Nearly a year later, Florida Gators softball player Amanda Lorenz still remembers the shock of the jarring loss.
“I came [to Florida] because I wanted to win a national championship,” the sophomore outfielder said.
Last season — Lorenz’s first with the team — they didn’t.
After consecutive losses to the Georgia Bulldogs in the 2016 NCAA Super Regional, the Gators’ march toward winning their third straight national championship was brutally halted.
“It was different. I didn’t expect it,” Lorenz said of the loss to the Bulldogs. “Before I got here, I thought it was going to be easy to get to the World Series.