{"id":117352,"date":"2021-01-26T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=117352"},"modified":"2022-03-03T16:11:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T21:11:34","slug":"challenging-ucf-sports-season-on-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/challenging-ucf-sports-season-on-tap\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging UCF Sports Season on Tap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taped on the hallway wall in the suite of UCF Athletics executive staff offices in the new Roth Athletics Center is a detailed 10-by-29-inch chart of future UCF athletic events.<\/p>\n<p>It represents maybe the ultimate challenge for not only the coaches and student-athletes, but the UCF Athletics staff, as well \u2014 easily the greatest multi-month undertaking in Knight history.<\/p>\n<p>The columns across the top of the page list all 16 UCF varsity sports. Listed down the left side of the chart are individual dates from mid-January through the end of May. Shaded boxes indicate dates of competition for each sport over the first five months of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights are accustomed to busy springs, normally including baseball, softball, men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tennis, men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s golf, rowing, and track and field\u2014plus the end of seasons in men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball. This time, however, the chart also includes spring competition in men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s soccer, volleyball and cross country.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because COVID prompted the NCAA, and then the American Athletic Conference, to push its traditional fall sports championships (other than football) into the spring.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to expected AAC championships in March in men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball, the conference also has rescheduled its fall championships for Feb. 6 in cross country, April 2-3 for volleyball and April 15-17 for men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s soccer. Later in April come AAC events for men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s golf and men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tennis, followed by baseball, softball, rowing and outdoor track championships in May.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the minute the printed version of the schedule arrived it was already out of date based on upcoming schedule changes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The challenge of keeping it up to date on a bulletin board became impossible quickly, so we&#8217;ve already gone to an electronic version,&#8221; says UCF executive associate athletics director and chief operating officer David Hansen. &#8220;Managing changes to the schedule and communicating those to all the people who need to know is critical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Spring Schedule By the Numbers<\/h2>\n<p>A closer analysis of the shaded boxes provides more detailed evidence of what&#8217;s to come:<\/p>\n<p>The complete five-month schedule currently includes 112 home events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>26 in baseball (four doubleheaders)<\/li>\n<li>23 in softball<\/li>\n<li>13 in women&#8217;s tennis<\/li>\n<li>11 in volleyball<\/li>\n<li>10 in men&#8217;s tennis<\/li>\n<li>6 each in men&#8217;s and women\u2019s basketball<\/li>\n<li>5 each in men&#8217;s and women\u2019s soccer<\/li>\n<li>3 in rowing<\/li>\n<li>2 in outdoor track and field<\/li>\n<li>1 each in women&#8217;s golf and one in cross country.<\/li>\n<li>Plus 15 days of spring football beginning in early March<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over the next three months, there are a total of 15 days through April that don&#8217;t include at least one UCF athletic contest (home or away).<\/p>\n<p>The most ambitious weekend for on-campus competition is March 5-9 (Friday to Tuesday) when there are a dozen combined home events featuring volleyball, men&#8217;s soccer, baseball, softball and men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s tennis (tennis events are contested at the USTA campus in Lake Nona).<\/p>\n<p>The heaviest overall weekend will be the period of March 12-16 when 10 teams compete at once, including the men&#8217;s basketball squad at the AAC Championship in Fort Worth, Texas. Home events that weekend feature women&#8217;s soccer, baseball and women&#8217;s tennis.<\/p>\n<p>The slate winds down in May with AAC championships in softball (May 13-15 in Tulsa), rowing (May 16 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee), outdoor track and field (May 14-16 in Tampa, Florida) and baseball (May 25-30 in Clearwater, Florida). The final scheduled UCF home events will be three days (four games) of baseball May 20-22 against Houston.<\/p>\n<h2>Tickets<\/h2>\n<p>The ongoing effects of COVID mean that, after the teams&#8217; complimentary admissions are accounted, UCF is likely to sell only about 35 tickets for home softball games and approximately 750 general admission seats for baseball (walkup only).<\/p>\n<p>Volleyball and men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s soccer are free for fans to attend, but the venues will have limited capacity.<\/p>\n<h2>Optimistic Outlook<\/h2>\n<p>There is no shortage of optimism as all these UCF teams prepare to play.<\/p>\n<p>Both the volleyball and softball teams have been picked as favorites in the AAC. The UCF softball team stands 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0in the preseason D1 poll, while the baseball squad is 32<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0in the Collegiate Baseball preseason standings.<\/p>\n<p>The Intercollegiate Tennis Association has put the UCF men 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and women 18th in its preseason polls.<\/p>\n<p>The UCF women&#8217;s basketball team is in second place in AAC standings with its current overall 7-2 record (5-1 in AAC play).<\/p>\n<p>The Knight spring-sport teams are hoping to pick up where they left off last March as top-25 teams in the country when COVID ended their seasons. At that point, the UCF baseball team was 15-3, ranked as high as 12<sup>th<\/sup>; softball was 21-5-1 (its 16-2 start was best in school history), ranked as high as 22<sup>nd<\/sup>; and both tennis teams stood 10-3 (the women ranked as high as 12<sup>th<\/sup>, the men as high as 22<sup>nd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 rowing team had won its only spring regatta coming off five straight top-20 national finishes. Men&#8217;s golf had played two spring events after a fall victory in the Tavistock Collegiate Invitational that helped the Knights rank 16<sup>th<\/sup>. Women&#8217;s golf had played three spring events, finishing ranked 39<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0after a No. 13 fall rating.<\/p>\n<p>But, with COVID ongoing, changes are expected and almost guaranteed. There will be elements that normally happen at Knight home events that won&#8217;t be as notable in 2021. Advertising, promotions, marketing and in-game fan entertainment are examples, with all UCF venues dealing with reduced capacities and limited attendance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No. 1, it&#8217;s about prioritizing the experience of our student-athletes, making sure they can play,&#8221; says Hansen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The athletics department is gearing up for the greatest multi-month undertaking in Knight history as all 16 varsity sports are in 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