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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2015 19:42:51 GMT -5
UF finished 3rd in a tight competition for the SEC championship. The Gators lost the championship with poor performances on the balance beam. Bridget Sloan didn't compete on the floor:
Women's Gymnastics Meet Results
Southeastern Conference Championships Host: University of Georgia Date: March 21, 2015 Location: Gwinnett Center Venue: Home Meet
Contents:
Event Results
Team Results
Vault Team Standing Uneven Parallel Bars Georgia Balance Beam Alabama Floor Exercise Arkansas All Around Auburn Florida Kentucky LSU Missouri Judge List
Team StandingTop
Place
Team
Score
1 Alabama 197.525 2 LSU 197.450 3 Florida 197.400 4 Auburn 196.925 5 Georgia 196.000 6 Arkansas 195.950 7 Missouri 195.700 8 Kentucky 195.025
GeorgiaTop Head Coach: Danna Durante
Gymnast
Vault
Bars
Beam
Floor
AllArr
Vivi Babalis 9.125 9.875 Mary Beth Box 9.925 9.875 Ashlyn Broussard 9.850 9.800 Kiera Brown 9.800 9.775 Chelsea Davis 9.800 9.875 Brandie Jay 9.850 9.850 9.850 Gigi Marino 9.825 9.900 Sarah Persinger 9.800 Morgan Reynolds 9.775 9.850 Brittany Rogers 9.750 9.900 9.400 Rachel Schick 9.900 Natalie Vaculik 9.850 9.250 Team Totals 49.125 49.375 48.150 49.350 196.000
AlabamaTop Head Coach: Dana Duckworth
Gymnast
Vault
Bars
Beam
Floor
AllArr
Lauren Beers 9.900 9.900 9.800 9.900 39.500 Mackenzie Brannan 9.875 9.900 Kaitlyn Clark 9.950 9.300 9.900 9.850 39.000 Lora Leigh Frost 9.850 Nickie Guerrero 9.750 Amanda Jetter 9.800 9.875 Keely McNeer 9.850 9.850 9.900 Aja Sims 9.900 9.850 Carley Sims 9.900 9.950 Kayla Williams 9.875 9.825 Kiana Winston 9.825 Team Totals 49.500 49.275 49.275 49.475 197.525
ArkansasTop Head Coach: Mark Cook
Gymnast
Vault
Bars
Beam
Floor
AllArr
Stephani Canizaro 9.275 9.600 Sydnie Dillard 9.775 9.850 Cailee Ellsworth 9.800 9.700 Heather Elswick 9.825 9.700 9.900 Erin Freier 9.775 9.700 Keara Glover 9.800 Leah MacMoyle 9.850 Samantha Nelson 9.800 9.775 9.850 Amanda Wellick 9.900 9.775 9.700 9.850 39.225 Paige Zaziski 9.875 9.775 9.725 9.750 39.125 Team Totals 49.250 48.825 48.675 49.200 195.950
AuburnTop Head Coach: Jeff Graba
Gymnast
Vault
Bars
Beam
Floor
AllArr
Caitlin Atkinson 9.875 9.850 9.250 9.875 38.850 Lexus Demers 9.900 9.900 9.675 Bri Guy 9.850 9.800 9.875 Kullen Hlawek 9.850 Caryn Kadous 9.825 Kait Kluz 9.850 9.800 9.850 Kelsey Kopec 9.800 9.825 Abby Milliet 9.850 9.900 Megan Walker 9.825 9.900 9.825 Brittany Webster 9.825 9.650 Team Totals 49.300 49.150 49.400 49.075 196.925
FloridaTop Head Coach: Rhonda Faehn
Gymnast
Vault
Bars
Beam
Floor
AllArr
Kennedy Baker 9.900 9.850 9.950 Claire Boyce 9.900 9.750 Bridgette Caquatto 9.950 9.950 Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto 9.850 Ericha Fassbender 9.275 Kytra Hunter 9.950 9.900 9.600 9.975 39.425 Alex McMurtry 9.950 9.875 9.300 Bridget Sloan 9.925 10.000 9.950 Rachel Spicer 9.850 9.875 9.850 Kiersten Wang 9.900 9.850 Team Totals 49.625 49.575 48.625 49.575 197.400
KentuckyTop Head Coach: Tim Garrison
Gymnast
Vault
Bars
Beam
Floor
AllArr
Marissa Beucler 9.800 9.750 9.750 9.825 39.125 Katie Carlisle 9.125 9.150 9.775 Brittany Furuyama 9.700 Kayla Hartley 9.800 Shannon Mitchell 9.800 9.825 9.850 Tiara Phipps 9.725 9.825 Taylor Puryear 9.900 Cori Rechenmacher 9.825 9.800 Amy Roemmele 9.850 Sydney Waltz 9.850 9.350 9.175 9.900 38.275 Montana Whittle 9.725 Team Totals 48.875 48.575 48.275 49.300 195.025
LSUTop Head Coach: D-D Breaux
Gymnast
Vault
Bars
Beam
Floor
AllArr
Rheagan Courville 9.950 9.925 9.775 9.875 39.525 Sydney Ewing 9.875 9.800 9.875 Ashleigh Gnat 9.875 9.875 9.700 9.900 39.350 Lloimincia Hall 9.975 Myia Hambrick 9.950 9.800 Jessie Jordan 9.900 9.850 9.875 9.900 39.525 Erin Macadaeg 9.725 Jessica Savona 9.850 9.850 9.900 Randii Wyrick 9.875 Shae Zamardi 9.850 Team Totals 49.550 49.375 48.975 49.550 197.450
MissouriTop Head Coach: Shannon Welker
Gymnast
Vault
Bars
Beam
Floor
AllArr
Tia Allbritten 9.700 Briana Conkle 9.825 Miranda Eubank 9.800 Kennedi Harris 9.775 9.850 Alyson Heimsath 9.700 9.725 9.800 Becca Johnson 9.800 Laura Kappler 9.800 9.750 9.850 9.800 39.200 Angie Kern 9.725 9.700 Kelli Martin 9.775 Shauna Miller 9.775 9.725 Becca Schugel 9.175 9.800 9.675 9.800 38.450 Katelyn Trevino 9.850 9.825 Team Totals 48.850 49.000 48.775 49.075 195.700
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2015 23:51:05 GMT -5
Better in the SECs than in regionals or nationals - Two balance beam falls cost bama the 14 national championship allowing UF and OU to tie for the national championship:
Quoting the Gators:
On tonight’s performance:
“We had an amazing start. It is the best that we’ve done on the first two events at any SEC Championship. We feel the pain right now because beam was awful. It has to be one of the toughest beam rotations I can remember in my history at Florida. That is the hard part. We knew our performance was stellar up until that point. It is very hard to recover from that type of performance. They fought hard on floor, but it was just too much to overcome.
“I think it is very eye-opening for not only the freshmen, but for everyone on the team. This is a learning experience. They know how talented we are and the potential we possess. It is going to be important that we really focus on why the mistakes happened so that it doesn’t happen again at regionals and nationals. They need to learn from this and turn it around.” - Florida Head Coach Rhonda Faehn
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 9:50:32 GMT -5
NCAA Gymnastics Bracket: i.turner.ncaa.com/sites/default/files/external/gametool/brackets/2015-womens-gym-bracket.pdfMonday March 23, 2015 No. 2 Florida heads to West Virginia for April 4 NCAA Gymnastics Regional Morgantown Regional (Morgantown, W.Va.) – April 4 @ 4 p.m. ET 2. Florida 11. Stanford 14. Illinois-Champaign 19. Arkansas 25. New Hampshire 36. West Virginia GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The No. 2 Florida gymnastics team heads Morgantown, West Virginia, for NCAA Regional action. The NCAA Gymnastics Committee unveiled the fields for each of the six 2015 NCAA Region Championships sites Monday. NCAA Morgantown Regional competition is set for Saturday, April 4 at 4 p.m. ET in the WVU Coliseum. The field for the Morgantown Gymnastics Regional includes No. 2 Florida, No. 11 Stanford, No. 14 Illinois-Champaign, No. 19 Arkansas, No. 25 New Hampshire and No. 36 West Virginia. The top two teams and the top two all-around competitors (who are not on an advancing team) from each region site advances to the NCAA Championships, set for April 17-19 at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Last year, UF won the program’s 14th NCAA Regional title in University Park, Pennsylvania, to advance to its 32nd NCAA Championships. Florida won its second consecutive NCAA title in 2014, sharing the title with Oklahoma as each team posted a NCAA Super Six record total of 198.175. Each of the six regions have three teams among the nation’s top 18, with one team each from the nation’s No. 1-6, No. 7-12, and No. 13-18 ranking positions. The final three spots in each regional were filled from teams ranked 19-36 by RQS. The committee tried to keep those teams within their own region as much as possible. Among the Morgantown Regional field are three teams which advanced to the 2014 NCAA Championships – Florida, Illinois and Stanford. Arkansas will be looking to return to the NCAA Championships after missing the 2014 event. New Hampshire will look for its first NCAA berth since 1994 while West Virginia last advanced in 1999. Florida will open regional competition on the uneven bars. In addition, five all-around competitors (who are not on a qualifying team) and one individual specialist per event advance to each of the six regions. The all-around competitors and event specialists came from within the region. Bridgeport junior Sasha Tsikhanovich will be paired with the Gators for regional competition. For the second consecutive season, the seeding determined at the time of regional selections will be maintained throughout the championships. Standard bracketing procedures will be followed with teams seeded 1, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 12 placed on the left side of the bracket and teams seeded 2, 3, 6, 7, 10 and 11 placed on the right side of the bracket.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2015 10:35:51 GMT -5
Special to The Sun
Published: Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 12:18 p.m.
Florida senior Kytra Hunter, the nation’s top-ranked all-arounder, is the Southeastern Conference Gymnast of the Year, the league announced Thursday.
Florida’s Kennedy Baker shares the SEC Freshman of the Year honor. Auburn’s Jeff Graba was named coach of the year. The awards are based on a vote of the league coaches.
Hunter is the third Gator to be named the gymnast of the year and first since Chrissy Van Fleet won the 2000 award. She is the only gymnast to appear in the current top-25 national rankings for each of the five events – No. 1 all-around (39.625 RQS), No. 2 in floor (9.96) and vault (9.955), No. T17 bars (9.900) and No. T22 beam (9.885). Hunter shared the SEC vault (9.95) and floor exercise (9.975) titles, becoming one of five in the 35-year history of the championships to claim at least one league event title each season of collegiate career. Her seven SEC event wins is a UF career record.
Baker, the eighth Gator to be named the SEC’s top freshman, won the weekly honor a league-high four times this season.
Florida placed a league-high six on the All-SEC team: Hunter, Baker, Claire Boyce, Bridgette Caquatto, Alex McMurtry and Bridget Sloan. Kennedy and McMurtry were also named to the All-Freshman team.
The All-SEC Team is comprised of the student-athletes with the top two event scores (including ties) in each session of the SEC Championships. The All-Freshman team is comprised of the freshmen student-athlete with the top score (including ties) on each event in each SEC Championships’ session.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2015 15:52:26 GMT -5
Rhonda Faehn's Monday, 3/30, Presser: www.gatorzone.com/story.php?id=30267The outstanding news: 1. Bridget Sloan is doing well in practice on the floor with no ankle issue. It appears she will be competing in the all-around in regionals and nationals. 2. Kitra Hunter and Bridget Sloan have been on fire in practice leading and raising the level of the entire team. UF's top 2 gymnasts competing in all-around will give the Gators a hard to match competitive advantage. 3. The team has forgotten the SECs when 2 falls on the beam cost UF the SEC championship and is focusing on what is important in front of them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2015 19:51:46 GMT -5
UF was far from spectacular today, Kytra Hunter fell on the bars and UF had to take a couple of 9.75s, but the Gators did win the NCAA Morgantown Regional. UF will have to be sharper as a team to have a chance to 3peat. Bridget Sloan was the exception. She was spectacular in winning the all-around. UF and second finisher Stanford moves on to nationals:
MEET STANDINGS
TEAM SCORE LEAD
1 Florida 197.475 2 Stanford 197.000 -.475 3 Illinois-Champaign 196.675 -.800 4 Arkansas 196.500 -.975 5 West Virginia University 195.650 -1.825 6 New Hampshire 194.825 -2.650
LEADERBOARD
EVENT GYMNAST TEAM SCORE
Vault Bridget Sloan Florida 9.975 Bars Sunny Kato Illinois-Champaign 9.950 Beam Ivana Hong Stanford 9.950 Floor Bridget Sloan Florida 9.950 All-Around Bridget Sloan Florida 39.800
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2015 9:21:32 GMT -5
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The Florida gymnastics team claimed the NCAA Morgantown Regional title, held Saturday in front of 1,445 at West Virginia’s Coliseum. The win advances Florida to Fort Worth, Texas, where the Gators will look to defend their 2013 and 2014 NCAA team titles.
Florida Event Winners Saturday Vault: Bridget Sloan 9.975 Uneven Bars: Bridget Sloan 9.95 Floor Exercise: Kytra Hunter & Bridget Sloan 9.95 Beam: Bridget Sloan 9.925 All-Around: Bridget Sloan 39.80
The Gators turned in a 197.475 Saturday to take their fourth consecutive NCAA Regional title. The top two teams in regional competition advance to the NCAA Championships. Stanford claimed the other berth at 197.00. Illinois-Champaign was third at 196.675, followed by Arkansas (196.50), West Virginia (195.65) and New Hampshire (194.825).
Florida was steady, but not spectacular, on its opening two events – uneven bars and balance beam. Still, Florida owned a 0.225 lead at the midway point. The Gators opened that margin after turning in the meet high totals on their finishing events – floor exercise (49.40) and vault (49.625). This is the second consecutive meet Florida has turned in its season-high vault total, as the Gators’ opened Southeastern Conference Championships’ competition with that same tally for vault.
Junior All-American Bridget Sloan returned with a roar to all-around competition, turning in the nation’s second-highest total of the season, 39.80, to win in her first all-around performance of the season. Sloan sprained her right ankle in the Jan. 11 season opener and has been adding events to her competitive repertoire since mid-February. Tonight was her first floor performance of the season and the final event to be added. She shared the event title at 9.95 with senior All-American teammate Kytra Hunter.
The high mark of the evening, a nearly perfect 9.975, went to Sloan on vault. She also shared the Regional uneven bars title at 9.95. Sloan led UF on beam with her mark of 9.925.
GATOR PERFORMANCE NOTES:
· Tonight’s floor title was the 30th for Hunter, making her the Gators’ all-time leader for floor exercise wins. Gator Hall of Fame member Melissa Miller set the previous record of 29 floor wins during her career (1986-89).
· Sloan’s all-around victory is the 18th of her career, moving her to fifth on the Gators Career All-Around Wins chart. With her four wins today, Sloan now jumps to fifth (68) on the Gators Career Events Titles list.
· Sloan has competed seven times this season on the uneven bars, with all being scored above a 9.90 and six 9.95s or better. The defending NCAA bars champion has won six titles on the event in 2015.
· The win ups Florida’s regional team titles total to 15 (1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1997, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
· In the NCAA Championships’ 34-year history, Florida has now advanced to the national championships 33 times, missing only the 2000 event.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 14:25:27 GMT -5
UF starts quest for 3peat on Friday:
FORT WORTH, Texas – For the first time in the history of NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships, a pair of teams – Florida and Oklahoma – look to defend the NCAA title they shared in 2014. And for the Gators, they seek their third-straight title, winning their first in 2013. The NCAA Gymnastics Championships makes its first appearance in the Lone Star State, as the 2015 edition is set for April 17-19 in the Fort Worth Convention Center Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.
To move ahead to Saturday’s Super Six final where the national team champion is determined, the Gators need to be among the top three teams in its semifinal session on Friday. Florida starts Semifinal I competition on floor exercise. Start time for Semifinal I is set for 2 p.m. ET and the action streams live on NCAA.com.
Florida has qualified for the NCAA Championships 33 times, missing only the 2000 event. The Gators advanced to the 2015 national stage by winning the Morgantown Regional, held April 4 in the West Virginia University Coliseum. This is the fifth time Florida enters the NCAA Championships ranked No. 2, as UF was the second seed in 2010, 2008, 1998 and 1984. Florida entered the last three NCAA Championships as the No. 1 seed.
What happens in Friday’s competition?
What’s determined in Friday’s competition are the teams advancing to the Super Six team final, the NCAA all-around champion and the gymnasts moving ahead to Sunday’s individual event finals. The top three teams in each of Friday’s sessions advance to the NCAA Super Six on Saturday, April 18 at 7 p.m. (ET). The winner of the Super Six is the NCAA team champion. The NCAA Super Six format began in 1993 and Florida's advanced to the team final 12 times. Nine of UF’s NCAA Super Six appearances have come since Rhonda Faehn took over the Gator program for the 2003 season.
The all-around champion is the individual with the top total after results from both semifinal sessions are combined. Two who have claimed the NCAA all-around title are Gators - – Kytra Hunter (2012) and Bridget Sloan (2013). To advance to the NCAA Individual Event finals, competitors must place in the top four (including ties) in their session on Friday. A Gator has won a total of 11 NCAA individual titles and two are part of the 2015 Gator team –Hunter (all-around & vault/2012) and Sloan (all-around & beam/2013; uneven bars/2014).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 14:29:50 GMT -5
Date & Time: April 17-19, 2015
Site: Fort Worth Convention Center Arena (11,200)
Friday, April 17
Team Semifinal
Semifinal I – 2 p.m. (ET)
Florida, UCLA, Georgia, Michigan, Stanford, Utah
Semifinal II – 8 p.m. (ET)
Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon State
Sunday, April 19 at 3 p.m. (ET)
Individual Event Finals
Live scoring: live scoring available at Gatorzone.com or NCAA.com
Streaming Video:
April 17
NCAA.com at 2 p.m., ET & 8 p.m. ET
April 18
ESPN3 at 7 p.m. ET
April 19
ESPN3 at 3 p.m. ET
Television:
Super Six Championships: April 29 at 7 p.m. ET
Individual Event Finals: April 29 at 9 p.m. ET
Commentators: Bart Conner and Kathy Johnson Clarke
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2015 17:06:00 GMT -5
Florida, Utah, and Stanford advance to the Super Six tomorrow after semifinal 1 this afternoon. Round 2 tonight:
MEET STANDINGS
TEAM SCORE LEAD
1 Florida 197.475 1 Utah 197.475 3 Stanford 197.175 -.300 4 Michigan 197.025 -.450 5 Georgia 196.600 -.875 6 UCLA 196.400 -1.075
It's freaky, but that is the same score UF had at the Morgantown Regional.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2015 17:29:43 GMT -5
Bridget stumbled on the Floor and Kitra fell on the bars at the Morgantown Regional. Both will have to deliver in the Super Six for UF to have any chance at a 3peat.
By Pat Dooley Staff writer
Published: Friday, April 17, 2015 at 4:45 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 17, 2015 at 5:35 p.m.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Seconds after she had landed her dismount on the beam to finish up Florida's performance Friday, Kytra Hunter bent over and let out a scream you may have heard in Gainesville.
Hunters' strong performance on all four events allowed Florida to advance to Saturday's Super Six where a national champion will be crowned.
Hunter's overall score of 39.6 tied for the high score in the Afternoon Session and Florida tied Utah for first with a score of 197.475.
Stanford also advanced to the Super Six.
Florida started on the floor exercise and saw a surprising stumble by Bridget Sloan. Her 9.675 score cost her a chance at the all-around title, which she won two years ago.
But Kytra Hunter had a 9.95, the same score she had in the event as a freshman and the best ever for a UF gymnast in the NCAA Semifinals, and Sloan bounced back on the vault to give Florida's its best score, a 9.925.
The Gators found themselves in second place behind Stanford, a team they beat by .475 at the NCAA Regional in Morgantown, W.Va., just two weeks ago. Stanford's 49.575 score on the bars tied the second highest in NCAA Semifinal history.
The Gators took the lead back with a 49.45 score on the uneven bars. Sloan led the way again with a 9.95.
Utah used a 10 on the bars from Georgia Dabritz to pull into a tie with Florida on its last performance of the day.
Six more teams will decide the other three spots in the final tonight.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2015 20:13:55 GMT -5
This is the third successive meet in which the team didn't live up to UF standards; The SEC championships, the Morgantown Regional, and today in semifinal 1 of nationals. UF scored 197.400 in the SECs and 197.475 both in Morgantown and today.
Sloan and Hunter must hit everything tomorrow and the rest of the team respond as well for a chance at a 3peat. My guess is it will take a score between 198.000 and 198.250 to win the national championship. Oklahoma, Alabama, and LSU are capable of putting up those numbers. UF is too, but they haven't been doing it in the trophy meets. I'm skeptical that UF can flip a switch as a team to perform at the level required to win the national championship. I know they will give their very best tomorrow.
By Chris Harry GatorZone.com Senior Writer
FORT WORTH, Texas -- That Rhonda Faehn was praising junior Bridget Sloan at the post-meet news conference Friday should come as no surprise. As for the circumstance surrounding that praise? That was a little out of the ordinary for Florida’s gymnastics coach.
Sloan, simply put the best collegiate gymnast in the country, miss-timed her tumbling pass in UF’s first rotation Friday at the NCAA Championships opening session. Her score was a 9.675, which turned out to be the second-lowest floor score of the entire session.
It was Sloan’s reaction to the mishap that caught Faehn’s attention.
“She didn’t get down on herself ... and our athletes fed off of that,” Faehn said. “They could see she was not affected by it. I like to say the team goes as Bridget goes because of her dynamic personality. When they saw when she wasn’t responding in a negative way, they were like, “All right, here we go!’ ”
And off the Gators went, indeed.
They even withstood a sub-par effort from All-American Kytra Hunter on the vault and a couple low tallies to start on beam with a collective effort that was good enough for a score of 197.475, which tied Utah for first place. After a match of cards, Florida was awarded the top spot of the session and advanced UF -- along with the Utes and Stanford -- into Saturday night’s Super Six national championship round at Fort Worth Convention Center Arena.
When freshman Alex McMurtry and Hunter ended the night with 9.9s on the beam, whatever drama or anxiety that had been hovering over the Gators huddle was gone.
“I know you’re not supposed to focus on scores, but when the first two went up it was a little bit shocking,” McMurtry said of the 9.65 and 9.80 posted by Claire Boyce and Rachel Spicer, respectively, to open the rotation. “It just makes your routine that much more important. We’ve been training a lot under pressure and I’ve been trying hard to be really solid on beam. The equipment was a little shaky and that made it all the more important to be really tight and really sharp when you land.”
She nailed the landing, as did Hunter, who responded with a primal scream that put an exclamation point on UF performance. Make that achievement. As in the fourth straight Super Six and 10th in Faehn’s 13 seasons.
Hunter on beam “It was definitely a lot of joy,” Hunter (left) said. “Ending on the beam is always rocky ... and being the anchor and finishing strong was a highlight for me.”
An emphatic one, actually, after a team-wide performance Faehn knew was not up to the Florida standards.
“For us, we did good,” she said.
That was as complimentary as Faehn would get, but she had no problem seeing the orange-and-blue lining in the outcome. Namely, the fact the Gators advanced without putting their A-game on display.
The resiliency of her athletes definitely got her attention. Like Sloan going 9.925 on vault, 9.95 on bars and 9.875 on beam after her floor goof. Or Hunter answering her vault miscue with a 9.9 on bars and that 9.95 on floor that pushed her into a first-place tie for Semifinal I all-around competition.
Junior Bridgette Caquatto’s two routines (bars and floor) scored 9.9s. Freshman Kennedy Baker, in her first NCAA meet, went 9.850 on bars and 9.9 on floor. And McMurtry, also an NCAA rookie, in addition to her meet-high 9.9 on beam, scored 9.9 on vault and 9.85 on bars.
As for Sloan, once the floor was behind her, she held nothing back. Her teammates fed off that.
“You’re not going to be perfect every single time, so it’s how you react to things,” Faehn said. “We had little miscues here and there, but I love that we maintained our energy level, did not get affected mentally or physically and finished out really strong on beam with heavy pressure heading into that event.”
McMurtry Sloan seconded the notion, with an eye toward Saturday’s round. The one for the hardware.
“We didn’t have that great of a meet for us. We had some errors here and there,” she said. “But after it was over, Rhonda could tell in our faces that we’re going to kill it Saturday. She looked at me and I was like, ‘You don’t even have to say anything.’ I am so ready for [Saturday].”
If nothing else, maybe a stumble here and balance issue there was a good thing for Friday. Especially if happening on Friday gets them out of the way Saturday.
“We reached our goal today -- to advance to the finals,” McMurtry said. “I’m excited because I know the Gators can do so much better.”
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2015 22:49:53 GMT -5
In a major upset in semifinal 2, LSU eliminated themselves by having 3 gymnasts fall off the beam. Before the falls, the tigers were on a 197.600 pace and a move to the Super Six. Auburn took LSU's spot in the Super Six.
Oklahoma had 2 gymnasts fall off the beam, but the sooners were on a 198.000 pace so it didn't turn into an issue other than the lower semifinal 2 winning score:
TEAM SCORE LEAD
1 Oklahoma 197.400 2 Alabama 197.100 -.300 3 Auburn 197.075 -.325 4 Nebraska 196.675 -.725 5 LSU 196.550 -.850 6 Oregon State 195.875 -1.525
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2015 9:37:45 GMT -5
Like last year, UF starts on the beam in the Super Six tonight.
The score it took to win the 2014 national championship when Florida and Oklahoma had a first time ever tie:
2014 NCAA Finish: T-1st (198.175)
No team approached that yesterday, but it's a new meet today in the Super Six.
Go Gators! Get the 3peat!
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