#1 UF Gymnastics

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#1 UF wins at #35 UK:

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The No. 1 Florida gymnastics team turned in its third consecutive meet with a 10.0 to win the dual at Kentucky Friday in front of a Memorial Coliseum crowd of 2,282. Florida turned in a 197.175 while the Wildcats posted a 195.45.




Florida Event Winners Friday


Vault:

Kytra Hunter

9.925


Uneven Bars:

Mackenzie Caquatto

9.900




Bridget Sloan

9.900


Balance Beam:

Bridget Sloan

10.0


Floor Exercise

Kytra Hunter

9.925


All-Around

Bridget Sloan

39.675


It was a steady performance for the Gators throughout the meet, scoring a 49.25 or above on every event. Florida opened and ended the meet with meet-high team totals of 49.325 on uneven bars and balance beam.



That beam total included a 10.0 by sophomore and defending NCAA beam champion Bridget Sloan. She is the second Gator to earn a perfect mark on beam, with the first also coming at Kentucky in 2004 when Kristen Stucky set the school record.



Sloan led a Gator sweep of the all-around, as she used a 39.675 to win her fourth consecutive title. Junior Kytra Hunter was second at 39.425 while senior Alaina Johnson posted a 39.40 in her first all-around performance in more than a year.



Florida also swept the event titles. In addition to the beam win, Sloan shared the evening’s uneven bars title with senior Mackenzie Caquatto at 9.90. Hunter used 9.925 marks to take both vault and floor exercise wins.



GATOR PERFORMANCE NOTES:

· Of the 12 Gators to post a perfect score in the program’s 42-year history, Sloan is the first to earn a 10.0 on multiple events. She earned her first 10.0 last month on floor exercise on Jan. 24 and now adds a balance beam 10.0.

· Sloan collected her fourth consecutive all-around title Friday. That is the most consecutive titles since Ashanée Dickerson opened the 2011 season with three straight all-around victories.

· Hunter won her fifth consecutive floor exercise title. In that streak is a pair of 10.0s earned in the Jan. 24 and Jan. 31 floor competitions. She has won 17 floor titles as a Gator, including sharing the 2013 Southeastern Conference crown.

· Johnson made her first all-around appearance since Jan. 11, 2013, earning a 39.40. A lower back stress reaction/fracture held her out of eight meets last season. She did return to perform in 2013 NCAA Regional and Championships competition and won the NCAA uneven bars title.



RECORDS: Florida (5-0, 3-0 SEC); Kentucky (4-4, 1-3 SEC).



THE SERIES: All-time, Florida leads 74-1.



WATCH: The Florida-Kentucky dual airs tape-delayed on SUN Sports (Gainesville/Ocala Cox cable channel 48 or 1048). The meet airs on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 16 at 10:30 a.m.



QUOTES
On the team’s performance tonight:

“I’m beyond thrilled by the way this team performed tonight. It was incredible right from the start. We definitely had one of our best bar performances top to bottom that we’ve had all season. I think four of the six were perfectly stuck landings. It was a really nice improvement, which is what we were looking for.



“Tonight we were able to rest Macko (Mackenzie Caquatto) and (Rachel) Spicer on floor and Macko from vault. To finish as aggressively as we did on beam and Bridget’s perfect 10 on beam was like the icing on the cake.



“Overall on all four events, it was really an exceptional performance. They competed aggressively and they showed improvement, which is the most important thing. It is exactly where we wanted to be – showing improvements where we wanted to see them.” – Florida Head Coach Rhonda Faehn



On her performance Friday:

“It was one of those nights, it was like a fairy tale. The meet ended on beam, my favorite event, and getting a 10 – it was just incredible.” – sophomore All-American Bridget Sloan



What words of wisdom did you have for Bridget Sloan prior to her beam routine?:

“I’m really happy for Bridget. Before she went up on beam, she told me ‘I’m going to kill this routine.’ So I just stepped away because I could tell she’s ready to go.” – Florida Head Coach Rhonda Faehn



On the team’s performance:

“It was just an incredible night. It was one of our best road meets for sure. We really just came together as a team. We were able to get more landings than we were able to get all season. We were really relaxed and just had a blast.” – sophomore All-American Bridget Sloan



MOM KNOWS BEST:

After the Gators’ home opener on Jan. 24, Bridget Sloan’s mother was gathering 10.0 signs from the O’Connell Center. She knew the Sloan family was all coming to cheer on their youngest at Kentucky on Feb. 7 and Mary wanted some signs to cheer Bridget on. Bridget was clear in her goal to try to get a 10.0 on her favorite event, the balance beam, and Mary wanted to give her inspiration.



“Competing at road meets is never easy but Kentucky hosted us really well. And what I think what made it even more special was my whole family was there. It is incredible to get all of us together – all four kids and Mom and Dad – all in one place together. Tonight, they were all there supporting me,” Bridget Sloan said. “It was incredible.”



NATIONAL RANK:

Florida – Florida is No. 1 in the Feb. 2 GymInfo National Rankings.

Kentucky – The Wildcats are No. 35 in the GymInfo rankings.



UP NEXT:

The Gators begin a two-meet home stand with a Valentine’s Day meet versus No. 11 Arkansas. Meet time is set for 7 p.m. in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center. The Razorbacks turned in a season-best 196.275 Friday in their loss to No. 3 LSU, who posted a 197.225.



The Florida-Arkansas dual will air tape-delayed on SUN Sports (Gainesville/Ocala channel 48 or 1048 on Cox Cable) on Feb. 22 at 5 p.m., Feb. 23 at 8:30 a.m., Feb. 24 at 11 a.m. and Feb. 27 at 9:30 a.m.

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#1 UF hosts #11 Arkansas in a dual meet:

By Jim Harvin
Correspondent

Published: Friday, February 14, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.


The top-ranked Florida gymnastics team is back home in the O’Connell Center to host No. 11 Arkansas in Southeastern Conference dual-meet action tonight at 7.

Facts

Today's meet

Who: No. 11 Arkansas (3-3, 1-3 SEC) at No. 1 Florida (5-0, 3-0)
When: 7 p.m.
Tickets: $5 adults; children 17 and under and UF students with Gator 1 card admitted free.


UF (5-0, 3-0) is coming off a solid 197.175-195.45 road win over Kentucky that was highlighted by sophomore All-American Bridget Sloan’s perfect score on the balance beam, just the second 10 in the event in program history (Kristen Stucky, 2004).

The Gators’ team score was their highest in three road meets this season and third-highest overall behind their winning marks of 198.050 and 197.875 posted in UF’s respective home wins over Georgia and Oklahoma prior to the Kentucky road trip.

“It was just an overall great meet,” said junior All-American Kytra Hunter, who won both the vault and floor exercise events against the Wildcats. “It just shows how great of a team we are. We just want to keep peaking, keep surprising people and show people what we have.”

Sloan’s beam score was the fourth 10 of the season for the defending NCAA champions, setting a single-season record despite last week’s meet being just the midpoint.

But it’s the team’s steady, week-to-week overall improvement that has coach Rhonda Faehn excited, highlighted by the Gators starting to finish off their routines with more stuck landings.

“It’s the natural progression that we’ve been looking for, knowing that Kentucky was our halfway point of the regular season,” Faehn said. “That was something that during the first four meets of the season maybe we got on one event but really were not dialing in those stuck landings everywhere.”

The win over the Wildcats also marked the return to all-around competition of senior All-American Alaina Johnson, who missed eight meets last season due to a stress fracture in her lower back.

“It was really wonderful to get Alaina out there on floor,” Faehn said. “It’s the first time she’s done all-around since January of last year, and she really did a great job. She did the best in the other three events that she’s done all year and then did floor for the first time and did a great job, so I was really proud of her getting out there and doing all-around.”

The fact the Gators haven’t missed a beat despite changing up the personnel for each competition demonstrates UF’s talent level.

“It really just means that we’re very strong as a team,” said Sloan, who picked up her fourth consecutive SEC Gymnast of the Week honors. “We have so much fun. We literally have a blast out there and we love competing. We do our best when we’re having fun, and we’re all very excited about this weekend.”

Tonight’s meet will feature the top two individuals in the nation in the all-around in Sloan, who is ranked No. 1 and has won four straight all-around titles, and senior All-American Katherine Grable of Arkansas (3-3, 1-3), who is ranked No. 2 and has collected five consecutive all-around wins.

“At the halfway point, I’m absolutely thrilled with where our team is,” Faehn said. “I feel like they are not only confident and consistent but are competing aggressively, and we’re really following the plan that we’ve had set from the beginning.

“We started out a little bit slower, not focusing on getting all the stuck landings but really trying to allow the athletes to rest when they need to and not pushing them right from the start. We still have another five dual meets, and then we have SECs, regionals and nationals. These athletes need to feel fresh, like it’s almost the start of the season at the end of the season. We’ve done a really great job of managing that.”

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Women's Gymnastics Meet Results

Florida versus Arkansas

Host: University of Florida
Date: February 14, 2014
Location: Stephen C. O'Connell Center
Venue: Home Meet
Attendance: 6124


Contents:

Event Results

Team Results


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



Team Standing (Top)


Place

Team

Score


1 Florida 197.525
2 Arkansas 196.025



Florida (Top)
Head Coach: Rhonda Faehn


Gymnast

Vault

Bars

Beam

Floor

AllArr


Claire Boyce 9.875 9.850
Bridgette Caquatto 9.850 9.850 9.900
Mackenzie Caquatto 9.850 9.950 9.875
Silvia Colussi-Pelaez 9.750
Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto 9.850
Kytra Hunter 10.000 9.800 9.400
Alaina Johnson 9.850 9.950 9.550 9.925 39.275
Bridget Sloan 9.950 9.925 9.900 9.975 39.750
Rachel Spicer 9.850 9.800 9.850
Team Totals 49.500 49.525 49.000 49.500 197.525



Arkansas (Top)
Head Coach: Mark Cook & René Lyst


Gymnast

Vault

Bars

Beam

Floor

AllArr


Stephani Canizaro 9.700 9.800
Sydnie Dillard 9.800 9.750
Cailee Ellsworth 9.750
Heather Elswick 9.675 9.825
Erin Freier 9.750 9.725
Katherine Grable 9.900 9.850 9.875 9.950 39.575
Samantha Nelson 9.150 9.775
Shelby Salmon 9.775
Amanda Wellick 9.850 9.775 9.800 9.875 39.300
Scarlett Williams 9.850 9.700
Bailee Zumwalde 9.700 9.750
Team Totals 49.000 48.950 48.900 49.175 196.025

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#2 UF host #3 LSU tonight at 7 PM EST:

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No. 2 Florida (6-0, 4-0 SEC) vs No. 3 LSU (7-2, 3-1 SEC)


Date & Time: Friday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. ET


Site: Stephen C. O’Connell Center (10,126); gates 1 & 2 open at 5:30 p.m.



Television: meet airs tape-delayed on ESPNU Feb. 27 at 6:30 p.m. and ESPN2 March 2 at 6 p.m.



Series Record (all-time): Florida leads 64-30. Last meeting, Florida won the 2013 NCAA Super Six team final 197.575 and LSU was fifth at 197.05.



Internet: video stream available on GatorVision; live stats available on GatorZone.com

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#2 UF tops #3 LSU in a close meet:

Women's Gymnastics Meet Results

University of Florida versus LSU

Host: University of Florida
Date: February 21, 2014
Location: Stephen C. O'Connell Center
Venue: Home Meet
Attendance: 9197


Contents:

Event Results

Team Results


Vault Team Standing
Uneven Parallel Bars Florida
Balance Beam L.S.U.
Floor Exercise Judge List



Team Standing (Top)


Place

Team

Score


1 Florida 198.125
2 L.S.U. 197.625



Florida (Top)
Head Coach: Rhonda Faehn


Gymnast

Vault

Bars

Beam

Floor

AllArr


Claire Boyce 9.900 9.825
Bridgette Caquatto 9.800 9.850 9.925
Mackenzie Caquatto 9.900 9.875 9.925
Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto 9.850
Kytra Hunter 10.000 9.850 9.650 9.975 39.475
Alaina Johnson 9.925 9.925 9.875 9.925 39.650
Bridget Sloan 9.900 9.900 9.950 9.950 39.700
Rachel Spicer 9.800 9.900 9.875
Team Totals 49.525 49.400 49.550 49.650 198.125



L.S.U. (Top)
Head Coach: D-D Breaux


Gymnast

Vault

Bars

Beam

Floor

AllArr


Rheagan Courville 9.950 9.950 9.900 9.875 39.675
Kaleigh Dickson 9.875 9.800 9.825 9.875 39.375
Sydney Ewing 9.825
Ashleigh Gnat 9.875 9.750 9.750
Lloimincia Hall 9.575 9.925
Jessie Jordan 9.950 9.800 9.925 9.875 39.550
Sarie Morrison 9.900 9.950
Britney Ranzy 9.925
Jessica Savona 9.825 9.875
Randii Wyrick 9.800
Team Totals 49.550 49.425 49.225 49.425 197.625



Vault Results (Top)


Place

Gymnast

Team

Score


1 Kytra Hunter Florida 10.000
2 Jessie Jordan L.S.U. 9.950
2 Rheagan Courville L.S.U. 9.950
4 Alaina Johnson Florida 9.925
5 Sarie Morrison L.S.U. 9.900
5 Mackenzie Caquatto Florida 9.900
5 Bridget Sloan Florida 9.900
8 Kaleigh Dickson L.S.U. 9.875
8 Ashleigh Gnat L.S.U. 9.875
10 Jessica Savona L.S.U. 9.825
11 Rachel Spicer Florida 9.800
11 Bridgette Caquatto Florida 9.800



Uneven Parallel Bars Results (Top)


Place

Gymnast

Team

Score


1 Rheagan Courville L.S.U. 9.950
1 Sarie Morrison L.S.U. 9.950
3 Britney Ranzy L.S.U. 9.925
3 Alaina Johnson Florida 9.925
5 Bridget Sloan Florida 9.900
6 Mackenzie Caquatto Florida 9.875
7 Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto Florida 9.850
7 Kytra Hunter Florida 9.850
7 Bridgette Caquatto Florida 9.850
10 Kaleigh Dickson L.S.U. 9.800
10 Randii Wyrick L.S.U. 9.800
10 Jessie Jordan L.S.U. 9.800



Balance Beam Results (Top)


Place

Gymnast

Team

Score


1 Bridget Sloan Florida 9.950
2 Jessie Jordan L.S.U. 9.925
2 Mackenzie Caquatto Florida 9.925
4 Rheagan Courville L.S.U. 9.900
4 Rachel Spicer Florida 9.900
4 Claire Boyce Florida 9.900
7 Alaina Johnson Florida 9.875
8 Kaleigh Dickson L.S.U. 9.825
8 Sydney Ewing L.S.U. 9.825
10 Ashleigh Gnat L.S.U. 9.750
11 Kytra Hunter Florida 9.650
12 Lloimincia Hall L.S.U. 9.575



Floor Exercise Results (Top)


Place

Gymnast

Team

Score


1 Kytra Hunter Florida 9.975
2 Bridget Sloan Florida 9.950
3 Lloimincia Hall L.S.U. 9.925
3 Alaina Johnson Florida 9.925
3 Bridgette Caquatto Florida 9.925
6 Kaleigh Dickson L.S.U. 9.875
6 Jessie Jordan L.S.U. 9.875
6 Jessica Savona L.S.U. 9.875
6 Rheagan Courville L.S.U. 9.875
6 Rachel Spicer Florida 9.875
11 Claire Boyce Florida 9.825
12 Ashleigh Gnat L.S.U. 9.750



All Around Results (Top)


Place

Gymnast

Team

Score


1 Bridget Sloan Florida 39.700
2 Rheagan Courville L.S.U. 39.675
3 Alaina Johnson Florida 39.650
4 Jessie Jordan L.S.U. 39.550
5 Kytra Hunter Florida 39.475
6 Kaleigh Dickson L.S.U. 39.375

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UF is #1 in the nation, but there are 4 SEC teams in the top 6 and 6 SEC teams in the top 15.

Next up: SEC championships this weekend

The SEC will conduct a meet that will resemble the NCAA meet in terms of talent:

1. Florida
2. Louisiana State
4. Alabama
6. Georgia
12. Auburn
15. Arkansas

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UF's Record:

9-1 Overall
6-1 Against top 15
4-0 Home against top 15
2-1 Road against top 15

The lone blemish on the Gators record is a close road loss at #4 Alabama. It was good experience as there were 15,000 frenzied bama fans rooting for the tide and against the Gators.

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Florida gymnastics ties Oklahoma to repeat as national champion



Special to Gatorsports.com



Published: Saturday, April 19, 2014 at 9:31 p.m.

Last Modified: Saturday, April 19, 2014 at 9:31 p.m.


Florida and Oklahoma will share the national championship in gymnastics after both teams finished with matching scores of 198.175 on Saturday night at Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Ala.


The championship is the second straight for the Gators, who won last year in Los Angeles.

The Gators got matching scores of 9.950 to finish the floor exercise and catch up to the Sooners.

Then No. 2 UF defeated then No. 1 Oklahoma 197.875-197.225 at the O'Connell Center in January.

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Saturday April 19, 2014
BACK-TO-BACK: Gators Win Second Consecutive National Title; Co-Champs with Oklahoma

The Gators captured a second consecutive national championship on Saturday in dramatic fashion.


BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The Gators avoided talk of a repeat prior to their trip here for the NCAA Gymnastics Championships.

They wanted the 2014 team to stand on its own. The Gators certainly did that Saturday night.

They stood at the podium holding the national championship trophy after a dramatic comeback on the floor to tie Oklahoma for the national title.

The Gators won the 2013 national title -- the first in program history -- while the Sooners were runner-up.

Florida needed a strong floor performance to close out last year's title and the same was true Saturday.

The Gators stood in third place behind Oklahoma and host Alabama entering the final rotation.

However, two Crimson Tide gymnasts fell on beam to wipe out Alabama's national title bid.

Meanwhile, Oklahoma finished vault and posted a final team score of 198.175. The Gators had two final turns on the floor left when Oklahoma's final score flashed.

Kytra Hunter and Bridgette Caquatto both needed to score 9.950s on floor to tie the Sooners and earn a share of the title (there is not a tiebreaker in the Super Six).

Hunter was first and got her 9.950. Caquatto then went out and did the same.

For a the next few minutes drama unfolded as officials determined if a tiebreaker was needed. It was not.

Turns out the Gators earned a share of the title with their nerve-wracking comeback Florida fans won't forget for some time.

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By SCOTT CARTER
GatorZone.com Senior Writer


BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Back when Florida gymnastics coach Rhonda Faehn was recruiting the Caquatto sisters from Naperville, Ill., she realized what a special and different duo they were.

Mackenzie was the older and more celebrated elite-level gymnast of the two. She was also very matter-of-fact -- sometimes offering only one-word answers -- to Faehn's emails.

Younger sister Bridgette was wordier. She's thoughtful that way.

"She would send a whole page. 'Tell the girls on the team good luck and all this stuff,' " Faehn said. "All she thinks about is the team."

Fast forward to Saturday night here at the NCAA Championships. The Gators needed Bridgette more than ever. Bridgette, well, she was eager to contribute.

That's her. But there was some recent history to overcome and a deficit on the scoreboard.

Four weeks ago in the same building at the SEC Championships, Bridgette made a costly mistake when she stepped out of bounds on her floor routine. The Gators finished second to Alabama, not a direct result of Caquatto's error, but it didn't help.

The 20-year-old sophomore struggled once again during her floor routine at the Penn State Regional, falling on her final tumbling pass. She entered that mental stage Faehn describes as "delicate confidence."

"I know she felt like she carried the weight of the world on her shoulders when she stepped out of bounds -- in this arena -- just a month ago,'' Faehn said. "Then she had the mistake at regionals. She has been training so hard the last two weeks."

Of course, the stage was set for a dramatic finish Saturday when the Gators entered the final rotation losing to host Alabama by 0.15 points and second-place Oklahoma by 0.075.

The Crimson Tide took themselves out of the race with two falls on beam, including one by all-around champion Kim Jacob. Meanwhile, the Sooners nailed their final rotation on vault to finish with a 198.175, the highest score in the history of the NCAA Championships.

When Oklahoma's final score flashed, Bridget Sloan had just finished her floor routine with a score of 9.925. For the Gators to catch Oklahoma and clinch a share of their second consecutive national title, Kytra Hunter and Bridgette Caquatto would need to be superb.

Each needed to average at least a 9.950 to forge a tie.

"We like to make things interesting,'' quipped Sloan, who rebounded from a disappointing fall on beam Friday to post the best all-around score (39.725) on Saturday.

Hunter did her part, scoring a 9.950.

"I’ve gotten a couple of 10s, so I had to calm myself down and flash back to those routines and just how much fun I had,'' Hunter said of her mental approach. "I think that definitely triggered some energetic moves."

The final performance belonged to Caquatto. She didn't know what score she needed and neither did the Gators in the tension-filled arena.

All most knew was that the score was so close that Caquatto's floor routine could determine the national champion.

"We kept hitting our floor routines and selling them to the crowd,'' Caquatto said. "I had no idea what I needed going in, but the minute I came down and landed and they flashed the score, it was crazy. Everybody was jumping on me. It was exciting."

Caquatto got the 9.950 the Gators had to have. There was a tie. And then everyone had to wait as NCAA officials determined if there was a tiebreaker needed.

There had never been a tie for the national championship since the NCAA began to govern the national gymnastics championships in 1982.

"It was pure torture,'' Oklahoma coach K.J. Kindler said.

The final ruling: co-national champs.

"For her to come out knowing that her last routine was the make-it-or-break-it routine, and for her to perform so beautifully and to help us secure that title, I couldn't ask for any more from her,'' Faehn said.

The Gators, a year after becoming only the fifth program to ever win a national title, had gone back-to-back.

They had the younger Caquatto -- her teammates call her Bridgey -- to thank for the final push up the scoreboard.

Caquatto was a role performer as a freshman, relegated to spectator for most of the season until a season-ending shoulder injury to Randy Stageberg in the postseason. Caquatto stepped in on floor and pulled off a strong routine at the NCAA Championships to help the Gators clinch the title.

And then she did it again Saturday.

"I knew Bridgey could do it,'' Sloan said. "I knew if she dug deep enough into her heart and saw a national championship ring, she would make it."

The soft-spoken Bridgey is a blend of quickness and power on the floor. Off it, she turns into the sweet girl next door.

"I'm just really happy I was able to do the best I could for the team,'' Caquatto said. "Individually, 'yeah, it's great I hit a good floor routine,' but a national championship and national championship ring doesn't get earned by one person. It's earned by everybody."

Sounds like something Caquatto might have written back to Faehn in one of those emails.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Another NCAA title returns with the University of Florida national champion gymnastics team when they head home today. Sophomore Bridget Sloan is the NCAA uneven bars champion, winning the title today in the NCAA Individual Event Finals held on the concluding day of the 2014 NCAA Championships at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex (BJCC).


Sloan’s winning mark of 9.9375 gives her the third individual title of her career, as she won the NCAA all-around and balance beam crowns as a freshman in 2013. Three Gators were a part of the NCAA bars final. Mackenzie Caquatto was fourth at 9.8875 and Alaina Johnson shared sixth at 9.85.



Sloan also tied for sixth on vault with a 9.9167. In the beam final, Johnson tied for 10th at 9.85 and Caquatto shared 12th (9.8375).

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Monday April 21, 2014
Florida's Bridget Sloan is among final four for 2014 Honda Award
Gainesville, Fla.

Bridget Sloan is again a nominee for the Honda Award, She won the award in 2013.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – University of Florida sophomore Bridget Sloan is again among the final four candidates for gymnastics’ Honda Award. Sloan was the Honda Award recipient in 2013. The Honda Sports Award is given annually to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports.




2014 Honda Award Nominees (Gymnastics)


Katherine Grable

Arkansas


Kim Jacob

Alabama


Bridget Sloan

Florida


Emily Wong

Nebraska


Sloan was spectacular in her second season with the Gators, leading the team with 33 event titles. Among those were 10 all-around wins, which includes topping all competitors in the NCAA Super Six team final for the second-straight season. Her total of 39.725 Saturday, which helped Florida win its second consecutive NCAA title, was the highest among the all-arounders in 2014 NCAA semifinal or Super Six competition.



Sloan also took the NCAA uneven bars title in Sunday’s individual event finals, bringing her career total of NCAA titles to three – a Florida record.



She won the Southeastern Conference all-around crown for the second straight year. Her total of 39.825 at Missouri shares the nation’s high with teammate Alaina Johnson and is the nation’s highest all-around total in road competition since 2003. Other Sloan highlights include:



· First in nation to score 10.0 on floor exercise and balance beam. Each apparatus season-best is a 9.95 or above.

· Leads Florida with 33 event titles (10 all-around, seven beam, vault, six bars, three floor)

· National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women (NACGC/W) Southeast Region Gymnast of the Year

· Only gymnast in 2014 to earn first-team NACGC regular-season All-America honors in every event

· Added three All-America honors in NCAA Championships’ competition to bring career total to seven



The Honda Sports Award is presented annually by the CWSA to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA- sanctioned sports and signifies “the best of the best in collegiate athletics”. The winner of the sport award becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious 2014 Honda Cup. The nominees were chosen by a group of experts representing the United States Elite Coaches Association.

The CWSA presents the Honda Sports Award annually to top women student-athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports. Honda Sports award winners will be presented with the honor during on-campus presentations throughout the year and all Honda Sports award winners become a finalist for the prestigious 2014 Honda Cup award presented in June.

The Collegiate Women Sports Awards has honored the nation’s top NCAA women athletes for 37 years, recognizing superior athletic skills, leadership, academic excellence and eagerness to participate in community service. Since commencing its sponsorship in 1986, Honda has provided more than $2.7 million in institutional grants to the universities of the award winners and nominees to support women’s athletics programs at the institutions.