UCF junior guard Kaitlin Peterson recalled a special day in her childhood where she discovered her love for basketball.“I think I was either seven or eight and it was Christmas,” Peterson said. “My brother had just gotten a basketball goal in the backyard. We just all started playing in the backyard and that’s when I knew I wanted to play this sport.”
From shooting baskets with her siblings in Eufaula, Alabama to competing in the Big 12 Conference, Peterson became the top scorer in Big 1...

With blaring horns and thunderous chants that fill the arena, the energy emitted from the UCF courtside ensemble, Jammin’ Knights, is hard to ignore at a UCF basketball game.The Jammin’ Knights ensemble is a group of UCF student musicians who perform at home basketball games to show support for the team. The group performs songs and chants throughout the game in an attempt to gain “home court advantage” for the UCF basketball players.
“One of the things we pride ourselves on is creating...

From hitting the books to getting up close and personal with sea turtles on the Melbourne shore, sophomore zoology and environmental studies major Brianna May juggles three jobs while being a full-time UCF student.

May is a zookeeper at Jungle Adventures, a data collector for UCF’s Marine Sea Turtle Research Group and a scare actor for SeaWorld’s Howl-o-Scream. May said that she scheduled her classes and jobs before the semester started, dedicating the weekends to work and weekdays to school.

As of Tuesday, the war between Israel and Hamas has entered day 39 of conflict since the first attack, resulting in a rising number of casualties in both countries.

On Oct. 7, Hamas fighters gunned down Israeli civilians and soldiers in an attack which led to approximately 1,200 deaths in Israel, and more than 200 people were taken hostage by Hamas, according to an expert analysis report by the Foundation For Defense of Democracies.

On Thursday, Israel agreed to start four-hour pauses to their

A UCF grad student transformed a childhood hobby into a gaming store for local gamers to play and bond over their shared interests.

Camilla Salvatore-Mattei, hospitality grad student, said her love for gaming started at a young age. Her siblings played fighting and racing games and she joined them.

“One of my fondest memories was playing Street Fighter with my dad. I very vividly remember the first character I chose was Chun-Li, and I found another character in the game who is also named Cammy