Kytra Hunter battled more than nerves at the 2014 NCAA Regionals meet. The junior all-arounder competed through an illness she’d been fighting the week prior.
The Gators are gearing up for the meet they’ve been waiting for all season: the 2014 NCAA Championship. With less than two weeks until Florida has to defend the title it claimed for the first time in 2013, coach Rhonda Faehn is looking for some key improvements.
Florida may have fallen — but not too far.
The Gators will be more rested than usual when they compete at the 2014 NCAA University Park Regional on Saturday.
For Bridget Sloan and the rest of the Florida gymnasts, the time for individual goals is over.
A week off gave Florida gymnasts exactly what they need to regroup after an unexpected second-place finish at the 2014 Southeastern Conference Championship.
After a record-breaking regular season, No. 1 Florida couldn’t clinch the 2014 Southeastern Conference Championship title.
Florida may have won its national championship in 2013, but the 2014 squad is far ahead of its predecessor.
Bridget Sloan led the No. 3 Gators to finish their regular season on a high note—a season-high note.
For tonight’s meet, the Gators travel to Columbia, Mo., for the first time since the Tigers joined the Southeastern Conference in 2012.
Alaina Johnson outdid herself in her final meet in the O’Connell Center on Friday.
For the first time this season, Florida will travel to Alabama, but if the Gators continue to succeed, tonight’s outing likely will not be the last.
It may be the quickest event in a gymnastics meet, but vault is far from simple.
There are two names on the Florida gymnastics roster that will send a crowd into a frenzy — Kytra Hunter and Bridget Sloan.
No. 2 UF will take on an equal challenger in No. 3 LSU at the O’Connell Center tonight, but two Gators will have personal challenges out on the floor.
Kytra Hunter pretty much summed it all up after Florida’s home win against Arkansas (197.525-196.025) on Valentines Day.
Senior all-arounder Alaina Johnson took to the floor for the first time in more than a year on Feb. 7 in Florida’s (5-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) win against Kentucky. Johnson’s 2014 debut floor score (9.825) tied with two others for fourth overall in the meet.
Last season, sophomore Bridgette Caquatto did not contribute much until the postseason. Now, almost halfway through her sophomore season, she has not missed a beat or a meet.
Lightning usually does not strike the same place twice, but for Kytra Hunter, perfection did.
There is more to a perfect 10 than meets the eye — which is why the Gators have accomplished the feat only 17 times in the program’s 41 years of existence.
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