfaces since 1990. With the latest expansion, the stadium has an official capacity of 88,548 people, but it routinely accommodates over 90,000 fans for the Gators host soccer game. The Swamp is the 12th largest college football stadium in America measured by official seating capacity.
Carse Swimming Complex
- Built in 1998 at a cost of $ 2 million, the Carse Swimming Complex is a 7,000 square foot (650 m 2 ) two-storey facility that includes locker rooms, offices and direct access to UAA training pool. The swimming complex is located adjacent to O'Connell Center.
Florida Basketball Training Complex
- Completed in 2001, the Basketball Exercise Complex is a two-story, 47,505 square foot (4,413.4 m 2 ) structure that includes several training centers, a training room and a 1,0000-foot weight room square (180 m 2 ).
Donald R. Dizney Stadium
- Completed during the summer of 2009, the Florida Lacrosse Facility began hosting the women's lacrosse team with its first season in 2010. The 1,500-seat stadium extends along the playing field, and the facility includes a second exercise. field. The facility also includes concessions, ticket offices, locker rooms and training rooms.
James G. Pressly Stadium and Percy Beard Track
- Pressly Stadium is a combination of soccer and track and field facilities that includes the Percy Beard Track. The facility was renovated in 1995, when 2,500 bench seats were added to the 2,000 seater equivalent, increasing the total seating capacity to over 4,500 spectators. The stadium is located on campus, between McKethan Stadium and Linder Stadium, and renamed in honor of James G. Pressly, Jr., alumnus and University of Florida donors. Women's soccer teams play their home games at Pressly Stadium.
- Percy Beard Track was renovated in 1995 at a cost of $ 750,000, and pole vaults and long jump holes were transferred from infields to areas outside the track to accommodate new football fields. Men and women's field teams host their home meetings and the annual Florida Relay in the Percy Beard Track during the off-track season.
Katie Seashole Press Softball Stadium
- Built in 1996 at a cost of $ 2.6 million, Pressly Softball Stadium is home to the women's softball team Gators. The facility is located on campus, accommodating about 1,200 fans, including clay infield and grasslands, and in accordance with NCAA and Olympic specifications. The stadium is named for generous Katie Pressly. The Gators played their first game in the stadium against Stetson University on February 8, 1997.
Lemerand Center
- Built in 1995 and named in honor of Gale Lemerand donor, Lemerand Center is a 43,000 square foot (4000 m 2 ) all-sport facility that includes locker rooms, storage and equipment training, and is used by all university athletes at the University of Florida.
Mark Bostick Golf Course and Guy Bostick Clubhouse
- Designed by golf course architect Donald Ross and originally developed in 1963, the 18-hole Mark Bostick Golf Course is an official Florida University golf course. The men's and women's golf teams play their home games on the pitch, and the course also hosts Gator and Lady Gator Golf Day Pro-Am. The course is 6,701 meters long, and rated as par 70. In 2001, Bobby Weed renovated the course with a $ 4 million donation from generous Mark Bostick.
- Guy Bostick Clubhouse is equipped with various facilities and includes over 8,000 square feet (740 m 2 ) interior space.
Steinbrenner Band Hall
- Completed in 2008, the Steinbrenner Band Hall is the Pride of the Sun training hall, as well as the home office, instrument storage, band library and instrument publishing room. The development of the band hall was made possible thanks to a gift from George Steinbrenner and his wife Joan in 2002.
Scott Linder Stadium in the Ring Tennis Complex
- Originally built in 1987, Linder Stadium serves as the home ground for the men's and women's tennis teams. The facility was renovated at a cost of $ 1.7 million in 1999, when the building's interior space was expanded to 7,163 square feet (665.5 m 2 ), and included a coach office, training room, locker room, and a 3,000 square foot exterior courtyard (280 mins supersive 2 ). The stadium includes a 1,000 seat stand overlooking six lighted main squares, and also includes the second row of nine practice courts. The complex is located on campus, adjacent to College of Law and James G. Pressly Stadium.
Stephen C. O'Connell Center
- Built from 1977 to 1980, O'Connell Center is a multi-purpose arena that houses men's and women's basketball, women's gymnastics, indoor and female indoor and team tracks, and women's volleyball teams. This is commonly known as "O'Dome." In its main interior space, O'Connell Center can accommodate over 12,000 sports fans, and the university also uses this facility for graduation ceremonies and concerts, talks and shows. The O'Dome also includes the Natatorium, where the swimming gators and diving teams compete. The O'Dome underwent a major 2016 renovation with upgraded luxury suites, concession stands, locker rooms, and a new main entrance overlooking Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, but reduced seating capacity to over 10,000 fans.
Culture and tradition of athletic programs
Colors and mascots
The University of Florida started its sports program soon after its founding in Gainesville in 1906, and his team adopted orange and blue as their official color soon after. These colors may be a color combination of the two main institutions that joined to form the university, as East Florida Seminary uses orange and black and Florida Agricultural College uses blue and white.
Like the color of school, the origin of crocodiles (almost always shortened to "gator") because the school mascot is not well documented. It probably originated in 1908, when Gainesville merchant Phillip Miller chose animals to decorate banners designed for sale to students. The school does not have a mascot yet, and Miller selects the crocodile because it is native to Florida and is not claimed by any other school. The soccer team then adopted the nickname "Gators" in 1911. There are two theories about how the name becomes synonymous with the university's athletic program. One theory is that the 1911 football squad started calling themselves Gators to honor team captain Neal "Bo Gator" Storter. Storter himself denied this explanation, saying that it originated when a sports writer in South Carolina described the 1911 Florida street of Angry Clemson as a "crocodile invasion of Florida" and the players adopted the name. Whatever its origins, the nickname "Gators" (and for a while, "Lady Gators" for women's sport) has been used by the University of Florida athletics program for over a century.
Albert and Alberta
Albert and Alberta are Florida Gators' official costume mascots. Many variations of Albert have been present at sporting events for decades, and live aligators have been used for years. The current Albert version was introduced in the early 1980s, and Alberta joined him in 1984. They are unique among the SEC mascots as the only male and female couple, and are featured together in a human-sized statue outside UF's Alumni. Building Affairs.
Other Florida traditions
"Gator Chomp" is a cue made by Florida Gators fans and players to show their support for the Florida Gators sports team. Chomp originated in 1981. Chomp was performed by stretching one's hands, one above the other, in front of the body with palms facing each other, and then moving apart and together to symbolize the crocodile's mouth. When performed by fans at a soccer or basketball game, chomp is often accompanied by a marching band or a Florida pep band playing a two-note shark motif from the Jaws movie.
"Orange and blue" is a popular fan fun at home sporting events, with the alternate stadium section shouting "Orange!", And replying back with "Blue!" They are the loudest! It can go back and forth for several minutes, with both parts competing harder.
The football team has a long tradition of having George Edmondson Jr. - better known as "Mr. Two Bits" - wanders through the stands with signs and whistles to pump the crowd to cheer "Two Bits". Edmondson officially retired in 2008, and became an honorary alumni in 2005. His last appearance as Mr. Two Bits was in the final home game of the 2008 season against The Citadel.
The marching band of the University of Florida is known as "The Pride of the Sunshine", and plays in every home football game, and also performs at events such as Gator Growl and parades. The Gatorettes are baton batons, or majorettes, for marching bands. The Pride of the Sunshine plays the University of Florida Alma Mater at Florida Field before starting any home football game. After every home game, all the football teams gather at Florida Field and join fans in singing Alma Mater as the band plays. Florida Alumni and former head coach Steve Spurrier reintroduced this tradition to the Florida Gators football game in 1990.
The traditions of other football fans, at home and on the road, are Gator fans linking arms, swaying, and singing "We Are the Boys from Old Florida" at the end of every third quarter. The University of Florida struggle song, "The Orange and Blue", is often played on all Florida Gators athletic events.
The University of Florida dance team performing at home basketball and other sporting events is known as Dazzlers.
Gator athlete and famous donor
University of Florida Athletics Hall of Fame
More than 250 former Gators athletes and renowned coaches have been inducted into the University of Florida Athletics Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame inductees is divided into three categories: "Gator Greats"; "Distinguished Letterwinners"; and "Honorary Letterwinners." Gator Greats is a former athlete who distinguishes themselves during their undergraduate sports careers, and includes former All-Americans, all-conferences of choice, national big award winners, individual national champions, and those who significantly contribute to the national team championships. Distinguished Letterwinners is a former Gators athlete who achieves a difference after graduation, as an athletic trainer or an administrator, a professional athlete, or in a public service or other career activity. Honorary Letterwinners are people who are not alumni of the University of Florida and former undergraduate athletes, but have distinguished themselves by their significant contribution to the success of the Florida Gators sport team, including former Gators championship coach.
Gator Greats include Heisman Trophy winners, Steve Spurrier, Danny Wuerffel, and Tim Tebow; NFL Hall of Fame members Jack Youngblood and Emmitt Smith; Olympic gold medalists Tracy Caulkins, Nicole Haislett and Dara Torres; individual NCAA golf champions Page Dunlap, Nick Gilliam and Bob Murphy; Olympic gold medalist Heather Mitts and Abby Wambach; and individual NCAA tennis champion Jill Craybas, Jeff Morrison and Lisa Raymond.
Top letters of winning include head coaches Doug Dickey, Lindy Infante and Stanley Holland, as well as US Senator George Smathers.
Honorary Letterwinners include former Gator national championship Buster Bishop, Andy Brandi, Randy Reese and Mimi Ryan, former football coach and four-star general James Van Fleet, as well as medical professor Robert Cade, who discovered Gatorade sports drinks at UF in the mid-1960s as a rehydration aid to assist Gators athletes.
Gators at the Olympics
The University of Florida has a reputation and a long history of producing athletes competing in the Olympics. More than 160 university alumni, including Gators Florida athletes from thirty-seven different countries, have competed in the Olympics, won fifty Olympic gold medals, twenty-nine silver medals, and thirty bronze medals (until the end of the 2012 Summer Olympics).
The Olympian Gator list and gold medalists include Kerron Clement, Dennis Mitchell, and Bernard Williams; marathon runner Frank Shorter; baseball midfielder Brad Wilkerson; forward basketball DeLisha Milton-Jones; football forward Abby Wambach; and swimmers Tracy Caulkins, Nicole Haislett and Ryan Lochte.
Former Gator Dara Torres is the only American swimmer to compete in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2008). At age 41, Torres became the oldest swimmer to win an Olympic medal when he won silver in three events in 2008, ending his career with a total of twelve Olympic medals (including four gold).
List of famous Gator sports donators
The Florida Gators sports teams are fortunate to get financial support from many individuals, but some stand out because of the magnitude of their contribution. Among those who have made major contributions to the university's sports program are:
References
External links
- Official website
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