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
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.