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Browning, Florida’s Distance-Running Pioneer, Named to ’25 HoF class

Browning, Florida's Distance-Running Pioneer, Named to '25 HoF class


GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gator Track and Field legends Marquis Dendy and Charlotte Browning have been selected for the 2025 UF Athletic Hall of Fame class, the University of Florida F Club and Gator Boosters announced Wednesday.
 
2025 Florida Hall of Fame Class:
The F Club Committee chooses UF Athletic Hall of Fame inductees based on three categories: Gator Greats, Distinguished Letterwinners and Honorary Letterwinners.
 
The 2025 class is composed of seven Gator Greats and one Honorary Letterwinner.
 
The list of Gator Greats in this year’s class includes:
 











Name Sport UF Career
Theresa Andrews Swimming 1981-83
Charlotte Browning Track & Field/Cross Country 2008-10
Kitty Cullen Lacrosse 2010-13
Marquis Dendy Track & Field 2012-15
Lauren Haeger Softball 2012-15
Kytra Hunter Gymnastics 2012-15
Maurkice Pouncey Football 2007-09

 
Gator Greats are Letterwinners who brought recognition and prominence to the University of Florida and themselves by their athletic accomplishments as a student-athlete.
 
The Hall of Fame Banquet is Friday, October 17, 2025, prior to the Mississippi State home football game.
 
2025 UF Athletic Hall of Fame class – Track and Field Selections
Charlotte Browning | Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country, 2008-10
A two-time NCAA Individual champion and three-time SEC Individual champion, Browning emerged as one of the top middle-distance and distance runners in the collegiate ranks by her senior season in 2010. In the 2010 campaign, she won both the indoor one-mile and outdoor 1500m NCAA titles. At the SEC Indoor Championships, she won both the one-mile and 3,000m crowns, earning 20 team points for the Gators en route to their first SEC Indoor team championship since 2004. As the highest-scoring athlete at the meet, she was awarded the Cliff Harper Trophy at the 2010 SEC Indoor Championships. She was named the USTFCCCA South Region Women’s Indoor Runner of the Year following the 2010 indoor season.
 
Browning set the school record in both the mile and 1500m that season, with former standing for nearly 14 years.
 
In the 2009 cross country season, Browning led the Gators’ efforts at the NCAA Championships, being named a USTFCCCA All-American for her 21st-place finish in the 6k, and added All-SEC and All-South Region honors for her runner-up finishes in…

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