At the midway point of the season, No. 6 Florida ranks in the top 10 nationally in every event, but the area the team has improved most since last season has been the balance beam.
Florida got off to a strong start on the uneven bars Friday night against N.C. State and used it to propel the team to its fourth-consecutive victory, 195.475-194.450.
Florida got off to a strong start on the uneven bars Friday night against N.C. State, and used it to propel the team to its fourth straight victory, 195.475 – 194.450.
Coming off of her team’s best performance of the season, UF coach Rhonda Faehn wants to see if a different lineup could improve on that score.
A lot of the attention early in this season has been on freshman Ashanée Dickerson, but another young gymnast has started to make a name for herself for the No. 3 Gators.
Friday night in the O’Connell Center for the fourth-annual Gators Link to Pink meet to support breast cancer awareness, No. 4 Florida (3-1, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) came out and put together its best performance of the season.
The Florida gymnastics team continued to improve Friday night in the O’Connell Center, as it topped No. 13 LSU (3-3, 1-2 Southeastern Conference), 196.725 – 195.050 for the Gators’ third-consecutive dual meet victory.
UF coach Rhonda Faehn has said several times the team’s goal is to get better as the season progresses and prepare itself for the postseason, and according to her, her young squad is right on schedule.
When the Gators take the floor Friday in the O’Connell Center for the fourth annual Gators Link to Pink meet, it will have a more significant meaning for junior Alicia Goodwin that the first two times she competing in it.
The Gators went into Memorial Coliseum wanting to prove they could excel away from the friendly confines of the O’Connell Center.
The Gators went into Memorial Coliseum wanting to prove they could excel away from the friendly confines of the O’Connell Center.
After notching their first win of the season last week, the Gators are out to prove just how good they can be.
Coming into the season, the Gators knew they would have to depend heavily on their underclassmen, including five freshmen who made up the nation’s top recruiting class.
There’s no place like home, and the Gators showed that Friday night in the O’Connell Center.
Maybe some home cooking was all the Gators needed to get their season headed in the right direction.
After hitting the road for its season-opener last week in Oklahoma, No. 8 Florida (0-1, 0-0 Southeastern Conference) will perform in the friendly confines of the O’Connell Center for its SEC-opener against No. 7 Arkansas (1-0, 0-0 SEC) Friday night.
Struggles on the uneven bars cost the Gators their season opener against Oklahoma in Norman, but the team is not dwelling on last week’s results.
After the long wait for the season opener, the Gators proved they still had some cobwebs in their first meet Friday.
For a Gators team that came into the season with sky-high expectations, fusing a top-ranked recruiting class with a seasoned returning class that finished fourth in the nation was a challenge on Friday night in Norman, Okla.
The UF gymnastics team opens its season on the road at Norman, Okla., for its first meet of the season against No. 9 Oklahoma tonight at 8. With weather forecasted to be in the teens at the time of the meet, the team can be thankful it gets to perform indoors.
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