Updated: 11:26 pm, Sun Apr 18, 2010. ALLISON BANKO , Alligator Writer | "Can’t be touched. Can’t be stopped. Can’t be moved. Can’t be rocked. Can’t be shook.
" These lyrics, from "Can’t Be Touched" by Body Head Bangerz, boxer Roy Jones Jr.’s stroke group, mirror image over the speakers before every almshouse UF baseball game, and the point is far more than the want for a catchy belt song. Once Florida’s athletes get the adrenaline pumping through their veins, there is no turning back. Whether it takes indelicate comprehension makeup or a impractical cut a rug move, how the athletes get fired up is their own game.
With the continuation of the UF baseball and softball seasons elongate after the bring of classes (meaning smaller crowds ahead) and the NCAA Gymnastics Championships on Thursday, athletes are serving up their own jolts of liveliness to write 'finis' to their seasons strong. "Our Song" If the baseball locker space had eyes, they would observer something in fact funky during the Gators’ pregame. The most prominent marvel mid the team’s cleats and sliders? The team’s 6-foot-4 pitcher, Kevin Chapman, busting a change to the tune "Walk It Out." But while confabulation is booming throughout the locker room, there are some more, well, tender songs being shared.
"I don’t be aware if I should claim this," infielder Nolan Fontana said. "Josh [Adams] and I lend an ear to ‘Our Song’ by Taylor Swift. But it was Josh’s idea." The songs oozing with femininity don’t just obscure themselves for pregame pump-up in the locker room, they give away onto the return too. Infielder Jerico Weitzel’s at-bat number sticks out as though a severe hook a ride amongst his teammates’ Lil Wayne, Jay-Z and Eminem tunes.
His song? The pop-club hit "TiK ToK" by artist Ke$ha (a euphony softball pitcher Ensley Gammel also uses). "I didn’t decide that," Weitzel said. "I had annoy picking out a ditty so Preston [Tucker] picked that out for me." While Tucker’s antic will be vibrating over speakers for the unimpaired baseball season, the gang is all about seriousness during their habit pregame orison and deliberation of the incompatible team’s pitcher.
And when they stride up to the plate, it’s lifetime to get in the zone. "I measure out (of the box) and recognize myself what nautical toss about I’m looking for," Weitzel said. "Most hitters do something before getting in the batter’s box." Fontana swipes the ooze to intelligible the lamina off.
Freshman Brian Johnson infuses his fealty into his on-field routines by making a irate over the portion when he’s up to bat, and composition another irritable before the advantage of each inning when he’s performing on the pitcher’s mound. "I do it because I’m so blessed to be out there playing," Johnson said. "In the Air Tonight" Who would’ve ratiocination that a bus driver’s obstruct would become a vital on the softball field? But satisfied enough, a Phil Collins air makes its trail into every UF softball game. "At the [Southeastern Conference Championships] in 2008, our bus driver was obsessed with the melody ‘In the Air Tonight,’" catcher Tiffany DeFelice said. "It became our anthem - we kept successful with it.
" Phil Collins’ song can be heard during the team’s stretches, and the players even complete the superior drum alone in unison. However, DeFelice has her own plethora of rituals she goes through before the series of stretching and air-drumming, and it starts when she’s getting dressed.
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