Florida maintains grip on SEC all-sports title

By David Paschall May 22, 2014 2 min read

SEC Southeastern Conference

Florida continues to be the Southeastern Conference’s most successful athletic program across the board.

Five team championships helped Florida claim the Halifax Media Group’s SEC All-Sports title for the 24th time since the 1987-88 school year. Florida has won eight straight overall championships, eight straight women’s titles and six consecutive men’s titles.

“When competing in the SEC, the teams faced are often among the nation’s best,” Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley said on the university’s website. “The Southeastern Conference All-Sports Trophy is something we take great pride in due to the passion and effort our coaches and student-athletes displayed during the season.”

Georgia finished second in the overall standings, with Texas A&M, Alabama and Kentucky rounding out the top five. Tennessee was 11th out of the 14 schools, with Vanderbilt placing 12th.

The Gators won SEC titles in basketball, baseball, soccer and swimming, and the Lady Gators won in indoor track & field. Florida has swept the overall, men’s and women’s titles 14 times, with no other league member having ever accomplished that feat.

David Paschall

David Paschall has covered sports at the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 1999 and wrote for the Chattanooga Free Press in the nine years before that. David has mostly covered college athletics, with a focus on the University of Georgia from 2000 to 2019 and the University of Tennessee since 2020. He grew up in Chattanooga and is a graduate of the Baylor School and Auburn University. David has received multiple writing awards and has served as a Heisman Trophy voter since 2003. He has also worked in radio in Chattanooga and has been on the SEC Network's "Classic Rewind" series since 2014. David and his wife, Kelly, have three children — Conner, Emily and Spencer.

Contact David Paschall at dpaschall@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6524.