#1 UF Gymnastics

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#1 UF Gymnastics went to #4 UCLA Saturday night and won a close opening season dual meet.

The Gators are the defending national champion and the 2 time defending SEC Champion.

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Jan 13, 2014 16:34:50 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

#1 UF Gymnastics went to #4 UCLA Saturday night and won a close opening season dual meet.

The Gators are the defending national champion and the 2 time defending national champion.

Rankings
Last Updated - January 13, 2014

RANK TEAM NAME TEAM AVE HIGH
1 Oklahoma 197.700 197.700
2 L.S.U. 197.200 197.200
3 Alabama 197.150 197.150
T4 Florida 196.650 196.650
T4 Utah 196.650 196.650
T6 UCLA 196.625 196.625
T6 Nebraska 196.625 196.625
8 Michigan 196.525 196.525
9 Georgia 196.325 196.500
10 Arkansas 196.200 196.200
11 Boise State 195.850 195.850
12 Stanford 195.575 196.325
13 Illinois 195.325 195.325
T14 Denver 195.200 195.200
T14 Oregon State 195.200 195.200
16 Rutgers 195.075 195.075
17 Kentucky 195.000 195.000
18 Auburn 194.875 194.875
T19 Ohio State 194.750 194.750
T19 Arizona 194.750 194.750
21 Kent State 194.725 194.725
22 Central Michigan 194.625 194.800
23 BYU 194.550 194.550
24 Minnesota 194.425 194.425
25 Michigan State 194.150 194.150

www.ncaa.com/rankings/gymnastics-women/nc

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Preseason Poll:

GymInfo - Women's Gymnastics National Coaches Poll for: Team

12 December 2014

Rank Team Name Total First Place Votes
1 Florida 755 21
2 Alabama 739 0
3 Oklahoma 728 7
4 UCLA 648 1
5 L.S.U. 636 0
6 Utah 596 2
7 Michigan 570 0
8 Georgia 552 0
9 Stanford 508 0
10 Nebraska 472 0
11 Arkansas 440 0
12 Oregon State 438 0
13 Auburn 426 0
14 Minnesota 360 0
15 Penn State 251 0
16 Illinois-Champaign 236 0
17 Arizona 224 0
18 Denver 220 0
19 Ohio State 209 0
20 Washington 201 0
21 Kentucky 198 0
22 California 152 0
23 Boise State 135 0
24 Maryland 103 0
25 Arizona State 74 0

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#4 UF knocked off #18 Auburn on the road. That's two wins now on the road at ranked opponents. UF scored 197.025 to post the win.

Harry, UF is loaded and just getting warmed up. I expect the Gators to win their 3rd straight SEC Championship and to win their 2nd straight national championship.

[oujour76]

Jan 18, 2014 11:29:16 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

#4 UF knocked off #18 Auburn on the road. That's two wins now on the road at ranked opponents. UF scored 197.025 to post the win.

Harry, UF is loaded and just getting warmed up. I expect the Gators to win their 3rd straight SEC Championship and to win their 2nd straight national championship.

We'll see as the year goes on. I know that UF has a great team. So does OU. Should be interesting. Pretty sure the NCAA finals are in Norman this year, too.

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UF is 1 and everybody else is playing for 2, even in Norman.

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Women's Gymnastics Meet Results

Florida versus Georgia

Host: University of Florida
Date: January 24, 2014
Location: Stephen C. O'Connell Center
Venue: Home Meet
Attendance: 10013


Contents:

Event Results

Team Results


Vault Team Standing
Uneven Parallel Bars Florida
Balance Beam Georgia
Floor Exercise Judge List



Team Standing (Top)


Place

Team

Score


1 Florida 198.050
2 Georgia 196.700



Florida (Top)
Head Coach: Rhonda Faehn


Gymnast

Vault

Bars

Beam

Floor

AllArr


Claire Boyce 9.800 9.875
Bridgette Caquatto 9.875 9.950 9.950
Mackenzie Caquatto 9.825 9.875 9.950 9.950 39.600
Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto 9.825
Kytra Hunter 9.900 9.900 9.900 10.000 39.700
Alaina Johnson 9.775 9.850 9.825
Bridget Sloan 9.925 9.875 9.900 10.000 39.700
Rachel Spicer 9.825 9.500 9.975
Team Totals 49.350 49.450 49.375 49.875 198.050



Georgia (Top)
Head Coach: Danna Durante


Gymnast

Vault

Bars

Beam

Floor

AllArr


Mary Beth Box 9.800 9.900
Ashlyn Broussard 9.800 9.100
Kiera Brown 9.875
Lindsey Cheek 9.925 9.975 9.800
Chelsea Davis 9.875 9.950
Kaylan Earls 9.950 9.825
Cat Hires 9.800 9.850 9.850
Brandie Jay 9.800 9.850 9.900
Morgan Reynolds 8.900 9.775
Brittany Rogers 9.900 9.950 9.800 9.875 39.525
Team Totals 49.300 49.600 48.450 49.350 196.700



Vault Results (Top)


Place

Gymnast

Team

Score


1 Lindsey Cheek Georgia 9.925
1 Bridget Sloan Florida 9.925
3 Brittany Rogers Georgia 9.900
3 Kytra Hunter Florida 9.900
5 Chelsea Davis Georgia 9.875
5 Bridgette Caquatto Florida 9.875
7 Rachel Spicer Florida 9.825
7 Mackenzie Caquatto Florida 9.825
9 Ashlyn Broussard Georgia 9.800
9 Cat Hires Georgia 9.800
9 Brandie Jay Georgia 9.800
12 Alaina Johnson Florida 9.775



Uneven Parallel Bars Results (Top)


Place

Gymnast

Team

Score


1 Lindsey Cheek Georgia 9.975
2 Brittany Rogers Georgia 9.950
2 Chelsea Davis Georgia 9.950
2 Bridgette Caquatto Florida 9.950
5 Kytra Hunter Florida 9.900
6 Kiera Brown Georgia 9.875
6 Mackenzie Caquatto Florida 9.875
6 Bridget Sloan Florida 9.875
9 Brandie Jay Georgia 9.850
9 Cat Hires Georgia 9.850
9 Alaina Johnson Florida 9.850
12 Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto Florida 9.825



Balance Beam Results (Top)


Place

Gymnast

Team

Score


1 Kaylan Earls Georgia 9.950
1 Mackenzie Caquatto Florida 9.950
3 Kytra Hunter Florida 9.900
3 Bridget Sloan Florida 9.900
5 Alaina Johnson Florida 9.825
6 Mary Beth Box Georgia 9.800
6 Brittany Rogers Georgia 9.800
6 Lindsey Cheek Georgia 9.800
6 Claire Boyce Florida 9.800
10 Rachel Spicer Florida 9.500
11 Ashlyn Broussard Georgia 9.100
12 Morgan Reynolds Georgia 8.900



Floor Exercise Results (Top)


Place

Gymnast

Team

Score


1 Bridget Sloan Florida 10.000
1 Kytra Hunter Florida 10.000
3 Rachel Spicer Florida 9.975
4 Mackenzie Caquatto Florida 9.950
4 Bridgette Caquatto Florida 9.950
6 Mary Beth Box Georgia 9.900
6 Brandie Jay Georgia 9.900
8 Brittany Rogers Georgia 9.875
8 Claire Boyce Florida 9.875
10 Cat Hires Georgia 9.850
11 Kaylan Earls Georgia 9.825
12 Morgan Reynolds Georgia 9.775



All Around Results (Top)


Place

Gymnast

Team

Score


1 Kytra Hunter Florida 39.700
1 Bridget Sloan Florida 39.700
3 Mackenzie Caquatto Florida 39.600
4 Brittany Rogers Georgia 39.525

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Back to back 10s and beat the gym poodles to boot - a great night for UF gymnastics:


By SCOTT CARTER
GatorZone.com Senior Writer


GAINESVILLE, Fla. – About the only person in the O’Connell Center not smiling was Kytra Hunter.

Hunter paced back and forth off to the side of the mat where her teammate, Bridget Sloan, had just completed only the third perfect 10 during a floor routine in the history of the Florida gymnastics program.

The crowd of more than 10,000 erupted when the score was posted. Sloan’s teammates rushed to mob her as echoes of the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” – Sloan’s musical choice to accompany her floor routine – still rattled in your ears.

Gators coach Rhonda Faehn did what Coach Bela Karolyi did to her when Faehn scored a 10 on the vault at the 1987 U.S. Championships in Kansas City: she walked Sloan’s way and gave her a hug and a smile.

“When Bridget stopped her last tumbling pass, I knew,’’ Faehn said.

Meanwhile, amidst the electric atmosphere, Hunter continued to pace alone with the eye of the tiger. She could celebrate Sloan’s historic moment later.

There was work to do.

“I just knew I had to do what I do every day in practice,’’ Hunter said.

Hunter was up once a Georgia gymnast finished her turn on beam. She stepped onto the mat while the O’Dome’s speakers came alive.

Finally, a grin splashed across Hunter’s face when she finished her first tumbling pass. She knew. Faehn did, too. Ditto for Sloan.

Hunter was after her perfect 10.

“If I can get a 10, Kytra can get 11,’’ Sloan told Faehn.

Hunter nailed the routine and the scene played out all over again. Only this time, Hunter was part of the celebration.

“It was like an earthquake when we were on the floor,’’ Faehn recalled half an hour later.

In a matter of minutes Sloan and Hunter doubled the number of perfect 10s the Gators had in the program’s first 30-plus years in the floor routine. The last one came in 1997 when Sloan and Hunter still needed their parents to dress them.

What a way to conclude their first home meet since helping the Gators win the program’s first national title last April in Los Angeles.

“I’ve never seen it,’’ Faehn said of back-to-back 10s. “I remember the feeling of getting it. The first thing I did was look to the crowd. Gymnasts love to perform and to do that for everyone in the stands.

“I felt that tonight when Bridget and Kytra did it. I’m so thrilled that they were able to do that tonight and they will always have that memory of what it felt like to be perfect for that one moment.”

Trailing in the running score through three rotations, the Gators saved their best for last in Friday’s 198.050-196.700 victory over the Bulldogs.

Junior Rachel Spicer, competing on the floor this season for the first time since her freshman year, got the party started when she hit a career-best 9.975 during her floor routine after Claire Boyce and Mackenzie Caquatto opened Florida’s turn on floor with strong scores.

Faehn called Spicer’s floor routine the best she had ever seen from blond Texan. Not even close.

“Everyone just caught on fire from there,’’ Faehn said.

Sloan followed Spicer, and Hunter followed Sloan, and then Bridgette Caquatto capped the night with a 9.950 to give Florida a school-record 49.875 team score.

The Gators showed their moxie as a team, but this night belonged to Sloan and Hunter.

Long before the two elite gymnasts signed with the Gators, each enjoyed significant success on the international level. Sloan was the 2009 World Champion and youngest member of the 2008 Olympic Team that competed in Beijing. Hunter was a member of the U.S. National Team and finished fourth at the 2010 Visa Championships.

Hunter arrived at UF first and won the NCAA all-around and vault national titles as a freshman in 2012. Sloan joined the program last year and won the NCAA all-around and balance beam national titles.

They now form the most dynamic duo in college gymnastics.

“Kytra and I have always worked well together,’’ Sloan said. “We feed off each other.”

They are the Gators’ yin and yang. Sloan the extrovert never at a loss for words. Hunter the more reserved, a fearless competitor that seemingly stalks her events.

“I knew if she could show it off, I could show it off,’’ Hunter said.

Both had trouble grasping the significance of their rare back-to-back 10s in the immediate aftermath late Friday night. For now, they need more time.

They will have a reminder soon enough. A large graphic on the wall of the Gators’ gymnastics studio displays all the perfect 10s in school history.

Faehn didn’t need time to grasp what Friday night meant.

“We get to change those graphics,” she said.

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#2 Gators host #1 Sooners tonight. It will be aired on tape delay on Sun Sports likely throught Florida:

Television: meet airs tape-delayed on SUN Sports (Gainesville/Ocala Cox cable channel 48 or 1048) on Feb. 9 at 10:30 a.m. and again Feb. 11 at 11 a.m.

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#2 UF took down #1 OU:

UF 197.875
OU 197.225

UF will be #1 when the rankings are updated.

[oujour76]

Jan 31, 2014 21:24:29 GMT -5 ETGator1 said:

#2 UF took down #1 OU:

UF 197.875
OU 197.225

UF will be #1 when the rankings are updated.

Sounds like a good meet. Congrats. See you at the NCAA's.

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Go Gators!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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By Michelle Provenzano
GatorZone.com Writing Intern

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Hype surrounded No. 2 Florida’s meet with No. 1 Oklahoma in the O’Connell Center Friday night.

After all, these teams have some recent history.

The Gators surpassed the Sooners in last year’s NCAA Championship by a margin of .200 for the title. In their rematch Friday, all eyes were on Florida to see what the Gators could do to keep the bar high.

How's this? The Gators remained unbeaten with four wins under wraps after dropping the Sooners 197.875-197.225 in front of a crowd of 7,260 — the 14th-largest in program history.

“It was a very consistent performance,” Florida coach Rhonda Faehn said. “What I loved about that was we knew this was going to be our toughest challenge so far this year.

“Our athletes responded in a positive and aggressive manner, instead of backing down or being uptight and tense. They just attacked everything, and it was really nice to see.”

Needless to say, the momentum the Gators came into the with meet with -- Kytra Hunter and Bridget Sloan grabbed perfect 10s on the floor against Georgia last week -- fueled Florida against Oklahoma.

How could it not with how loud the crowd got when the Gators’ dynamic duo stepped up for the floor routine and Hunter grabbed her second consecutive 10?

Hunter’s top score has her shattering program records, now the first Gator to get two 10s on the floor and the first Florida gymnast to post perfect scores in consecutive performances since Susan Hines in 1998’s NCAA semifinal and Super Six rounds.

“It’s kind of funny because honestly, everyone’s like, ‘does it feel like you’ve got a 10?’ And I’m like ‘uh, not quite,’ ” Hunter said. “Through the week, I was like ‘uh, I still don’t feel it.’ But today, I definitely felt the 10 I got last week.

“What I feel inside is just so much adrenaline.”

Hunter said floor is her favorite event because she gets to express her personality more than in other events.

The junior’s sassy routine drew the crowd in with every nailed acrobatic flip and every precise movement.

“I block out everything,” Hunter said. “I only hear about five or 10 fans screaming for me. But after my floor routine I heard them going nuts, and that’s the best thing ever.”

Sloan added: “It amazes me how incredible of an athlete she is. Her power, it’s just unheard of. It’s just like, ‘I could tumble under you and I’d still be okay.’ I think that’s what makes her such a strong asset to the team.”

Sloan may not have grabbed another 10 on floor, but she dominated three out of the four events.

The sophomore scored a 9.90 on bars, a 9.95 on beam and a 9.95 on vault for an all-around score of 39.750.

But to Sloan, no matter how precise and focused she may be, there is always that extra something she strives for to make her performances anything but ordinary.

“I am getting closer and closer,” Sloan said about her goal to get a 10 on beam. “That darn side aerial.

“I’m going to have to really work on that. I even turned to Rhonda and knew that was the deciding point. But it just makes me want it even more. I think that’s what kind of keeps me going, is that you just want to get better and better.”

With Sloan and Hunter leading the way, the rest of the Gators are thriving off each competition.

Friday's victory showed how good the Gators are when everyone is performing at a high level. The victory over the No. 1-ranked Sooners mean when the new poll is released, the Gators will take over the top spot.

“They’re very confident in that they know their ability, they know what they’re capable of doing, and they know when they haven’t done that yet,” Faehn said. “That’s what’s great.

"I know they are very confident that we can, if we take one thing at a time, that we can put ourselves in a similar position to last year”

Sloan added that the team's energy the team and its close bond are only going to make them better in competition.

“It really is incredible how close we are and how much we want to get better,” Sloan said. “I think that’s going to be the deciding point for post season. Who is hungry enough to stick that landing? Who is hungry enough to put in that little extra during practice?

"It’s an awesome ride now, and all we gotta do is just maintain it.”

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