Second Winningest Coach in Woman Soccer Former Florida Gators Soccer Coach Becky Burleigh

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Burleigh earned her 200th career win with Florida's 2000 SEC Tournament semifinal win versus Kentucky, making her the second-fastest active Division I coach to reach the 200-wins milestone. The 300th win came at Mississippi in 2007. With Florida’s win versus Florida Gulf Coast in the 2012 NCAA Opening Round, Burleigh earned her 400th win. Win 500 came against Miami in the opening month of the 2019 season. Her 26 wins in 1998 marks a career high in single-season wins.

Burleigh has coached 22 United Soccer Coaches All-Americans, 11 NAIA All-Americans, 51 All-SEC players, 174 student-athletes on the All-SEC Academic Honor Roll, seven CoSIDA Academic All-Americans with 11 honors and 16 student-athletes honored as United Soccer Coaches Academic All-Americans.

She was inducted into the USA South Hall of Fame in the spring of 2015 and the Methodist University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999.

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