Now that the Spring game is over, it's 5 months of off-season,,,,

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,,, at most places -- but not if you're a Gator fan!

The Florida Gator's signature web site, OneGatorNation.com, was honored by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences with a Webby Award, considered the "Oscars" for Internet web sites. The Gator web site was selected out of 13,000 entries to receive the prestigious award. Future student/athlete recruits, you can sample what it is to be a Gator. (rival fans,,, eat your heart out)

And it's not just about sports as a Gator student/athlete. UF not only leads the SEC (including Vanderbilt), but they also have a 'Top 10 in the Nation' ranking in producing Academic All-Americans.
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#2 Gator Lacrosse (11-1, 2-0 Big East) plays @ Georgetown at noon today (4-9-16).
(Defending Big East Champs UF 14-7 Georgetown, so 12-1, 3-0 Big East)

#2 Gator Softball (36-3, 10-3 SEC) just got an 8-0 Run-Rule Shutout @ Ole Miss.
(UF 6-1 Ms, 37-3, 11-3 SEC)

#1 Gator Baseball (29-3, 8-2 SEC) just got an 8-2 win vs #10 MsSt.
(UF 4-10 MsSt, 29-4, 8-3 SEC)

Florida Gymnastics won the Minneapolis regional on Saturday to again advance to the NCAA Championships, where they will defend their 2013, 2014 and 2015 NCAA team titles.

Goooooooooooo-GATORS!

PS

#6 Gator Women's Tennis just put a whoopin' on the red-tiders...

 

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Holy Schite Fatman -- Last season, Gator catcher Aubree Munro did not make an error in 354 defensive chances. This season so far, she has another 316 error free chances for a continuing total of 670 consecutive error-free chances! For now, her UF career fielding percentage stands at .997.

(she has also picked off 13 base-runners in her career) chomp

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Aubree has been chosen to the 2016 USA Women's National Team, and she will likely be drafted tonight by one of the NPF (National Pro Fastpitch) teams. She is also an All American Scholar Athlete in Telecommunications - Media & Society. YOU-GO-GIRL!!

* Hanna Rogers & Lauren Haeger were the last 2 Gator's drafted. Thank goodness that none of the Gator's 3 current pitchers (Jr/So/Fr) are eligible (Sr's only) to be drafted this year. A total of 9 Gator softball players have been drafted in past years.

There are 5 Gator seniors with a shot at being drafted to the Women's professional league tonight: Taylor Fuller - Kirsti Merritt - Aubree Munro - Taylor Schwarz - Kelsey Stewart. CBS-8 PM Good luck to them all!

!http://floridagators.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=5138

Named to the Top 25 ”Watch List” for the 2016 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year.
The Gator's LHP Delanie Gourley Jr and RHP Aleshia Ocasio Soph. Gator RHP-1B Lauren Haeger won it last year.
http://floridagators.com/news/2016/4/13/pair-of-gators-named-to-usa-softball-top-50-watch-list.aspx

* For the 2nd consecutive year, all three Gator pitchers have exceeded 100 season strikeouts. An on-fire 14-0 Fr RHP Kelly Barnhill is leading the way with 128 SO's, plus a 1.38 ERA -- schmo-kin'.

True Freshman Kelly was also named to the 2016 USA National Softball Team.

 

[HardeeWildcatFan]

Just curious about Softball can a player Redshirt like in football? I never seen it and was wondering if they can do this if they are working on their masters? In football you can do this while working on your masters if I am not mistaken.

 

[instaGATOR]

Just curious about Softball can a player Redshirt like in football? I never seen it and was wondering if they can do this if they are working on their masters? In football you can do this while working on your masters if I am not mistaken.

A very good question, which I don't know the answer to.
I love watching the girls play their game, but I've not delved deeply into the intricacies of their rules.
Maybe someone else here can inform us both on that point?

 

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The Gator Off-Season Woah's Continue,,,, whoa, whoa, whoa.... chomp

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~ Led by senior Bridget Sloan, the 3X Defending National Champion Gators had the highest team scores in three of four events during Friday's opening-round action of the NCAA Super-Six Gymnastics Championships.

~ The #4 Gator's Women's Tennis team swept #3 Georgia 4-0 on Friday night in Athens to claim the program's 29th Regular Season SEC Championship. The Gators are now 12-0 in SEC play with a 12 match winning streak and they have now won back-2-back SEC-C's.

~ The #13 Gator's Men's Tennis team earned a 7-0 win to sweep the No. 20 UK Wildcats on Friday night inside the Ring Tennis Complex. The Gator's Diego Hidalgo was named the SEC Player of the Week on Wednesday for his outstanding week taking down five ranked opponents in three matches over a span of five days.

~ The #2 Gator Baseball team secured the 3 game series @ Arkansas with a 9-2 win. They won the 1st game yesterday 12-8. They'll go into today's 3-PM game with their brooms and looking for the sweep.

~ #1 Gator Softball is (38-3), with the #1 RPI. They are currently 26-0 vs non-conference opponents, with (32-3) #5 LLU

coming to Gainesville for a 3 game series. Clash of the Titans?
Florida leads the Nation with a team 0.85 ERA -- LLU leads the Nation with 77 HR's.

~ ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – The Gator's freshman Gordon Neale carded a 2-under 68 at the Sea Island Golf Club on Friday to tie for 2nd and lead the #6 Gators Men's Golf team in the opening round of the SEC Championship. The Gators wrapped up first-round play in 3rd place.

~ BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The #8 Gator Women's Golf team completed Round 1 of the SEC Championship on Friday with an impressive showing. The Gators opened the postseason with a respectable +4 (292), and trail No. 3 Alabama -2 (286) by six strokes. The Crimson Tide was the only team to shoot under par. In the individual competition, junior Maria Torres led the Orange and Blue and is tied for the lead.

The 13-1 #2 Gator Lacrosse team (with 5 wins vs ranked teams) is tied atop the BIG EAST standings with an undefeated 4-0 record. Florida will put it to the test against Villanova at noon Saturday (4-16-16). The are the defending Big East Champs. With wins for both teams Saturday -- Florida at Nova and UConn versus Vandy, the Gators and Huskies can both clinch a spot in the four-team conference tournament scheduled to run May 5-7 in Washington, DC, at Georgetown's Cooper Field. Last season, Florida's first year in the BIG EAST, UF shared the regular-season title with Georgetown and went on to win the tournament to add UF's fifth conference title in the program's sixth season of existence.

* The Gator's only 2016 season loss was to undefeated 2015 NC, Maryland.

Today's Lacrosse game was UF 14 - 4 Villanova
#2 UF is now 14-1, 5-0 Big East with 2 regular season games to go before the Big East Tourney.
4-20-16 @ Cincy and 4-24-16 in G'ville.

 

[instaGATOR]

Today, Saturday 4-16-16

Lacrosse - #2 UF 14 - 4 Villanova --- UF makes the 4 team Big East Tourney

Softball Double Header:
#1 UF 5 - 1 LLU #5
#1 UF 14 - 1 LLU #5 in a BIG run rule win.
These Gators are now 15-3 in 2016 vs teams ranked in the top 25.

#2 Baseball - In the bottom of the 7th inning it's UF 6 - 0 Ark.
Ark up with a man on 2nd and nobody out.
http://stats.statbroadcast.com/statmonitr/?id=125091&a=1


Gator Baseball completes the 3 game sweep @ Ark with an 8 - 2 win.
#2 UF 33-5, 11-4 SEC