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Category: Lacrosse
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14 true freshmen brand Florida’s young lacrosse roster as the Gators head into their 11th season this weekend with a home game against No. 18 Colorado on Feb. 8. “We lost nine seniors, eight of which started throughout the season last year, so we’re going to see a lot of new faces out there this…
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The Gators lacrosse team will begin their second decade of play ranked No. 14 in the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Poll, which was released Monday. Since its inaugural season in 2010, this marks the 10th time Florida has been ranked in the IWLCA Preseason poll. Last season, the Gators finished with a 14-7…
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The Florida Gators’ lacrosse team will advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament after beating Johns Hopkins with a convincing score of 16-9. The Gators, who travelled to Chapel Hill, N.C. after claiming the AAC Conference title were quick on the draw scoring six points in the first 10 minutes of play. To…
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The Florida lacrosse team learned of their NCAA fate during the selection show Sunday night. The Gators will travel to Chapel Hill, NC where they will open Tournament play with a first round match against Johns Hopkins on Friday, May 10. Florida completed the regular season and conference tournament with ten straight wins in addition…
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The American Athletic Conference announced their end of season honors one day before the conference tournament begins. Florida was heavily represented as four players earned honors and seven were named First Team All-Conference. However, the American didn’t select Florida’s staff, led by Amanda O’Leary as the Coaching Staff of the Year, despite dominating the competition…
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Final: Gators 25, Cincinnati 6 For the ninth straight season the Florida Gators are conference champions. That is even more impressive when considering that Florida has been in three different conferences in that span. The Gators routed Cincinnati on Saturday to clinch the American Athletic Conference regular season championship. The win also marked the 30th…
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The Women’s Professional Lacrosse League held it’s annual Spring Draft for college seniors. Among the 25 total picks, a pair of Gators were selected. Attacker Lindsey Ronbeck was taken no. 10 overall by the New York Fight while midfielder Sydney Pirreca was drafted just five picks later at no. 15 by the Upstate Pride. Ronbeck…
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Baseball: It looked like Florida baseball had turned a corner. The team managed to light up LSU pitching to the tune of 16 runs on Thursday to stake an early claim to a huge series. Unfortunately, outside of freshman Cory Acton, the offense failed to show up for the remainder of the series. While the…
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Football: Florida’s redshirt (rising) junior QB Feleipe Franks has put all reasonable doubt aside and solidified his place as the Gators starting QB heading into fall camp. Franks was methodical in the annual spring game on Saturday and threw for more than 300 yards and four touchdowns (in fairness, against a very vanilla defense). Franks…
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The Tewaaraton Foundation released the Tewaaraton Watch List on Thursday. Added to the list for Florida was sophomore Shannon Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh is accompanied by senior teammates, Haley Hicklen, Lindsey Ronbeck and Sydney Pirreca, as well as junior Cara Trombetta who were named to the Watch List two months ago. In 34 career appearances, all of which she has started in,…
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