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‘It’s like a dream come true:’ UF welcomes class of 2023 More than 41,000 applied

By Kelly Hayes Alligator Staff Writer

Cristian Cifers put down his $200 deposit less than an hour after he was accepted into UF. The 18-year-old beamed upon learning he didn’t have to throw away a third of his closet.

“I couldn’t see myself wearing other

schools’ colors,” he said. “You know, I bleed orange and blue.”

On Friday evening, Cifers became one of about 14,800 to be admitted into the university’s class of 2023.

More than 41,253 applicants applied, breaking last year’s record, said UF spokesperson Steve Orlando. The university expects about 6,400 freshmen to accept.

UF class of 2023’s student demographic

data will not be publicly available until today, Orlando said.

Cifers, who will graduate from Lake Mary Preparatory School in central Florida, applied as a business administration-management major and will start at UF in the Fall, he said. His backup school was the University of South Florida because his sister graduated from there but knew UF is where he belongs.

Cifers remembers watching the 2008 National Championship game with his parents, he said. His mom graduated from UF, and his dad briefly taught as a guest lecturer for

the College of Journalism and Communications.

“It’s like a dream come true,” Cifers said.

“I grew up being a Gator, and it’s just something that I’ve always wanted to be a part of one day.”

The number of UF applicants has increased throughout the years, but there was a spike in 2017 when UF started accepting from the Coalition for College Access application, in which applicants can enter their information and documents to send to mul-

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UF opens office in Washington D.C. IT WILL COST $75,000 PER YEAR TO RENT

By Kelly Hayes Alligator Staff Writer

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One Team Nine-year-old Bailey Warner waves to a cheering crowd Friday during the Gators Link to Pink women’s gymnastics meet against the Auburn Tigers at the O’Connell Center. The gymnastics team added Warner to the team roster on Oct. 13, 2017, and supported Warner during her chemotherapy treatments for pilocytic astrocytoma glioma at the UF Health Shands Hospital. Warner successfully ended chemotherapy on May 23.

Gators Basketball can improve Guard Jalen Hudson tied a season-high 15 points Saturday against Tennesse, pg.14

Albert and Alberta made a trip to the nation’s capital to take vacation selfies and see the opening of UF’s new Office of Federal Relations.

This past week, university officials celebrated the grand opening of the office in Washington, D.C., said Mark Kaplan, the vice president of UF Government and Community Relations.

The office had been in the works for the past year, and staff started working in the office last Fall.

“It was a slow, gradual process,” Kaplan said.

The office will serve as a resource for students in D.C. and work to advocate for the university’s interests, said Sarah Mathias, the UF director of Federal Government Relations.

Eventually, the office hopes to offer internships to UF students.

Specifically, it will monitor and

Boy in meme now a Gator

“David After Dentist” admitted to UF, pg. 4

analyze legislation under consideration and meet with policymakers, Mathias said. It will also keep an eye on federal programs that support students and research and strengthen the connections between researchers at UF and federal agencies.

“We’re the university’s eyes and ears and advocate in Washington,” she said.

The new office will cost UF $75,000 per year to rent and is located in the Hall of the States Office Building, near the U.S. Capitol Building, Mathias said. The building houses the Florida Governor Office as well as other universities’ federal offices, including UF President Kent Fuchs’ alma mater Cornell University.

The office space will host four full-time staff members and will have a small conference room, she said. The university is still hiring staff members for the office.

Thursday night, university officials, including Fuchs, celebrated in

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SG committee passes legislation on Parkland shooting, victims RESOLUTION IDENTIFIES MENTAL HEALTH AS ISSUE

By Hannah Beatty Alligator Staff Writer

Andrew Goren remembers teaching Alyssa Alhadeff to roller skate during the summer of 2017 at camp.

A year and a half later, Goren (Impact, District B) sat before the UF Senate Judiciary Committee to present a resolution, a non-binding statement of agreement, commemorating Alhadeff and the 16 other victims of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last year on Feb. 14.

The Senate Judiciary Committee met for two and a half hours Sunday morning in the Reitz Union to verify the constitutionality of legislation before it is voted on in the Senate.

Eight resolutions were passed including the Marjory Stoneman Douglas resolution, and four pieces of legislation were tabled.

Goren, who co-wrote the resolution with allocations chairwoman Katelyn Hernandez (Impact, District

A), said while he knew Alhadeff personally, the resolution recognizes all of the victims and identifies mental health as a key issue.

Goren said he wrote the resolution to show support for movements like March for Our Lives, which hope to end gun violence.

“It’s going to happen again. It already has,” he said.

The committee also passed resolutions that supports faculty on strike at Wright State University, renters’ rights, textbook affordability, Black History month, those affected by the polar vortex, legislation banning distracted driving and financial aid for DACA students.

Dylan Santalo, the chairman of Chomp the Vote, said UF students have met with both Republican and Democrat leaders in Florida leadership to pass legislation granting financial aid to undocumented students.

“It’s a student issue. Not a partisan issue,” Santalo said. @hannahbeatty_ hbeatty@alligator.org

UF research spending reaches record high of $865 million

By Tien Le

sity takes time to hire staff and faculty to work on research projects, and the results of the research money arise in the following years.

In 2017, the UF physics department received UF is just $200,000 shy of receiving $1 billion a $10 million grant to study quantum computing, in yearly research spending.

On Friday, the university announced the near- Harfe said. Psychology professor Dorothy Espelly 8 percent, or $63.6 million, increase from 2017, age received a $1 million grant from the US Desaid Brian Harfe, the associate dean in the College partment of Justice to study bullying in 2017.

“Research expenditures is a good measure of of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The $865 million the health of an inbecame a new record stitution’s research high in 2018. endeavors,” said UF UF’S RESEARCH SPENDING OVER THE YEARS “We’re very exspokesperson Steve cited about all the reOrlando.

2018: $856 million search that is going to Alex Smith, a come out of the funds 2017: $804.1 million 20-year-old UF mathat are coming in,” 2016: $791.3 million terials science and Harfe said. “The monengineering junior, is ey has just arrived, so currently working in going forward we’ll a research lab that utisee the results of what lizes spending on engineering in the development happens with all of this research money.”

Of the $865 million of expenditures, life sci- of materials.

An increase in research spending provides ences research totaled $656.3 million, federal research totaled $355.5 million, state and local opportunities for more equipment and materials research totaled $174.1 million, foundations re- needed to complete more projects, he said.

“I am proud of our university’s emphasis on search totaled $44.3 million and engineering reresearch across departments and disciplines,” search totaled $93.6 million.

The ultimate goal is to reach $1 billion, al- Smith said. “It shows our invested effort into exthough there is no definitive timeline of when that panding upon scientific understanding.” will be, Harfe said.

The real research begins during the years after @tientle11 the money has come in, Harfe said. The univertle@alligator.org Alligator Staff Writer

UF Levin College of Law receives record-breaking $20 million grant

By River Wells Alligator Staff Writer

Richard Cole knew he wanted the legacies of his and his parents at UF to live on through more than just a degree.

He said he wanted to make a lasting change within the institution.

Cole achieved his goal when he gifted UF’s Levin College of Law a record-breaking grant for $20 million, he said. The school announced the grant on Friday.

The grant, which was finalized

in Fall 2018, is the largest in the college’s history. It surpasses the $10 million endowment given to the college in 1999 by Fredric G. Levin, which gave the college its namesake, said the college’s dean, Laura Rosenbury.

The money will expand the school’s health law curriculum.

“Health law is a very broad category, and we’re excited to explore all aspects of it,” Rosenbury said.

Health law covers multiple areas in the college, such as healthcare, antitrust laws and biologics,

and the grant will be used to improve these aspects of the college, Rosenbury said.

The goals include hiring more faculty who specialize in health law, offering student scholarships to attract them to health law and funding conferences to host leaders, scholars and hospital administrators, Rosenbury said.

Cole, who is a managing partner for the law firm, Cole, Scott & Kissane, P.A. in Miami, originally wanted to remain anonymous when the agreement was finalized, but Rosenbury convinced

him otherwise.

“We thought it would be more powerful if people knew where the gift was coming from,” Rosenbury said.

Cole, who received a degree in business administration at UF in 1970 and graduated from the university’s law program in 1974, donated the money toward the Robert B. Cole Health Law Endowment. His father created the endowment in 1995 to support the programs and research relating to health law at the college.

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His decision to donate $20 million stemmed from the conversations he had with Rosenbury about how the college could improve its health law representation, he said.

“We certainly have seen that the issue of health law is kind of at the cutting edge right now, and I don’t see it changing,” Cole said.

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UF welcomes viral YouTube meme SPOILER ALERT: HE’S NOT PURSUING DENTISTRY

By Dana Cassidy Alligator Staff Writer

Anesthesia and personality made David DeVore an internet sensation in 2009.

“David After Dentist,” which featured a perplexed, dazed 7-year-old DeVore in a Florida Gators shirt received more than 138 million views — but also foreshadowed his future.

A decade later, the now 18-year-old DeVore’s attire came full circle when he was admitted into UF’s Innovation Academy on Friday.

“It was my number one school,” DeVore said. “UF is where I am meant to be.”

DeVore, who is from Lake Mary, Florida, and attends Holy Cross Lutheran Academy, was thrilled to find out he was accepted to his No. 1 school where his two aunts, uncle and grandfather attended.

Growing up as an internet meme didn’t affect DeVore’s day-to-day life besides occasional fan recognition. However, DeVore wrote about the video in his UF application essay, as he says it’s a big part of his life.

“I don’t want ‘David After Dentist’ to be all

I’m ever known for,” DeVore said. “I just want to do more with my life, and UF gives me the tools to do so.”

Although he will not pursue a dental career, DeVore is ecstatic to come to UF in Spring 2020 to study computer science.

DeVore is ready to begin the next chapter of his life and was taken aback when UF posted about his admission on social media.

“I didn’t realize it was going to blow up like it did,” he said. “It was just really cool to see that people acknowledge [my admission].”

When UF business administration junior and “David After Dentist” fan Patrick Murray heard about DeVore’s acceptance, the moment felt surreal.

“I would literally quote the video with my friends so being able to say that I go to the same school as him now has left me speechless,” the 20-year-old said.

Murray, who has watched the video at least 15 times, advises DeVore to follow his passions, keep his morals in check and enjoy his college years.

“I hope his intensity for UF and the love that he has is just as strong as his hyperactivity all those years back,” Murray said. @danacassidy_ dcassidy@alligator.org

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Seven-year-old David DeVore in his viral online video “David After Dentist” next to himself at the age of 18 receiving his admission letter.

The office may offer students future internships WASHINGTON, from pg. 1 the capital with a reception on the rooftop of the office building, she said. At the celebration, they flew the UF flag on top of the building.

“We’re just a brand-new program,” she said. “Right now, we’re a friendly place to come, to see if we can help in any way.”

UF will work with other universities with offices in D.C. that may also be affected by the legislature, she said.

“We’re a member of many of the higher education associates,” she said. “What impacts UF students is likely to impact those at other big universities.”

At least four other Florida universities already have an office in D.C. “We want to be a home away from home for students, faculty and alumni,” she said. “A place where Gators can come, get some Gatorade and share what we know.”

2023, from pg. 1 tiple schools, Orlando said. In that year, applications grew from about 34,000 to 40,000.

Other factors leading to the high number of applicants include UF’s rising national profile and ranking, which the U.S. News and World Reports ranks eighth in the nation for public universities, Orlando said.

The admission results are released on a Friday to give the applicants time over the weekend to process the information, Orlando said.

“It is a big achievement to get into UF,” he said. “It’s a really exciting time for us too.”

Jenna Dunakey, 18, received the news of her acceptance at 5:30 p.m. Dunakey, who applied as a psychology major, will graduate from Lemon Bay High School in Englewood, Florida.

However, Dunakey is unsure yet of where she will attend college, and she’s waiting on her decision from her first choice, New York University, she said. If she gets into NYU, her choice will come down to the financials.

“UF is the best school in Florida, and I know I’m definitely going to college now,” she said.

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Man accused of sending sexual Facebook messages to minor VICTIM WAS UNDER 16 YEARS OLD A man already in jail for cocaine possession has been given additional charges for sending sexual messages on Facebook to a girl under 16 years old.

On July 24, the victim’s mother told deputies about a Facebook thread between the victim and Michael Avery Hooks, 26, of Gainesville, according to an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

From July 1 to July 24, Hooks and the victim mes-

saged about sexual encounters, the report said. The victim also sent photos of her vagina and a video that couldn’t be opened of her posing or dancing in shorts, the report said.

Hooks told her multiple times to meet him, the report said. He asked to meet at Cynthia Moore Chestnut Park and Clark Butler Nature Preserve, at 2315 SE 35th St., and a shed in a backyard.

Hooks admitted to deputies that she sent and received sexual messages from the victim but did not have

ACSO: Woman hits another woman with bat, almost runs over deputy HER BOND IS $159,000 Deputies arrested a woman Thursday who is accused of hitting a woman with a metal baseball bat on the back and almost hitting an officer with a car.

Densirate Davina Boyd, 29, of Gainesville, had two warrants for her arrest, according to an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

In October, Boyd reversed a car and almost hit an officer at Gardenia Gardens Apartments, at 1727 NE 8th Ave., according to a Gainesville Police sworn complaint affidavit. She then ran into her apartment and escaped through a back window.

In April 2016, Boyd was charged with aggravated battery for hitting a woman in the back with a metal baseball bat, according to another police sworn complaint affidavit.

On Thursday at about 8:50 p.m., deputies were told Boyd was leaving the Maa and Paa Grocery Store, at 6410 SW 8th Ave., according to an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

Deputies found Boyd on Southwest 62nd Avenue. and told her to walk to the front of the patrol car, the report said.

When Boyd was asked what her name is, she told deputies her name was Ferneshia Perryman and gave them a wrong birthday, the report said.

She gave her real name while being searched.

She was charged with resisting an officer without violence and giving deputies a false identification, the report said.

Boyd remained in the Alachua County Jail on Sunday in lieu of a $159,000 bond.

sex with the victim, the report said.

He was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior with a victim aged 12 to 16 and promoting sexual activity to a victim less than 16, the report said.

Hooks was sent to jail in February after he was accused of possessing cocaine and violating warnings to not contact his ex-wife, records said.

He remained in the Alachua County Jail Sunday in lieu of a $320,000 bond.

Man accused of throwing trash, laundry in apartment HE LIVED IN SAME COMPLEX A man accused of breaking into a neighbor’s apartment and breaking a TV didn’t stop there. He proceeded to throw trash on her bed and clothing around the room.

Gainesville Police arrested Garrett Lamar Drayton, 27, of Gainesville, on a warrant Saturday for breaking into the apartment on Dec. 2, according to an arrest report.

At about 12:01 a.m., Drayton forced the victim’s apartment door open while she was not home at Gardenia Gardens Apartments, at 1727 NE Eight Ave., the report said.

Drayton went into the living room, threw the victim’s laundry all over the floor and knocked over her TV, the report said.

He then grabbed multiple full trash bags from her front porch and broke them over her bed.

Drayton also poured a bottle of MCT oil on her bed and TV, the report said.

The TV was worth $200.

After, Drayton texted the victim, “Clean up yo house dat s--- a mess,” the report said. She rushed home and texted him she was going to call the police.

When she went to her front porch, she saw Drayton outside his apartment in the same complex, the report said. Police found Drayton nearby.

Drayton was charged with burglary of a residence, criminal mischief and resisting an officer without violence, the report said.

He remained in the Alachua County Jail Sunday in lieu of an $80,000 bond.

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The 2020 election is breaking records already

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merican women received the right to vote in 1920, and exactly 100 years later, the 2020 election is breaking records for women. Sen. Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota became the sixth Democratic woman to put in her bid for the Democratic presidential nominee when she announced her candidacy on Sunday. She follows Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, along with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and author Marianne Williamson. Collectively, they’re making this upcoming presidential race the first in history to have that many women running at one time for the Democratic presidential nomination.

This comes after a record-breaking number of 15 women were elected to the Senate in 2018, the most to ever serve at one time. There are currently 102 women serving in the House of Representatives. Of all of the women elected to Congress, 36 of them are newly elected. 2018 was named “The Year of the Women” because of its unprecedented number of elections of women and movements like the #MeToo movement. In just the second month of 2019, records are already being broken in terms of women’s political involvement.

Women running for president is just a part of a bigger picture.

A more diverse pool of presidential candidates is in store for the 2020 presidential election. With six women, including Harris, the second black woman to serve in the Senate, there are four other Democratic men of varying ethnicities also in the race. However, it should be noted that according to an Iowa Poll, Joe Biden, who has yet to announce his predicted candidacy, led a poll in December for the Democratic presidential nominee with 32 percent of the vote.

Of course, the 2020 election outcome is unknown, but it shows that Democrats, especially Democratic women, are looking for a change. Part of the reason there were so many newly elected women in the previous election cycle was due to the sheer number of women who ran for office. Many have said they felt compelled to run due to the current administration’s views on politics and health issues.

It’s no secret that America has always lacked diversity in terms of representation in Congress. However, the next year has the possibility of six women sharing the stage during a Democratic presidential debate; this would be another first. There have never been two women in a televised debate in American history. With each new election cycle, the pool for more diverse candidates gets deeper. Just the possibility and the acceptance of these candidates having the potential to unseat President Donald Trump shows that the U.S. is moving toward a place where race and gender shouldn’t have be a part of politics. However, that doesn’t mean that these things still don’t play a big role.

In politics, women are often talked about in a different way than men are. Often their “likability” is measured by how they dress or in how “stiff” or “loose” their behavior is. Their personality is often equated to their appearance. It’s understandable to disagree with the platform of a candidate, but women candidates are often judged on how they present themselves, more so than their male counterparts. That goes for all women, not just our Democratic candidates; even Melania Trump often makes news headlines for how she dresses, whether she knows this will be the result or not is debatable.

The political sphere is changing. A time will come when we don’t have to report on record-breaking numbers of diverse candidates because it’ll become the norm. We are in a time in history when there will no longer be “a year of the woman,” - it’ll just be a year. Moving toward a diverse crop of politicians allows us to accurately depict America as it’s supposed to be. The 2020 election has the chance to show us how we’ve grown as a country, not only through our candidates but also in how we report and view those candidates.

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Conversion therapy must be banned in Alachua County

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validity. Another 2004 article in The Counseling ay rights have made tremendous strides Psychologist says that “attempts to ‘convert’ hoin the past decade with gay marriage lemosexuals to heterosexuality are of questionable galized as of 2015’s Obergefell v. Hodges efficacy and are ethically compromised and heavdecision and states banning discriminaily reliant on misinformation and disinformation.” tion based on sexual orientation. HowFinally, a 2018 Psychology Today article makes ever, one issue still haunts the LGBTQ+ commuthe case that conversion therapy is unethical, has nity: conversion therapy.

Thankfully, Alachua County may soon put the Jason Zappulla no evidence backing it and can leave psychologiissue to rest. The Alachua County Commission is opinions@alligator.org cal scars on clients.

Likely because of this evidence, there’s been considering a bill that will ban conversion therapy a growing movement to ban conversion therapy, in the county. The effects of the bill are arguable (Gainesville, by far the biggest settlement in Alachua Coun- especially for children. The most recent example is New ty, already banned conversion therapy in April, and officials York, which in January passed a law banning conversion aren’t sure how many conversion therapy practitioners there therapy for minors. The Nebraska state legislature is currently considering a bill to ban conversion therapy for kids. The are in Alachua County), but I applaud this measure.

For those who don’t know, conversion therapy refers to Canadian province of Alberta currently has a parliamentary any procedure that attempts to change a person’s sexual ori- working group that is considering how to ban conversion entation from gay to straight. The American Psychological therapy. Even here in Florida, the city of Tampa passed an Association (APA) opposes conversion therapy, because it ordinance banning conversion therapy for minors, but the assumes homosexuality is a disease that can be cured rather enforcement of it was halted by a judge. Therapies involving than a normal expression of sexuality. Perhaps because of ‘treatments’ like electroshock therapy are still banned, but this, most conversion therapy is done by religious groups for the time being, therapies involving talking can continue.

I’ve heard an argument that while conversion therarather than any medical or scientific professionals.

The other reason the APA opposes conversion therapy is py should be banned for minors, adults should be able to because there is no scientific evidence of its effectiveness. choose conversion therapy on the basis that adults are doing The APA “does not believe that same-sex orientation should it of their own volition and they should have the right to or needs to be changed, and efforts to do so represent a sig- seek out therapy. However, that argument treats conversion nificant risk of harm by subjecting individuals to forms of therapy as some sort of experimental therapy or a different treatment which have not been scientifically validated and way of treating a problem, but that isn’t what conversion by undermining self-esteem when sexual orientation fails to therapy is.

Conversion therapy should be banned. There is no change. No credible evidence exists that any mental health intervention can reliably and safely change sexual orienta- evidence for its effectiveness. There is even evidence that tion; nor, from a mental health perspective does sexual ori- it could be harmful to those who partake in the practice.

Across the country conversion therapy is becoming illegal. entation need to be changed.”

A 2004 Families in Society journal article says conversion These groups shouldn’t be allowed to trick people any lontherapy was opposed by all the major professional groups of ger, and I applaud the Alachua County Commission’s prosocial workers, psychologist and psychiatrists, and the stud- posal. ies that have been cited by conversion therapy proponents Jason Zappulla is a UF history junior. His column aphave serious methodology problems that could question their pears on Mondays.

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Hey Gators! As election day at UF gets closer and closer, there is always a certain amount of negative campaigning that takes place before students vote. With that said, Zachariah Chou’s mischaracterization of his record and criticisms of Student Government go a step too far.

On a website published by the Inspire Party this past Tuesday, Chou claims that SG delayed implementing live-streaming Student Senate meetings in order to avoid transparency with the Student Body. This claim could not be further from the truth.

SG and the Impact Party have worked with SG Information Technology for the better part of a year creating a live-streaming website and platform for students at UF to view Senate meetings. We even began the procurement process for a permanently installed ceiling camera, as well as frontfacing monitors for use during meetings. Ultimately, this will be a much less awkward implementation of Senate live-streaming than Chou’s current process on Facebook Live.

Inspire campaign material goes on to criticize the past Impact Student Body Presi-

dent for vetoing legislation that “will make your jaw drop.” Here, Inspire is, in fact, correct that the predecessor vetoed the “Student Body Accessibility Act,” which would have required the executive branch to include closed captioning on all SG videos.

What they failed to mention, however, was his reasoning for doing so — Inspire drafted an unconstitutional bill. Specifically, the legislative branch does not have the constitutional authority to make rules and codes that the executive branch has to follow, no matter how noble the intentions. Beyond that, Inspire failed to mention that we, as the executive branch, were already including closed captioning as well as transcripts on our videos and continue to do so to this day under my administration.

Finally, Chou claims that he and his party are responsible for more street lighting around Infinity Hall and 24/7 operating hours at Library West. Again, while his party is a strong supporter of these resources, they mislead students on their involvement. The project for increased street lighting around Infinity Hall began when Student Body President Susan Webster or-

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An open letter on the trials of health

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he gym can be best join the “Gain Train.” They described as difficult will supply endless advice to enter and easy to and guidance, some of which leave. However, the you may even diligently apbenefits of the resultply. Despite all this, your diet ing strength and self-confimay still fail. dence you work for within So many people fall victhe walls of Southwest Recre- Kyle Cunningham tim to their own insecurities. opinions@alligator.org ation Center or Student RecFar too many allow the small reation & Fitness Center folmean voice lurking behind low you long after you leave. their conscience to deter their Dieting works, and if you hold your- progress. This process gains momentum self accountable for your meals, you will with every failure. Each mistake or cheat start to look and feel better. It’s torture day is another block removed from the to cut out bagels and brownies from your Jenga tower of fitness. The voice often diet, and our current food market doesn’t wins out and the wooden tower crummake it any easier. In summation, fitness bles, leaving you staring at the pieces that is hard. It takes effort, determination and used to constitute your healthy life. They perseverance to succeed, and it will often think, “It can’t work, I tried,” and they feel as if all the energy you’re spending is give up in a cloud of bitterness. in vain. It isn’t. The goal of fitness is to be It is difficult to push through, but the healthy and happy, and washboard abs strength of mind you develop in the purare simply a welcome byproduct. suit of a healthy life is just as important All too often, we are led astray by the as the strength of your biceps. These are incredible bodies shown on magazine the mental exercises that make fitness covers or featured on Instagram pages. truly difficult: the strength to wake up We buy our groceries, go to the gym and and get to the gym, the strength to order step on the scale with the idea that The a salad when your friends order a burger Rock will look back at us in the mirror. and the strength to chew gum at the movThis is not a sustainable way of viewing ies instead of getting a popcorn and soda. fitness, which is already a difficult habit Anyone can be fit for a day when workto nurture. Creating a warped body image ing out and eating well. The perseverance can severely damage a person’s balance and dedication to transform your lifestyle in life. really sets a person apart.

Another problem with fitness is the Fitness is hard. If it weren’t, everyadvice that comes along with it — it’s body would do it, which is certainly not given out easily and many times without the case. It is individually based on your consideration to everyone’s body types. time, energy and body. Fitness challenges Most of these diets are not inherently bad your self-image and it takes perseverance. for you. In fact, each of them work and You can be successful if you are brutally achieve different end results. The problem honest with yourself and are aware of is, we are all unique. Each person is go- what works for you. If you stay positive ing to respond differently to each kind of and keep a happy, healthy perspective, diet, and the results will vary. Our tastes your end goals will be in sight. You can and preferences are unique as well, and reach your goals, and you will — you just they also play a large role in determining can't give up. which diet we follow. Some people prefer a high-carb diet, while others prefer low.

Kyle Cunningham is a UF English For this reason, fitness seems more dif- freshman. His column appears on ficult than it needs to be. Your fit friends Mondays. will all be stoked to see you’ve decided to

ganized a nighttime lighting tour of the area surrounding Infinity Hall. Webster picked up the Mayor of Gainesville, UF Chief Operating Officer Charlie Lane, and UPD Chief Stumpf in a GOTCHA car, and drove around the residence hall with a light gauge, showing just how dark the streets got at night.

As a result of this project, we now have the new lights you see today.

As for Library West, UF could always use more study space on campus as we strive to be a top five public institution, but I disagree with Chou on how we should get there. Chou demanded we raise your student fees to fund this priority, but with a little time and by fostering positive relationships with Provost Joseph Glover and other administrators, I was able to expand 24/7 library hours for three years without raising student fees by even one cent. This represents a primary difference between the leadership of Impact and the leadership of Inspire, and I can say with confidence that Chou’s online petitions actually made my decisions with administrators more difficult as the petition was inaccurate and misleading.

When I took office, I swore to be a Student Body President to all Gators, including SG officers who aren’t affiliated with my party. I have met with countless students and Inspire senators who have reached out to me or have come to my office hours. In fact, those Inspire senators that met with me led to supported legislation on making UF more sustainable and the funding of a blue light pole system by Graham Hall. On the other hand, Chou has only met with me to mostly say that I was wrong and his shortterm Library West fix was better than my long-term strategy. In retrospect, I wish that Chou would have been more of a collaborator during my term like other Senators, instead of trying to cherry-pick the over 40 initiatives my administration has been able to accomplish for the student body.

Looking to the future, I hope that all Gators currently running to serve the student body will campaign with respect and honesty. Even in the heat of an upcoming election, our students deserve better.

Reg.Pol.Ad.T.Townsend Ian Green is the UF Student Body President

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art of young adulthood is isn’t sustainable. At the end of the marked by a craving for night, the makeup is washed away intimacy and acceptance. and the heels are slipped off. Voids You can see people forming that were filled with temporary recconnections, romantic or ognition are emptied again. A viotherwise, anywhere on a college cious cycle of loneliness can only campus. Couples sit together in the be paused by another night and anlibrary and new people strike up other provisional companion starts Molly conversation in Midtown. It’s comall over again.

Chepenik mon to want to make new connecWe are living in a period of histoopinions@alligator.org tions. But too often, there is a lot ry when women are being listened of emphasis on gaining validation to more than ever. The #MeToo from people whose validations are not particu- movement opened the door for women to be larly remarkable. This is especially common part of a conversation about gender inequality among young women who are seeking valida- and oppression that still exists so many years tion from men. after the women’s rights movement.

Even the most empowered young women We need to be more aware of how the paare easily affected by male attention or a lack triarchy prevails in little ways. Toxic mascuthereof. Women are dominating men in col- linity is contagious, and women fuel the fire lege right now. Since the 1960s, women have when they let men determine their value. We had higher graduation rates than men. Almost cannot give men the ability to manipulate our 10 percent more female high school students self-esteems. We must take that power back are enrolled in college than male students by into our own hands and regain the ability to the time they reach their high school gradu- have a good time and retain our confidence ation. Women are entering professions that no matter who deems us interesting, pretty or were once entirely occupied by men. So why worthy of their energy. are women still looking to men to verify their Regaining this power starts from within. worth?

The right partner and the right attention will As freshmen, my friends and I went to par- come eventually, and we shouldn’t expect to ties and other social gatherings to have fun. find him or her every time we leave our housWe loved to dance, spend time together and es. Healthy relationships are developed over meet new people. Now, it seems like the main time, and this is true not only for romantic point of going out is to talk to boys. Everyone connections but for friendships as well. If we lathers on makeup and squeezes their feet into focus more on strengthening bonds with our tiny high heels, all to attract any bit of atten- friends and the people that make us happy, we tion. Successful nights are determined by how will find a form of validation that is valuable confident you feel leaving them, and this is and long-lasting. usually determined by how many men caught There are so many places to find support your eye or gave you a compliment. and happiness as a young adult. It is important When a night is unsuccessful by these to spend time with the people who support terms, the entire event is deemed a bust. If we you, not on the ones who give you a glimpse didn’t allure any males of interest, the func- of attention and never show interest again. tion was pointless and we leave the night feel- Our true value comes from within ourselves. ing unfulfilled. My friends have forgotten how we used to be completely content just keeping Molly Chepenik is a UF journalism sopheach other company. omore. Her column normally appears on The sad part is that this kind of validation Wednesdays.

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The Sound of Change

Chris Day / Alligator Staff

Madeline Jarman, the bassist for the band Flipturn, performs Friday during the Changeville Music and Arts Festival at the High Dive in downtown Gainesville.

Changeville, which began in 2016, is a festival that combines music, film and virtual reality to promote social change.

Chris Day / Alligator Staff

Alex Mayweather, a guitarist for Pool Kids, performs Friday at the High Dive in downtown Gainesville. Pool Kids opened for Japanese Breakfast, one of the headliners of the Changeville festival.

Chris King / Alligator Staff

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Itagui Correa, the lead singer for the Grammy-nominated band Locos Por Juana, belts out Thursday night at Bo Diddley Plaza. Hundreds of people watched the band perform.

Dillon Basse, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Flipturn, plays the final note of “August” during Flipturn’s performance Friday night at the High Dive. The concert was sold out.

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Workshop series educates on zero waste living SECOND OF THREE WORKSHOPS TO BE HELD

By Taylor Girtman Alligator Staff Writer

Gainesville has about 20 years to reach its goal of becoming a zero waste city.

On Thursday, Zero Waste Gainesville will host the second of three workshops discussing zero waste living at 6 p.m. at Library Partnership, at 912 NE 16th Ave.

The organization is a zero-waste advocacy group.

The workshop is about zero waste dining and travel, and the final workshop on Feb. 21 will discuss do-it-yourself cleaning products. Tickets are free but must be reserved online.

Attendees will learn tips for storing restaurant leftovers and composting, said Amanda Waddle, the organization’s zero waste and policy advisor.

“You can be part of the solution because

everybody who does even a little bit to reduce their waste is very helpful,” Waddle said.

Waddle taught the first workshop last Thursday about a waste-free home. About 55 people attended, and it sold out about a week in advance, she said.

Allison Bechtloff, 35, attended and was surprised to learn about what is not recyclable. She said learning about personal waste audits, which is examining your garbage to see where your waste comes from,

made her a more mindful consumer.

Bechtloff manages Life Unplastic, a Gainesville store that sells sustainable, plastic-free products. She said the store aims to reduce packaging waste.

“It takes looking at things up close and realizing how you’re being wasteful,” Bechtloff said. “I could be doing a lot more too.” @taylorgirtman tgirtman@alligator.org

Gainesville holds first of series on food inaccessibility

By Victoria Vargas Alligator Contributing Writer

Food insecurity is a problem that Gainesville residents have faced for decades. Now the city is looking for answers.

The city will hold a discussion on food inaccessibility and how to fix it at a workshop from 5-8 p.m.

Tuesday at the Alachua County Library Headquarters, at 401 E. University Ave. The conversation will be the first in a series to address issues of food security in Gainesville, said Mayor Lauren Poe. The number of workshops is unknown.

“The main goal for this meeting is to give different people and different organizations who are dealing with the issue an opportunity to share their experiences,” Poe said.

The workshop is part of the city’s overall goals toward equity, he said. Food security has been an issue both nationally and locally since the 1990s.

In September, the Gainesville City Commission told staff to work with UF to create the work-

shop, where residents can join a discussion around those issues, said Chip Skinner, the city’s spokesperson.

Skinner anticipates between 50 to 80 people will participate. Free childcare for 20 children was offered to parents.

The commission budgeted $1,200 for the workshop at the Thursday commission meeting.

The childcare service was given $350, and $850 was allocated for refreshments.

The workshop will begin with a presentation on the research UF and the city staff have compiled since September, Skinner said.

It inform people about what the county is currently doing to address the issue.

During the second half of the workshop, attendees will break into small groups to generate solutions the city can implement on a smaller scale, Skinner said. The ideas from the workshop will be made into infographics and presented to the city commission on March 14.

Karen Woolfstead, the Bread of the Mighty Food Bank communi-

cations and development director, said about 50,880 residents live with food insecurities in Alachua County.

“What the public doesn’t realize is how many food insecure people there are,” Wolfstead said.

Tarver Shimek hopes to hear from members of the community who are not involved in organizations currently addressing food insecurity, like her program at the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences which educates residents on nutrition.

The UF/IFAS Extension Family Nutrition program, where Shimek is the extension program manager, looks at policy, environment and system barriers to healthy food access, she said. Barriers can be transportation and bus routes, and not being within walking distance of a grocery store.

“I hope the city government gets some good ideas from community members and people facing those issues,” Shimek said.

Alligator staff writer Karina Elwood contributed to this report.

Victoria Vargas / Alligator Contributor

Rana Hyder, 42, right, waits to purchase vegetables from Jones Family Farms Saturday at the Alachua County Farmers Market, at 5920 NW 13th St. The market offers Fresh Access Bucks that make it easier for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to purchase local produce.

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Impact and Inspire Party release platforms

BOTH PARTIES ADDRESS PARKING, GRADUATE STUDENTS AND ASIAN AMERICAN STUDENTS

By Hannah Beatty Alligator Staff Writer

UF Student Government elections are a little more than a week away, and Impact Party and Inspire Party released their campaign promises for the Spring.

Impact Party released its 21-point platform first on Friday via Facebook. It features a compost program at dining facilities and an automatic headshot photo booth.

“Our platform is a contract to the students,” said Emily Dempsey, a campaign manager for Impact Party. “The ideas on our platform come directly from the people that matter most: the students.”

Inspire Party released its platform on Facebook three hours later.

This platform is broken down into three questions: “Shouldn’t SG use your money effectively?”; “Shouldn’t every Gator count?” and “Shouldn’t SG serve our students?” Inspire Party’s platform addresses the expansion of free printing to locations such as Library West and Marston Science Library and the implementing online voting.

Students will be able to vote in this semester’s election at various on-campus locations on Feb. 19 and 20 to fill the executive ticket and 50 Student Senate seats by college and year.

Ashley Grabowski, the Inspire Party president, said the 12 platform points were contributed by current senators, students and submissions from an online idea generation form that had been up since last Wednesday.

Both platforms include measures to improve parking, the graduate student experience and Asian American resources.

No matter the outcome of the election, Grabowski said Inspire Party would work with Impact. She said the focus should be on how the parties address the problems on campus rather than the points themselves. Inspire wanted to focus on key themes that the elected officals can actually accomplish.

“We aren’t in Inspire instead of Impact because we vehemently disagree with their platform,” Grabowski said. “We’re here because we think they need to improve the way they govern.”

Fanni Szemkeo, a 21-year-old UF natural resource conservation senior, said each year she has seen different UF SG parties present a long platform but never follow up on their promises.

“It’s kind of easy not to be involved with the whole Student Government thing, especially if you have a lot of other things going on,” Szemkeo said.

Shannon Jones, a 19-year-old UF international studies sophomore, said she’s passionate about political awareness and thinks SG is a good way for students to get involved.

Jones, who is a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, said there’s sometimes pressure in the Greek system to vote for the Impact Party, but she said her values align closer with Impact Party regardless.

“We’re actually given like a lot of free choice to vote for who we want to vote for, and we’re encouraged to vote for whoever we feel best represents our interests,” Jones said.

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Bring a dockless scooter program to campus Provide mental health kiosks Improve student parking by advocating for affordable decals and number of spaces available Update Aramark’s policy regarding cultural food exceptions for student organizations Encourage composting at all dining facilities on campus Implement a program for students to donate unused meal swipes Lobby to secure state funding for the new Data Science and Information Technology Building Bring Starbucks rewards to locations on campus Increase food and travel cap for student organizations in the SG codes Advocate for improved graduate assistant compensation Bring an automatic headshot photo booth to campus Assist Asian American student leaders in advocating for the expansion of Asian Pacific Islander Desi resources on campus Expand parking garage capacity counters Advocate to expand resources for the Office of Victim Services Implement a Graduate Student Affairs Cabinet Director position Expand the program that allows students to make donations as payment for parking fines Continue advocating for the Dream Act Ensure that classes and exams that require computers are scheduled in rooms with enough outlets Advocate for an online request form for minor applications Create study cubicles in residence halls Provide scooter helmet rentals through the SG Bike Repair Shop

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MEN'S BASKETBALL

Gators have plenty to build on after loss to No. 1 Tennessee

By Tyler Nettuno Sports Writer

Florida’s men’s basketball team went face-to-face against the top-ranked team in the country on Saturday and came up short. It trailed for nearly the whole game against the superior Volunteers, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t encouraging signs for the Gators in the 73-61 loss.

The Gators (12-11, 4-6 SEC) may be teetering just above .500, but there are several reasons why fans should be cautiously optimistic moving forward.

The Gators fought until the end UF looked gassed in the second half of its 14-point loss to Auburn on Feb. 5, but that wasn’t the case against the Vols. UT shot 52.8 percent (including a mark of 59.3 percent in the second half). Beating the best team in the country when it shoots like that is a near-impossible task, but Florida fought to make the end result respectable.

Freshman Noah Locke’s 12 second-half points kept the Gators in reach for much of the second period. UF trailed by seven with just over 10 minutes to play in the game, but when the shots fell for Tennessee, the Gators lacked the offense to keep up. Despite trailing by 19 with five minutes left, Florida narrowed that gap to 12 by the end of the contest. It may not be much consolation for a team desperate for wins, but UF showed it can respond when facing difficult circumstances on the road.

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Florida guard Jalen Hudson scored 15 points on 5-of-12 shooting in UF's 73-61 loss to Tennessee on Saturday.

GYMNASTICS

Schoenherr beginning to create a splash in Florida's lineup

By River Wells Sports Writer

The SEC has its team to beat.

Two teams undefeated in conference meets walked into the O’Connell Center on Friday, and it was the Gators that walked out with a victory over the Auburn Tigers.

Florida retained its status of having never lost at the “Link to Pink” event — a meet to support breast cancer awareness — but more importantly, it began to show the improvement it was looking for over the course of the meet.

It had one of its best vault rotations yet, with three gymnasts hitting at or above the 9.9 mark. Florida’s score of 197.85 was also its second highest of the season, showing its high score of 198.025 against No. 1 Oklahoma last Friday wasn’t a fluke.

There was another area of improve-

ment on Friday: one of the team’s freshmen.

Savannah Schoenherr’s first few vault routines in her collegiate career were rough. She placed with a 9.450 and a 9.350 against Missouri and Kentucky, respectively, and she was a part of UF’s problem with its vault routines for the first few weeks of the season.

Recently, that has changed. Schoenherr had the highest vault score of any Florida gymnast during the Gators’ meet against OU with a 9.900, and she replicated that score last Friday against Auburn. She also earned a spot on the floor unit, replacing fellow freshman Sydney Johnson-Scharpf.

Schoenherr’s 9.850 in the event contributed to the team’s highest floor score of the season so far.

“I think I’ve really started to get all the jitters out,” Schoenherr said after the meet

Oliver Crawford and the men's tennis team defeated No. 15 TCU 4-3 on Sunday in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Jake’s on a Plane / Opinion

AAF is bringing the fun back to football fans.

Fans of the NFL were disapIt made football seem fun pointed nearly a week ago because of that atrocity of a Super again. Here’s how it accomBowl. plished that: It was just bad all around. A Rule changes that make terrible football game, a much sense worse halftime show -- I’m still mad about how Maroon 5 and Kickoffs in the NFL have Jake Travis Scott did Spongebob become one of the most borDreilinger Twitter: @DreilingerJake ing and pointless aspects of the wrong -- and the Patriots won. game. Runners no longer take A recipe for disaster. off when the ball is in the end But there I was a week later watching the Alliance of American Football. zone because today’s kickers can now blast I haven't given up on football, and I was the ball farther. It has pretty much become a formality. willing to give this new league a shot.

In the AAF, there are no kickoffs. The I was glad I did. The AAF just oozes fun.

I’m always skeptical of new leagues at team just starts with the ball on the 25-yard first. I had heard the horror stories of the line to avoid wasting everyone’s time.

XFL — which is also making a comeback The same applies to extra-points. Teams next spring — and how it had shut down have to go for two after every touchdown, after one season because it wasn’t really which adds more excitement to the game.

Field goals are still allowed. football.

You may be wondering how teams can But something was different about the AAF. It took what was bad about the NFL attempt onside kicks if there are no kickand fixed it to make it more appealing to

Gators dominated by Georgia on the road The Florida women's basketball team fell to the Bulldogs 93-58 on Sunday in Athens. Guard Kiara Smith led the team with 15 points and seven rebounds, while guards Delicia Washington and Funda Nakkasoglu put up 12 points each.

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SOFTBALL

Gators win both legs of a doubleheader, start undefeated

By Mark Stine Sports Writer

TAMPA — Jordan Matthews watched with anticipation as two pitches hit the catcher’s mitt.

The bases were loaded with one

out in the bottom of the seventh.

NC State pitcher Sydney Nester delivered the 2-0 pitch and watched as Matthews lifted it high in the air and deep into right field. Pinch runner Haven Sampson tagged from third base and crossed home

plate comfortably.

“We all know Jordan is no stranger to walk-off hits,” senior pitcher Kelly Barnhill said. “It was a really deep fly ball, and it gave us exactly what we needed in that game.”

The walk-off sacrifice fly ended the first game of Florida’s Sunday doubleheader, 2-1, at the USF Softball Complex. The Gators turned around to beat host South Florida 7-1 shortly thereafter and improved to 5-0 to start the season.

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Florida pitcher Kelly Barnhill struck out 11 batters and allowed just two hits during UF’s 7-1 win over USF on Sunday at the USF Opening Weekend Invitational.

Taming the Wolfpack Florida put its first run on the scoreboard in the opening inning thanks to a Danielle Romanello RBI single up the middle that scored leadoff batter Hannah Adams. But the team couldn’t convert on scoring opportunities from that point.

UF left 10 runners on base.

Shortstop Sophia Reynoso left the bases loaded with a flyout to right field in the bottom of the fifth, and the Gators went 2 for 10 with runners in scoring position for the game and 1 for 7 later against USF. Stranding runners in scoring position is a small problem that has manifested during the USF Opening Weekend Invitational, as the Gators went 3 for 14 in a 6-0 win against Michigan on Sat-

urday. However, that game was closer than the score indicated, as UF went 1 for 10 with scoring chances before a four-run seventh inning.

Pitcher Natalie Lugo started strong for Florida in the circle on Sunday.

The sophomore struck out six and didn’t give up a run in four innings of action. She allowed a triple in the first and a double in fourth, and UF coach Tim Walton decided to make the change to Barnhill to start the top of the fifth.

“We wanted to see how long we could go with Natalie (Lugo) with the change-ups and keep them off balanced and then go with Kelly and change their bat plane,” Walton said.

Giving up the long ball was an issue for the two-time All American last season, and she left one over the plate for the second NC State batter she faced. However, Barnhill held the Wolfpack hitless for the rest of the game, setting up the walk-off opportunity for her offense in the bottom of the seventh.

Herding the Bulls USF (1-4) scored in the first inning this time.

Barnhill got the start and gave up doubles to the first two batters she faced. Florida faced its first deficit of the young season.

But UF responded with three home runs, the first a line-drive, solo home run over the left-field fence by Jaimie Hoover in the

top of the second. The floodgates opened in the top of the fourth.

Third baseman Hannah Sipos walked after a 14-pitch at-bat, bringing up Adams. The second baseman faced a 1-2 count with two outs and the bases loaded. She pounced on the next pitch and belted it over the tall fence in left field.

The grand slam gave Barnhill a comfortable 5-1 lead to work with.

“The key to the second game, to me, is Hannah Sipos’ at-bat,” Walton said. “(She faced an) 0-2 (count), walks and then Hannah Adams hits the home run. So really, really good turn-it-over at-bat.”

Florida added two more insurance runs off the bat of Romanello in the top of the seventh. She blasted her second home run of the weekend, a two-run shot over the wall in left-center.

Barnhill didn’t allow a hit after the first two batters. She struck out 11 Bulls and allowed only five base runners in five innings of work.

Freshman pitcher Elizabeth Hightower finished the evening in the circle. She finished with an impressive no hits, no walks and four strikeouts in just two innings.

“Elizabeth (Hightower) really started slow for us in the fall,” Walton said. “When she came back from Christmas break, she’s had a really nice month for us where she’s been pitching well… So really excited for her to get that going.” @mstinejr mstine@alligator.org

LACROSSE

Florida’s win over Colorado serves as blueprint for success

By Bryan Matamoros Sports Writer

The Gators’ lacrosse team is experiencing déjà vu heading into its second game of the 2019 campaign.

It beat Colorado in the season opener last year 16-9, just like it did on Saturday. Then it hosted top-ranked Maryland and lost 16-14, snapping a 102-game winning streak when scoring at least 14 goals.

Now, No. 6 Florida faces tied-No. 2 Maryland at home on Thursday in a rematch of 2018’s tightly contested game.

For the result to be different this time around, UF will need to: Control the Draw Florida’s first goal against Colorado came less than two minutes into the action thanks to sophomore midfielder Shannon Kavanagh’s draw control to start the game.

She outmuscled the opposing player to gain possession of the ball, which allowed senior at-

tacker Lindsey Ronbeck to open the scoring.

Kavanagh, again, stepped up to the draw circle after senior attacker Alix Lopez scored the team’s second goal. Once more, she controlled the draw to give the Gators the ball.

Thirty-five seconds later, the Gators celebrated their third goal.

“We got off to a quick start at both ends of the field and that was in part to our draw performance,” coach Amanda O’Leary said in a release after the game. “(Assistant coach) Taryn VanThof has been working hard with our draw takers and it showed today.”

Both Kavanagh and sophomore defender Sabrina Cristodero led the team in draw controls winning six and four, respectively.

The Terrapins averaged 16.86 draw controls per game last season, which was tied for second in the nation. UF, on the other hand, was tied for 18th in the nation in draw controls, averaging 14.95 per game.

Kavanagh, Cristodero and the rest of the draw controllers will need to gain possession at midfield to ensure another fast start for Florida in its home opener.

Execute in the Free Position In Saturday’s game against the Buffaloes, the Gators scored seven times off free-position shots.

Kavanagh, who was named Big East Freshman of the Year in 2018, was 3-for-3 on free-position shots. Sophomore attacker Grace Haus followed suit with a freeposition mark of 2-for-3.

On the defensive end, UF held CU to just two goals on seven free-position shots.

Last season against Maryland, however, it allowed seven goals on 11 free-position attempts.

Florida must execute on both sides of the free position if it wants to avoid its first loss of the season against the Terps for the second year in a row. @bmatamoros_ bmatamoros@alligator.org

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Florida attacker Lindsey Ronbeck scored four goals during UF’s 16-9 road win over Colorado.

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Florida out-rebounded Tennessee 33-31 on Saturday in Knoxville BASKETBALL, from pg 14 The Gators played big In Florida’s first matchup with the Volunteers, Tennessee won on the boards. Offensive rebounds turned into key secondchance points as UT overpowered UF down the stretch.

The Gators’ size has been an issue all year, with 6-foot-9 Kevarrius Hayes being their tallest

healthy player. This time around, however, Florida played much more physically under the basket.

It out-rebounded Tennessee 33-31 and almost doubled it in offensive boards. Hayes had nine rebounds, while KeVaughn Allen came down with a season-high seven rebounds.

If this carries on, it will certainly boost Florida’s chances in upcoming winnable contests.

Jalen Hudson is back?

Hudson entered the year poised to be the bell cow for Florida’s stable of sharpshooters, but instead, he has been largely an afterthought. Hudson’s minutes have seen an uptick since Keith Stone’s season-ending ACL injury in January, and he seems to be getting more comfortable on the court.

Hudson tied his season high in points with 15 against the Vols.

He scored 15 previously against La Salle on Nov. 14, but doing it against an SEC foe — the No. 1 team in the country, no less — should help Hudson regain his confidence.

His effort was second on the team (behind Locke’s 17 points).

He may have shot 0-for-5 from behind the three-point line, but the Gators will take it.

Hudson passed up a chance at the NBA last offseason, and

Schoenherr scored a 9.850 on her first floor routine GYMNASTICS, from pg 14 on Friday. “I think the first few meets and everything, I was overthinking it. I was thinking too hard about everything.”

With Schoenherr’s 9.850 on the floor beating any routine from Johnson-Scharpf this year, expect Schoenherr to contribute in that area for the foreseeable future while she hones her craft in her other two events.

“I’ve been working really hard in the gym to try and make the floor lineup,” Schoenherr said. “It’s the event that I’ve really wanted to compete in, because it’s the most fun.”

On top of her recent surge in success, Schoenherr also debuted a new dismount during her bar routine in the meet against Auburn. Schoenherr had been begging to try it for weeks, but Florida’s trainers hadn’t deemed it ready until Friday’s meet.

“I’ve really been working my butt off in the gym to try and get that dismount and prove that I can hit it in a meet,” Schoenherr said. “I feel like I did that pretty well tonight.”

Coach Jenny Rowland is likely to continue her employment of the freshman throughout the lineup, and she was particularly impressed with Schoenherr’s overall performance on Friday.

“Adding another event into the mix, and not only another whole event, but a new skill on bars,” Rowland said. “She had a lot more on her plate tonight, and she handled herself really well.”

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UF freshman gymnast Savannah Schoenherr made her floor debut on Saturday against Auburn, scoring a 9.850. "I've been working really hard in the gym to try and make the floor lineup," she said.

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Softball vs Arizona State @ The Littlewood Classic. 9 p.m.

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Softball vs Utah State @ The Littlewood Classic. 6:30 p.m.

Men’s Basketball @ Alabama. 2 p.m. ESPN or ESPN2 or ESPNU Baseball vs Long Beach State. 4 p.m. SEC Network+ SUNDAY: Men’s Tennis @ ITA National Team Indoor Championships in Chicago. All Day. Men’s Golf @ Gator Invitational in Gainesville. All Day. Women’s Golf @ AllState Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. All Day. Softball vs Central Michigan @ Littlewood Classic. 11 a.m.

Baseball vs Long Beach State. Noon. SEC Network+ Women’s Basketball vs South Carolina. 2 p.m. SEC Network+

based on the way his season has played out so far, that could have been a mistake. But with a handful of games left to make his mark in the Orange and Blue, Hudson hopes that his solid performance against Tennessee becomes the rule, not the exception. @TylerNettuno tnettuno@alligator.org

COLUMN, from pg 14 offs. The AAF has already thought of that. If a team is trailing by 17 points, or there is less than five minutes remaining in the game, they can opt for a 4th-and-12 conversion on their own 28-yard line.

It does eliminate the fun a surprise onside kick can present, but it’s worth it to get rid of kickoffs.

The final change is that there is a sky judge referee that reviews plays and challenges so the officials on the field don’t have to.

What’s really cool about this is we, as fans, get to listen to the thought process that goes through overturning or confirming a call.

Instead of guessing why the ruling went one way, we get to hear the explanation for ourselves.

These new rule changes alone help make the league seem more exciting while keeping the fundamentals of football the same.

The Promotion of the league, and football in general, felt fresh I didn’t hear a lot about the AAF going into the weekend. There weren’t a lot of commercials about it, and there weren’t too many advertisements online.

Because of it, I was surprised to see NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner on the pregame show.

I was equally astonished when former Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Hines Ward, now an Executive of Player Relations for the AAF, joined Warner on stage.

It was cool to see these legends from my childhood appear on screen in promotion of this new league and, by association, football itself.

The way they set up the AAF was fun too. The rosters of the eight teams are comprised mostly of local college talent.

For example, the Orlando Apollos have seven former Gators players, six from Florida State, five from UCF, and three from Miami and USF. Their head coach is Florida legend Steve Spurrier.

It makes it exciting seeing players you followed in college get to play at a professional level. It’s a fresh new take on America’s new pastime.

Jake Dreilinger is the sports editor of the Alligator. Follow him on Twitter @DreilingerJake and email him at jdreilinger@alligator.org.