UCF junior Greg Eason fired a 7-under 63 on Friday in Arizona to take a six-stroke lead at the NCAA Tempe Regional. Eason, the Conference USA golfer of the year, started the day in third place. Ricardo Gouveia was 4-under on the day to move into second place at 6-under. … Continue reading
Hayden Jones, WR, Lake Highland Prep, 2012 (CHRIS HAYS/ORLANDO SENTINEL / May 23, 2011) Former Lake Highland Prep star Hayden Jones was happy about the news he received on Friday from the admissions office at UCF. “I actually got accepted today so it’s a pretty exciting day for me,” … Continue reading
UCF remains in contention for a Conference USA title, but needs a big weekend – and some help. The Knights got two solo home runs from sophomore first baseman James Vasquez, but fell to FAU, 4-3, in their final nonconference regular season game of the season on Tuesday night. … Continue reading
UCF football turned in one of its best semesters academically this spring, with the group posting a 2.95 grade point average. Knights coach George O##Q##Leary praised the team for its performance in the classroom during a fan event last week. O##Q##Leary said freshmen quarterbacks Pete DiNovo and Justin Holman, … Continue reading
The celebration started late Sunday night with a dance circle, chants of “four in a row” and the obligatory Gatorade bath for UCF track coach Caryl Smith Gilbert. The festivities carried over to campus on Monday afternoon, where the Knights##Q## track and field team — returning home after capturing … Continue reading
UCF baseball coach Terry Rooney simply asked his baseball team to keep fighting. At the end of their final home series, the Knights hoped they would have the inside track on winning the first Conference USA regular season title in school history. By Saturday night, the Knights had given … Continue reading
UCF redshirt senior Erik Hempe packed up his red Nissan Titan pickup truck last summer and headed west with former teammate Alex Friedrich, bound for Hempe##Q##s home in California. The outfielder spent what he thought was his final season of Division I college baseball watching from the dugout. Hempe suffered … Continue reading
UCF entered the weekend with a chance to go into the final week of the regular season tied for first place in Conference USA. The Knights needed a home sweep against Tulane to stay in the C-USA regular season title race. However, they simply have not been able to … Continue reading
New UCF women##Q##s soccer coach Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak and her husband, Tim Sahaydak, have a running joke. Often times, one of the two will wake up and immediately start running off with ideas about a recruit or a strategy. The other now simply responds, “Good morning.” There is … Continue reading
After a disappointing weekend at Florida State, UCF coach Terry Rooney told his players they could go in one of two directions. The Knights could focus on the negatives of losing all three games against the Seminoles or see that it had been right in the mix on the … Continue reading
