2015 SEC Gymnastics Jill Skotarczak, Assistant Director of Communications (Gymnastics Contact) [email protected] • Twitter: SEC Jill Week 9 • March 10, 2015
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2015 SEC Gymnastics Jill Skotarczak, Assistant Director of Communications (Gymnastics Contact) [email protected] • Twitter: SEC_Jill Week 9 • March 10, 2015 SEC Gymnast of the Week SEC Gymnastics Standings Kytra Hunter • Florida Team SEC Pct. Overall Pct. High Senior • Fredericksburg, Va. LSU 7-0 1.000 11-1 .917 198.375 Alabama 5-2 .714 8-2 .800 197.800 Hunter equaled her season-high all-around of 39.75 in Florida 5-2 .714 6-3 .667 198.225 Friday’s dual meet in Norman, Oklahoma, between the co-de- Auburn 3-4 .429 5-5 .500 197.750 fending NCAA champions. The all-around total equaled the Kentucky 3-4 .429 5-5 .500 196.575 highest posted in the nation last weekend and is the nation’s Georgia 3-4 .429 4-6 .400 196.975 second-highest of the 2015 season. It is also the nation’s top Arkansas 2-5 .286 5-7 .417 196.650 road all-around total of the season. It is the 19th all-around win Missouri 0-7 .000 5-7 .417 195.975 and the 75th event win for Hunter, which places her fourth on both Gator career lists. Hunter turned in marks of 9.9 or better This Week in SEC Gymnastics in every event. She raised her collegiate balance beam best to 9.975 to take second. She also shared second on vault (9.95) Friday, March 13 and earned 9.925 on floor and a 9.90 on bars. Texas Woman’s University at Florida ............................6:45 p.m. Pittsburgh, Ball State at Kentucky ......................................7 p.m. North Carolina State at Missouri ..................................7:30 p.m. Oklahoma at Alabama+ .....................................................8 p.m. UCLA at Arkansas ...............................................................8 p.m. SEC Specialist of the Week North Carolina at Auburn+ ................................................8 p.m. Rheagan Courville • LSU LSU at Centenary ...............................................................8 p.m. Senior • Baton Rouge, La. Saturday, March 14 Courville was limited to two events against Minnesota, and Utah at Georgia+ ...............................................................4 p.m. she made them count. She won both the vault and bars titles against the Golden Gophers. Courville tied her career high on All times Eastern and subject to change vault with a perfect 10.0, the third perfect 10 of her career # - SEC Network and the first this season. She followed that by winning bars + - SEC Network + with a 9.925, her eighth bars title of the season. Courville has now won the bars title in eight of nine meets this season and Last Week’s SEC Gymnastics Results the vault title in seven of nine. The bars title is the 18th of her career, placing her in a tie with Ashleigh Clare-Kearney for the Friday, March 6 second-most in LSU history. Courville is up to 21 individual titles this season which is most of any gymnast in the SEC. (22) Kentucky def. (9) Auburn ..........................196.575-196.325 Lexington, Ky. (6) Alabama def. (24) Missouri .........................197.350-195.275 Columbia, Mo. SEC Freshman of the Week (1) Oklahoma def. (3) Florida ............................198.500-198.100 Myia Hambrick • LSU Norman, Okla. Freshman • Temple, Ga. (2) LSU def. (16) Minnesota ..............................198.375-195.450 Baton Rouge, La. Hambrick put together the finest meet of her young career to help LSU achieve the highest score in school history against Saturday, March 7 Minnesota. Hambrick tied or set career highs on all four events and the all-around. She posted a 9.925 on vault, 9.875 on bars, (10) Georgia def. (18) Arkansas ........................196.775-196.650 9.90 on beam, 9.875 on floor and 39.575 in the all-around. Athens, Ga. Hambrick’s 39.575 is the highest all-around total of any fresh- man in the SEC this season, and it is the second-highest all- Sunday, March 8 around of any freshman across the nation. Her 39.575 total is the highest by an LSU freshman since Sarie Morrison recorded a (6) Alabama def. (9) Auburn .............................197.200-197.025 39.575 against Georgia on Feb. 18, 2011. Birmingham, Ala. Media Services SEC Gymnastics Fast Facts 2015 SEC Gymnastics Championship • Southeastern Conference teams have won nine of the last The 2015 SEC Gymnastics Championship will 10 NCAA Championships, including four consecutive, and 18 be held March 21 at the Gwinnett Center in NCAA titles all-time. Three different SEC teams - Alabama, Flor- Duluth, Ga. Media representatives wishing to ida and Georgia - have won NCAA Gymnastics Championships. cover this event should contact Jill Skotarczak • Florida won its second consecutive NCAA Championship in ([email protected]) in the SEC Communica- 2014. Four SEC teams advanced to the Super Six at last sea- tions Office. son’s NCAA Championship. Gymnasts of the Week • In 1998, the SEC entered the record books as the only con- The SEC will announce a Gymnast of the Week, Specialist of ference ever to sweep the top-three spots at the NCAA meet the Week and Freshman of the Week each Tuesday begin- (Georgia, Florida and Alabama). ning Jan. 13. Members of the media wishing to receive these • The SEC has placed at least two teams among the top six in announcements should e-mail Jill Skotarczak (jskotarczak@sec. 31 of the possible 33 NCAA Championship events. A record org). five SEC teams advanced to the NCAA Super Six team final in 2009. SEC Gymnastics on the Internet Information about Southeastern Conference gymnastics is • The SEC leads all conferences in NCAA individual titles (97). available on the Internet via the SEC’s web site – http://www. • Georgia leads all NCAA schools in individual titles (40). secsports.com. The site will be updated each week, following • SEC student-athletes earned 30 All-America honors in 2014. the completion of the weekly release. • The addition of Missouri to the SEC in July 2012 brought the number of league institutions sponsoring gymnastics to eight. The 2013 SEC Gymnastics Championship featured, for the first time, a two-session final. SEC Gymnastics Communications SEC Gymnastics Weekly Honors SEC Jill Skotarczak (205) 458-3000 Jan. 13 [email protected] Gymnast of the Week: Jessie Jordan, LSU Specialist of the Week: Bridget Sloan, Florida Alabama Roots Woodruff (205) 348-2088 Freshman of the Week: Shauna Miller, Missouri [email protected] Jan. 20 Co-Gymnasts of the Week: Amanda Wellick, Arkansas & Jessie Jordan, LSU Arkansas Chris Caskey (479) 575-4898 Specialist of the Week: Alex McMurtry, Florida [email protected] Freshman of the Week: Kennedy Baker, Florida Auburn Chuck Gallina (334) 844-9800 Jan. 27 Gymnast of the Week: Rheagan Courville, LSU [email protected] Specialist of the Week: Kaitlyn Clark, Alabama Florida Mary Howard (352) 375-4683 x 6110 Freshman of the Week: Paige Zaziski, Arkansas Feb. 3 [email protected] Gymnast of the Week: Kytra Hunter, Florida Georgia Ben Beaty (706) 542-1621 Specialist of the Week: Brandie Jay, Georgia Freshman of the Week: Kennedy Baker, Florida [email protected] Feb. 10 Kentucky Charlie Healy (859) 257-3838 Gymnast of the Week: Rheagan Courville, LSU [email protected] Specialist of the Week: Erin Macadaeg, LSU Freshman of the Week: Ericha Fassbender, Florida LSU Jake Terry (225) 578-7678 Feb. 17 [email protected] Gymnast of the Week: Kytra Hunter, Florida Specialist of the Week: MJ Rott, Auburn Missouri Kate Lakin (573) 884-8519 Freshman of the Week: Paige Zaziski, Arkansas and Kennedy Baker, Florida [email protected] Feb. 24 Co-Gymnasts of the Week: Kaitlyn Clark, Alabama & Rheagan Courville, LSU Specialist of the Week: Lloimincia Hall, LSU Freshman of the Week: Alex McMurtry, Florida Mar. 3 Gymnast of the Week: Caitlin Atkinson, Auburn Specialist of the Week: MJ Rott, Auburn Freshman of the Week: Kennedy Baker, Florida Mar. 13 Gymnast of the Week: Specialist of the Week: Freshman of the Week: Mar. 17 Gymnast of the Week: Specialist of the Week: Freshman of the Week: 2015 SEC Gymnastics Broadcast Schedule 2015 GymInfo Team Rankings (3/9/2015) Date Time (ET) Meet Network Rank Team Team RQS Fri, Jan 9 8 p.m. Iowa at LSU SEC Network+ 1. Oklahoma 197.845 8:30 p.m. Arizona at Alabama SEC Network+ 2. Florida 197.690 Sat, Jan 10 4 p.m. Michigan at Georgia SEC Network+ 3. LSU 197.630 Fri, Jan 16 7 p.m. Auburn at Florida SEC Network 4. Utah 197.530 9 p.m. Alabama at Arkansas SEC Network 5. Alabama 197.390 9 p.m. Missouri at Alabama SEC Network+ 6. Michigan 197.180 Fri, Jan 23 8 p.m. Florida at Alabama SEC Network 7. Auburn 197.020 8 p.m. Arkansas at Auburn SEC Network+ Sun, Jan 25 7 p.m. Kentucky at Georgia* ESPN2 8. UCLA 196.895 Mon, Jan 26 7 p.m. Missouri at LSU* SEC Network 9. Nebraska 196.865 Fri, Jan 30 7 p.m. Georgia at Florida SEC Network 10. Georgia 196.835 8 p.m. Air Force at Auburn SEC Network+ 11. Stanford 196.530 Mon, Feb 2 9 p.m. Alabama at Kentucky* SEC Network 12. Penn State 196.430 Fri, Feb 6 8 p.m. Georgia at LSU SEC Network 13. Illinois-Champaign 196.355 Sun, Feb 8 12:30 p.m. Auburn at Alabama* ESPN2 14. Oregon State 196.330 Mon, Feb 9 9 p.m. Florida at Arkansas* SEC Network 15. Boise State 196.325 Fri, Feb 13 8 p.m. Boise State at Alabama SEC Network+ 16. Arkansas 196.260 8 p.m. LSU at Auburn SEC Network 17. Arizona 196.195 Sun, Feb 15 7 p.m. Missouri at Florida* ESPN2 18.