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The Florida Gators women's golf team represents the University of Florida in the sport of golf. The Lady Gators compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They play their home matches on the Mark Bostick Golf Course on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus, and will be led by third-year coach Emily Glaser in 2014–15. In the forty-one-year history of the Gators women's golf program, the Lady Gators have won eight SEC championships and two NCAA national tournament championships. == Team history == The Florida Gators women's golf program originated as an intercollegiate club team under coach Mimi Ryan in 1969. Ryan's Lady Gators were elevated to varsity status in 1972 with the expansion of the Gators women's sports program under former University of Florida athletic director Ray Graves and associate athletic director Ruth Alexander.〔Julian M. Pleasants, ''Gator Tales: An Oral History of the University of Florida'', University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 55, 245–246. (2006).〕 The University of Florida embraced the challenge of creating a nationally recognized women's sports program, including women's golf, in order to comply with Title IX's federally mandated equal opportunities for women in college sports. As one of the first Florida Gators women's sports teams, the Lady Gators golfers enjoyed almost immediate success in Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) competition. In the Lady Gators' first year as a varsity sports team, Ryan's Gators finished seventh at the AIAW national championship tournament, beginning a streak of nineteen consecutive top-ten finishes in the AIAW and NCAA national championship tournaments. Ryan's golfers finished second in the AIAW national championship tournament in 1978 and 1978. The 1981–1982 school year was the transition year for sponsorship of national championship tournaments for women's college sports in the United States. During 1981–1982, both the AIAW and the NCAA sponsored championships; since 1982, only the NCAA has sponsored championships in women's college sports. The Lady Gators finished third in the last AIAW championship tournament, and fourth in the first NCAA championship tournament in 1982. Under Ryan, the Lady Gators golf program peaked in the mid-1980s, when the women's golf team won two back-to-back NCAA tournament championships in 1985〔Kevin Brockway, "( Top 25 Gator teams: #16 1985 Women's golf )," ''The Gainesville Sun'' (June 9, 2009). Retrieved June 7, 2011.〕 and 1986.〔John Patton, "( Top 25 Gator teams: #21 1986 Women's golf )," ''The Gainesville Sun'' (June 4, 2009). Retrieved June 7, 2011.〕 Led by senior Deb Richard in 1985, a Gators team that included Karen Davies, Lisa Stanley, Page Dunlap and Tammy Towles dominated the NCAA tournament field to win the program's first national championship by fifteen shots,〔NCAA.org, College Sports Statistics and Records, 2010 NCAA Women's Golf Championships Results and Records, ( All-Time Championship Records and Results ), pp. 2–5. Retrieved June 12, 2011.〕 and Richard missed winning the NCAA individual championship by a single shot.〔Paul Jenkins, "( Ryan has built national power with quiet confidence )," ''The Gainesville Sun'', p. 6F (June 15, 1986). Retrieved June 10, 2011.〕 Leading the team of Karen Davies, Lisa Nedoba, Cheryl Morley and Lisa Stanley to its second NCAA national tournament championship eight shots ahead of the runner-up team,〔 junior Page Dunlap won the NCAA individual championship by a single stroke in 1986.〔NCAA.com, Women's Golf, Division I, ( Championship History ). Retrieved June 10, 2011.〕 For the first time in the history of college women's golf, all five starting members of the 1986 team received All-American honors.〔Bob Fowler, "( Gator Women Will Stay Strong )," ''Orlando Sentinel'' (June 8, 1986). Retrieved June 11, 2011.〕 The Southeastern Conference sanctioned women's golf as a conference sport in 1980, and the Lady Gators enjoyed immediate success against their SEC competition, winning eight SEC team championships (1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2008). Six individual members of the Gators women's golf team have also won eight SEC individual titles, including Lynn Connelly (1981), Deb Richard (1982, 1983, 1984), Karen Davies (1986), Cheryl Morley (1988), Dina Taylor (1995) and Aimee Cho (2003). In 2011, coach Jan Dowling's Lady Gators tied for tenth place at the NCAA national championship tournament.〔"( Women's golf finishes 10th at NCAAs )," ''The Gainesville Sun'' (May 21, 2011). Retrieved June 12, 2011.〕 The Gators finished twelfth at the 2012 NCAA national championship tournament. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Florida Gators women's golf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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