The last time the Florida Gator softball team took on the Florida State Seminoles was in a different setting—an at home sold out and a record-breaking crowd. The win didn’t come easy, but Florida marked the W in the books with a 1-0 win. This time around, in front of a …
Read More »FEATURE: UF softball student managers contribute to team
The University of Florida softball players and coaches get most of the credit for the team’s success and that’s easy to understand. The coaches strategize and devise the game plan while the players practice hard, develop their skills and play the game Student managers Supporting all the hard work on …
Read More »FEATURE: Kelly Barnhill Making Her Mark on Gator Softball
Rewind to 15 years ago. The year was 2002. Kelly Barnhill was just five years old. She started playing t-ball, then worked her way up to softball at just seven-years-old. The pitching machine gave her perfect pitches every time. Her parents signed her up for just about every sport the city …
Read More »Gator Softball Takes SEC Series at Tennessee Despite Sunday Loss
The top-ranked Florida Gator softball team (46-4) fell 5-1 on the road Sunday against the eighth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers (42-8). Despite dropping the series finale, Florida took the SEC series 2-1, with consecutive shutout wins on Friday and Saturday. Florida hasn’t won a softball series in Knoxville since 2012. SEC Champs …
Read More »Florida Softball Clinches Third Consecutive SEC Title
The top ranked Florida Gator softball team made history on Saturday. After defeating the Tennessee Volunteers 9-0 to clinch the three-game series, Florida became the regular season SEC Champions, for the third year in a row. Back-to-Back-to-Back #Gators win third-straight SEC Regular Season Championship‼️ pic.twitter.com/qbplaLF67C — Gators Softball (@GatorsSB) April …
Read More »Gators Softball Tops Tennessee in Game 1
The Gator softball team recorded another SEC victory Friday night in Knoxville in front of a record-breaking crowd as Gator pitcher Kelly Barnhill silences the Vol bats in a 5-0 Gator win. Gator’s success Kayli Kvistad earned her first SEC Player of the Week award. This award is first for …
Read More »Gator Softball Ending SEC Play with Weekend Series at Tennessee
The top-ranked Florida Gator softball team (44-3) will wrap up regular season SEC play with a weekend series in Knoxville against the eighth ranked Tennessee Volunteers (41-6). The Gators have 18 SEC wins, while two of Florida’s losses have come against conference opponents. The Volunteers are 13-4 in SEC games …
Read More »Gator Softball Sweeps Ole Miss
The number one ranked Florida softball team (44-3 overall; 18-2 SEC) shut out number 18 Ole Miss (31-16 overall; 6-12 SEC) for their third consecutive game in a 5-0 victory to sweep their weekend series in Gainesville. It also marks the first time since 2009 that Florida swept Ole Miss in a series …
Read More »Florida Softball Clinches Series Over Ole Miss
The Florida Gator softball team had another strong pitching performance to beat the Ole Miss Rebels 3-0 on Saturday afternoon. The win would give Florida the series after winning 2-0 Friday night. Clutch Pitching Performance Senior Delanie Gourley got the start in the circle for the Gators. She managed to earn …
Read More »Recap: Gators Softball Takes Game 1 vs. Ole Miss
The top ranked Gator softball team takes the first game of a three game series at home with the Ole Miss Rebels on Friday with a 2-0 win to move them to 16-2 in SEC play. As it has been many times this season, one of the big story …
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