Florida Gators wins SEC All-Sports Trophy

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A league-high six team titles led the University of Florida athletics program to its 25th overall Southeastern Conference All-Sports trophy in 2014-15. Florida wins the overall title for the ninth consecutive year in the 2014-15 GateHouse Media SEC All-Sports rankings.

The determination of the SEC All-Sports standings came Saturday when the final league championships for 2014-15 were awarded for regular-season baseball and for outdoor track & field.

Florida was second in both the men's and women's final standings. Texas A&M won its first women's SEC All-Sports title since joining the league for the 2012-13 season. LSU took the men's SEC All-Sports title - its first since 1996-97.

Did You Know?

*         Florida's 224 all-time league team titles<http://www.gatorzone.com/overview/> are the most in the SEC. In the last 10 seasons, UF leads the league with 56 titles.

Florida's 2014-15 SEC titles:
The Gators led the SEC in 2014-15 with six league team titles:

*         Softball

*         Men's swimming & diving

*         Women's tennis

*         Men's indoor track & field

*         Men's outdoor track & field

*         Volleyball

One other Florida sport claimed a league crown in 2015 as the Gator lacrosse team won the BIG EAST title in their first season in the conference.

SEC Athletes of the Year:
Six Gators picked up SEC Athletes of the Year honors so far in 2014-15:


Brooke Austin

Tennis Player of the Year



Kytra Hunter<http://www.gatorzone.com/guides/gymnastics/pages/season_info/player_bios/hunter_kytra.php>

Gymnast of the Year



Kelsey Stewart

Softball Player of the Year



Lauren Haeger

Softball Pitcher of the Year



Marquis Dendy

Men's Indoor Field Athlete of the Year



Alex Holston

Volleyball Player of the Year


Florida Athletics Director Jeremy Foley says:
"The SEC is such a challenging league, with so many teams across all the sports ranking among the nation's best. This overall Southeastern Conference All-Sports Trophy is the result of so much hard work and effort by all of our student-athletes and coaches."

Jeremy Foley
University of Florida Athletics Director

How is the GateHouse Media SEC All-Sports titles figured?
Points are awarded based on the number of competing teams in a sport (e.g. - 14 teams compete in SEC baseball, giving the winner 14 points, second gets 13, etc. Four teams compete in equestrian, awarding four points to the winner). A program's points total is divided by the total number of teams competing in the sports the school fields and that quotient ranks the teams in the final GateHouse Media standings. The sports of cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field are combined. A program's outdoor track finish makes up half, while the remaining two quarters are based on the cross country and indoor finishes.

GateHouse Media Southeastern Conference All-Sports formula











Total points for school's finish in each SEC sport it competes in


/

Total number of teams competing
in sports a school fields

=

Quotient ranked for
program finish

(e.g. - SEC baseball champion receives 14 points; equestrian 4 points)



(e.g. - Florida men's total of 92 participating teams derived by adding
14 (base) + 14 (MBB) + 14 (FB) + 14 (GLF) + 10 (S&D) + 13 (TEN) + 13 (T&F) = 92






About the SEC All-Sports Trophy:
This is the first year GateHouse Media, which owns The Gainesville Sun as well as dozens of other publications around the country, awards the overall, men's and women's SEC All-Sports trophies.

The past three were awarded by the Halifax Media Group. The New York Times Regional Newspaper Group gave the awards from the 1994-95 through 2010-11 seasons. Prior to that, the league tabulated the SEC All-Sports totals.

What's Next?
UF is hopeful of finishing among the nation's top 10 most successful overall athletic programs for the 32nd consecutive year when final national all-sports rankings<http://www.nacda.com/directorscup/nacda-directorscup-current-scoring.html> are released June 25 or 26. Florida is the only school to finish among the nation's top 10 overall most successful athletic programs each year since 1983.

Let's Look at the Charts:

2014-15 SEC All-Sports Overall All-Sports Standings

Place

School

Points

Total # of
Part. teams

Quotient

1

Florida

157.5

208

0.7572

2

Texas A&M

152.5

204

0.7475

3

LSU

139

208

0.6683

4

Georgia

129

212

0.6085

5

Alabama

123

208

0.5913

6

Kentucky

107

208

0.5144

7

Arkansas

101.5

198

0.5126

8

Vanderbilt

81

164

0.4939

9

Mississippi

86.5

178

0.4860

10

South Carolina

94

204

0.4608

11

Auburn

94.5

212

0.4458

12

Tennessee

86

200

0.4300

13

Missouri

78.5

195

0.4026

14

Mississippi State

69

178

0.3876











Men

Place

School

Points

Total # of
Part. teams

Quotient

1

LSU

65.5

92

0.7120

2

Florida

65

92

0.7065

3

Mississippi

55.5

82

0.6768

4

Georgia

61

92

0.6630

5

Texas A&M

60

92

0.6522

6

Arkansas

49.5

82

0.6037

7

Alabama

51

92

0.5543

8

Vanderbilt

44.5

82

0.5427

9

Auburn

41

92

0.4457

10

Kentucky

40.5

92

0.4402

11

Mississippi State

35

82

0.4268

12

Missouri

32

79

0.4051

13

South Carolina

36.5

92

0.3967

14

Tennessee

33

92

0.3587











Women

Place

School

Points

Total # of
Part. teams

Quotient

1

Texas A&M

92.5

112

0.8259

2

Florida

92.5

116

0.7974

3

LSU

73.5

116

0.6336

4

Alabama

72

116

0.6207

5

Kentucky

66.5

116

0.5733

6

Georgia

68

120

0.5667

7

South Carolina

57.5

112

0.5134

8

Tennessee

53

108

0.4907

9

Arkansas

52

116

0.4483

10

Auburn

53.5

120

0.4458

11

Vanderbilt

36.5

82

0.4451

12

Missouri

46.5

116

0.4009

13

Mississippi State

34

96

0.3542

14

Mississippi

31

96

0.3229

 

Andrew Spivey
Andrew always knew he wanted to be involved with sports in some capacity. He began by coaching high school football for six years before deciding to pursue a career in journalism. While coaching, he was a part of two state semifinal teams in the state of Alabama. Given his past coaching experience, he figured covering recruiting would be a perfect fit. He began his career as an intern for Rivals.com, covering University of Florida football recruiting. After interning with Rivals for six months, he joined the Gator Country family as a recruiting analyst. Andrew enjoys spending his free time on the golf course and watching his beloved Atlanta Braves. Follow him on Twitter at @AndrewSpiveyGC.

1 COMMENT

  1. High-Five to Jeremy Foley. Apparently he won, himself, some sort of trophy. That’s truly wonderful. I may be a minority of one but when I think of Jeremy Foley I think of things like that last four years of ineptitude at Ben Hill Griffins Stadium. I think for Florida v. Georgia Southern, Gator linemen blocking each other in an open field, losses to Florida State, what might have been with Charles Strong as head coach in Gainesville, ESPN showing for perhaps the 100th time a Missouri DE blowing past our OT and dropping Tyler Murphy like a rug doll. Football is King in Gainesville. It is the King financially. It is the King emotionally. When I think of Jeremy Foley I think about how Mr. Foley’s poor judgment and enormous ego brought a once proud program to its knees. One day Jeremy Foley will be gone and, guess what, the UF will still exist.