The Florida Gators volleyball team dominated the Iowa State Cyclones in three straight sets on Saturday night to punch their ticket into regionals. Merritt Beason and Marina Markova led the team in kills, each putting up 12. Sofia Victoria trailed closely behind with eight kills and Alexis Stucky delivered five …
Read More »FEATURE: A look at Maddy Pirrello’s Gator Soccer Career
Weekends and nights spent at the soccer field have been the norm for Maddy Pirrello for as long as she could remember. She started playing at the age of four and never quit. “I just remember my parents put me in there as a regular kid in rec soccer and …
Read More »Former Gator Hoopers Continue to Thrive in the NBA
Florida’s History of Stars The Florida Gators have produced several star athletes in the professional sports world. This remains true in today’s NBA. Some of their most impressive NBA players include five-time All-star Al Horford, three-time All-star Bradley Beal, three-time NBA champion Udonis Haslem, and Mavericks starting power forward Dorian …
Read More »Gator Football Shocked By Commodores
The Florida Gator football team (6-5, 3-5) was stunned by the Vanderbilt Commodores (5-6, 2-5) 31-24 31-24 in Nashville on Saturday. This is the Gators’ first loss to Vanderbilt since 2013. Final from Nashville. #GoGators | @WellsFargo pic.twitter.com/CMQ32SGAVM — Florida Gators Football (@GatorsFB) November 19, 2022 Daejon Reynolds’ Career Day …
Read More »Gators Men’s Hoops Surge Back For Win Over FSU
Florida Gator men’s basketball (3-1) surged back in the second half to take down the Florida State Seminoles (0-4) 76-67 on Friday night in Tallahassee. This is their second win in a row over the Seminoles and the first for Todd Golden as the Gator’s head coach. Additionally, this is …
Read More »FEATURE: Imogen Barrett’s Final Lap as a Gator
To celebrate International Education Week, WRUF is publishing profiles of UF student-athletes all week. If someone cannot catch up to her on the track, they can for sure catch her sipping a vanilla latte at Pascal’s Coffee House or working at Southwest Recreation on the University of Florida campus. “Her” …
Read More »FEATURE: The Story of Gator Tennis Alum Johannes Ingildsen
https://youtu.be/5nAjF4XuvhM To celebrate International Education Week, WRUF is publishing profiles of UF student-athletes all week Flashback to May 2019. The Florida Gators men’s tennis team was hungry and primed to win a national championship. Led by a senior hailing from Denmark, this group was favored in the polls, but they …
Read More »UF Student-Athletes Stand Out in Academics
The National Collegiate Athletic Association published its Graduation Success Rates (GSR) on Tuesday for student-athletes who entered college between 2012-15 and graduated within a six-year period. The report, which focuses on graduation rate trends from 2019-22, found the overall single-year GSR for Division I student-athletes was 90% — the highest …
Read More »FEATURE: From the German National Team to the Florida Gators
To celebrate International Education Week, WRUF is publishing profiles of UF student-athletes all week. Fresh Start True freshman Frieda Bühner’s basketball story started before she took a step on American soil. The 6-foot-3 forward hails from Osnabrück, a city of 165,000 people in South Germany. Her amateur career consists of being …
Read More »FEATURE: Brazil’s Fred Biondi – A Breakthrough Star
To celebrate International Education Week, WRUF is publishing profiles of UF student-athletes all week. Fred Biondi’s golf career started with once-a-week practice and a passion to get better. Now, he enters the 2022-23 season as the best D1 golfer in the nation in the PGA TOUR University Velocity Global Ranking. Biondi’s …
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