Florida Gators women's golf
| Florida Gators women's golf | |
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| University | University of Florida |
| Conference | SEC |
| Location | Gainesville, Florida |
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| Course |
Mark Bostick Golf Course Par: 70 Yards: 6,701 |
| Nickname | Florida Gators |
| Colors | Orange and Blue |
| NCAA Champions | |
| 1985, 1986 | |
| NCAA Individual Champions | |
| Page Dunlap (1986) | |
| NCAA Team Appearance | |
| 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 | |
| Conference Champions | |
| 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2008 | |
| Individual Conference Champions | |
| Lynn Connelly (1981) Deb Richard (1982, 1983, 1984) Karen Davies (1986) Cheryl Morley (1988) Dina Taylor (1995) Aimee Cho (2003) |
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The Florida Gators women's golf team represents the University of Florida in the sport of golf. The Lady Gators compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They play their home matches on the Mark Bostick Golf Course on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus, and will be led by third-year coach Emily Glaser in 2014–15. In the forty-one-year history of the Gators women's golf program, the Lady Gators have won eight SEC championships and two NCAA national tournament championships.
The Florida Gators women's golf program originated as an intercollegiate club team under coach Mimi Ryan in 1969. Ryan's Lady Gators were elevated to varsity status in 1972 with the expansion of the Gators women's sports program under former University of Florida athletic director Ray Graves and associate athletic director Ruth Alexander. The University of Florida embraced the challenge of creating a nationally recognized women's sports program, including women's golf, in order to comply with Title IX's federally mandated equal opportunities for women in college sports.
As one of the first Florida Gators women's sports teams, the Lady Gators golfers enjoyed almost immediate success in Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) competition. In the Lady Gators' first year as a varsity sports team, Ryan's Gators finished seventh at the AIAW national championship tournament, beginning a streak of nineteen consecutive top-ten finishes in the AIAW and NCAA national championship tournaments. Ryan's golfers finished second in the AIAW national championship tournament in 1978 and 1978.
The 1981–1982 school year was the transition year for sponsorship of national championship tournaments for women's college sports in the United States. During 1981–1982, both the AIAW and the NCAA sponsored championships; since 1982, only the NCAA has sponsored championships in women's college sports. The Lady Gators finished third in the last AIAW championship tournament, and fourth in the first NCAA championship tournament in 1982.
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