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3 NCAA Championships ● 12 SEC Championships ● 9 with 20 NCAA Individual Titles MEET INFORMATION MEET 10 ATHENS, GA. NCAA Athens Regional No. 1 seed Florida Gators NCAA Athens Regional Date: Thursday, April 1 – First Round Head Coach: Jenny Rowland NCAA Championship Meet Seed 3 p.m. ET - NC State vs Western Michigan Career: 77-14 / sixth season T1. Florida 24. Oregon St At UF: same 8. Minnesota 25 CMU Friday, April 2 – Second Round 2021: 12-2 / 7-0 SEC 9. Denver 26. NC State Session I – 1 p.m. ET (Minnesota, 16. Illinois 35. WMU Denver, Georgia, Oregon State) 18. Georgia Session II – 7 p.m. ET (Florida, Illinois, Central Michigan, First Round winner) What’s Happening? Saturday, April 3 - Regional Final The goal is simple for top-seeded Florida this weekend – earn a NCAA Championships’ berth. 7 p.m. - Top two teams from each second Florida seeks that spot this weekend at the NCAA Athens Regional. round session Site: Stegeman Coliseum (1,600) This is the second year for the current NCAA regional/national championships format. Stream: ESPN3 with Olympic medalist and Gator Great Bridget Sloan and Alex Perlman Competition Second Round Final calling the action Regional Two 4 team meets Four teams compete, with top two advancing Video: Second Round I – ESPN3 Top 2 in each meet NCAA Championships Second Round II – ESPN3 Final – ESPN3 NCAA Two 4 team semis Four teams compete for NCAA title Video is quad box showing each Championships Top 2 in each semi apparatus Live Stats: FloridaGators.com Florida advanced to the NCAA Championships 36 times in the meet's 38-year history, missing the Tickets: Sold Out. 2000 and 2019 events. Florida moved from NCAA Championships semifinal competition to the UF NCAA Gators have claimed 18 Regional wins - Regional 1982, ’84, ’85, ’87, ’97, ’05, ’06, ’07, ’08, NCAA team final 13 of the Gators’ last 16 national competition appearances (2004, 2006, 2007, Championship ’09, ’10, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’15, ’16, ’17, ’18. 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018). Florida won the 2013, 2014 and Meet History: 2015 NCAA titles. GATOR SOCIAL Three 2021 conference champions are among the NCAA Athens Regional field. Florida won the Southeastern Conference regular-season title with a 7-0 record. Denver upset defending NCAA Florida Gators Gymnastics champion Oklahoma to claim the Big 12 Championship meet title. Minnesota used a program record Florida Gators 197.75 to take the Big Ten Championship meet title on March 20 in Minneapolis, Minn. @GatorsGym @FloridaGators Last Time Out: @JennyRowlandUF Florida, the 2021 Southeastern Conference regular-season champions, couldn’t collect another gatorsgym trophy at the SEC Championships meet in Huntsville, Ala., on March 20. The Gators took third at floridagators 196.975. Alabama won the title (197.875) and LSU was runner-up (197.775). Two Gators were among a four-way tie for the SEC balance beam title at 9.95 – senior Alyssa Baumann and freshman Ellie Lazzari. With the win, Baumann is the first in the meet’s 40-year history to win three beam titles. Lazzari is the first freshman to win beam since Baumann in 2018. Two other Gators Florida Communications Contact: joined Baumann and Lazzari on the All-SEC team – senior Megan Skaggs and junior Leah Mary Howard Clapper. Junior Trinity Thomas, the nation’s top all-arounder, was limited to uneven bars at the Phone: 352-375-4683 x6100 SEC meet as she is still recovering from an ankle injury suffered at the March 5 dual at Alabama. Email: [email protected] Junior Sydney Johnson-Scharpf was not with team at SECs as recovering from strep throat. DID YOU KNOW? 2021 Awards: For the seventh consecutive season, the seeding determined The SEC Coach of the Year honor went to Florida’s Jenny Rowland for the second consecutive at the time of regional selections will be maintained throughout season. It is her third honor in her six season with the Gators. The Gators claimed their third the championships. Florida is the No. 1 seed for the 2021 consecutive SEC regular-season title in 2021, using a 7-0 record for the second straight campaign. NCAA Championships. The Gators led the nation with seven collecting 13 Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association Florida was also the No. 1 overall seed for the first season of (WCGA) Regular-Season All-America honors. Thomas is the nation’s only gymnast to earn All- maintained seeding (2014). America honors in all five events. Picking up a pair of honors each were Baumann (beam, floor) and Skaggs (all-around, bars). Also collecting All-America honors were Clapper (beam), Lazzari (beam), Nya Reed (floor) and Savannah Schoenherr (vault). MEET COACH ROWLAND 2021 GATOR GYMNASTICS ROSTER Jenny Rowland, one of the nation’s rising coaching talents, is in her sixth season as NAME EVTS HT CL HOMETOWN (CLUB) University of Florida’s head gymnastics coach. Alyssa Baumann AA 5-1 SR Dallas, Texas (WOGA) Rowland is the seventh head coach for the Leah Clapper AA 4-11 JR Ann Arbor, Mich. (Gym America) Gator program, which is in its 49th season in Chloi Clark AA 5-2 FR Denver, Colo. (Colorado Gymnastics Inst.) 2021. Jazmyn Foberg AA 5-2 SR Bayville, N.J. (MG Elite) Gabrielle Gallentine AA 5-0 FR Iron Station, N.C. (Everest Gymnastics) Sydney Johnson-Scharpf V, BB, 4-11 JR Clermont, Fla. (Brandy Johnson's Global The 2021 Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year, Rowland FX Gymnastics) swept 2020 coaching awards – Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Ellie Lazzari AA 5-0 FR Wheaton, Ill. (Legacy Elite Gymnastics) Association (WCGA) National, Region 5 and SEC Coach of the Alex Magee AA 5-4 FR Orlando, Fla. (Orlando Metro) Nya Reed AA 5-3 JR Landover, Md. (Capital Gymnastics NTC) Year. She also shared the 2016 SEC Coach of the Year honor with Payton Richards AA 5-1 SO Mokena, Ill. (Aerials Gymnastics) Arkansas’ Mark Cook. Savannah Schoenherr AA 5-3 JR Columbus, Ga. (Georgia Elite) Rowland’s experiences from the sport’s highest level are the same Megan Skaggs AA 5-3 SR Marietta, Ga. (Gymnastics Academy of as many current Gators. She is a former U.S. National Team Atlanta) member, a collegiate All-American and was named a 2015 National Halley Taylor AA 5-2 JR Tampa, Fla. (LaFleur’s Gymnastics Tampa) Trinity Thomas AA 5-3 JR York, Pa. (Prestige Gymnastics) Collegiate Assistant of the Year. Rowland is a Category 3 International Brevet level judge. She Staff: Pronunciation Guide: served on the judging panel for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 U.S. Head Coach: Jenny Rowland Alyssa Baumann – Baugh-man Olympic Trials. Assistant Coaches: Adrian Burde & Owen Field Chloi Clark – KLO-ee Volunteer Coach: Jeremy Miranda Jazmyn Foberg – FOE-berg In the fall of 2019, Rowland was appointed to the NCAA Women's Assistant to the Head Coach: Brittany Arlington Gabrielle GALLENTINE – rhymes with Valentine Gymnastics Committee. Her term runs through the 2023 season. Managers: Natalie Hoffman & Shea Wheeler Sydney Johnson-SCHARPF - shärpf Athletic Trainer: Janet Taylor Ellie LAZZARI – La-zar-ee Rowland’s Coaching Career: NYA Reed – nī-uh Payton Richards - Peyton At Florida: Savannah SCHOENHERR – Shane-hair Florida reached the NCAA Super Six team final in each of Halley Taylor – hAE-lee (rhymes with valley) Rowland’s first three seasons with the Gators, taking fourth in 2016 and third in 2017 & 2018. Rowland swept all coaching awards in Jenny Rowland – ROE-lund 2020 (national, region & SEC) after the Gators finished at No. 2 with Adrian Burde - bur-DAY a 10-0 record in the pandemic shortened season. She claimed her All-Americans: Seven with 31 honors first SEC Coach of the Year honor in 2016 when the Gators won the Alyssa Baumann 2021 – beam, floor; 2020 – beam, floor; 2019 – beam; 2018 – SEC Championship meet. Florida won the last three SEC regular- beam, floor season titles – 2019 (6-1 record), 2020 and 2021 (7-0). Leah Clapper 2021 - beam Gators won NCAA individual event titles in each of the last four Ellie Lazzari 2021 - beam NCAA Championships. Bridget Sloan won the 2016 NCAA all- Nya Reed 2021 - floor around and shared that season’s uneven bars and balance beam titles. Alex McMurtry won the 2017 NCAA all-around champion and Savannah 2021 – vault; 2020 – bars; 2019 vault (NCAA) shared that season’s uneven bars crown. She finished her career by Schoenherr claiming a share of the 2018 vault title. In 2019, Alicia Boren Megan Skaggs 2021 – all-around, bars; 2019 bars claimed a share of the NCAA floor title. The Honda Award for gymnastics went to Sloan (2016) and McMurtry (2017), Trinity Thomas 2021 - – all-around, vault, bars, beam, floor; 2020 – all-around, distinguishing them as the nation’s top collegiate gymnast. vault, bars, beam, floor; 2019 all-around, bars, floor (NCAA & McMurtry was part of a rare double in 2017 and 2018, claiming both regular season), beam the SEC Gymnast (2017)/SEC Event Specialist (2018) and the SEC Scholar-Athlete awards. Trinity Thomas received the 2020 SEC Gymnast of the Year award. All-SEC: Six Alyssa Baumann 2021 beam@ In WCGA All-America regular-season awards, 15 Gators earned 63 2019 beam@, floor honors since 2016. 2018 beam@ Leah Clapper 2021 beam At Auburn: Rowland came to Florida after spending five seasons at Auburn. Ellie Lazzari 2021 beam@ She joined the Auburn coaching staff as an assistant coach in October of 2010 and was elevated to associate head coach in Savannah 2020 bars Schoenherr March of 2013. Rowland worked with all aspects of the Auburn gymnastics program, coordinating all of the program's community Megan Skaggs 2021 bars outreach efforts and interactions on campus as well as playing an 2019 beam@ integral role in recruiting and in-gym activities.