“I think there is no question that notoriety throughout the whole country has picked up as far as people knowing where UCF is” O’Leary said. “And they know basically what is going on all over the country. I travel a bunch and I used to be asked, ‘UCF, where you at?’ And now they know where UCF is.”
Hanging in the UCF Baseball team’s dugout next to the Knights logo is a reminder.
It’s four numbers written in black Arial font and taped to the wall in the middle of the dugout, and it’s an image of what head coach Terry Rooney wants his players thinking about.
UCF Men’s Tennis head coach Bobby Cashman will see his career come full circle next season. That’s not to say his career is anywhere near an end, it will just take him back to where he worked to be an accomplished player, and where he knew he could become an accomplished coach.
Coach shows cheerleading is more than competition
When UCF Cheerleading coach Linda Gooch was a student at Oak Ridge High School, she never thought she would spend her career as a cheerleader.
The UCF Athletics landscape is littered with new coaches trying to build up programs and longtime coaches attempting to maintain their stature.
UCF Basketball head coach Kirk Speraw’s name may seem out of place among the likes of Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and Connecticut’s Jim Calhoun, but it’s not: He is one of just 15 coaches in Division I Basketball to have coached their respective schools for the past 16 years.
Amid many successful and talented teams run by many of the nation’s brightest coaches, one team and one coach seem to shine the brightest: The UCF Women’s Basketball team and its head coach, Joi Williams.
Todd Dagenais doesn’t know too much about running a country.
The UCF Volleyball head coach is more of a builder. He knows how to lay the foundation, place the bricks and mold them together.
UCF Women’s Tennis coach Stephanie Nickitas knows what it means to be a champion.
In her playing career at the University of Florida, she won four national titles, two team titles and two doubles titles.
UCF Men’s Soccer head coach Bryan Cunningham says that the biggest aspect of soccer that the United States doesn’t appreciate is that, of all the other sports, it’s a players’ game.
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