Here’s who will enter the 2024 UF Athletic Hall of Fame
Former Florida basketball point guard and SEC Player of the Year Scottie Wilbekin and former national championship winning Florida Gators soccer coach Becky Burleigh are among inductees for this year’s 2024 UF Athletic Hall of Fame class.
The F Club and Gator Boosters announced the inductees on Wednesday, which include eight Gator Greats and one Honorary Letterwinner.
Gator Greats are Letterwinners who brought recognition and prominence to the UF and themselves by their athletic accomplishments as a studentathlete. Honorary Letterwinners are coaches or athletic officials (after retirement) who were not letterwinners at UF yet rendered outstanding service to the program through personal time, effort, interest and through many years of continued service.
In addition to Wilbekin and Burleigh, the other inductees include former Florida softball standouts Francesca Enea and Hannah Rogers, former Florida baseball standout Preston Tucker, former Florida football punter Chas Henry, former Florida women’s swimming standout Elizabeth Beisel, former men’s swimming standout Marcin Cieslack and former women’s track and field standout Genevieve LeCaze.
The Hall of Fame Banquet will occur at the F Club on Friday, Oct. 18, prior to UF’s homecoming football game against Kentucky.
Here’s more information on each of the inductees:
Scottie Wilbekin, Florida basketball, 2010-14
Wilbekin earned SEC Player of the Year, SEC Tournament MVP and NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player in 2013-14, helping lead Florida to a 36-3 record and its fifth Final Four appearance in school history. He’s the only Florida basketball to win all three awards in the same season.
After playing high school basketball at the Rock School in Gainesville, Wilbekin enrolled at UF early as a 17-yearold in 2010. He became UF’s starting point as a junior during the 2012-13 season and totaled 953 points over his UF career.
As a senior, Wilbekin averaged a career-best 13.1 points per game, including a 15.3 scoring average on .444 3point shooting over the UF’s seven postseason wins in 2014. He’s currently playing pro basketball overseas in Turkey.
Burleigh led Florida women's soccer to 22 NCAA Tournament trips in 26 season and in 1998 led the Gators to a national title. The 1998 team featured Danielle Fotopoulos, Heather Mitts and future U.S. women's team soccer star Abby Wambach, who was just a freshman at the time.
Under Burleigh, Florida also won 14 SEC titles and 12 SEC Tournament titles.
Chas Henry, Florida football, 2007-10
Henry was UF's starting punter for all four of his seasons, including on Florida's BCS national title team in 2008. In 2010, Henry earned the Ray Guy Award, given to college football's best punter. He set a UF single-season record at the time of 45.1 yards per punt in 2010, with 16 of his 50 punts going 50 yards or longer.
After Florida, Henry punted for one season in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles, averaging 44 yards per punt.
Preston Tucker, Florida baseball, 2009-12
Tucker, an outfielder/first baseman, owns Florida baseball records for hits (341), at bats (1,035), doubles (70), RBI (258) and total bases (596).
Florida baseball advanced to the College World Series in each of Tucker's final three seasons (2010-12) and won two SEC championships (2010, 2011) with Tucker in the lineup. After Florida, Tucker was drafted in the seventh round of the MLB Draft and appeared in parts of three MLB seasons with the Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds. He's posted 23 career home runs and 38 doubles in 243 big-league games.
Hannah Rogers, Florida Softball, 2011-14
Rogers was a legend in the circle for the Florida softball program as she was the first four-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-American pitcher in program history.
She holds UF's single season record for saves (5) and finished inside the Top 10 in in 13 different categories. In the career categories she finished in the Top 10 in 13 different spaces and in the Top 5 in opponent batting average (.198 – 5th), walks allowed per seven innings (2.08 – 5th), wins (127 – 2nd), win percentage (.804 – 5th), save (14 – 2nd), appearances (191 – 2nd), starts (146 - 2nd), innings pitched (988.0 – 2nd) and strikeouts (833 – 2nd).
Rogers was part of Florida softball teams that reached the Women's College World Series in 2011 and 2013 and won the school's first national title in 2014.
Francesca Enea, Florida Softball, 2007-10
Enea was tabbed a three-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-American in 2008, 2009 and 2010 in addition to being a two-time AllSEC selection in 2009 and 2010.
A slugging outfielder, Enea also was a two-time All-SEC selection in 2009 and 2010. She holds UF records for career home runs (61), career RBIs (221), single season home runs (20), single-season RBIs (70), single-season sac flies (6tied) and single-season hit by pitch (15).
With Enea in the lineup, Florida softball reached the Women's College World Series in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Elizabeth Beisel, Florida Women’s Swimming, 2010-14
Beisel claimed nine SEC Championships from 2011-14 in events such as the 200 IM, 400 IM and 200 back on top of a 2012 NCAA Championship in the 200 Back and a 2013 NCAA Championship in the 400 IM. Her remarkable performances led to 20 All-SEC selections and 18 All-American selections.
Marcin Cieslak, Florida Men’s Swimming, 2011-14
Cieslak, a native of Poland, earned 23 All-SEC selections on top of 25 AllAmerican selections.
Competing in the 200 & 400 Medley Relay, 100 fly, 200 fly, 200 IM, and 200 Free, Cieslak won nine separate SEC championships. In 2014, he won NCAA Championships in the 200 IM and 100 fly.
Genevieve LaCaze, Florida Women’s Track and Field, 2008-12
Florida's school record holder in the 3000-meter Steeplechase, LeCave enjoyed an outstanding career At UF. She became the first Gator to ever break the ten-minute mark in the Steeplechase when she recorded a time of 9:50.25 at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
LeCave was a was a three-time SEC Outdoor Champion and one time and one time NCAA Runner-Up in the Steeplechase and excelled in other events as well. As a senior, she became the first women in SEC history to sweep the 1500-meter, 3000-meter and 5000-meter events at the SEC Outdoor Championships.