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Athletic Association
  • NAA
  • NCAA
Athletic Division NCAA Division I-A
Athletic Conferences Football: Southeastern Conference
Basketball: Southeastern Conference
School Colors Orange and blue
School Nickname Gators
Men Playing Varsity Sports 283 - 2%
Women Playing Varsity Sports 231 - 1%
Students Receiving Athletic Financial Aid Football: 89
Basketball: 23
Baseball: 44
Cross Country/Track: 61
Other Sports: 202
Graduation Rates of Athletic Financial Aid Recipients Football: 35%
Basketball: 75%
Baseball: 27%
Cross Country/Track: 71%
Other Sports: 76%

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Gainesville has recently become synonymous with winning national championships, both in basketball and football. Winning has become a pastime for Gators, and football takes over everything in the fall. Even if you come here knowing nothing about it, you will be very familiar with football by the time you leave. Definitely go to a game to experience what it feels like to bop out of the stadium after a home victory, with you and 90,000 of your closest friends all chanting, “It’s great to be a Florida Gator!” so loudly your ears buzz. If you’re not converted after that, well, you can always head for the hills on game day and come back when the smoke clears.

For those of you who don’t just like to watch sports, UF makes it easy to get involved. You can get an intramural team together yourself or sign up as a “free agent” on a men’s team, women’s team, coed team, or graduate/faculty/staff team, depending of course on your wishes and your University classification. Despite the fact that they often require members to help pay for traveling and so on, club sports are also extremely popular here—sponsors try hard to keep fees low, and anyway, how else are you gonna get involved with badminton on a competitive basis? However, as cool as IM/club sports are, they will always be a little overshadowed by the varsity sports.

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Athletics at University of Florida

jachute

English '12

5.0
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We Have the Best Athletics

Our teams are extremely competitive. Especially baseball, basketball and lacrosse. And obviously football until Tebow left

May 07, 2012

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Athletics at University of Florida

DraculaBonaparte

Entrepreneurship '12

5.0
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Go Gators

University of Florida is pretty much built around College Football and to a lesser extent Basketball. We have nationally competitive teams in both sports on most years and they are an ingrained part of the culture of the university. UF has top end funding for all of their athletics, and even their more "fringe" teams such as fencing tend to be nationally competitive. Fan support and school spirit is huge, and facilities are first class and include multiple gyms.

Apr 28, 2012

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Athletics at University of Florida

makrlin

Family and Community Services '15

5.0
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Amazing Athletes

UF does an awesome job recruiting top athletes in all sports. Each sport is almost always ranked in the top 20

Apr 20, 2012

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Facts

Men's Varsity Sports
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Swimming and diving
  • Tennis
  • Track and field
Women's Varsity Sports
  • Basketball
  • Golf
  • Gymnastics
  • Lacrosse
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Swimming and diving
  • Tennis
  • Track and field
  • Volleyball
Intramurals
  • Basketball
  • Bowling
  • Cornhole
  • Dodgeball
  • Flag football
  • Golf
  • Kickball
  • Racquetball
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Street hockey
  • Swimming
  • Table tennis
  • Tennis
  • Track and field
  • Ultimate Frisbee
  • Volleyball
Club Sports
  • Baseball
  • Bowling
  • Cheerleading
  • Crew
  • Cricket
  • Cuong Nhu
  • Cycling
  • Equestrian
  • Fencing
  • Handball
  • Ice hockey
  • Kendo
  • Lacrosse
  • Racquetball
  • Rock climbing
  • Roller hockey
  • Rugby
  • Sailing
  • Skimboarding
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Surfing
  • Swimming
  • Synchronized swimming
  • Table tennis
  • Tae Kwon Do
  • Tennis
  • Triathlon
  • Ultimate Frisbee
  • Underwater hockey
  • Volleyball
  • Wakeboard
  • Water polo
  • Wrestling
Athletic Fields & Facilities
  • Alfred A. McKethan Stadium
  • Ben Hill Griffin Stadium ("the Swamp")
  • Donald R. Dizney Stadium
  • Florida Basketball Practice Complex
  • James G. Pressly Stadium
  • Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium
  • Lemerand Athletic Center
  • Linder Stadium
  • Mark Bostick Golf Course
  • Percy Beard Track
  • Stephen C. O'Connell Center

Most Popular Sports

Men's basketball, football

Most Overlooked Teams

Baseball, softball, women's tennis, track and field, volleyball

School Spirit

On the whole, UF students could not be more excited about their alma mater. The University of Tennessee football game in September, Homecoming in early November, and the Florida State University football game in late November are especially fun (and quite insane) times for showing school devotion, but any day is a good day for a Gator shirt or ball cap, both of which can be seen all over campus. In fact, just about everybody around here seems rather invested in the Gators—have you ever heard of an entire county closing the schools one day each year so the students can march in a University Homecoming parade? Alachua County does, and when you see the gigantic parade, you know they could never leave those orange-and-blue-bleeding kids out of it.

Getting Tickets

If you don’t have football season tickets, prepare to dish out more than your week’s allowance for some—if you’re lucky enough to find a spare ticket in "TitleTown." Season tickets for football become available through a lottery-based system during the summer. They are the only tickets students have to pay for and are around $80 for the season. If you can't snag a coveted season ticket, your next option is to go to Gatorzone.com, UF’s Ticketmaster-like website, every Thursday before a home game. However, be prepared for major delays and the website crashing since thousands of other kids will be doing the same as you. If you’re lucky enough to get a ticket through the site, you then have to go and pick it up at the student ticket office at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on Friday. Note: go with whomever you want to sit next to because the tickets are assigned in the order they are picked up. Men’s basketball games are sometimes difficult to get tickets for, too. But, for any of the sporting events on campus besides football, students only need to show their Gator card at the gate.

Best Place to Take a Walk

The entire campus is perfect for walking, but it’s more interesting if you stay out of the vast, less active Southwestern section and closer to the academic buildings and dorms where there are people around.

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