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Watch how professional track athlete Pjai Austin plans to complete his goals by training for the 2024 Olympics in Gainesville, FL.
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As a boy, Danny Neri, 22, now a University of Central Florida player, dreamed of wearing the orange and blue of the Florida Gators, the team he grew up supporting only an hour away from his hometown of Macclenny, Fla.
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Santa Fe High School was the first high school in Alachua County to start a flag football team just last year.
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University athletic programs must value the intellect of student-athletes as well as their athletic skills, said Leonard N. Moore, who spoke on the racial dynamics of college football in the South on Thursday at Smathers Library.
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More than two decades later, head coach Lona Turner, 31, leads the team she used to play for.
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First-year head coach Morgan Dall’Acqua and his players turned the program around this season, culminating in a playoff run that concluded this week.
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On Wednesday, they added a local Gainesville receiver to the mix. Preferred walk-on David Schmidt comes to the team from Newberry High School.
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Ashley Johnson is a professional equestrian rider, coach and a sport psychology professional who has spent decades atop a saddle in a high-risk sport. Johnson says that in her profession you get banged up a fair amount.
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Dudley Hart, four-time University of Florida All-American golfer and two-time PGA Tour winner, was promoted to Associate Head Coach of University of Florida men’s golf in the fall.
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For high school seniors who end their athletic career at the high school level, their final season is a culmination of all the small steps and all the trials and errors that lead to one final game.The National Federation of State High School Associations found that 297,389 boys and girls in Florida participated in the state’s high school-level sports, according to the 2022-23 High School Athletics Participation Survey. But getting into NCAA sports is harder than getting into an Ivy League College.
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Before the first free youth hockey clinic in 2023, options to learn to play hockey in Gainesville were sparse.
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The Ark School of Fitness will host on Saturday the Gator Weightlifting Winter Open, a meet that serves as a qualifier for the USA Weightlifting’s University Nationals in Columbus, Ohio.