Gemma Spofforth and Shaune Fraser are among eight Gators announced Monday as part of the University of Florida Athletics Hall of Fame’s Class of 2020.
The group, selected by the University of Florida F Club and Gator Boosters, Inc., will be inducted in a ceremony at a date to be announced.
The two swimmers, guided by longtime Florida coach Gregg Troy, were contemporaries in Gainesville from 2006-10 and have five Olympic Games between them.
Fraser is a three-time NCAA individual champion in the 200 freestyle and 200 butterfly (twice). He set the NCAA record in the 200 fly in 2009. Fraser won seven individual SEC Championships and ended his college career with a program-best 27 All-American honors.
Shaune Fraser. Photo Courtesy: Peter H.Bick
Fraser was a three-time Olympian (2004, 2008, 2012) and served as the flag bearer for the Cayman Islands at the 2008 Olympics. He won three individual Pan American Games medals.
Spofforth was part of the Gators’ 2009 SEC Championship and the 2010 NCAA champion squad. The two-time SEC Female Swimmer of the Year won seven individual NCAA champs, including the 200 backstroke in 2009 in an NCAA record time, and was named an All-American 25 times.
Spofforth swam in two Olympics (2008 and 2012) representing Great Britain. She won gold at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, setting the world record in the 100 backstroke, a record that held until 2017 when Kylie Masse broke it.
In addition to Gemma Spofforth and Shaune Fraser, the rest of the Hall of Fame Class of 2020 includes men’s basketball player Andrew DeClercq; football players Brandon James, Brandon Spikes and Tim Tebow; women’s track and field athlete Mariam Kevkhishvili; and men’s tennis player Hamid Mirzadeh. Two-time national championship basketball coach Billy Donovan was named the honorary letter winner.