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3 NCAA Championships ● 12 SEC Championships ● 9 with 20 NCAA Individual Titles MEET INFORMATION MEET 5 BATON ROUGE, LA.. Date: Friday, Feb. 12 / 7:30 p.m. ET No. 1 Florida Gators No. 2 LSU Site: Pete Maravich Assembly Center (2,500). Head Coach: Jenny Rowland Head Coach: Jay Clark Television: SEC Network with Olympians Bart Conner Career: 69-12 / sixth season Career: 54-21/ fifth season and Kathy Johnson Clarke calling the At UF: same At LSU: 18-2 (two seasons) action Video: SEC Network + 2021: 4-0 / 3-0 SEC 2021: 4-0 / 3-0 SEC Live Stats: FloridaGators.com Tickets: Sold Out. What’s Happening? Series History Florida leads 72-41. Last meeting: UF won The nation’s top dual of the 2021 season - No. 1 Florida at No. 2 LSU – airs live Friday on the SEC Network. (all-time): 198.375-197.775 in Gainesville (Jan. 24, Olympic medalists Bart Conner and Kathy Johnson-Clarke call the action. This is the 25th consecutive meeting 2020). both teams bring top-10 rankings. Meetings between these two teams are traditionally close. Of the 23 meetings since 2013, less than a half a point was the deciding margin 17 times. Less than two-tenths separated four of the GATOR SOCIAL last six UF-LSU meetings. Florida Gators Gymnastics In the last compete season, both teams claimed 2019 Southeastern Conference team titles. Florida won its first Florida Gators SEC regular-season title in 2019 after posting a 6-1 record. The league began awarding regular-season gymnastics titles in 2017 based on dual meet records. Later in New Orleans, LSU won the 2019 SEC @GatorsGym Championship meet with a 197.90-197.75 decision over UF. Florida won the 2020 regular-season SEC title (7-0) @FloridaGators before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the season. @JennyRowlandUF gatorsgym In their last meet on Jan. 9, the Gators posted the nation’s season high of 197.85 in their win over No. 24 Missouri floridagators (194.80). Florida took all event titles, with Megan Skaggs taking the uneven bars win after equaling her collegiate-best of 9.95. Trinity Thomas took the other event titles – vault (9.925), balance beam and floor exercise (9.95) and matched her national leading all-around total (39.75). Of the nation’s top 10 team totals of 2021, four belong to the Gators. Florida Communications Contact: The first SEC Weekly honors of February were claimed by a pair of Gators. Thomas claimed her second SEC Mary Howard Gymnast of the Week honor of 2021 after her national leading all-around total. Gabrielle Gallentine picked up Phone: 352-375-4683 x6100 the SEC Freshman of the Week after posting a collegiate bars best of 9.925. Email: [email protected] No. 2 LSU is coming off its season-high total (197.55) at No. 22 Auburn in the league’s only meet of last DID YOU KNOW? weekend. That total is the nation’s No. 3 total behind Florida (197.85) and Oklahoma (197.80). The Tiger duo that This is the seventh time since 2007 the No. 1 and No. 2 teams went one-two in the LSU at Auburn dual - Haleigh Bryant (39.55) and Alyona Shchennikova (39.525) – claimed meet in regular-season dual meet action. SEC weekly honors on Feb. 9. Shchennikova is the SEC Gymnast of the Week and Bryant pick up her third SEC Freshman of the Week honor. Including Friday’s competition, Florida’s been a part of five of those In the 2020 pandemic shortened season, Florida claimed its second consecutive SEC regular-season title. seven dual meets: Florida’s 7-0 SEC record was its first undefeated record since all league teams began meeting in regular-season action for the 1992 season. Florida ended the season with a 10-0 record and No. 2 in the final national rankings. No. 1 vs No. 2 Duals – Since 2007 Date No. 1 No. 2 Result In 2020, Trinity Thomas became the fifth Gator named the SEC Gymnast of the Year. Of the three to earn the 2/12/2020 No. 1 Florida @ No. 2 LSU maximum of five All-America honors in 2020 Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) regular- 3/3/2019 @ No. 1 No. 2 UCLA 197.775 (OU), 197.575 Oklahoma (UCLA) season awards, Thomas is the only returner for 2021 season. All-America honors were claimed by three other 2/1/2019 @ No. 1 No. 2 Florida 198.325 (OU), 198.025 Gators in 2020 – Alyssa Baumann (beam, floor), Rachel Gowey (beam) and Savannah Schoenherr (bars). Oklahoma (UF) 1/31/2014 No. 1 Oklahoma @ No. 2 Florida 197.85 (UF), 197.225 (OU) Florida Head Coach Jenny Rowland is in her sixth season with the Gators in 2021. Rowland swept all 2020 3/5/2010 No. 1 Alabama @ No. 2 197.95 (OU), 197.275 Oklahoma (UA) coaching honors, as she was named WCGA National, Region 5 and SEC Coach of the Year. In her first five 1/18/2008 @ No. 1 Florida No. 2 Georgia 196.850 (UGA), 196.825 seasons, the Gators won the 2016 SEC Championship and the 2019 & 2020 SEC regular-season titles. The team (UF) reached the NCAA team final in her first three season, finishing fourth (2016) and third (2017 & 2018). Eleven 1/27/2007 No. 1 Florida @ No. 2 T, 197.250-197.250 Georgia Gators collected 40 All-America honors in NCAA competition under Rowland, including winning seven NCAA event titles (Bridget Sloan: 2016 all-around, uneven bars, balance beam; Alex McMurtry: 2017 all-around, Since 1995, this is the 20th dual meeting between No. 1 and No. 2. uneven bars; 2018 vault; Alicia Boren: 2019 floor exercise). Half of those meetings have been at the No. 2 team’s venue. UF returns four with 18 All-America honors - Alyssa Baumann, Savannah Schoenherr, Megan Skaggs and Trinity Thomas. From the final regular SEC meet of 2020 (at Georgia), UF returns 17 routines. The visiting team took the win four times (last was Jan. 18, 2008 Four freshmen join the Gators in 2021. Chloi Clark (Denver, Colo.), Gabrielle Gallentine (Iron Station, N.C.) and No. 2 Georgia win at No. 1 Florida). Ellie Lazzari (Wheaton, Ill.) all competed at Junior Olympics Level 10 National Championships. Lazzari won 2019 J.O. Junior F all-around, beam and floor titles. Gallentine took third in 2017 J.O. Junior B all-around and Clark tied for fourth in 2019 J.O. Senior B vault competition. Both Gallentine and Lazzari competed as Junior International Elites. Alex Magee was third on bars and fourth in both all-around and floor in 2019 Florida L10 State Championships. 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 Rowland swept 2020 coaching awards – Women’s Collegiate FX Gymnastics) Gymnastics Association (WCGA) National, Region 5 and Ellie Lazzari AA 5-0 FR Wheaton, Ill. (Legacy Elite Gymnastics) Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year. She also shared the Alex Magee AA 5-4 FR Orlando, Fla. (Orlando Metro) 2016 SEC Coach of the Year honor with Arkansas’ Mark Cook. Nya Reed AA 5-3 JR Landover, Md. (Capital Gymnastics NTC) Payton Richards AA 5-1 SO Mokena, Ill. (Aerials Gymnastics) Rowland’s experiences from the sport’s highest level are the same Savannah Schoenherr AA 5-3 JR Columbus, Ga. (Georgia Elite) as many current Gators. She is a former U.S. National Team Megan Skaggs AA 5-3 SR Marietta, Ga. (Gymnastics Academy of member, a collegiate All-American and was named a 2015 National Atlanta) Collegiate Assistant of the Year. Halley Taylor AA 5-2 JR Tampa, Fla. (LaFleur’s Gymnastics Tampa) Trinity Thomas AA 5-3 JR York, Pa. (Prestige Gymnastics) Rowland is a Category 3 International Brevet level judge. She served on the judging panel for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 U.S. Staff: Pronunciation Guide: Olympic Trials. Head Coach: Jenny Rowland Alyssa Baumann – Baugh-man In the fall of 2019, Rowland was appointed to the NCAA Women's Assistant Coaches: Adrian Burde & Owen Field Chloi Clark – KLO-ee Gymnastics Committee. Her term runs through the 2023 season. Volunteer Coach: Jeremy Miranda Jazmyn Foberg – FOE-berg Assistant to the Head Coach: Brittany Arlington Gabrielle GALLENTINE – rhymes with Valentine Managers: Natalie Hoffman & Shea Wheeler Sydney Johnson-SCHARPF - shärpf Rowland’s Coaching Career: Athletic Trainer: Janet Taylor Ellie LAZZARI – La-zar-ee At Florida: NYA Reed – nī-uh Florida reached the NCAA Super Six team final in each of Payton Richards - Peyton Rowland’s first three seasons with the Gators, taking fourth in 2016 Savannah SCHOENHERR – Shane-hair and third in 2017 & 2018. Rowland swept all coaching awards in Halley Taylor – hAE-lee (rhymes with valley) 2020 (national, region & SEC) after the Gators finished at No. 2 with a 10-0 record in the pandemic shortened season. She claimed her Jenny Rowland – ROE-lund first SEC Coach of the Year honor in 2016 when the Gators won the Adrian Burde - bur-DAY SEC Championship meet.