Following Florida’s win over Vanderbilt on Thursday, head coach Amanda Butler referenced traveling to Athens on Sunday to take on Georgia.
Hearing Butler, freshman Eleanna Christinaki, a native of Athens, Greece, became excited.
But UF’s coach crushed her spirits when she told her there’s also an Athens in Georgia, and that the team would not be traveling to Greece.
The difference between making the trip to her homeland and playing in a hostile road environment showed on Sunday, as Christinaki and the Gators were anything but right at home. And for the second time this year, No.