Florida Gators Signing Day Central: Early period begins

Be sure to check in right here throughout the day as GatorCountry.com will be providing updates as the early national signing period begins for Florida Gators basketball, baseball and other sports.

At GatorCountry.com, we believe all future Gators are important, so we’ve been making preparations to report every single signing in every sport as their National Letter of Intent is faxed to the University of Florida compliance office.

This will be a landing spot for all of our coverage to provide fans with a one-stop shop for all of their signing day information.

Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan and his staff has locked up verbal commitments from two of the top prospects in the country in Kasey Hill and Chris Walker. Even with only two early signees expected, the Gators have a top-5 class according to national recruiting networks.

Gators baseball coach Kevin O’Sullivan and his staff as once again put together the nation’s No. 1 class for the early signing period, according to PerfectGame.com.

The same is true for other Gators programs as golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, softball, swimming & diving, tennis and volleyball are expecting to land classes that are among the elite in the nation.

So join us for all of the coverage throughout the day as the newest Florida Gators are announced.

The letter of intents are beginning to roll in, we’ll keep this page updated with the latest news throughout the day:

Power forward Chris Walker signs with Florida

Point guard Kasey Hill signs with Gators

Ronni Williams signs with Florida women

Gators softball inks three to class

Gators baseball signees rolling in

Basketball signing day thread

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Mike Capshaw brings a wealth of experience to the Gator Country team. He’s been overseeing all editorial aspects of GatorCountry.com and Gator Country magazine by managing our team of staffers, interns and freelancers. He is now moving into a bigger role as a reporter by covering the football and basketball beats as well as providing coverage of all sports on campus. Mike’s 15 years in the business has included more than six years of covering SEC sports and recruiting at a daily newspaper in Arkansas. He has also helped launch a newspaper, magazines, websites and even a sports talk radio show. Because Mike puts family ahead of his career, he left the place where he was established when his wife received an opportunity to further her career at UF. He took a leap of faith that he could find a job in the Gainesville area and worked for a year at a newspaper group before joining the Gator Country family in November, 2011. Mike has won Florida Press Association awards for Best Sports Game Story and Best Sports Feature Story in the past two years as well as a company-wide award at his former newspaper group that includes some 60 publications, for Excellence in Sports Reporting. You can follow Mike on Twitter at @MikeCapshawGC.