What a wild weekend. Rollins baseball ended a five-game skid while the softball team had its 32-game win streak snapped… UCF baseball was swept at home by Southern Miss… Lions and Preds both fall.
UCF baseball knocks off No. 23 Rice on the road in the first of a three-game series… UCF women set new track and field records… Predators win big in first game at Amway Center… Magic hold off Nets…
UCF junior Jackie Coward was named the 2011 Conference USA Indoor Female Track Athlete of the Year by league coaches, becoming the first Knight in program history to earn the award.
UCF was well represented over the weekend as women’s basketball head coach Joi Williams won a gold medal with the USA Women’s U-18 National Team and alum Tiki James took sixth place in the 100-meter hurdles at the USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships.
The Magic show off a new logo, host youth basketball camps throughout area… Former UCF QB Daunte Culpepper to return to Orlando with two former coaches… UCF track and field gets first Outdoor All-American… Athletic programs at Winter Park dominate FHSAA.
Three student-athletes are poised to compete at the track and field championships this week… A former men’s soccer goalkeeper made his pro debut last month… The baseball squad had five selected to C-USA postseason teams while the softball team landed six…
The formula to win a conference championship in any sport includes peaking at the right time. An entire team effort. In track and field, every member of a team must do their part as an individual to maximize every opportunity to score to win a team championship.
On Thursday the Conference USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships begin at UCF as the Knights look to improve on a runners-up finish in 2009. Twenty teams and over 600 student-athletes will meet at the UCF Track & Field Complex.
Another school record fell on Saturday as UCF’s 4×400 meter relay team clocked in with a time of 3:43.38 at the Tyson Invite at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark.
The UCF indoor track and field season took another impressive turn last weekend when senior LaKendra Thames set two school records on back-to-back days at the Rod McCravy Invitational in Lexington.