Gator Athletics Program Sixth within the Nation

• No. 2 Men’s Swimming & Diving
• No. 2 Women’s Outdoor Track & Field
• No. 3 Gymnastics
• No. 3 Men’s Indoor Track & Field
• No. 5 Women’s Cross Country
• No. T5 Men’s Golf
• No. T5 Women’s Indoor Track & Field
• No. T9 Softball
• No. 10 Women’s Swimming & Diving

It was one other spectacular yr for the Gators. With 9 top-10 staff finishes, together with seven among the many nation’s prime 5, our student-athletes, coaches and workers demonstrated the dedication, resilience and pursuit of excellence that outline Florida Athletics. We’re grateful for his or her dedication and happy with the way in which they represented the Gator customary on the nationwide stage all year long.

— Scott Stricklin

University of Florida Athletics Director

LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup

The LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup, offered yearly by the nation’s athletics administrators, acknowledges the colleges with the perfect general sports activities performances in an instructional yr. The scoring system makes use of finishes in NCAA Division I males’s and ladies’s basketball, baseball, ladies’s soccer and ladies’s volleyball championship motion. Additionally, a program can obtain factors in as much as 14 different sports activities towards its closing rating. Texas claimed its fourth Directors’ Cup this season.

2025-26 Individual NCAA Champions for the Gators

With six Gators accounting for eight NCAA particular person championships in 2025-26, Florida prolonged its streak of manufacturing no less than 5 NCAA particular person title winners to 18 consecutive accomplished seasons (since 2007-08). It is the 45^th consecutive full season with a Gator successful no less than one particular person nationwide title.

Other Gators successes:

Florida led the Southeastern Conference with 4 staff championships in 2025-26, highlighted by males’s basketball and a historic season from the ladies’s observe and area program. The Gators captured SEC titles in cross nation, indoor observe and area and out of doors observe and area to finish this system’s first SEC Triple Crown since 1996-97.
 
Those accomplishments helped Florida declare the 2025-26 USA Today Network SEC Overall All-Sports Trophy, marking the Gators’ twenty ninth SEC Overall All-Sports title and first because the 2017-18 season.
 
Florida additionally prolonged its streak of successful no less than one SEC championship to 48 consecutive seasons, the longest energetic streak within the convention.

Did You Know?

• Florida’s 270 all-time convention staff championships are essentially the most in SEC historical past. The Gators have captured 46 league titles over the past 10 seasons.
• Florida’s 29 SEC Overall All-Sports championships lead the convention by 19 titles. The Gators earned their first general SEC All-Sports crown in 1987-88.

 
In addition, Florida lacrosse captured its second Big 12 championship in 2026. Since its inaugural season in 2010, this system has received 14 convention titles throughout 4 completely different leagues.
 
National recognition was earned by a pair of Gators:

• Rueben Chinyelu NABC National Defensive Player of the Year
• Josh Liendo          CSCAA Co-Men’s Swimmer of the Year

                 
Eight Gators earned convention particular person honors:

• Skye Blakely         SEC Specialist Gymnast of the Year
• Kelvin Cheruiyot  SEC Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Year
• Rueben Chinyelu SEC Men’s Basketball Defensive Player of the Year
• Kaitlyn Davies      Big 12 Lacrosse Midfielder of the Year
• Clark Hamilton     Big 12 Lacrosse Attacker of the Year
• Aidan King            SEC Baseball Pitcher of the Year
• Josh Liendo          SEC Men’s Swimmer of the Year
• Alida van Daalen SEC Women’s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year

Gators by the Numbers

• 9 top-10 nationwide staff finishes, together with seven within the prime 5.
• 5 convention titles in 2025-26 for the Gators – males’s basketball, ladies’s cross nation, ladies’s indoor and out of doors observe & area and lacrosse.
• 93% Graduation Success Rate, as reported final fall within the 2025 NCAA Federal Graduation Rate knowledge – above the nationwide common of 90 %.
• 3.43 grade level common by Gator student-athletes within the 2025-26 tutorial yr, an all-time excessive. A complete of 390 Gators earned 2025-26 SEC Academic Honor Roll recognition.
• 8 convention athlete of the yr honors, marking the forty ninth consecutive season by which no less than one Gator earned league athlete-of-the-year recognition..
• 83 Gators earned 197 All-America honors throughout 19 sports activities in 2025-26.
• 7 named to CSC Academic All-America groups, together with Josh Liendo claiming males’s swimming & diving CSC Academic All-American of the Year award
• 6 coaches earned a mixed 7 convention coach-of-the-year honors, marking the thirty first consecutive season by which no less than one Florida coach obtained league coach-of-the-year recognition.
• 1.1 million followers attended Gator residence occasions in 2025–26, with 4 groups rating among the many nation’s prime 10 in complete or common attendance.