Moreover, previous soccer head coach Becky Burleigh enters as an Honorary Letterwinner.
 
Numbers for the 2024 UF Athletic Corridor of Fame (together with Burleigh’s groups):
3 NCAA workforce titles
5 NCAA particular person titles
27 SEC workforce titles
23 SEC particular person titles
4 with 5 SEC Athlete of the Yr honors for his or her sport
1 SEC Feminine Athlete of the Yr
 
In regards to the Florida Athletic Corridor of Fame:
The F Membership Committee chooses UF Athletic Corridor of Fame inductees based mostly on three classes: Gator Greats, Distinguished Letterwinners and Honorary Letterwinners.
 
Gator Greats are Letterwinners who introduced recognition and prominence to the College of Florida and themselves by their athletic accomplishments as a student-athlete.
 
An Honorary Letterwinner is a coach or athletic official (after retirement) who was not a letter winner or athlete on the College of Florida, but rendered excellent service to this system by way of private time, effort, curiosity and thru a few years of continued service.
 

2024 UF Athletic Corridor of Fame Inductees

Gator Greats

Elizabeth Beisel | Girls’s Swimming, 2010-14

A standout athlete at Florida, Elizabeth Beisel left her mark within the Orange & Blue. Beisel claimed 9 SEC Championships from 2011-14 in occasions such because the 200 particular person medley, 400 IM and 200 backstroke on prime of NCAA titles within the 200 again (2012) and 400 IM (2013). Her exceptional performances led to twenty All-SEC choices, 18 All-American choices, three-time SEC Championships Feminine Recipient of the Commissioner’s Trophy (Excessive Level Award), 2012 SEC Feminine Swimmer of the Yr and was named the 2010 SEC Freshman Swimmer of the Yr.
 
All through her profession with the Gators, Beisel set top-three UF all-time marks in 15 completely different occasions together with the 400 IM (3:58.35), which stays the highest spot in program historical past. Past her athletic achievements, she was additionally acknowledged for her tutorial excellence. Beisel earned a 2012 Capital One Educational All-America Girls’s At-Giant First Workforce Choice and was named the 2013 Capital One Educational Girls’s At-Giant All-America of the Yr.
 
Beisel’s illustrious profession prolonged past faculty as she competed on each the nationwide and worldwide stage. As a member of the U.S. Nationwide Workforce, she is a two-time Olympian and gained silver (400 IM) and bronze (200 again) on the 2012 Olympics. Moreover, Beisel claimed a 400 IM World Championship title in 2011.

Marcin Cieslak | Males’s Swimming, 2011-14

A Poland native, Marcin Cieslak had an illustrious Florida profession. From 2011-14, Cieslak earned 23 All-SEC choices on prime of 25 All-American choices. Competing within the 200 & 400 Medley Relay, 100 butterfly, 200 fly, 200 IM, and 200 freestyle, Cieslak gained 9 separate SEC championships. In 2014, he added particular person NCAA Championships within the 200 IM and 100 fly to the 2013 800 free relay.
 
Cieslak obtained quite a few recognitions for each his exceptional performances within the pool and within the classroom. In 2011, Cieslak was named the SEC Male Freshman Swimmer of the Yr to go together with a CSCAA Division I Scholar All-American honor. The season after he claimed the SEC Commissioner’s Trophy (Excessive Level Award) and SEC Male Swimmer of the Yr title.
 
Cieslak cemented himself within the UF all-time rankings in 10 completely different occasions throughout his time, with top-three instances in Gators’ historical past. He stays third all-time within the 200-yard fly and sixth in each the 100-yard fly and 200-yard IM.
 
Competing within the 2011 FINA World Championship, Cieslak showcased his expertise on the worldwide stage. He was a 2012 Olympian as a member of the Poland Nationwide Workforce swimming a time of 1:57.07 within the 200 fly and a pair of:00.45 within the 200 IM.

Francesca Enea | Softball, 2007-10

Francesca Enea is among the newest softball inductees to the UF Athletic Corridor of Fame together with Hannah Rogers this yr. She joins Chelsey Sakizzie (2008), Jenny Gladding (2014), Stacey Nelson (2019), Michelle Moultrie (2022) and Kelsey Bruder (2023) among the many Gator Greats to come back by way of this system.
 
Over her storied profession, Enea was tabbed a three-time Nationwide Fastpitch Coaches Affiliation (NFCA) All-American in 2008, 2009 and 2010 along with being a 2009 and 2010 All-SEC choice and made the All-SEC Freshman Workforce in 2007. In 2009, Enea was a prime 25 finalist for the USA Softball Participant of the Yr, essentially the most prestigious award in faculty softball and was a High 10 finalist in 2010. She additionally helped lead UF to a pair of SEC common season and event titles in 2008 & 2009.
 
Enea’s identify could be discovered all around the UF historical past books as she completed her profession because the document holder in single-season house runs (20), single-season RBI (70), single-season SAC flies (6-tied), single-season hit by pitch (15), profession house runs (61), profession RBI (221) and profession whole bases (431). As well as, the Woodland Hills, Calif., native, completed her profession ranked contained in the High 10 of seven different single-season classes and 10 different profession classes by the point her profession ended.
 
Academically, Enea made the SEC Educational Honor Roll (2008, 2009 and 2010) and SEC Freshman Educational Honor Roll (2007), whereas additionally incomes SEC Group Service Workforce honors in 2009 and 2010.

Chas Henry | Soccer, 2007-10

Chas Henry was Florida’s beginning punter for all 4 seasons, together with the BCS Nationwide Championship workforce in 2008. Henry began a program-record 54 consecutive video games, which nonetheless holds immediately. He ranks sixth all-time in profession punts (165), yards per punt (43.0), fourth in longest punt (75) and was Florida’s final true freshman to begin the season opener.
 
He gained the Ray Man Award in his senior yr in 2010 and was a finalist in 2009 and a semifinalist in 2008. Henry nonetheless holds the excellence of being the varsity’s solely award winner. He is also the Gators solely punter to be named a Consensus All-American in 2010. That season, he set the single-season document on the time of 45.1 yards per punt with 16 of his 50 punts going 50 yards or extra. Henry additionally earned All-SEC choice by the AP and Coaches that season.
 
A local of Dallas, Ga., Henry kicked a 37-yard game-winning discipline aim within the Gators’ 34-31 extra time victory over Georgia in 2010 after changing an injured Caleb Sturgis. Henry was a three-time SEC Honor Roll member and signed as a free agent with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2011.

Genevieve LaCaze Gregson | Girls’s Observe and Subject, 2008-12

Genevieve LaCaze Gregson, Florida’s college document holder within the 3000m steeplechase, loved an excellent profession throughout her time in Gainesville from 2009-12. LaCaze turned the primary Gator to ever break the ten minute mark within the steeplechase when she recorded a time of 9:50.25 on the 2012 NCAA Outside Championships.
 
Along with her college document time, which has stood for 12 years, LaCaze was a 3 time SEC Outside champion and one time and the 2012 NCAA steeplechase runner-up. LaCaze discovered success in different occasions as properly. Throughout her senior season she turned the primary girl in SEC historical past to comb the 1500m, 3000m and 5000m occasions on the SEC Outside Championships.
 
LaCaze was a two-time All-American and 6 time All-SEC choice. Throughout her dominant 2012 season, LaCaze was named the USTFCCCA South Area Girls’s Observe Athlete of the Yr and SEC Girls’s Co-Runner of the Yr. She additionally earned Outside Freshman Runner of the Yr in 2009.
 
She continued her profession on the skilled stage as an Olympic athlete, competing within the 2012 London, 2016 Rio, 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Olympics. In London, LaCaze completed ninth in her warmth (22^nd total) within the 3000m Steeplechase, setting a private document of 9:37.90 within the course of. In Rio, she competed in each the steeplechase and the 5000m ending ninth and twelfth, respectively, with instances of 9:21.21 and 15:10.35. She was injured competing within the 2020 Olympic steeplechase. In Paris, she made her Olympic marathon debut.

Hannah Rogers | Softball, 2011-14

Hannah Rogers is among the newest softball inductees to the UF Athletic Corridor of Fame together with Francesca Enea this yr. She joins Chelsey Sakizzie (2008), Jenny Gladding (2014), Stacey Nelson (2019), Michelle Moultrie (2022) and Kelsey Bruder (2023) among the many Gator Greats to come back by way of this system. Total, the softball program now has seven UF Athletics Corridor of Fame inductees.
 
Rogers is a legend within the circle for the softball program as she was the primary four-time Nationwide Fastpitch Coaches Affiliation (NFCA) All-American in program historical past. The Lake Wales, Fla., native can be the primary to be inducted who was part of this system’s first Girls’s Faculty World Sequence (WCWS) Nationwide Championship in 2014. Not solely did she assist lead this system to its first nationwide title, Rogers was named the 2014 WCWS Most Excellent Participant. Rogers accolades additionally embody 2014 Southeastern Convention Feminine Athlete of the Yr, All-SEC (2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014), All-SEC Defensive Workforce (2011, 2012 & 2014) along with being chosen to the 2011 All-SEC Freshman Workforce.
 
Followers can discover her identify throughout the document books as properly. She set the single-season document for saves (5) and completed contained in the High 10 in in 13 completely different classes. Within the profession classes she completed within the High 10 in 13 completely different areas and within the High 5 in opponent batting common (.198 – fifth), walks allowed per seven innings (2.08 – fifth), wins (127 – 2^nd), win proportion (.804 – 5^th), save (14 – 2^nd), appearances (191 – 2^nd), begins (146 – 2^nd), innings pitched (988.0 – 2^nd) and strikeouts (833 – 2^nd).
 
Academically, Rogers was a 2013 & 2014 SEC Educational Honor Roll choice.

Preston Tucker | Baseball, 2009-12
 

As Florida’s all-time hits chief, infielder/outfielder Preston Tucker loved an illustrious profession in Orange & Blue from 2009-12. On prime of 341 hits, Tucker owns program information in at bats (1,035), doubles (70), RBI (258) and whole bases (596). He ranks second all-time in video games performed (265), second in begins (259), second in homers (57) and sixth in runs scored (210).
 
Florida superior to the Faculty World Sequence in every of Tucker’s ultimate three seasons as a Gator, marking this system’s first appearances in Omaha beneath head coach Kevin O’Sullivan. Tucker additionally helped energy the Gators to SEC Championships in 2010 and 2011.
 
Tucker was named an All-American and All-SEC choice in 2011 and 2012. Most notably, the Tampa, Fla. native holds standing as the one participant in workforce historical past to earn Regional All-Match Workforce honors in all 4 years of his profession. In each 2009 and 2011, Tucker was named the Regional Most Excellent Participant.
 
Ending his UF profession with a .329/.409/.576 slash line throughout 265 video games, Tucker was drafted by the Houston Astros with the 219th total choose within the seventh spherical of the 2012 MLB Draft. Nonetheless an energetic participant, Tucker has appeared in elements of three MLB seasons with the Astros, Braves and Reds. He owns 23 profession house runs and 38 doubles in 243 big-league video games.

Scottie Wilbekin | Males’s Basketball, 2011-14

In his senior season of 2013-14, Scottie Wilbekin turned the one Gator in program historical past to earn SEC Participant of the Yr, SEC Match MVP and NCAA Regional Most Excellent Participant in the identical season, doing so whereas main Florida to an ideal 18-0 SEC document, SEC common season and event titles, a 30-game win streak, a No. 1 nationwide rating and the 2014 Ultimate 4.
 
After forgoing his senior season of highschool to enroll at UF at 17 years outdated, Wilbekin instantly turned an everyday a part of Florida’s rotation earlier than assuming the start line guard position in his junior season. The Gainesville native went on to be a two-time All-SEC honoree and two-time SEC All-Defensive Workforce and nonetheless ranks amongst Florida’s all-time leaders in video games performed (fifth, 143), assists (ninth, 419) and steals (ninth, 167), and his 174 assists in 2012-13 rank because the No. 7 single-season whole in workforce historical past.
 
Wilbekin was a part of three SEC championship groups (2011, 2013, 2014) and 13 NCAA Match wins, advancing to the Elite Eight his first three seasons earlier than main the Gators to the Ultimate 4 as a senior. Alongside Casey Prather, Will Yegeute and Patric Younger, Wilbekin’s senior class charges because the winningest class in Florida males’s basketball historical past, recording 120 wins with an .800 profitable proportion over their 4 seasons. Along with 2013-14’s record-setting 30-game profitable streak, Wilbekin and his class offered the lion’s share of the victories in program-record streaks of 33 house wins, 9 highway wins, 21 SEC wins, 20 house SEC wins and 10 highway SEC wins. The Gators recorded 18 top-25 wins over the course of Wilbekin’s profession.
 
Wilbekin totaled 953 factors over his profession, averaging a career-best 13.1 factors per sport as a senior, together with a 15.3 scoring common on .444 3-point taking pictures over the Gators’ seven postseason wins in 2014.

Honorary Letterwinner

Becky Burleigh

Synonymous with this system she took from begin to NCAA champions in 4 seasons, Burleigh’s groups persistently challenged for nationwide and Southeastern Convention titles. Florida’s 14 workforce titles leads the SEC and this system earned NCAA Match berths 22 instances in her 26 seasons with the Gators.
 
Burleigh’s groups achievements embody 22 NCAA Championships’ berths (1996-2001; 2003-2017; 2019), two NCAA Faculty Cup appearances (1998, 2001), profitable 1998 NCAA title, 14 SEC workforce titles (1996-2001; 2006-2010; 2012-13, 2015) and 12 SEC Match titles (1996-01; 2004; 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015-16).
 
The 1998 NSCAA/adidas Nationwide Coach of the Yr after main the four-year outdated Gator soccer program to that season’s nationwide title, Burleigh additionally was tabbed because the SEC Coach of the Yr 5 instances (2012, 2010, 2008, 2000 & 1996). Twenty-two Gators claimed 37 United Soccer Coaches All-America honors and Danielle Fotopoulos was the 1998 Honda Award winner as nationwide participant of the yr. SEC Participant of the Yr accolades have been claimed by 11 gamers 15 instances.
 
In 31 seasons of teaching which incorporates 5 seasons at Berry in Georgia, Burleigh’s profession numbers for profitable proportion and wins nonetheless stand among the many NCAA leaders after the 2023 season:

 
Her 26 wins in 1998 marks a profession excessive in single-season wins.