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In this edition of Talon Talk, North Florida men's track and field's Aidan O'Gorman speaks on his hard work to get him to the 10,000m NCAA Finals as well as the detailed preparation that goes into it. Tune in to ESPN2/ESPNU tonight, June 7 to catch him compete against the top 24 runners in the country in the 10,000m.

UNF Women's Soccer's Ariana Munoz shares her experience playing for Peru during COPA America competition this past summer in our latest edition of Talon Talk.

In this edition of "Talking Title IX" we sit down with Khadijah Rushdan, assistant women's basketball coach, and Eric Faulconer, head women's soccer coach, to touch on a variety of topics around women's sports. Both Rushdan and Faulconer share their experiences coming up in the athletics field, the changes to women's sports over the years and the unique roles that women's basketball and women's soccer have had on elevating opportunity and notoriety for women in sports.

In the fourth edition of Talking Title IX, we speak with Senior Associate AD for Compliance & Administration/SWA, Donna Kirk. Kirk has been at North Florida for nine years and was previously at Jacksonville University for 13 years. She discusses her influences in getting involved in working in college athletics, as well as some of her favorite moments while working in college athletics.

In the third edition of our Talking Title IX series, we speak with Sabrina Ceniza. After serving as a student assistant in UNF ESPN+ broadcasts while enrolled at North Florida, Ceniza has become an essential part of North Florida's productions after graduation. Ceniza has served in nearly every role there is to speak of in a broadcast, helping with replay, graphics, audio, all camera positions and directing. With this experience, Ceniza has grown to make connections in the field throughout Florida. With broadcasting, and particularly production, being a largely male field, Ceniza speaks on breaking into the field as a female. She also shares advice and insight into what goes in to make a quality broadcast.

June 23, 1972, Title IX was passed as a law as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. The law prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives funding from the federal government. 



Over the next few months, North Florida Athletics will feature former and current student-athletes, staff and coaches, discussing their careers and the role that women's sports have played in their lives. 



In this edition, we with former UNF women's soccer head coach, Linda Hamilton (07-13) on her career as a student-athlete, professional soccer player and collegiate head coach. Currently the head coach at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, Hamilton was recently inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Having shared the pitch with other greats such as Mia Hamm, Michelle Akers and more, Hamilton helped pave the way for US Women's Soccer and the sports world as whole for women in the United States. Hamilton was a member of the first Women's World Cup in 1991 and was a four-time all-american in college among other achievements.