The Blue and White have gone orange -- completely.

Florida is chock full of Penn State alumni and will become infested with them this year as both the Penn State football team and swim team will be traveling to Florida over winter break.

The No. 12 Penn State women's swimming team will be heading to Naples, Fla., for its training program to get ready for the second half of its season, which is filled with tougher meets leading up to the Big Ten Championships.

"We go every year," Penn State swimming coach Bill Dorenkott said. "There is a good facility [in Naples], with good training space."

This trip is not uncommon as most schools hold training trips over the break. Some schools travel to Denver for altitude training, others travel to warmer tropical climates.

"We've gone altitude training before and the minimum amount of time that you need is three weeks for that trip, and we just don't have that," Dorenkott said.

"Some schools go to Puerto Rico or the Caribbean, but I can't see asking kids to pay for that out of their own pockets."

Penn State travels to Florida every year to tune up its team building and conditioning. The Nittany Lions graduated many of their top seniors last year, but have rebounded with stellar freshmen that have been keeping the team afloat.

This year's training program will be especially important in preparing the freshmen for the rigorous college season.

"It's really good physically to focus on training," senior Margy Keefe said. "We also get to spend a lot of time with the team to do a lot of team-building stuff over the trip."

The pool that the team will be using is a 50-meter pool, which is double the size of the indoor pool the team competes in at home. While Keefe says the distance of the pool doesn't affect her, it does change the team's overall approach.

"We are the only school in the Big Ten that doesn't have a 50-meter pool and the only team in the top 20 that doesn't have one," Dorenkott said. "We will never win a Big Ten championship at home, and that makes us tougher."

While in Florida, Penn State will also travel to Gainesville to do battle with the No. 25 Florida Gators, who have been known to provide stiff competition on their home turf.

"If we want to move up in the NCAA, it's good to start swimming teams that are better than us right now," Keefe said.

Even though Penn State holds the better ranking, southern teams are historically dominant and are normally assumed to be better than northern until proven otherwise.