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Lifestyle Portraits with Florida Gators Women’s Basketball

Marketing photo shoot with student-athletes for the 2021-2022 season

By Matt Pendleton Photography

December 15^th, 2021

2021-22 Gators

Welcome to my 5th year working with Florida Gators Women's Basketball and the Gators marketing team creating fun and unique lifestyle athlete portraits for their marketing and recruiting efforts.

This year the Gators added a "media day experience" they called WBK Live 2021 or #WBKLive21. This was an all-day event with studio portraits and on-court video production. I was fortunate to be a part of the photo team.

Scroll down to see my favorite photos from three days of shooting in Gainesville and on location in Miami, Florida. Make sure to tap LIKE in the top right to show some love!

Lifestyle Portraits with Florida Gators Women’s Basketball

Past Lifestyle Shoots

Interested in checking out my past shoots with the Gators?

#WBKLive21 Casual Portraits

The Florida Gators hosted an all-day media day at the Exactech Arena on the University of Florida campus. This included three photo setups, video shoot on the court with the video board, stylists and hair/makeup artists. I was fortunate to be a part of this shoot joined by fellow photographer Kevin Camps and videographer Megan Parler.

We started with casual looks with most athletes styled by former Gator athlete, Lanita Bartley/Nita Styles.

#WBKLive21 Orange Jersey Portraits

The players then changed into their Orange alternate jersey.

#WBKLive21 Blue Jersey Portraits

The players then changed into their Blue alternate jersey.

Miami Lifestyle Portraits

Normally a 5- to 6-day shoot, I packed in 14 athletes over two days in beautiful Miami, Florida. One group was in the morning for a sunrise and the other caught the beautiful sunset. We shot on location at South Pointe Park.

Shout out to greatest DOBO in the game, Serena Lamar, for handling all the logistics in one of the busiest cities in the USA!

Team recruiting specialist Noah Southard joined me and created this highlight video.

Jordyn Merritt

Kristina Moore

Nina Rickards

Floor Toonders

Lavender Briggs

Alberte Rimdal

Jeriah Warren

Emanuely de Oliveira

Faith Dut

Zippy Broughton

Taliyah Wyche

Brynn Farrell

Tatyana Wyche

Kiki Smith

Thank You Florida Gators!

Another fun shoot in the books!

It's truly been an honor working with the Florida Gators Women's Basketball team especially Coach Kelly Finley and her team. I've created a ton of great unique content for their social and recruiting efforts over these last five seasons. Looking forward to next year!