Women's Soccer
Main article: Florida Gators women's soccerBecky Burleigh has been the head coach since the women's soccer team first began play a varsity sport in 1995. Under Burleigh's leadership, the team quickly became a national contender. In 1998, in the program's fourth season, the Gators won the NCAA national championship by defeating the defending national champion University of North Carolina Tar Heels. The women's soccer team has also won eleven SEC Championships and nine SEC tournament titles in its sixteen seasons of play.
Other notable former Gator soccer players include Abby Wambach, who is a member of the U.S. women's national team and scored the game-winning goal in the final game of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece; Heather Mitts, who played for the gold medal U.S. national team in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China; Melanie Booth, who currently plays for the Canadian women's national soccer team, and Danielle Fotopoulos, who played professionally with the Carolina Courage.
The Gators women's soccer team plays its home games at James G. Pressly Stadium.
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