Last year, the University of Florida

played “women's lacrosse”

for the FIRST time…

THIS season, the Gators are

“a national power”…

14 and 1 record… ONLY loss

came in Game One

“AT” North Carolina---10-9 in overtime…

Last week, in their “splendid”

Hull Road stadium”---

before an overflow crowd---

the Gators rocked Northwestern---

No. 2 team in America…

Sunday--in Nashville--Florida

outlasted Vanderbilt 8-7 …

14th straight win…

Kitty Cullen is a spectacular

sophomore---like a majority

of Florida's players,

she is from

“lacrosse country”--

along the Atlantic Seaboard...

Kitty's hometown---Rockville, Maryland…

She LEADS the nation in scoring…

Other than Northwestern, what

does Gator coach Amanda O’Leary

see as the most prodigious wins?….

She reeled ‘em off---

“Georgetown…Syracuse…Ohio State…

Penn State… Johns Hopkins”…

It’s “almost beyond belief”---that

I would ask the coach of a

team "not yet TWO years old"---

"is there a SOLID chance for

Florida--ranked No. 4---

to outgun GIANTS like Maryland,

Duke, Stanford and

North Carolina--to win

a national championship?”…

O’Leary would NOT “go there”…

“We don’t really think

about the FUTURE,'' she said.

"or TALK about it...

"We’re so young---our focus is

THE NEXT GAME”…

NONETHELESS... I have

NEVER seen a SECOND-SEASON

MAJOR-college program with

the “accomplishments” of

Gator lacrosse… I’m Hubert Mizell,

and that’s what I think.