The 2008 Alabama Gymnastics Guide Section IV

2006 in Review 82-85 National Titles and Honors 98-107 Patterson Honors 126-127 Traveling with Alabama 86 Tide All-Americans 108-109 Year-by-Year 128-133 2008 Opponents 87 Alabama and Regionals 110-111 Alabama Records 134-135 Crimson Tide History 88-89 Alabama and the SEC 112-113 Success Adds Up 136 Great Moments 89-95 SEC Honors and Champions 114-119 Alabama and the NCAA 96-97 The Hall of Fame 120-125 FULL HOUSE In the midst of a season that saw the Crimson Tide again go Highlights undefeated at home, probably the biggest moment of the regular season came on Feb. 2 against Auburn when Alabama sold out Coleman Coliseum for the third time in school history. It marked from the the second year in a row that the gymnastics team has fi lled the coliseum and the fi rst time that tickets were gone the day before the meet. In addition to fi lling the coliseum, the Tide fi lled it with the 2007 Season color pink as the athletes and fans from both teams put aside their school color for the meet to unite under the banner of breast THE REGULAR SEASON cancer awareness and the Tide’s third “Drive 4 the Cause” meet. Alabama posted an 8-2-0 regular season During the meet a check for $225,000 was presented to the DCH record, with its only losses coming at the hands Foundation for the Alabama Gymnastics/DCH Breast Cancer of the Nos. 1 and 2 teams in the nation on the Fund, started in 2004 to support Sarah Patterson’s “Power of Pink” road. Th e Tide’s mark included wins over No. 5 initiative. To date, more than $500,000 has been raised in the fi ght against breast cancer. UCLA, No. 8 LSU and No. 10 Oklahoma. Junior Th e 15,075 fans in attendance marked the second biggest crowd in the nation since 1993 (the fi rst coming in 2006 when a beyond capacity Terin Humphrey led the Tide with a team-best 51 crowd of 15,162 fans came to the Florida meet) and the fourth biggest in collegiate gymnastics history. For the season, Alabama averages 11,284 routines. fans per meet, the second best average in school history.

BALANCE BEAM GOLD FAST START Even though she had been off ered a scholarship Freshman Kassi Price got by Sarah Patterson, Ricki Lebegern wasn’t sure she her Tide career off to a very was good enough to be at Alabama. good start, winning the fi rst “Th is is a young lady I had to talk into coming three all-arounds of the season, to the University of Alabama,” Sarah Patterson said, tallying victories against Okla- “because she didn’t think she was good enough to homa, Florida and Auburn. compete at this level, on this high level of a team Her accomplishments didn’t go that expects to compete for the national champion- overlooked as Sports Illustrated ship every year.” featured her in its “Faces in the It was quickly apparent to everyone during Leb- Crowd” section. She was the na- egern’s freshman year that she did indeed belong at tion’s No. 1 ranked all-arounder Alabama, that she was good enough. She was in the twice, during the second and all-around in her fi rst collegiate meet and would fourth week of the season. fi nish second in number of routines for the season behind junior Terin Humphrey. And in her fi rst postseason meet as an Alabama Gymnast, she put together her best balance beam routine of the year to win the Southeastern Conference Champion- ship. It was Alabama’s 40th overall SEC title and 25th since 2000. Lebegern and fellow rookie Morgan Dennis would earn All-SEC honors as well.

Did You 82 Know? Alabama won six individual postseason titles last season – one SEC, three NCAA Central Region and two NCAA – and fi ve All-American honors. TWICE AS NICE For the sixth year in a row, Alabama took home individual gold at the NCAA Championship when junior Terin Humphrey and freshman Morgan Dennis won the national uneven bars and fl oor exercise champion- ships respectively in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was Humphrey’s second NCAA Uneven Bars title and great way to fi nish a year that started with double elbow surgery in October. For Dennis it was a great way to start her Crimson Tide career. Humphrey is the fi rst Alabama gymnast to ALL-AMERICANS win the same apparatus twice Th e Crimson Tide earned fi ve All-American honors in 2007. Junior Terin during her career, adding last Humphrey earned fi rst-team honors on both the uneven bars and balance year’s to the title she won in beam. Freshman Morgan Dennis was fi rst team All-American on the fl oor ex- 2005. Dennis is the fi ft h Alabama ercise and earned second-team honors in the all-around. Freshman Kassi Price Gymnast to win a national title (above) earned second team All-American honors on the uneven bars. Th e Tide as a rookie. has earned at least fi ve All-American honors every year since 1990. 25 IN A ROW SUCCESS IS ACADEMIC By winning the 2007 NCAA Central Region Academic success is nothing new Championship, the Alabama Crimson Tide ad- for the Crimson Tide and last year vanced to its 25th consecutive NCAA Champion- was no exception. Sophomore Cassie ship. Only one other school has been to as many Martin (right) was named the consecutive championships. Th e Tide’s streak CoSIDA Academic All-District 4 includes four NCAA Championships, 21 NCAA At-Large team. Student-athletes from top-4 fi nishes and 22 NCAA Regional titles. 13 diff erent sports strive for a place “It’s not something we really think about as on the at-large teams, making it a we’re going about the season,” Sarah Patterson tough honor to get. Alabama also had said. “We’re so pragmatic in our approach that I eight athletes earn Scholastics All- don’t think something like 25 national champion- American honors and nine earn Aca- ship appearances in a row is something we even demic All-SEC recognition. Th e Tide thought about. But when you look at it, and see fi nished with a 3.4 team grade point other programs around the nation trying to get average on a 4.0 scale putting them at to the point where they have fi ve or six consecu- No. 1 in the Southeastern Conference tive trips, I think that’s when you realize what a and third among all teams that com- tremendous accomplishment that is.” peted at the NCAA Championships Th e Tide’s Regional win came in front of the last season. In addition, fi ve gymnasts home crowd. Th e Tide was led by junior Terin earned a perfect 4.0 GPA at least one Humphrey who won the all-around and the semester last year with freshman Kassi uneven bars. Freshman Morgan Dennis won the Price earning a 4.0 for the year. regional vault title.

Tide Timeline April 24, 1999 - Freshman Andreé Pickens wins the NCAA Balance Beam title, the Crimson Tide’s 12th individual national title. 83 Team Results Date Ala. Rank Opponent (Opp. Rank) Ala. Score Opp. Score Attendance Site Overall SEC Jan. 12 No. 4 Oklahoma (No. 10) 195.700 194.500 11,996 Tuscaloosa 1-0 0-0 Jan. 19 No. 4 Florida (No. 1) 195.650 196.825 6,074 Gainesville, Fla. 1-1 0-1 Jan. 26 No. 5 Auburn (No. 10) 197.475 195.900 15,075 Tuscaloosa 2-1 1-1 Feb. 2 No. 4 Kentucky (No. 24) 196.375 193.625 10,540 Tuscaloosa 3-1 2-1 Feb. 10 No. 3 Georgia (No. 2) 196.050 198.000 10,224 Athens, Ga. 3-2 2-2 Feb. 16 No. 5 Arkansas (No. 15) 197.000 194.175 2,067 Fayetteville, Ark. 4-2 3-2 Feb. 23 No. 4 UNC (No. 27) 196.650 194.800 9,934 Tuscaloosa 5-2 3-2 March 2 No. 4 LSU (No. 8) 197.250 196.875 10,113 Tuscaloosa 6-2 4-2 March 9 No. 4 UCLA (No. 5) 197.225 196.475 10,045 Tuscaloosa 7-2 4-2 March 16 No. 3 Auburn (No. 13) 197.375 195.250 5,033 Auburn 8-2 4-2 March 31 No. 3 SEC Championships 197.000 5,134 Little Rock, Ark. 3rd April 14 No. 3 NCAA Central Region Championships 196.700 Tuscaloosa, Ala. 1st April 26 No. 3 NCAA Championships 196.125 Salt Lake City, Utah 9th Individual Results Morgan Dennis V UB BB FX AA Brittany Magee V UB BB FX AA Oklahoma 9.825 9.800e 9.700e 9.925 — Oklahoma 9.725 — 9.500 — — Amanda Montgomery V UB BB FX AA @Florida 9.875 9.825 — 9.825 — @Florida 9.850 — 9.850 — — @Arkansas — — 9.800e — — Auburn 9.950 9.850 9.750 9.975 39.525 Auburn 9.825 — 9.825 — — UNC — 9.575e 9.750e — — Kentucky 9.875 9.800 9.175 9.950 38.800 Kentucky 9.850 — 9.825 — — LSU — — 9.300e — — @Georgia 9.925 9.775 9.325 9.925 38.950 @Georgia — 8.750 — — — NCAA Central Reg. — 9.700 9.775 — — @Arkansas 9.900 9.875 — 9.775 — @Arkansas 9.825 9.475e 9.875 9.775e — NCAA Champ-prelims — — 9.750 — — UNC 9.850 9.825 9.850e 9.925 — UNC 9.850 — 9.275 — — Career Best — 9.700 9.775 — — LSU 9.900 9.800 9.850 9.950 39.500 LSU 9.875 9.275e 9.825 9.700e — UCLA 9.900 9.750 9.875 9.950 39.475 UCLA 9.850 — 9.900 — — Ashley O’Neal V UB BB FX AA @Auburn 9.875 9.850 9.850 9.950 39.525 @Auburn 9.825 9.100e 9.900 — — Oklahoma 9.775 — 9.775 9.875 — SEC Champ. 9.900 9.825 9.850 9.925 39.500 SEC Champ 9.800 — 9.350 — — @Florida 9.800 — 9.825 9.750 — NCAA Central Reg. 9.950 9.800 9.800 9.850 39.400 NCAA Central Reg. 9.750 — 9.750 — — Auburn 9.800 — 9.625 9.350 — NCAA Champ-prelims 9.875 9.825 9.800 9.900 39.400 NCAA Champ-prelims 9.850 — 9.800 — — Kentucky — — — 9.800 — NCAA Champ-ind — — — 9.950 — Career Best 9.950 — 9.900 9.950 — @Georgia 9.825 — 9.850 9.850 — Career Best 9.950 9.875 9.875 9.975 39.525 @Arkansas 9.900 — 9.875 9.825 — Cassie Martin V UB BB FX AA UNC 9.700e — 9.800 9.650 — Terin Humphrey V UB BB FX AA Oklahoma — 8.850 — — — LSU 9.875 — 9.825 9.850 — Oklahoma 9.825 9.925 9.825 9.400 38.975 @Florida — 9.825 — — — UCLA 9.825 — 9.850 9.875 — @Florida 9.850 9.900 9.275 9.875 38.900 Auburn — 9.925 — — — @Auburn — — 9.875 9.850 — Auburn 9.825 9.900 9.875 9.950 39.550 Ricki Lebegern V UB BB FX AA Kentucky — 9.800 — 9.575e — SEC Champ. — — 9.825 — — Kentucky 9.750 9.875 9.875 9.925 39.425 Oklahoma 9.850 8.825 9.775 9.875 38.325 @Georgia — 9.850 — — — NCAA Champ-prelims — — — 9.775 — @Georgia 9.875 9.850 9.375 9.875 38.975 @Florida 9.800 9.750 9.200 9.825 38.575 @Arkansas — 9.825 — — — Career Best 9.900 — 9.875 9.875 — @Arkansas 9.850 9.900 9.850 9.325 38.925 Auburn 9.850 9.750 — — — UNC — 9.900 — — — UNC 9.900 9.925 9.825 9.925 39.575 Casey Overton V UB BB FX AA Kentucky 9.825 9.800 9.825e 9.900 — LSU — 9.825 — — — LSU 9.875 9.900 9.875 9.825 39.475 @Florida — — 9.800e — — @Georgia 9.875 9.750 9.850 9.875 39.350 UCLA — 9.825 — — — UCLA — 9.875 — — — Kentucky 9.775e — 9.750 9.650 — @Arkansas 9.850 9.800 9.875 9.825 39.350 @Auburn — 9.850 — — — @Auburn 9.875 9.825 9.900 9.900 39.500 @Georgia 9.750e — 9.875 9.500e — UNC 9.875 9.825 9.775 9.875 39.350 SEC Champ. — 9.850 — — — SEC Champ. 9.825 9.875 9.850 9.750 39.300 @Arkansas 9.775e — 9.800 — — LSU 9.925 9.800 9.900 9.825 39.475 NCAA Central Reg. — 9.875 — — — NCAA Central Reg. 9.825 9.900 9.850 9.900 39.475 UNC — — 9.850 — — UCLA 9.875 9.725 9.875 9.900 39.375 NCAA Champ-prelims — 9.800 — — — NCAA Champ-prelims 9.750 9.900 9.900 9.675 39.225 LSU — — 9.825 — — @Auburn 9.900 9.825 9.850 9.875 39.450 Career Best — 9.925 9.900 9.875 — NCAA Champ-ind — — — UCLA 9.825e — 9.850 — — SEC Champ. 9.850 9.800 9.925 9.850 39.425 Career Best 9.900 9.950 9.950 9.950 39.575 SEC Champ. — — 9.875 — — NCAA Central Reg. 9.850 9.800 9.850 9.875 39.375 NCAA Central Reg. 9.725 — 9.800 — — NCAA Champ-prelims 9.825 9.750 9.350 9.300 38.225 NCAA Champ-prelims 9.750 — 9.850 — — Career Best 9.925 9.825 9.925 9.900 39.475 Career Best — — 9.875 9.650 —

Did You 84 Know? Terin Humphrey led the Crimson Tide last season with 51 routines, including 11 all-around performances. Kassi Price V UB BB FX AA NCAA Championships Team Scores Oklahoma 9.850 9.875 9.750 9.900 39.375 @Florida 9.850 9.850 9.875 9.875 39.450 April 26-28 • Salt Lake City, Utah Auburn 9.925 9.925 9.800 9.925 39.575 — PRELIMINARIES Kentucky 9.875 9.900 9.875 — — AFTERNOON SESSION @Georgia 9.825 9.825 9.350 — — @Arkansas — 9.825 9.875 — — Vault Bars Beam Floor Totals UNC 9.850 9.950 8.800 — — Georgia 49.525 49.400 49.350 49.425 197.700 Florida 49.250 49.300 49.425 49.425 197.400 LSU — 9.825 — — — Nebraska 49.350 49.000 49.100 49.175 196.625 UCLA 9.875 9.850 9.825 9.875 39.425 Oklahoma 49.350 48.800 48.925 49.175 196.250 @Auburn 9.850 9.875 9.725 — — Alabama 49.050 49.125 49.100 48.850 196.125 SEC Champ. 9.825 9.250 — 9.875 — Oregon State 49.150 48.525 48.675 48.750 195.100 NCAA Champ-prelims — 9.850 — — — Career Best 9.925 9.950 9.875 9.875 39.575 EVENING SESSION Erin Rightley V UB BB FX AA Vault Bars Beam Floor Totals Oklahoma — — 9.800 9.875 — Utah 49.500 49.500 49.200 49.125 197.325 @Florida — — 9.025 9.850 — Stanford 49.525 49.200 49.300 49.175 197.200 Auburn — — 9.850 9.850 — UCLA 49.425 49.225 49.025 48.800 196.475 Kentucky — — 9.275 — — LSU 49.300 48.700 49.250 49.025 196.275 @Georgia — — — 9.800 — Denver 48.975 48.700 48.975 48.925 195.575 @Arkansas — — — 9.850 — The Crimson Tide’s Top Individual Scores: Michigan 49.125 48.700 48.150 49.125 195.100 UNC — — — 9.825 — LSU — — 9.800e 9.875 — Vault Bars Beam Floor Totals NCAA Regional Championships Team Scores UCLA — — 9.825e 9.225 — @Auburn — — — 9.850 — Morgan Dennis 9.950 9.875 9.875 9.975 39.525 April 14 • Tuscaloosa, Ala. SEC Champ. — — — 9.825 — Terin Humphrey 9.900 9.925 9.900 9.950 39.575 Vault Bars Beam Floor Totals NCAA Central Reg. — — — 9.850 — Ricki Lebegern 9.925 9.825 9.925 9.900 39.450 Alabama 49.150 49.150 49.075 49.325 196.700 NCAA Champ-prelims — — — 9.725 — Brittany Magee 9.875 — 9.900 — — *Oklahoma 49.050 49.075 48.600 49.200 195.925 Career Best 9.625 — 9.875 9.900 — Cassie Martin — 9.925 — — — Iowa State 49.150 49.000 48.950 48.825 195.925 Michigan State 48.775 48.500 48.875 48.650 194.800 Jacqueline Shealy V UB BB FX AA Amanda Montgomery — 9.700 9.775 — — Ohio State 48.650 49.000 48.525 48.475 194.650 Oklahoma — 9.775 — — — Ashley O’Neal 9.900 — 9.875 9.875 — Kentucky 48.650 47.975 48.800 48.600 194.025 Casey Overton — — 9.875 9.650 — Kaitlin White V UB BB FX AA Oklahoma 9.725e 9.775 — 9.625e — Kassi Price 9.925 9.950 9.875 9.925 39.575 SEC Championships Team Scores @Florida 9.675e 9.725 — 9.750e — Erin Rightley — — 9.850 9.875 — March 31 • Little Rock, Ark. Auburn — 9.875 — 9.825 — Jacqueline Shealy — 9.775 — — — Kentucky 9.775 9.775 — 9.825 — Kaitlin White 9.850 9.875 — 9.875 — Vault Bars Beam Floor Totals @Georgia 9.800 9.800 — 9.750 — Florida 49.30 49.275 49.300 49.450 197.325 @Arkansas 9.850 9.800 — 9.800 — Alabama’s Team Scores Georgia 49.475 49.300 49.375 49.025 197.175 UNC 9.800 9.800 — 9.825 — Alabama 49.250 49.150 49.325 49.275 197.000 Vault Bars Beam Floor Totals LSU 49.450 48.925 48.575 49.300 196.250 LSU 9.825 9.750 — 9.875 — Oklahoma 49.125 48.200 48.925 49.450 195.700 UCLA 9.800 9.775 — 9.875 — Arkansas 49.000 48.825 47.850 48.875 194.550 @Florida 49.225 49.150 48.025 49.250 195.650 Auburn 48.900 48.675 48.175 48.725 194.475 @Auburn 9.850 9.750 — 9.825 — Kentucky 48.050 48.450 48.525 48.975 194.000 SEC Champ. 9.850 9.800 — 9.800 — Auburn 49.375 49.475 49.100 49.525 197.475 NCAA Central Reg. 9.800 9.775 — 9.850 — Kentucky 49.200 49.175 48.600 49.400 196.375 NCAA Champ-prelims 9.750 9.750 — 9.775 — @Georgia 49.325 49.100 48.300 49.325 196.050 Career Best 9.875 9.875 — 9.875 — @Arkansas 49.350 49.225 49.350 49.075 197.000 UNC 49.325 49.425 48.525 49.375 196.650 e = exhibition routine LSU 49.450 49.150 49.275 49.375 197.250 UCLA 49.325 49.075 49.350 49.475 197.225 @Auburn 49.350 49.225 49.375 49.425 197.375 SEC Champ. 49.250 49.150 49.325 49.275 197.000 NCAA Regional 49.150 49.150 49.075 49.325 196.700 NCAA Champ. - Prelims 49.050 49.125 49.100 48.850 196.125 Season Best 49.425 49.375 49.350 49.425 197.000

Tide Timeline Jan. 11, 2002 - Sarah and David Patterson win their 300th meet, beating UCLA, 195.725-195.650 at the Super 6 Challenge. 85 Oh the places they’ll go! An Alabama gymnast will travel far Back at the hotel after dinner, everyone goes their own way, In 2006, Alabama made two west coast trips, exploring Palo and wide during their Crimson Tide tenure and will get there some back to their room to study or chat, some gathering in one Alto, Calif. during a trip to regionals and Corvallis, Ore. while on in style. The Tide travels to the vast majority of its competitions room or another to watch a movie. hand for its 24th consecutive NCAA Championship trip. by charter plane, keeping time away from home to a minimum. Breakfast usually finds everyone on their own, after which This season, the Tide returns to the West Coast, this time for Chartering also allows Sarah Patterson to adjust departure times there is a trip to the mall arranged for those who want to hit the regular season meets at UCLA and Stanford. to best accommodate her athletes’ class schedule. shops. The gymnasts aren’t the only ones hitting the road for away Nothing brings a team together like time on the road. Time Team lunch starts the pre-meet ritual, with the Tide taking meets. The Tide has a dedicated group of family, friends and fans on the plane is spent studying, reading, listening to music and over a section of a restaurant. After the competition the bus takes that follow them from one end of the country to the other. There with the advent of DVDs, watching movies. Time is also spent the Tide back to the airport, where the charter plane stands ready is never a meet that doesn’t see some crimson and white clad fans chatting, singing and generally having a good time. to whisk them back to Tuscaloosa. in the stands. And for those that can’t make it to an away meet, And just to make sure everything runs smoothly on a trip, a On longer trips, especially during the postseason, Alabama the Tide is the only school in the country whose home and away laminated travel card is handed out before the Tide sets off for travels with its massage therapist, allowing them to get massages meets are broadcast on the radio and online as well. the Tuscaloosa Airport, detailing the schedule, what to wear and in preparation for competition. other important information. And while many trips find the Tide flying in and out of town During the regular season, once the plane touches down, a for a meet, sometimes the trip is stretched to accommodate some bus comes plane-side to pick the Tide up and take them to the exploring. hotel. The Tide then makes its way to a team dinner, usually at a In 2005, on the way to compete at Stanford, Alabama stopped well-known local restaurant that has the kind of variety where the off in San Francisco to play tourist. Staying in the shadow gymnasts, coaches and staff can sample local cuisine or a personal of the Golden Gate Bridge, everyone rode cable cars, visited favorite. Fisherman’s Wharf and generally saw the city.

Did You 86 Know? Alabama gymnasts have earned 10 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships, twice as many as any other program in the nation. 2008 Opponents & Championships Illinois Auburn Kentucky Georgia Arkansas • Friday, Jan. 11 • Friday, Jan. 18 • Friday, Jan. 25 • Friday, Feb. 1 • Friday, Feb. 8 - Tuscaloosa, Ala. Tuscaloosa, Ala. Auburn, Ala. 7:00 pm Lexington, Ky. Tuscaloosa, Ala. 7:30 pm (Power of Pink Meet) 7:30 pm • Friday, March 21 7:00 pm 7:30 pm • Sunday, March 9 - Tuscaloosa, Ala. 7:30 pm Los Angeles, Calif. 2:00 pm Nickname: Fighting Illini Nickname: Wildcats Nickname: Bulldogs Colors: Orange and Blue Nickname: Tigers Colors: Blue and White Colors: Red and Black Nickname: Gators Head Coach: Bob Starkell Colors: Orange and Blue Head Coach: Mo Mitchell Head Coach: Suzanne Yoculan Colors: Orange and Blue SID Contact: Eric Giovanni Head Coach: Jeff Thompson SID Contact: Sean Cartell SID Contact: Caroline Domecq co-Head Coaches: Mark and Rene Cook phone: 217.333.1391 SID Contact: Megan Murren phone: 859.257.6846 phone: 706.542.1620 SID Contact: Jeri Thorpe e-mail: [email protected] phone: 334.844.9900 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] phone: 479.575.5037 website: www.fightingillini.com e-mail: [email protected] website: www.ukathletics.com website: www.georgiadogs.com e-mail: [email protected] website: www.auburntigers.com website: www.ladybacks.com

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Tide Timeline April 19, 2002 - In front of the home crowd of Coleman Coliseum, Alabama wins its fourth NCAA Championship. 87 She didn’t ask about salary, or facilities or equipment. When In signing their first class, Sarah and David made one one the letter came asking if she would be Alabama’s head coach, basic promise to their recruits. They promised the freshmen of Patterson, all of 22 years old and just out of Slippery Rock State 1980 that they would go to the National Championships. Alabama College, gave the Crimson Tide an emphatic and unequivocal “The first real defining moment of our program was the yes. first year we went to NCAAs,” Sarah said. “Our first recruit- Her first move as Alabama’s coach was to hire David ing class was in their senior year. We had promised them that Gymnastics Patterson, coming out of his freshman year as a diver on the we would make it to NCAAs. In their junior year, we finished Tide swimming and diving team, as an assistant coach. The 11th, and they took 10 teams. At the end of 1982, we all knew couple, married in 1984, then turned to the task at hand, taking that we had one year to fulfill our commitment to these ladies. ••• a team without a winning season and creating a juggernaut that Seeing it happen their senior year, making it to the NCAA has performed at the highest conceivable level for three decades. Championships — I couldn’t have been prouder.” A fast 30 years later, “Dancing with the Stars” and “Grey’s One promise fulfilled and another goal on the horizon. A Tradition of Anatomy” are keeping everyone glued to the TV set, Pirates of Sarah and David built their program, almost from scratch on the Caribbean: At World’s End and The Simpsons Movie were the simple premise that Alabama would develop the whole per- the summer blockbusters and Chris Brown, Rihanna and The son instead of just the athlete. From the beginning, Patterson- Excellence - Plain White T’s top the music charts. And 2008 finds the little coached student-athletes excelled not just in the gym, but also program that couldn’t quite find its feet before Sarah and David in the classroom. And beyond that, they developed lives outside Patterson came along, has won four NCAA Championships, of both. By the mid-1980s, Sarah and David Patterson began to five Southeastern Conference crowns, 22 NCAA Regional titles, wonder if their system would take the Tide to a national cham- A Legacy of 21 individual NCAA Championships and 223 All-American pionship. They began to wonder if the Tide could truly have the honors. best of all worlds. The adventures along the way came fast and furious. Sarah The answer came as another emphatic yes in 1988 when Champions found herself explaining to her boss Paul “Bear” Bryant, the the Tide won its first Southeastern Conference and NCAA Tide’s legendary football coach and athletics director, why a Championships. It started quietly. The University of Alabama’s brand- wrestling mat with a hole in the middle wouldn’t do as a floor “Before ‘88, I think sometimes we looked back and said, new gymnastics squad, under the direction, that first exercise mat. ‘Maybe you can’t have this philosophy of developing the whole year, of Riki Sutton, came together in the fall of 1974 “Once I explained what we needed,” Sarah Patterson said, person and be number one.’ When we won, it was a validation “Coach Bryant told Coach (Sam) Bailey (Bryant’s right hand of that philosophy. We could do it this way and be successful and would compete for the first time in January of 1975. man administratively) to get us what we needed. Coach Bryant on all fronts. We may not win every year, but we will be suc- That first team finished third at the state championships wanted all our sports to be winners and he was willing to pro- cessful.” and sixth at the regionals. Through the first four seasons vide us with the tools.” And just to prove that ‘88 was no fluke, the Pattersons led of the program there are four different coaches and no And the facilities that Sarah hadn’t asked about when taking the Tide to NCAA titles in 1991, 1996 and 2002. the job, started as Foster Auditorium, where the Tide shared its Everything else has progressed as well. Alabama is one of winning seasons, and there is talk about discontinuing practice space with the volleyball team. the nation’s top academic teams too, earning a national best the program. That talk will come to an abrupt halt soon “It was interesting,” David Patterson said. “Every once in eight NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships and over 130 Academic though, because things are about to get better for the a while you’d have a stray volleyball come zinging through All-SEC honors. And long gone are the days of stray volleyballs practice. Before every practice we’d have to set up all the equip- flying through practice. Since 1996, the Tide has trained in a young program, much, much better. ment and the mats and at the end of every practice we’d have to state-of-the art practice facility dedicated to gymnastics alone. In the summer of 1978, “Grease” reigned at the box break it all down again.” The fan base has grown by leaps and bounds. Alabama office and ABBA’s “Take a Chance on Me” filled dance Things progressed quickly though. Their first season, Sarah gymnastic is one of the top draws in women’s collegiate athlet- floors coast to coast. Laverne and Shirley was the most and David scoured the dorms on campus looking for anyone ics, averaging over 11,000 fans the last two seasons. That wasn’t with tumbling experience, just so they could fill their lineup. always the case though. popular TV series on the air, though it was in re-runs. They were though, doing some far more important recruiting It’s the summer of 1978 and things are about to turn farther afield. around for the Crimson Tide because Sarah Patterson has said yes.

Did You 88 Know? Penney Hauschild and Dee Foster both set national records on their way to winning NCAA All-Around Titles. “The first real defining moment of our program was the first year we went to NCAAs... Our first Great Moments in Alabama recruiting class was in their senior year. We had promised them that we would make it to NCAAs.” —Sarah Patterson Gymnastics History

“In the early days we’d have three dozen people One of the greatest legacies in collegiate sports continues when on July and two dozen would be Ann Wood’s family and 1, 2007 Sarah and David Patterson begin their 30th year coaching the friends,” Sarah Patterson said. Alabama Gymnastics team. The duo is the longest tenured coaching duo in Tide history and own four NCAA Championships and 25 consecutive And most importantly to the Pattersons is that NCAA Championship appearances. Their success, which shows no signs the student-athletes who helped turn Alabama into of abating, is legendary. a national powerhouse have themselves developed into outstanding women making a difference in the world around them. The Tide’s all-time roster is filled with doctors, lawyers, mothers and executives all excelling at the highest level. “When we started, winning championships was the biggest reward,” Sarah Patterson said. “And that’s still our goal every year, to be in a position on the last night of the season, to win the national title. But now, David and I are proudest not of the tro- phies and rings, but of the ladies that have won them and wear them still. We are proud of the lives they are leading and to have been a small part of their lives.” That attitude has created more than one of the Alabama capped the 2007 season with a pair of individual NCAA nation’s best overall athletic programs, it has built Championships on April 26, 2007 when junior Terin Humphrey and a family that stretches back to the class of 1979 and freshman Morgan Dennis take home the nation’s top prize on the uneven bars and fl oor exercise respectively. Humphrey, who also won up through the freshmen of 2008. And that attitude the 2005 NCAA Uneven Bars titles, is the sixth Tide gymnast to win gives credence to another top-song from 1978 by multiple national championships. Dennis is also the fi fth Alabama Sister Sledge, one that sums up the first quarter cen- gymnast to win an NCAA title as a rookie. It is the sixth year in a row tury of Alabama gymnastics under Sarah and David that Alabama has won at least one individual NCAA title. Patterson. “We are family…I got all my sisters and me…”

Tide Timeline April 20, 2002 - Andreé Pickens wins the NCAA Uneven Bars title, the Crimson Tide’s 13th individual national title. 89 They came to sup- Ashley Miles had scored other 10s, and she’d even port Sarah Patterson’s scored 10s at the NCAA Championships before, but “Power of Pink” initia- none were as dramatic as her back-to-back 10s on tive and they came in Already a legend, Ashley April 22, 2005 during the NCAA Super Six Team finals droves and they brought Miles secures her legacy on when the San Antonio, Texas native posts perfect April 22, 2006, by winning ‘05 their friends, and on marks on the floor ‘06 her third NCAA vault champi- January 20, 2006, for exercise and vault, ‘06onship, making her only the only the second time leading Alabama in school history, an second gymnast in NCAA his- to a second place Alabama Gymnastics tory, and first in over twenty team finish. meet sells out, draw- years, to win a trio of vault ing a Southeastern titles. She finished her career Conference and Alabama with four individual national record 15,162 fans to Coleman Coliseum. It titles, tying her for third in is the largest collegiate gymnastics crowd in NCAA history. the nation since 1993 and the third largest all-time. Everyone at the Alabama-Florida gymnastics meet, including both teams On May 3, 2006, is wearing pink in support of “Drive 4 the Ashley Miles wins Cause”. Conceived by Patterson in conjunc- Alabama’s sixth Honda tion with the DCH Foundation, the meet raises ‘06Award, capping a senior season that includes awareness and money for the fight against her fourth NCAA title with the national On August 22, 2004, freshman to be breast cancer. gymnast of the year award. A month later Terin Humphrey, who had already helped she becomes a top-5 finalist for the guide the United States to a Silver Medal in the team competition at the 2004 Doing the amazing is nothing new Honda-Broderick Cup, given annually to the nation’s top female athletes. She Athens Olympics, earns a Silver of for Ashley Miles, and so no one her own on the uneven‘04 bars. When receives her Honda Award in front of is surprised when on March 25, she joins the Crimson Tide on Dec. 2006, she becomes the first gym- 92,000-plus fans at half time of a UA football game. 26, 2004 after traveling with the T.J. ‘06nast in Southeastern Conference Maxx Tour of Champions through history to win the same event the fall, she becomes the Tide’s first four years in a row when she Olympian and first Olympic Medalist. takes home the SEC floor exercise She keeps things rolling along in title. She finishes her career with that first season with the Tide, 20 individual postseason titles, winning the NCAA Uneven Bars including four NCAA champion- Championship. ships, six SEC titles and 10 NCAA Regional championships

On April 17, 2004 Ashley Miles became the first Crimson Tide gymnast to defend an NCAA Vault title. On October 29, 2005, Michelle Reeser caps off her Crimson Tide career And for good measure, she threw in the NCAA Floor by being honored at the NCAA Woman of the Year Banquet in Indianapolis. ‘04 Exercise title as well. Miles became the first Alabama She is the fourth Alabama gymnast to be named a top-10 finalist for the gymnast to win two different NCAA apparatus titles ‘05honor and the ninth to be honored as a state winner. As a senior, Reeser in the same season. In addition to winning the earned All-American honors on the balance beam and was named the SEC NCAA Floor Exercise crown, Miles repeated as SEC Gymnastics Scholar-Athlete of the Year. and NCAA Regional floor exercise champion.

Did You 90 Know? Meredith Willard won the Tide’s fourth NCAA All-Around title during her junior season in 1996. Jeana Rice won six postseason titles as a senior, including a clean sweep of the SEC, NCAA West Regional and NCAA All-Around Championships and finished her career with an NCAA record 18 All-American honors. For all that Stephanie Kite’s career was a balanced she accomplished, on April 23, 2004 Rice was named the 2004 Honda Award attack. The All-American was an all-star Winner given annually to the nation’s best gymnast. It marked the fifth time an in the classroom and a tireless worker in ‘04Alabama gymnast earned that recognition. She was also named SEC “Athlete ‘04the community. As such she became the of the Year” by the conference’s athletics directors. eighth Alabama Gymnast to be named NCAA Woman of the Year for the State of Alabama on October 31, 2004. As a senior, Kite earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, was named to the SEC’s inaugural “SEC Good Works Team” and the CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year, a first for a Crimson Tide athlete. In a show of overwhelming generosity, businessman Steve Smith made a one million ‘04dollar gift to the Crimson Tradition Fund in honor of his mother, a life-long Alabama fan who “never misses a home gymnastics meet.” In honor of his donation, Not only will Kristin Sterner graduate with The University of Alabama Gymnastics Practice three championship rings, including one Facility, part of the Coleman Coliseum Annex, was for the 2002 NCAA Championship and one each dedicated the “Frances Smith Gymnastics Practice for the 2000 and 2003 Southeastern Conference Facility” on November 5, 2004. titles, but she will also earn 11 All-American honors,‘03 serve as the Tide’s captain as a junior and senior and post a 3.9 grade point average in biology during her standout career. Such excellence is recognized on May 29, 2003 when she is named the Southeastern Conference’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year. It marks the third time in school history that an Alabama gymnast After wowing fans through- has earned this award with Sterner joining out the season with her Julie Estin (1987) and Meredith Willard (1997). soaring vaults, on April Sterner will also earn the prestigious NCAA Top 26, 2003, freshman VIII award, making her the third Alabama gym- ‘03Ashley Miles impresses nast to do, joining Willard (1997) and Andreé the toughest crowd of all Pickens (2002). by winning the Crimson Tide’s first national vault On March 8, 2003, Sarah Patterson is inducted into the crown, scoring a 10.0 on Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. She is just the sixth woman her first vault and a 9.875 ever elected to the hall and the first female coach. “It’s my on her second to secure On January 12, 2003, Andreé Pickens caps a career name they’re going to call out,” Sarah Patterson said of the NCAA Championship that is second to none with the most prestigious the honor. “But as anybody who has followed our program in Lincoln, Neb. Miles had award given by the NCAA. The 14-time All-American ‘03 knows, it is honoring what David and I have accomplished already scored two 10.0s and two-time NCAA Champion is chosen as one of together.” The induction comes on the heels of the Tide’s in NCAA Championship ‘03the NCAA’s Top-VIII, and award that spans both men fourth NCAA Championship under the Pattersons and competition, winning the and women as well as all sports and divisions of the Sarah Patterson being named National Coach of the Year NCAA Central Region floor NCAA. Not only is Pickens chosen for this award, she for a fourth time. It precedes Alabama winning its fifth exercise title with a perfect is also asked to give the key-note address, giving SEC Championship under the Pattersons and posting its 14th mark and scoring a 10.0 a speech that brings those gathered at the NCAA top-3 finish at the NCAA Championships, where the Tide during the first night of the Convention to their feet. finishes second. NCAA team competition.

Tide Timeline July 10, 2002 - Andreé Pickens becomes the third Alabama Gymnast to be named Southeastern Conference Athlete of the Year. 91 Andreé Pickens wins her second NCAA Championship and the 13th in Alabama history April 20, 2002. It is her 12th routine in three days ‘02and the Houston, Texas native is exhausted, but she finds the energy for one more routine, the last of her career, and makes it count. The 14-time All-American and winner of both the AAI American Award and the Honda Award for Gymnastics, scores a 9.925 to win. With a tired wave to crowd which is giving her a standing ovation, Pickens closes out a career that was legend even before she won the title.

Senior Andreé Pickens has the most dominating per- It’s March 15, 2003 and Alabama wins Southeastern Conference title No. 5 in a competition that comes formance in Southeastern Conference Championship down to the Tide’s last competitor on the last event, clipping second place Georgia 197.275-197.225. history on March 23, 2002 when she wins four of Junior Jeana Rice wins the all-around, balance beam and uneven bars and is named SEC Gymnast of ‘02the five individual titles up for grabs that night at the Year, marking the fourth year in a row an Alabama athlete has won the award. Freshman Ashley Bartow Arena. Not only is she the first gymnast to ‘03Miles, whose 9.975 floor exercise routine not only clinches the Tide’s title, but wins the event and earns win four SEC titles in one year, she also earns her her All-SEC honors as well. Freshman Larissa Stewart posts a career best on the uneven bars, earning third SEC Gymnast of the Year honor. Pickens is the second-team All-SEC honors in the process and sophomore Michelle Reeser’s lead off balance beam only gymnast to win the award more than once. She routine earns her second-team All-SEC honors on that event. Senior Kristin Sterner, juniors Lauren finishes her career with seven SEC titles, includ- Holdefer and Stephanie Kite, sophomore Alexis Brion and Shannon Hrozek and freshmen Mari Bayer, ing two all-arounds, the SEC Community Service Rachael Delahoussaye, Dana Filetti, Dana Pierce and Lauren Pruitt all do their part to bring home the big Postgraduate Scholarship and the SEC Athlete of the trophy to Tuscaloosa. Year award.. Alabama travels to Gainesville for the 2000 Southeastern Conference Championship ‘00and falls into a Alabama rolls to NCAA Championship No. 4 on groove that car- April 19, 2002 in Coleman Coliseum with a rock ries it through a solid performance on all four events, especially the dominating per- balance beam, where the Tide finished off the meet formance to win ‘02 SEC title No. 3 on (and all the other teams) for the fourth meet in a row. Senior Andreé Pickens posts the night’s top March 18, 2000. all-around score and earns five All-American honors Sophomore Andreé in leading the Tide to victory. In all, Alabama earns a Pickens wins the meet high 14 All-American honors with sophomore vault, uneven bars and all-around titles and is named SEC Gymnast of the Jeana Rice earning three, junior Kristin Sterner and Year. She and freshman Kristin Sterner earn first-team All-SEC honors, sophomore Alexis Brion taking two a piece while while juniors Katie Hornecker and Dara Stewart (pictured above with their senior Natalie Barrington and freshman Shannon championship rings) along with sophomore Natalie Barrington all earned Hrozek earn one each. Seniors Alexa Martinez, second-team All-SEC honors. Seniors Lexa Evans and Gina Logan, juniors Whitney Morgan and Raegan Tomasek, junior Sara Robin Hawkins, April Makinson and Lissy Smith, sophomores Krista Gole, Scarborough, sophomores Helen Burgin, Tiffany Alexa Martinez, Whitney Morgan and Raegan Tomasek and freshman Sara Byrd, Erin Holdefer, Lauren Holdefer and Stephanie Scarborough round out the championship roster. Kite and freshman Michelle Reeser round out the championship roster.

Did You 92 Know? Alabama swept the postseason in 1988, winning its fi rst SEC and NCAA Championship along with its fi ft h NCAA Regional title. She didn’t believe it. “Check again,” she admonished everyone within her grasp. “There’s been some kind of mistake,” she told them. She tugged urgently at the sleeve of the nearest meet official, asking him to check, then double check the In a hint of the career to come, Andreé scores. There had been a mistake, someone else was supposed to be where she Pickens wins the NCAA Balance Beam was. No mistake, the scores were right. On Thursday, April 25, 1996, Meredith Championship as a freshman on April 24, ‘96Willard, the ultimate team player in a sport filled ‘991999, capping a championship where she with individuals, had won the NCAA All-Around becomes the first freshman in NCAA history Championship. to earn five All-American honors.

Stephanie Woods knew that the uneven bars routine she had The shine on Meredith Willard’s career, in and just finished had been special, out of the gym, continues to grow. On January she just wasn’t sure if anyone else 11, 1998, the Clemmons, N.C. native becomes knew. It was the night of the event ‘98the first Alabama athlete to earn the NCAA’s ‘96finals at the NCAA Championships prestigious Top VIII award, given annually to the and she had just completed her routine. nation’s top eight senior athletes regardless But the Austin, Texas, native’s feel- of gender or sport. The award encompasses ing about her routine carried over to the athletics, academics and character. judges, who knew they had seen something of championship caliber. On Saturday, April 27, 1996, Woods won the NCAA Uneven Bars Championship, etching her name in Crimson legend.

One fan after another made their way into Coleman Coliseum On Friday, April 26, 1996, paced by three individual Saturday, February 1, 1997 until finally, just before 7:00 NCAA Champions and a program record eight All- p.m. and the start of the Alabama-Georgia gymnastics Americans, the Tide posted an NCAA Super Six record meet, history was made and Alabama Gymnastics sold out. 198.025 to win its third NCAA title, second in the ‘90s. A capacity crowd of 15,043 fills Alabama’s arena. It is the Senior Kim Kelly and juniors Meredith Willard and ‘02largest crowd to ever see a women’s athletic event in the ‘96Stephanie Woods, all earned individual NCAA titles. State of Alabama and the largest crowd to ever see an SEC Junior Kim Bonaventura, sophomore Merritt Booth, Kelly, Gymnastics contest. Alabama’s challenge for the record sophomore Danielle McAdams, sophomore Shay Murphy, was foiled not by lack of fans, but lack of seats. Reportedly senior Marna Neubauer, Willard and Woods combined to more than 400 fans were turned away from the doors of the earn 18 All-American honors. Sophomore Heather Nasser coliseum. and freshmen Mandy Chapman, Lisa Gianni and Gwen Spidle round out Alabama’s championship roster.

Tide Timeline Jan. 12, 2003 - Andreé Pickens becomes the second gymnast in Alabama history to earn the prestigious NCAA Top VIII award. 93 No one could say that Dana Dobransky was not a pressure player. Dana wins two NCAA balance beam titles during her leg- In the final performance of her Crimson Tide career, endary Crimson Tide career. The first in 1992 and the second, as the music of her floor routine reached its final beat as a senior, in Corvallis, Ore. on April 17, 1993, with a perfect and tears streamed down her face, Kim Kelly’s success- 10.0. With her perfect performance, Dana becomes the first studded career turned golden. The King of Prussia, Penn. ‘93Tide gymnast to repeat as national champion on an individual ‘96native won the 1996 NCAA Floor Exercise Championship event. Dana goes on to earn an NCAA and SEC Post-Graduate in front of the home crowd with a perfect 10.0 and an ava- Scholarship, putting an exclamation on one of the greatest lanche of applause. For Kelly, that’s how it ended, Saturday, careers in Crimson Tide history. April 27, 1996. One last floor routine, perfect in execution - a moment in time - for all time, filled with tears of joy and sad- ness - and rolls upon rolls of cheers.

After three rotations of the 1995 The Crimson Tide starts the ‘90s off on Southeastern Conference Championships the right foot. Alabama marches into being held in Gainesville, Fla., the Crimson the Georgia Coliseum on March 25, Tide finds themselves in fourth place with 1990 and marches out with its second the chance for a third SEC Championship SEC‘90 Team title. Alabama finishes more ‘95 than a point ahead of second-place looking bleak. Fortunately, Alabama sees not a chance to give up, but a chance LSU. The Tide’s 193.55 total is a new to make history. Alabama soars past SEC Championship record. Senior Georgia, LSU and Florida on the strength Marie Robbins caps an outstanding of the best vault total in NCAA history career wearing the crimson and white on rotation No. 4 to win the ‘95 title on of Alabama by posting the Tide’s March 25, 1995. The Tide’s 196.175 second-ever SEC all-around title, with is just .05 in front of second-place a new championship record. That LSU. Alabama counts nothing less same year, a program record eight than a 9.900 on the way to setting members of the championship squad the vault mark. Junior Kim Kelly hits a 10.0 earn Academic All-SEC honors to win the vault. Senior Chasity Junkin and fresh- and Robbins earns an SEC Post- man Merritt Booth both turn in career-high 9.975s. Graduate Scholarship. Seniors Ali Sophomore Stephanie Woods wins the SEC uneven Blumberg, Tracey Tillman and Cheri bars title. Junior Marna Neubauer, sophomores Way, juniors Kim Masters and Tina Kim Bonaventura and Meredith Willard, freshmen Rinker, sophomores Gina Basile, Danielle McAdams, Shay Murphy and Heather Katherine Kelleher and Shea McFall Nasser all contribute to bringing SEC title No. 3 and freshman Dana Dobransky all home to Tuscaloosa. help bring home the Tide’s second On SEC trophy. May The theme of the 1991 29, 1990, NCAA Gymnastics Dee Foster became Championships is “Stars the first freshman in ‘91Fall on Alabama” and Southeastern Conference his- nothing could be closer tory to be named the league’s Junior Dee Foster, already a Crimson to the truth as the host Athlete of the Year. Foster was Tide legend, turns perfect on March Crimson Tide use a slew an obvious choice after winning ‘9214, 1992, during a dual meet with of talented ladies on April 19, 1991, to keep the championship in Tuscaloosa. the NCAA All-Around title with Georgia in Athens, scoring a 10.0 on Alabama’s 195.125 total is a new NCAA Championship scoring record. The an NCAA record of 39.30 and a vault. Foster will earn eight 10.0s Tide outdistances second-place Utah by three quarters of a point. Georgia is earning four All-American honors during her storied Tide career — five third followed by Oregon State, Penn State and Florida. Senior Kim Masters, as a rookie. She led Alabama to a 10.0s on the vault, one on the uneven juniors Gina Basile, Katherine Kelleher and Shea McFall, sophomores Dana second place national finish and the bars and two on the floor exercise. Dobransky and Dee Foster, and freshman Kara Stilp all earn All-America hon- Tide’s second SEC Team title. ors. Senior Tina Rinker, freshmen Keri Duley, Sheryl Dundas, and Marti Watson ‘90 round out the Tide’s hometown championship roster.

Did You 94 Know? Dee Foster fi nished in the top-3 of the All-Around all four years of her career. Crimson Tide legend Penney Hauschild caps a brilliant Crimson Tide career with her second Alabama is at its third NCAA consecutive Honda Broderick Award on January 11, 1986. The Honda Broderick Award is given Championship April 12-13, 1985, when annually to the nation’s best gymnast. Hauschild’s career includes two NCAA All-Around cham- junior Penney Hauschild explodes into a pionships, an NCAA Uneven Bars title and an NCAA Floor Exercise title. Hauschild earned 10 All- Crimson Tide legend by winning the NCAA American honors during her fabled career. She earned five NCAA Central Regional titles and one All-Around title in Salt Lake City, Utah. SEC All-Around crown. ‘86 It ‘85is the first time that an athlete from Utah fails to win the all-around title. The Pennsylvania native also wins the uneven bars title. Penney is the first individual NCAA champion in Alabama Gymnastics’ history. Penney’s all-around total is an On May 27, 1987, Julie Estin NCAA Championship Record. Penney will becomes the first athlete from win four NCAA titles during her legendary Alabama to be honored as the career, repeating as all-around champion Southeastern Conference Scholar- in 1986 and adding the floor exercise title Athlete of the Year. Julie also wins to her resume that same year. Eleven gymnasts and a lifetime of dreams come NCAA‘87 and SEC Post-Graduate together on April 22, 1988 as Alabama wins its Scholarships, which she puts to good first NCAA Team Championship. Alabama scores use. In July 1996, Dr. Julie Vaughn All-American Barbara Mack, a Rhodes Scholarship finalist, the first an NCAA Championship record 190.05 in front of set up practice in Tuscaloosa Alabama gymnast to win the Paul W. Bryant Award, an NCAA Post- a rowdy handful of Tide faithful in Salt Lake City, as a pediatrician. Graduate Scholarship winner and a two time Region Champion, caps a ‘88Utah. Utah is second followed by UCLA, LSU, Georgia brilliant Crimson Tide career by becoming the first Alabama Gymnast to and Florida. The Tide is led by four All-Americans - ‘85win the AMF American Award on April 13, 1985. senior Kathy Bilodeau, sophomores Marie Robbins and Cheri Way and freshman Tina Rinker. Senior Alli Beldon, sophomores Ali Blumberg and Tracey Tillman and freshmen Wendy Anderson, Kim Masters and Susie Pierce round out the Tide’s championship roster.

No one may have known it at the time, but July 1, 1978 marks the start of something extreme- ly special as the Crimson Tide begins its rise toward becom- Julie Garrett becomes ing ‘78one of the most success- Alabama’s first All- ful programs in the history American on April 4, 1982. of collegiate athletics as Julie paces the Tide to Sarah Campbell becomes a fourth-place finish at Alabama Gymnastics’ ‘82the 1982 AIAW National fifth head coach in five Alabama wins its first NCAA Regional title on History didn’t record the first meeting, the first Championships before years. She immediately March 26, 1983, earning its first trip to the practice or the first vault, those dates are lost in attending the first NCAA hires David Patterson NCAA Championships which will be held at Salt time, but first meet, the first time The University of Championship as an indi- as her assistant Lake City, Utah, in two weeks. Sarah and David Alabama put forth a group of young women wear- vidual. Undaunted by her coach. The rest, as Patterson’s first recruiting class helps take the ing crimson and white leotards came on January first NCAA appearance, they say, is history. Tide to top of the South Region, downing the 10, 1975. Alabama opens at home, falling to ‘83 Julie earns All-America ‘75 region’s until-then dominant team, Florida, the Georgia College 83.75-65.80. And with that, the recognition on the uneven meet’s host. program that will become one of the most cel- bars. ebrated in collegiate athletics is underway.

Tide Timeline March 8, 2003 - Sarah Patterson is inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. 95 On the national level, top-4 finishes. Alabama’s and Meredith Willard man- as a junior. In 1999, Andreé 1988 Alabama has enjoyed stag- championship run includes aged the feat in 1990 and Pickens won the NCAA bal- gering success for more than four NCAA Championships 1996 respectively. Foster ance beam as a rookie. She 25 years ever since vaulting (2002, 1996, 1991, 1988) and became the first gymnast to added a Cinderella finish to into the NCAA standings 10 top-2 finishes. finish top-3 in the all-around her standout Alabama career in 1983 with a fourth place Alabama gymnasts have all four years of her career. with the 2002 NCAA Uneven finish. Last season marked also excelled individually, She was first in 1990, second Bars titles. Alabama’s 25th consecu- winning 21 individual NCAA in 1991 and 1993, and third In the category of All- tive NCAA Championship, Championships, including in 1992. Americans, Alabama has a stretch that includes 21 eight in the past five seasons. In addition to her all- been extremely prolific as 50 Senior Terin Humphrey around titles, Hauschild Tide gymnasts have earned won her second national won the uneven bars cham- All-American honors a total uneven bars title last season, pionship in 1985 and took of 223 times. In 1993, Foster adding it to her 2005 cham- home top marks in the floor set an NCAA record when pionship, while sophomore exercise in 1986. Gina Basile she ended her career with Morgan Dennis won the was awarded the balance 17 first team All-America 1991 NCAA floor exercise title. beam title in 1991, while honors, a mark that still Ashley Miles won four Dana Dobransky was the first stands today. In 2004, Rice NCAA Championships dur- Crimson Tide gymnast to set the national mark for All- ing her career, including repeat on an individual event American honors in a career, three vault titles, 2003, 2004, when she won back-to-back finishing with 18 combined 2006 and the 2004 floor exer- balance beam titles in 1992 first and second-team hon- cise crown. and 1993. ors. Jeana Rice brought home Kim Kelly finished off a In 1996, the Alabama’s fifth NCAA All- stellar career with a winning Alabama-hosted NCAA Around title in 2004, joining 10.0 floor exercise perfor- Championships posted the Penney Hauschild, Alabama’s mance at the 1996 NCAA highest attendance in history, first NCAA Champion, who Individual Finals. That same 36,573 over the three-day won two all-around titles in year, Stephanie Woods event. 1985 and 1986. Dee Foster won the uneven bars title 1996 Alabama at the NCAA Championships Alabama’s NCAA Team Championships 2007 ______9th 1998 ______3rd 1989 ______3rd — 2002, 1996, 1991, 1988 2006 ______3rd 1997 ______9th 1988 ______1st 2005 ______2nd 1996 ______1st 1987 ______4th Alabama’s NCAA Champions: 2004 ______t-3rd 1995 _____ t-2nd 1986 ______3rd — Morgan Dennis - 1, Terin Humphrey - 2003 ______2nd 1994 ______2nd 1985 ______4th 2, Ashley Miles - 4, Jeana Rice - 1, 2002 ______1st 1993 ______2nd 1984 ______6th Andreé Pickens - 2, Meredith Willard - 2001 ______4th 1992 ______3rd 1983 ______4th 1, Kim Kelly - 1, Stephanie Woods - 1, 2000 ______5th 1991 ______1st Dana Dobransky - 2, Gina Basile - 1, 1999 ______3rd 1990 ______2nd Dee Foster - 1, Penney Hauschild - 4 2002

Did You 96 Know? Alabama gymnasts have won at least one individual NCAA Championship every year since 2002. Alabama has been to 25 consecutive NCAA Championships, a mark bettered by only one school in history. The Tide has finished in the top-four 21 times, more than any other school in the country. That total includes 10 top- two NCAA finishes. Individually the Crimson Tide has brought home 21 NCAA Championships, including five NCAA All-Around titles. 2007 at Salt Lake City, Utah 2002 at Tuscaloosa, Ala. 1996 at Tuscaloosa, Ala. 1991 at Tuscaloosa, Ala. 1 Georgia 197.850 1 ALABAMA 197.575 1 ALABAMA 198.025 1 ALABAMA 195.125 2 Utah 197.250 2 Georgia 197.250 2 UCLA 197.475 2 Utah 194.375 3 Florida 197.225 3 UCLA 197.150 3 Utah 196.775 3 Georgia 193.375 4 UCLA 196.925 4 Utah 196.950 Georgia 196.775 4 Oregon State 192.350 5 Stanford 196.825 5 Nebraska 196.425 5 Oregon State 196.525 5 Penn State 190.950 6 Nebraska 195.975 6 Stanford 196.025 6 Michigan 196.375 6 Florida 189.700 7 LSU 196.275 Alabama NCAA Champion- Alabama NCAA Champions- 7 LSU 188.600 8 Oklahoma 196.250 Andreé Pickens UB Meredith Willard AA 8 BYU 187.700 9 ALABAMA 196.125 Kim Kelly FX 9 Arizona State 187.650 10 Denver 195.575 2001 at Athens, Ga. Stephanie Woods UB Auburn 187.650 11 Oregon State 195.100 1 UCLA 197.575 11 Arizona 187.450 Michigan 195.100 2 Georgia 197.400 1995 at Athens, Ga. 12 Utah State 185.950 Alabama NCAA Champion- 3 Michigan 197.275 1 Utah 196.650 Terin Humphrey UB 4 ALABAMA 196.550 2 ALABAMA 196.425 1990 at Corvallis, Ore. Morgan Dennis FX 5 Utah 196.025 Michigan 196.425 1 Utah 194.900 Nebraska 196.025 4 UCLA 196.150 2 ALABAMA 194.575 5 Georgia 196.075 1987 at Salt Lake City, Utah 1984 at Los Angeles, Calif. 2006 at Corvallis, Ore. 3 Georgia 193.225 1 Utah 186.050 1 Georgia 197.750 6 Oregon State 194.850 4 UCLA 193.100 1 Georgia 187.900 2000 at Boise, Idaho 2 Utah 187.550 2 UCLA 185.550 2 Utah 196.800 1 UCLA 196.850 5 Nebraska 192.225 3 Cal State Fullerton 193.900 3 ALABAMA 196.725 1994 at Salt Lake City, Utah 6 LSU 192.100 3 UCLA 187.000 2 Utah 196.550 1 Utah 196.400 4 ALABAMA 186.600 4 Arizona State 183.650 4 Florida 196.275 3 Georgia 195.950 7 Oregon State 189.950 5 Florida 182.200 5 Nebraska 196.175 2 ALABAMA 196.350 8 Cal State Fullerton 189.700 5 Arizona State 184.000 4 Nebraska 195.900 3 Georgia 195.850 6 Florida 183.800 6 ALABAMA 180.800 6 Iowa State 194.725 5 ALABAMA 196.500 9 Towson State 187.975 7 Penn State 179.450 Alabama NCAA Champion- 4 Michigan 195.150 10 Arizona 187.175 7 LSU 181.500 6 Michigan 194.800 5 UCLA 194.975 8 Ohio State 180.200 8 Washington 178.550 Ashley Miles V Florida 187.175 9 Georgia 177.600 6 Florida 194.850 12 Ohio State 183.650 9 Washington 179.850 1999 at Salt Lake City, Utah 10 Nebraska 179.500 10 Arizona 176.900 2005 at Auburn, Ala. 1 Georgia 196.850 Alabama NCAA Champion- 1993 at Corvallis, Oregon Dee Foster AA 11 Arizona 179.450 1 Georgia 197.825 2 Michigan 196.550 1 Georgia 198.000 12 Oregon State 174.500 1983 at Salt Lake City, Utah 2 ALABAMA 197.400 3 ALABAMA 195.950 2 ALABAMA 196.825 1 Utah 184.650 3 UCLA 197.275 4 Arizona State 195.900 3 Utah 195.825 1989 at Athens, Ga. 1986 at Gainesville, Fla. 2 Arizona State 183.300 4 Utah 197.150 5 UCLA 195.850 4 UCLA 194.925 1 Georgia 192.650 1 Utah 186.950 3 Cal State Fullerton 179.250 5 Michigan 196.575 6 Nebraska 194.800 5 Auburn 194.725 2 UCLA 192.600 2 Arizona State 186.700 4 ALABAMA 179.050 6 Nebraska 196.425 Alabama NCAA Champion- 6 Arizona 194.075 3 ALABAMA 192.100 3 ALABAMA 186.350 5 Florida 177.850 Alabama NCAA Champion- Andreé Pickens BB Alabama NCAA Champion- 4 Nebraska 190.800 4 Georgia 185.450 6 LSU 177.800 Terin Humphrey UB Dana Dobransky BB 5 Utah 190.200 5 Cal State Fullerton 185.000 UCLA 177.800 1998 at Los Angeles, Calif. 6 Cal State Fullerton 189.450 6 Penn State 182.700 8 Ohio State 176.650 2004 at Los Angeles, Calif. 1 Georgia 197.725 1992 at Saint Paul, Minn. 7 Arizona State 187.900 7 UCLA 181.700 9 Oregon State 173.550 1 UCLA 198.125 2 Florida 196.350 1 Utah 195.650 Oregon State 187.900 8 Florida 181.300 10 Nebraska 165.550 2 Georgia 197.200 3 ALABAMA 195.300 2 Georgia 194.600 9 Oklahoma 187.050 9 LSU 180.550 3 ALABAMA 197.125 4 Utah 196.025 3 ALABAMA 193.350 10 Florida 187.000 10 Ohio State 177.800 1982 at Salt Lake City, Utah Stanford 197.125 5 UCLA 195.750 4 Penn State 192.700 11 Arizona 186.500 Alabama NCAA Champion- 1 Utah 148.600 5 Florida 196.800 6 Arizona State 196.450 5 Arizona 191.950 12 Ohio State 186.400 Penney Hauschild FX, AA 2 Cal State Fullerton 144.150 6 Utah 195.775 6 Oregon State 191.300 3 Penn State 143.100 Alabama NCAA Champions- 1997 at Gainesville, Fla. 7 Arizona State 191.000 1988 at Salt Lake City, Utah 1985 at Salt Lake City, Utah 4 Oregon State 143.000 Ashley Miles V, FX 8 California 190.700 1 ALABAMA 190.050 1 Utah 188.350 5 Arizona State 142.950 Jeana Rice AA 1 UCLA 197.150 2 Utah 189.500 2 Arizona State 196.850 9 UCLA 189.800 2 Arizona State 186.600 6 UCLA 142.400 10 Stanford 189.100 3 UCLA 188.800 3 Florida 184.300 7 Florida 140.900 3 Georgia 196.600 4 LSU 187.900 2003 at Lincoln, Neb. 4 Michigan 196.500 11 Florida 188.700 4 ALABAMA 184.050 8 Nebraska 138.100 1 UCLA 197.825 12 BYU 187.700 5 Georgia 186.800 5 Cal State Fullerton 183.500 9 Oklahoma State 137.200 5 Florida 196.425 6 Florida 186.650 2 ALABAMA 197.275 6 Nebraska 195.250 Alabama NCAA Champion- 6 Oregon 183.150 10 Michigan 136.900 3 Georgia 197.150 Dana Dobransky BB 7 Oregon State 186.500 7 Georgia 180.900 7 Utah 196.025 8 Arizona State 185.100 4 Nebraska 197.125 8 Washington 195.975 8 Ohio State 179.750 5 Michigan 196.050 9 Arizona 184.000 9 Penn State 179.000 9 ALABAMA 195.600 10 Nebraska 183.550 6 Utah 195.300 10 Minnesota 194.775 10 Oklahoma 177.400 Alabama NCAA Champion- 11 Penn State 179.700 Alabama NCAA Champion- 11 Penn State 194.300 12 Michigan State 178.800 Ashley Miles V 12 LSU 193.825 Penney Hauschild UB, AA

Tide Timeline March 29, 2003 – Alabama wins its fi ft h Southeastern Conference Championship and junior Jeana Rice earns SEC Gymnast of the Year. 97 Honda Award for Gymnastics NCAA Woman of the Year NCAA Postgraduate Awarded to the nation’s best collegiate gymnast. First awarded in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year program honors academic and athletics excellence, as Scholarships 2004 Stephanie Kite 2006 Ashley Miles well as community service and leadership, on a national 2003 Kristin Sterner 2004 Jeana Rice level. There are three levels: state winner, finalist 1998 Merritt Booth 2002 Andreé Pickens (top-10) and Woman of the Year. 1997 Meredith Willard 1993 Dee Foster 2005 Michelle Reeser ...... Top-10 Finalist 1993 Dana Dobransky 1986 Penney Hauschild 2004 Stephanie Kite ...... State Winner 1992 Katherine Kelleher 1985 Penney Hauschild 2003 Kristin Sterner ...... Top-10 Finalist 1989 Kelly Good 2002 Andreé Pickens ...... State Winner 1987 Julie Estin NCAA Top VIII Award 2000 Lexa Evans ...... State Winner 1985 Barbara Mack The NCAA Top VIII Award is the NCAA’s most prestigious 1998 Merritt Booth ...... Top-10 Finalist 1983 Julie Garrett award, given annually to the nation’s top eight senior ath- 1997 Meredith Willard ...... Top-10 Finalist letes regardless of gender or sport. The award encompasses 1993 Dana Dobransky ...... State Winner 1992 Katherine Kelleher ....State Winner National Coach of the Year athletics, academics and character. 2002 Sarah Patterson 2003 Kristin Sterner 1991 Sarah Patterson 2002 Andreé Pickens 1988 Sarah Patterson 1997 Meredith Willard 1986 Sarah Patterson

Did You 98 Know? Since the award began in 1991, Crimson Tide gymnasts have been named NCAA Woman of the Year for the State of Alabama nine times, at total that includes four top-10 fi nalists. Honda Award Recipients

Ashley Jeana Dee Penney Miles Rice Foster Hauschild

In addition to earning Alabama’s first NCAA Top VIII Michelle Reeser award, Meredith was a finalist for the Willard was a 1997 Andreé NCAA Woman of the Year NCAA Woman of Pickens earned the Award. the Year top-10 NCAA Top VIII award, finalist. the Honda Award and was the NCAA Woman of the Year for the State of Alabama.

Kristin Sterner earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, NCAA Top VIII award and was an NCAA Woman of the Year Award finalist. NCAA Woman of the Year finalist Merritt Booth was presented with NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship her NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winner Julie Estin was also named during the 1999 Georgia meet. SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

Tide Timeline April 26, 2003 – Freshman Ashley Miles wins Alabama’s fi rst NCAA Vault title and 14th overall with a 9.9375. 99 On the way to winning its fourth NCAA Championship, “I started to cry when Kristin landed her Alabama was a study in contrast. In the locker room, which the routine,” Pickens said. “Jeana (Rice) came over coaches and gymnasts had turned into a beach getaway, complete to me and told me that it was ok, I could do with sand, umbrellas, floats and beach music, the Tide was laid it, I could do it one more time. That whole back and laughing. Out in the arena, moving ever closer to the routine was in slow motion. It wasn’t rushed title, they were cool, calm and collected. and I wasn’t nervous, I was happy and I was “We have always done our best when we are loose and laugh- confident.” ing,” All-American Kristin Sterner said. “So the coaches made She nailed her routine. And when she sure that while we were in the locker room, we didn’t get tense or threw her arms in the air after her dismount, uptight.” the Coleman Coliseum crowd knew what On the night of the Super Six, head coach Sarah Patterson had happened. They knew the Bama team even went so far as to pull out the dress she wore to the champi- had again, as the Tide fight song says, “Writ onships the first time Alabama won at home, in 1991, a red and her name in crimson flame…” and brought white striped, strapless sequined number. a fourth national title to Tuscaloosa. They “At first they were surprised, and then they started laughing roared their approval, stomping, clapping and pretty hard,” Patterson said. “I think they really enjoyed seeing screaming, much like the pandemonium that that, especially since it’s pretty far removed from the kinds of had broken out on things I wear today.” the floor amongst Sarah and David Patterson, coaching at their 20th NCAA the Tide athletes, Championship, knew that staying loose would give their team an coaches and staff. edge in a tight competition. The night of the NCAA Super Six, It had been a none of the six teams had a fall. It would be the second highest Sarah Patterson and the 2002 NCAA Champion remarkable run. Crimson Tide share their excitement with CBS’s scoring night in championship history. Since counting Bonnie Bernstein and the national television It didn’t seem to matter though, the higher the other teams a fall on the last audience after winning national title No. 4. turned up the heat, the cooler Alabama gymnasts got. event of the SEC For two nights in a row, Alabama started the night on Championships, the floor exercise, which means that for two nights in a row, Alabama had gone Alabama’s championship hopes came down to six routines on a perfect 72 for 72 the balance beam, often the most daunting event of the four, during their cham- especially when the pressure is on. pionship march. And on the final night, just to add more drama to the evening, Pickens, senior Alabama was on the balance beam during the last rotation while Natalie Barrington, second place Georgia was on the floor exercise. Not only would Sterner, sophomore But perhaps the best moment came just after the team Alabama have to hit their routines, but they would also have to Jeana Rice and freshmen Alexis Brion and Shannon Hrozek received the trophy from Alabama Athletics Director Mal Moore, hold Georgia off. earned 14 All-American honors between them, the most of any when everyone was laughing and hugging. It was Pickens, who Each routine grew in importance as both teams moved team at the championship. On Saturday, an exhausted Pickens, had come back from a torn Achilles that ended her junior season through the rotation. Alabama hit routine after routine until who went 12 routines in three days, had enough energy left to just days before the 2001 NCAA Championship, who put it best. Sterner came up in the number five spot. A hit routine from win the NCAA Uneven Bars title to go with the American Award Standing in the middle of her teammates tightly clutching Sterner and the championship belonged to Alabama; a miss she’d picked up earlier in the day which denotes the nation’s top the Tide’s golden prize to her chest she said, “This is why I came would open the door for Georgia. senior. back. This is why I worked so hard for so many months to get Sterner put together a rock solid routine and finished it off There would be more moments of celebration in the days back – to be able to share this moment, this feeling with these by nailing her landing. The title belonged once again to the Tide. and weeks that followed. Alabama received their championship girls and this crowd. But the team didn’t know that, not for sure, so for them, there rings in front of 83,000-plus fans at the halftime of the Alabama- “This,” she said again, sweeping her eyes over the mob scene was one more routine to go, this time from Andreé Pickens, the Southern Mississippi football game. They were also honored in Coleman Coliseum, “is what we wanted.” Tide’s all-everything senior. at the Homecoming parade and the pep rally/bonfire the night before.

Did You 100 Know? Alabama’s six All-Americans and 14 All-American honors were both tops at the 2002 NCAA Championships. For the Alabama Gymnastics team, two long years of plan- Willard carried the banner of enthusiasm throughout her third NCAA title, second in front of the home crowd. UCLA ning, training and dedication had come down to the next 24 performance, producing a 9.95. McAdams came up in the final was second with a 197.475, a score that would have won all hours. Their motto for the season had been “Enjoy the Journey,” spot and capped Alabama’s performance with a career high 9.95. but one other NCAA Championship. Utah and Georgia tied and they had with great success. Now, in April 1996, Alabama When the counting was done, Alabama had produced a for third with a 196.775. Oregon State was fifth with a 196.525, was on the verge of competing for the national championship on NCAA Floor Exercise record 49.625. while Michigan finished sixth with a 196.375. It marked the first its home floor. Sarah and David Patterson gathered their team The Bruins were tenacious though, matching the Tide’s time in NCAA history that all six members of the “Super Six” and told them, “We’ve enjoyed the journey, now it’s time to record floor effort with an NCAA record of their own on the scored 196 or better. enjoy our destination.” balance beam (49.50). Going into the last rotation, perennial Willard started the Tide’s winning ways on the first night of Alabama started its drive for its third NCAA Championship favorites Georgia and Utah were already out of the champion- competition, earning Alabama’s fourth NCAA All-Around title. on the same two events on which it had counted falls on the ship picture - barring a complete meltdown by both the Crimson The Tide would roll to two more titles during Saturday first night of team competition. On the uneven bars, sopho- Tide and UCLA. It came down to two teams and one last rota- night’s individual competition. Woods posted a 9.975 to win more Danielle McAdams produced a 9.875, a mark echoed by tion. the NCAA Uneven Bars title. And Kelly, in the last meet of her freshman Gwen Spidle. Spidle was followed junior Meredith Alabama headed to the vault, just .05 ahead of floor exercise storied career, inked the perfect final chapter. She posted yet Willard, who posted a 9.9. In the fourth position senior Kim bound UCLA. another perfect 10.0 floor routine to win that title. Kelly suffered a fall, putting the Tide’s final two performers What happened during the in clutch positions. Junior Stephanie Woods responded with last rotation is the stuff of legend. a 9.95. Senior Marna Neubauer came up in the final position. Alabama ran off a blistering set of The senior had been battling a sore shoulder for the latter half vaults in which the Tide scored noth- of the season but came up big for the Tide, swinging to a 9.875. ing less than a 9.9 and posted two Alabama produced a 49.475, the second best total in school his- perfect, golden 10.0s. tory. Booth got Alabama off to a 9.925 Alabama then moved to the balance beam. Willard took to start. Bonaventura and Neubauer the beam in her customary first spot and for the first time all chimed in with back-to-back 9.9 season, on any event, she fell. Sarah Patterson gathered the team scores. McAdams came up in the together and told them, “Meredith has been our rock all season fourth spot and put the ultimate long. Now we’ll be there for her.” exclamation point on what had Sophomore Shay Murphy was next up and responded with already been a career night. She flew a solid 9.8. Senior Kim Bonaventura posted a 9.825 and Kelly down the runway, hit the spring- scored 9.9. McAdams came up in the fifth position. Midway board, then the vault, landed on the through her routine, she wobbled on a landing, staying on the mat and did not move. Feet planted, beam seemingly through sheer force of will. She steadied herself arms thrown back and head held and finished the routine to thunderous applause and a 9.725 high, McAdams scored her first per- score. Woods finished things off for the Tide with a 9.9. The fect 10.0 and the fans roared, clapped Tide posted a 49.150. and screamed their approval. Kelly Despite a strong first half, Alabama still trailed UCLA, a responded with a 10.0 of her own, the squad making a push for the top, by .075 with two rotations left. sixth perfect vault of her career and The Tide moved to the floor exercise, and it was there one that raised the roof right off the that the Tide and the crowd of 10,000-plus fans caught fire. coliseum. Willard finished the Tide’s Neubauer scored a 9.85 followed by Booth’s 9.875. evening with a 9.95. Then Kelly brought her floor routine out, the routine she The Tide’s vault total, 49.775, set had learned during the season, and introduced only four meets yet another NCAA record. UCLA before. To the strains of “Yea Alabama” and “Sweet Home mustered a 49.275 on the floor. The Alabama” the Pennsylvania native captured her audience and title was Alabama’s. judges, producing a perfect 10.0 performance and raising the Alabama totaled a 198.025, a new Alabama totaled a 198.025, a new NCAA ‘Super Six’ record, to win its third NCAA title, second in front of the home crowd. decibel level in Coleman Coliseum to near-deafening heights. NCAA ‘Super Six’ record, to win its

Tide Timeline Nov. 1, 2003 – Kristin Sterner is honored as a top-10 fi nalist at the NCAA Woman of the Year banquet held in Indianapolis. 101 The Tide was young in 1991, with “We can’t rest because we still have to learn,” Patterson six underclassmen, including four fresh- explained to the media at the time. men. The two seniors, Kim Masters and The Tide traveled to Lexington, Ky. for the Southeastern Tina Rinker, sought to weave the eleven Conference Championships. Forced to count two falls on the girls together to form a squad reminis- final event, vault, the SEC title slipped from Alabama’s hands cent of the 1988 championship they were by .05. The disappointment and frustration made the Tide even members of as freshmen. more determined to earn the national crown. “I remember feeling that the team “Good teams aren’t going to let defeats defeat them overall,” had so much talent that we should be junior Katherine Kelleher told reporters. “They use it to their able to win the national championship if advantage. That’s what we are going to do.” we could become unified and get into the “I’ve always said that in this conference, you can be third at flow,” Rinker reminisced. the conference championship and win the national champion- Alabama had the opportunity ship,” Patterson explained. “1991 was definitely indicative of that to shine at home, but the team was not scenario.” fulfilling expectations in the pre-season. At the regional championships at Auburn, the Tide turned in “I can remember in December thinking one of its best performances of the season. The team entered the that we were hosting the championships NCAAs as the No. 1 seed. and that we might not even be there,” At the NCAA Championships, the Tide drew a favorable rota- Patterson said. Pre-season practices were tion, starting on the vault, finishing on the floor exercise. After not characteristic of a team that should charging through the first two events, the “Beam Team” was put be in contention for a gold, and Patterson to its final test. The Crimson Tide hit all six routines, passing the predicted a nightmarish outcome if the exam with flying colors. No other team competed on the balance team did not shape up. beam without a fall. “One day, Sarah sat us down and Before the team rotated to floor, Patterson offered only one we got a good lecture,” freshman Kara piece of advice to her charges: “I just told the kids to land on their Alabama hosted the NCAA Championships for the first time in 1991, coming away with the title. Stilp recalled. “I will never forget it. She feet and stay in bounds.” told us that we were going to be really The floor music reverberated through the Coliseum and each In 1991, Sarah Patterson finally had the championships right embarrassed when we hosted nationals, and we would not be tumbling pass was met with the type of cheers that had once been where she wanted them: in Coleman Coliseum. competing in it. We agreed that we all needed to get in gear.” reserved for the extra point kicked for the win in the final sec- Alabama had already gained national prominence, winning That proved to be a turning point for the gymnasts. Once its onds of a football game. The Crimson Tide emerged victorious. its first title in 1988. In 1990, the team brought home its second first competition rolled around, the Tide was ready to go. If pre- “Winning one (the championship in 1988) was great, but Southeastern Conference title and placed second to Utah at the season was tough, the competition season was just as demanding. there was nothing like winning at home,” the excited head coach championship. The 1991 team boasted a contingent that included The Tide defeated Auburn in the 1991 season opener even said. five All Americans and the 1990 NCAA all-around champion. though they had to count three falls on balance beam, an event “I felt like winning one championship was exciting, but to win If the gymnasts did their jobs, there was no doubt in Patterson’s on which the program had built its reputation. In its home open- a second one just validated our program at that point,” Patterson mind they would compete in front of the home crowd that final er against Penn State, the team tumbled to three more falls from continued. “It wasn’t just a one-time thing. Yes, we can have this Friday of competition. the 4-inch wide apparatus. Fortunately, they still came away with philosophy of having the best students and athletes and well- Hosting the championships had been a Patterson goal since a “W” in the win column. rounded individuals and still win a championship.” her team began its climb to distinction. Competing for the title To Patterson, these mistakes were unacceptable for a champi- The team also taught Patterson a thing or two about the on her turf would not only validate the program, but also bring in onship-caliber team. Beam intra-squads came frequently, and the 7-month journey to the national championship competition, as the support Patterson felt the team deserved. team’s self-assurance rose. The team members began to refer to well as the expectations that come with the quest. “I remember being told that you build a crowd by winning themselves as the “Beam Team.” “It doesn’t matter where you start in December,” Patterson a national championship, but you could also do it by hosting a “We had so much confidence because Sarah made us do so said. “It only matters where you end in April. Sometimes, when championship,” Patterson explained. The first step toward build- many intra-squads,” sophomore Sheryl Dundas said. “We could it looks like you have your hardest road to go in pre-season, you ing the fan base was accomplished with the 1988 NCAA title, do routines in our sleep if we had to.” need to stay focused on the outcome and take it one step at a which spurred increased interest in the program. Even half way through the season, the Tide would not take a time. So, more than anything, I learned from this team to not moment’s break. look too far down that road.”

Did You 102 Know? Alabama won its second NCAA Championship in 1991, the fi rst time it hosted the national championships. Sarah and David were celebrating their 10th anniversary of mer before, her aspirations for the Olympic rings seemed within The position, being the No. 1 seed, was not, but that did not seem coaching the Crimson Tide in 1988. Their success had been noth- her grasp. Striving for that goal lost its appeal though and after to weigh on the Tide. ing short of amazing, with five consecutive top-6 finishes includ- much thought, she opted for college and the Crimson Tide. With “I don’t think there’s extra pressure on us being the No. 1 ing a high of third in 1986. Alabama was a strong team, with a its roster set, the season began. seed,” Sarah said. “We just achieved so many things - winning the solid foundation built on its coaches and the type of athletes they Alabama reeled off a trio of wins to get things going. Then SEC, the record in the regionals and the No. 1 seed - that we’re chose to bring into the program. something strange happened - Alabama tied LSU. With fractions too proud of what we’ve already accomplished to feel pressure.” The questions began brewing in Sarah and David’s mind of points being added up over the course of 24 individual perfor- If Alabama disagreed with their coach, it did not show. though - could their philosophy of developing the whole person mances, ties are rare in collegiate gymnastics. Then, at the next Alabama was cited by those watching from the stands and those produce championships? Would they be able to do things the way meet, Alabama did it again; tying Georgia at the UA hosted Red on press row as being calm and loose going into the champion- they wanted and still climb the final rung and produce a champi- and White Classic and beating Utah. ships, having fun, being playful and displaying an indomitable onship? The questions were answered emphatically in 1988. In any other season, that would have been what the year would team spirit. Alabama started the 1987-88 school year 10-strong. It was a be known by, the year of two ties. This squad, though, was des- Alabama scored an NCAA Championship record, shatter- young squad, with two seniors, one junior, four sophomores and tined to be known for far greater things. ing the mark previously held by Utah, (188.35), with a 190.05. three freshmen. The Pattersons added to the Tide’s arsenal in Alabama made it out of February sporting a 10-0-2 mark, Alabama’s highest all-around finish was ninth-place, highlighting January, when Kim Masters joined the Tide. Masters had planned having faced some of the toughest competition in the nation. the team effort it took to win the championship. to delay college for a year to train for the Seoul Olympics. After Alabama finished the regular season at 14-3-2. Consistency, along with confidence and enthusiasm were the finishing ninth at the USA Gymnastics Championships the sum- Alabama then set the tone for the post season by winning keys for the Crimson Tide. The Pattersons’ crew hit 23 of 24 rou- its first ever Southeastern Conference tines, including a six-for-six balance beam rotation. Championship with a 190.15. It was only “It was the beam - that’s where we won it,” Sarah said. “That the second time in school history that it was our best beam score of the year.” And if the beam was the had scored in the 190s. The Tide outpoint- event that led Alabama to the title, its seniors were the class point- ed second-place Georgia by .95. ing the way. The regionals were next for “This national championship is for our two seniors - Alli the Tide and to advance to the NCAA Beldon and Kathy Bilodeau. They hit all three events tonight. 20th Championships, a good performance They were models for us all year. We just learned from their con- Anniversary would be necessary. Instead of a good sistency which has been our forte all season.” performance, Alabama produced a school Four Alabama gymnasts earned seven All-American honors. of 1988 and NCAA-best mark of 191.75. Alabama Sarah was named NCAA Coach of the Year, but most impor- posted the meet’s top score, both indi- tantly, Alabama had its first NCAA Championship. vidually and as a team, on all four events. “It’s so unbelievable,” Robbins said. “We had so much fun. Kelly Good was back in the lineup and That’s when we are at our best.” Masters won the all-around title followed Sophomore Cheri Way said the seeds of the championship by Marie Robbins in second and Tina were sown long before the trip to Utah. “I realized we could win Rinker in fourth. the national title after one long and tiresome Tuesday practice “I didn’t think it was going to be when we decided to go out and do it for us,” Way said. “When I possible to exceed what we did at the realized we had won . . . my whole body went numb.” Southeastern Conference Championship, The good times were far from over. “The best part about win- but they certainly did,” Sarah said. “They ning the championship was coming back home to Alabama,” came back and did a better job.” Blumberg said, a sentiment echoed by all her teammates at one Nationals were in Salt Lake point or another during that magic year. City, Utah, home of five-time NCAA On April 30, 1988, the State of Alabama declared “Alabama On April 30, Champion Utah, the No. 2 seed. Among Gymnasts’ Day.” There was a parade and a ceremony at the base 1988, the State of Alabama declared others, Alabama would face defending of Denny Chimes. The next fall, the gymnasts received their “Alabama Gymnasts’ Day.” There was a parade and a cer- NCAA Champs Georgia, No. 3 seeded championship rings at half time of the Vanderbilt football game. emony at the base of Denny Chimes. The next fall, the Alabama gymnasts were LSU and No. 4 seeded Florida. Both the The celebration faded into the quiet of accomplishment, but the recognized at half time of the Vanderbilt football game and given their championship rings. competition and the floor were familiar. effects last until this day.

Tide Timeline May 29, 2003 – Senior Kristin Sterner is named Southeastern Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year. 103 Terin Humphrey Morgan Dennis 2005 & 2007 NCAA Uneven Bars Champion 2007 NCAA Floor Exercise Champion She wanted it back. As a freshman, Terin Just a freshman, Morgan Humphrey had gone from Olympic Silver to NCAA Dennis had already learned the Gold, winning the NCAA Uneven Bars title. As a soph- trick of bringing the crowd to its omore, she earned second team All-American honors feet. Her huge tumbling and feet on the uneven bars, but did not repeat as champion. nailed to the floor landings were Winning title No. 2 wasn’t going to be easy. In enough to excite even veteran October she’d had double elbow surgery to help ease gymnastics fans. But a national problems she had worked through for more than five title, on the floor exercise, as a years. She was also facing the deepest, most talented rookie? That was going to take uneven bars field in NCAA history, one loaded with some doing, especially in 2007 Olympians and U.S. Champions. when 18 gymnasts made the But Humphrey was not going to be denied. She floor exercise final. was up sixth out of eight competitors and her 9.95 But Dennis didn’t get rattled. bettered all that came before and was good enough She calmly waited, going 17th to hold off the two that followed her. She was once in the lineup. And when her turn again, queen of the uneven bars. finally did come around, she Her first NCAA title came at the end of a long year made the most of it, electrifying one that included the U.S. Olympic Trials, a spot on the crowd and scoring a 9.9625, the Olympic team and a pair of silver medals at the the best of the night so far. Athens Olympics. It also included a stint on the T.J. One more routine was to come Maxx Olympic Tour before joining the Crimson Tide in though, so after waiting most of January. the night to show what she had, And at the end of that very long first Alabama sea- she waited a little longer to see if son, she found herself with one more routine to do, her routine was golden. It was as the last routine of the 2005 NCAA Championships and the last gymnast up came close, it was for the gold. Humphrey, last up on the uneven with a 9.95, but not close enough bars, had her work cut out for her with a 9.925 and the rookie took home gold. already on the board. But Humphrey was right where she wanted to be, up last with the pressure on. “It was exactly like the Olympics,” she said. “I was the last person up and the person before me fell. I felt something inside me and I knew this was my time and it’s my event.” She was right of course. The Olympic silver med- alist on the uneven bars grabbed NCAA gold with a 9.9375.

Did You 104 Know? Ashley Miles won four individual NCAA Championships during her career, including three national vault titles. Andreé Pickens She’d spent a career being 2002 NCAA Uneven Bars Champion as good as anyone in the & 1999 NCAA Balance Beam Champion nation and during her last NCAA Championships, Jeana It is a testament to Andreé Pickens’ talent and drive that she managed not only Rice proved herself better to win two NCAA titles, but to win them in the most challenging fashion imaginable. than anyone else. On the first As a freshman she competed in every event all three days of the NCAA day of competitions at the Championship. On the last day, after leading Alabama to a third place finish in UCLA-hosted championships, the thin air of Salt Lake City, Utah the day before, she harnessed her strength and Rice, who had already won the boundless energy to win the NCAA Balance Beam title, earning gold on the event that two SEC All-Around and three made her nervous all season. NCAA Regional All-Around titles Three years later, after coming back from a ruptured Achilles tendon that ended in her career, posted a 39.650 her junior season, Pickens again competed in 12 events over three days. But the to win the NCAA All-Around four events on Saturday were just icing on the cake for the Houston, Texas Championship. native who the night before had led the Tide to its fourth NCAA team Rice’s career had been title. building to this moment from In the waning moments of a spectacular day one. She won six indi- career, she brought the grit and determina- vidual SEC Championships tion that carried her through injury and rehab and seven NCAA Regional to bear on one last routine, winning the titles over her four years. At NCAA Uneven Bars title. After landing the NCAA Championships she that routine, she gave a tired wave to finished in the top six in the all- the crowd, knowing she had given around competition every year everything she had and it had as well as posting five finishes been more than enough. in the top six on individual events. She was rewarded for an outstanding senior year by Ashley Miles made it look easy. She made it look like fly- being named the Honda Award ing. Her huge vaults and tumbling passes on the floor exercise winner for Gymnastics, given made her the must see gymnast where ever she was, even at the annually to the national gym- national championships. nast of the year. “Where ever we were, when Ashley was on an event, all eyes in the In addition to all her gym were drawn to her,” Sarah Patterson said. “It was an amazing phe- championship hardware, Rice set a national record as Jeana Rice nomenon.” 2004 NCAA All-Around Champion And her outsized brand of gymnastics earned her four individual NCAA a senior, becoming the first titles, tying Penney Hauschild for most in a career. She is the first Alabama NCAA Gymnast to earn five All- athlete to win more than two national apparatus titles during a career. American honors in three differ- When she won the 2006 NCAA vault title, she became only ent seasons. She also set the the second gymnast in NCAA history to win three national vault Ashley Miles record for All-American honors championships in a career and the first in 20 years. She is one in a career, earning 18 first and 2006 NCAA Vault Champion second-team accolades. of only six athletes in NCAA history to win the same event three 2004 NCAA Floor Exercise Champion times and the first in over a decade to manage the feat. Her four 2004 NCAA Vault Champion individual national titles ties her for third all-time in NCAA history. 2003 NCAA Vault Champion

Tide Timeline Jan. 12, 2004 – Kristin Sterner is honored with an NCAA Top VIII Award. She is the third Alabama athlete to earn the NCAA’s most prestigious accolade. 105 Stephanie Woods Meredith Willard 1996 NCAA Uneven Bars Champion 1996 NCAA All-Around Champion Stephanie Woods knew that the uneven bars routine she had just She tugged urgently at the sleeve of the nearest meet official, asking him finished had been special - she just wasn’t sure if anyone else knew. to check then double check the scores. There had been a mistake, some- It was the night of the event finals at the NCAA Championships and one else was supposed to be where she was. she had just completed her routine. No mistake, the scores were right. Meredith Willard, the ultimate But the Austin, Texas, native’s feeling about her routine carried team player in a sport filled with individuals, had won the 1996 NCAA over to the judges, who knew they had seen something special, All-Around Championship. something of championship calibre. Meredith’s title shouldn’t have come as a surprise. She had In the history of the NCAA Championships, only three competi- been, throughout the 1996 season, the nation’s most consistent tors have scored better. There are three 10s scattered over the gymnast. Going into the Main Event, she had hit an astound- years. Woods is the first to earn a 9.975. ing and perfect 44 of 44 routines. She had, going into the Woods had been brilliantly consistent all season on the championships, competed in 45 of a possible 48 events. uneven bars. Of her 15 routines, 12 scored 9.9 or better. She She had been very nearly unstoppable. collected the 1996 NCAA Central Regional uneven bars and bal- And Willard had not just been consistent, she had ance beam titles coming into the Main Event. She scored back- been consistently brilliant. She bettered or tied her to-back 9.950s in the NCAA preliminary and Super Six rounds. career best all-around mark six times during the Her national championship performance was a career best. season. And at the Main Event on the night of the all-around, she was the best of the best, winning with a 39.450 total. Her talent and ability led her to Alabama’s ninth individual NCAA crown. Her poise and leadership led Alabama to a national team champion- ship the next day. Kim Kelly 1996 NCAA Floor Exercise Champion In the final performance of her Crimson Tide career, as the music of her floor routine reached its final beat, and tears streamed down her face, Kim Kelly’s success-studded career turned golden. The King of Prussia, Penn. native won the 1996 NCAA Floor Exercise Championship in front of the home crowd with a perfect 10.0 and an avalanche of applause. As extraordinary as the ending was, the genesis of her champion- ship floor routine is even more so. In college gymnastics, the norm is to change floor routines just once during a career and a mid-season change was unheard of, until Kim Kelly. Tide freshman Lisa Gianni’s floor routine was to the strains of the Alabama fight song. When Gianni went down after the second meet of the season with a ruptured Achilles tendon, there was no one to carry the routine into the Tide-hosted nationals, until Kelly undertook the challenge. It was a move that Tide coach Sarah Patterson says she would not have been able to consider with anyone except Kelly. The move paid off when Kelly completed the post season triple play, winning the SEC, NCAA Central Regional and NCAA Championships.

Did You 106 Know? Th ree Alabama gymnasts won individual NCAA Championships in 1996, a program high. 1985 & 1986 NCAA All-Around Champion 1986 Floor Exercise Champion Dana Dobransky 1985 Uneven Bars Champion 1992 & 1993 NCAA Balance Beam Champion On her 1993 beam title: “Ending my career with a 10.0 on balance beam finally represented that I had worked for perfection. It made all On her National of the mental perfection, all of the hard work, all of the Championships: falling, and getting up, worth it. It was great to be able to “It was definitely the pinnacle of my gymnas- represent The University of Alabama with a perfect 10.” tic career. But I know that nothing could have been done without Sarah, David, my teammates, the trainers, Best memory: and really the entire athletic department. Although my titles “My most lasting memory is the love and support of were a great experience, I would have given anything to be able to our fans. That fan support was one of the reasons that be with the team in 1988 when they won the team national title.” I was attracted to Alabama, and when I got there, it Penney Hauschild was just great. I know that we wouldn’t have been Best memory: “After my floor exercise at 1986 Nationals, which as successful as we were, or are, without the love was the last event of my career, Sarah was standing right there. and support of all of our fans. The fans at Alabama She had tears in her eyes, I had tears in my eyes, and we just are so supporting of everything, and that is the one came together and hugged. That will always be the one moment thing that really stands out in my mind.” that will stand out in my mind.”

Dee Foster 1990 NCAA All-Around Champion On her title: “There were advantages and disadvantag- es to winning a national title. The advantages Gina Basile were, of course, the respect and national 1991 NCAA Balance Beam Champion recognition in a sport that I had dedicated On the 1991 team title: my life to. And the main disadvantage “It was a very rewarding experience for me. It was especially was the pressure to repeat. Thankfully I great because it was at home in front of our families and our fans. had 10 other people there to help me It’s really a feeling that you can’t put into words. The best way that through each of the next 3 years.” I can describe winning the national team title is that it is 11 girls, separated around the country, who are bonded together for life by Best memory: a ring which represents talent, dedication, friendship, and crimson “My junior year, during the pride.” Homecoming football game, we got our National Championship Best memory: rings down on the field at half- “Really the thing that stands out in my mind is that there was no time. My best friend was there real pressure. There was some pressure, but really we just had a to enjoy it with me, and good time. Usually the person who wants it the most wins, and we that made it extra just always pulled together, had a good time, and usually won. That’s special.” what I will always remember.”

Tide Timeline March 20, 2004 - Senior Jeana Rice win the SEC All-Around title with a Championship record of 39.850. 107 2007 2000 1993 1985 Terin Humphrey - UB (1st), BB (8th) Natalie Barrington - UB (7th) Dana Dobransky - BB (1st), FX Julie Estin - V (7th), UB (4th) Morgan Dennis - FX (1st) Katie Hornecker - V (8th) (11th) Penney Hauschild - AA (1st), UB Andreé Pickens - AA (8th), V (2nd), Dee Foster - AA (2nd), V (4th), (1st), BB (4th) 2006 UB (4th) UB (T9th), FX (T4th) Terin Humphrey - BB (4th) Kristin Sterner - UB (11th), FX (5th) 1984 Ashley Miles - AA (5th), V (1st), FX Dara Stewart - UB (9th) 1992 Penney Hauschild - AA (4th), UB (3rd) Dana Dobransky - BB (1st) (2nd), BB (4th) 1999 Sheryl Dundas - BB (6th) Barbara Mack - BB (6th) 2005 Andreé Pickens - AA (4th), V (5th), Dee Foster - AA (3rd), UB (3rd), BB Dana Filetti - UB (10th) UB (4th), BB (1st), FX (10th) (3rd), FX (2nd) 1982 Terin Humphrey - BB (5th), UB (1st), Lissy Smith - BB (4th) Katherine Kelleher - V (11th) Julie Garrett - UB (4th), FX (5th) Gwen Spidle - V (8th) AIAW AA (5th), AIAW UB (4th) Ashley Miles - AA (3rd), V (4th), UB 1991 (7th), FX (2nd) 1998 Gina Basile - BB (3rd) Merritt Booth - FX (17th) Dana Dobransky - BB (6th), FX 2004 Shay Murphy - FX (8th) (T3rd) Alexis Brion - FX (5th) Gwen Spidle - AA (3rd), BB (8th) Dee Foster - AA (2nd), V, UB, BB, FX Ashley Miles - V (1st), FX (1st), UB Katherine Kelleher - V (7th) (6th) 1997 Shea McFall - V (6th) Jeana Rice - AA (1st), BB (2nd), UB Meredith Willard - AA (2nd), V, UB Kim Masters - V (5th), AA (8th) (13th) (4th), BB (3rd), FX (4th) Kara Stilp - FX (8th) Stephanie Woods - UB (2nd) 2003 1990 Mari Bayer - UB (8th) 1996 Dee Foster - AA (1st), V (4th), UB Alexis Brion - V Merritt Booth - V (5th) (T2nd), BB (T2nd) Ashley Miles - V (1st), FX (3rd) Kim Kelly - FX (1st), BB (8th) Katherine Kelleher - BB (7th) Jeana Rice - AA (4th), V (8th), BB Danielle McAdams - FX (3rd) Shea McFall - V (7th) (3rd), UB (4th) Marna Neubauer - V (9th) Kristin Sterner - BB (6th) Meredith Willard - AA (1st), UB (4th), 1989 FX (7th) Kim Masters - AA (6th) 2002 Stephanie Woods - UB (1st) Cheri Way - BB (7th) Natalie Barrington - UB (4th) Andreé Pickens - AA (2nd), V (3rd), 1995 1988 BB (5th), UB (1st), FX (5th) Kim Bonaventura - UB (3rd) Kathy Bilodeau - BB (6th), FX (7th) Shannon Hrozek - BB (9th) Merritt Booth - FX (9th) Tina Rinker - UB (7th) Alexis Brion - V (6th), FX (4th) Meredith Willard - FX (11th) Marie Robbins - UB (2nd), BB (5th) Jeana Rice - AA (6th), BB(2nd) Stephanie Woods - BB (5th), Cheri Way - UB (3rd), FX (6th) Terin Kristin Sterner - BB (3rd), FX (11th) UB (6th) 1987 Humphrey 2001 1994 Julie Estin - AA (4th), BB (4th), FX Natalie Barrington - UB (6th) Chasity Junkin - AA (6th), V (7th) (7th) Jeana Rice - AA (3rd), FX (6th) Kim Kelly - V (8th), UB (11th), FX Marie Robbins - UB (5th), FX (3rd) Lissy Smith - BB (6th) (11th) Kristin Sterner - BB (5th) Kara Stilp - UB (10th) 1986 Meredith Willard - AA (3rd), FX (4th) Julie Estin - AA (5th) Lisa Farley - BB (7th) Kelly Good - V (6th) Penney Hauschild - AA (1st), V (3rd), In addition to winning the 1990 NCAA All-Around Title, Dee Morgan UB (3rd), FX (1st) Foster earned 17 fi rst team All-American honors, the most Dennis in NCAA history.

Did You 108 Know? Alabama’s Jeana Rice holds the national record for fi rst and second team All-American honors for a career with 18 while Dee Foster holds the fi rst-team All-American record with 17. Second-Team All-Americans All-Americans 2007 1998 1994 by Career Total Morgan Dennis - AA Merritt Booth - V Kim Bonaventura - UB Kassi Price - UB Gwen Spidle - V Meredith Willard - V, UB, BB Jeana Rice, 2001-04 ...... 18** 2006 Dara Stewart - UB Stephanie Woods - BB Dee Foster, 1990-93 ...... 17* Melanie Banville - UB 1997 Meredith Willard, 1994-97 ...... 16 1993 Andreé Pickens, 1999-2002 ...... 14 Terin Humphrey - AA, UB, FX Merritt Booth - FX Dana Dobransky - AA Ashley Miles, 2003-06 ...... 12 Brittany Magee - FX Mandy Chapman - BB Kara Stilp - FX Kristin Sterner, 2000-03 ...... 11 Gwen Spidle - FX 2005 1992 Penney Hauschild, 1983-86 ...... 10 Kim Kelly, 1993-96 ...... 10 Shannon Hrozek - BB 1996 Dana Dobransky - AA, UB Terin Humphrey, 2005-present ...... 10 Terin Humphrey - AA Kim Bonaventura - BB Katherine Kelleher - UB Dana Dobransky, 1990-93 ...... 8 Michelle Reeser - BB Merritt Booth - FX Merritt Booth, 1995-98 ...... 6 Kim Kelly - AA, V Julie Estin, 1984-87 ...... 6 Julie Garrett, 1982-83 ...... 3 2004 Danielle McAdams - V, UB Alexis Brion - V Stephanie Woods, 1994-97 ...... 5 Dara Stewart, 1998-2001 ...... 3 Shay Murphy - BB Gwen Spidle, 1996-99 ...... 5 Danielle McAdams, 1995-98 ...... 3 Jeana Rice - V, FX Marna Neubauer - FX Alexis Brion, 2002-05 ...... 5 Cheri Way, 1987-90 ...... 3 2003 Meredith Willard - BB Marie Robbins, 1987-90 ...... 4 Natalie Barrington, 1999-2002 ...... 3 Kim Bonaventura, 1994-97 ...... 4 Shannon Hrozek, 2002-05 ...... 3 Mari Bayer - BB 1995 Shannon Hrozek - BB Katherine Kelleher, 1989-92 ...... 4 Shea McFall, 1989-92 ...... 2 Kim Bonaventura - BB Marna Neubauer, 1993-96 ...... 3 Shay Murphy, 1995-98 ...... 2 Stephanie Kite - FX Kim Kelly - BB, FX, V Lissy Smith, 1998-2001 ...... 3 Kathy Bilodeau, 1985-88 ...... 2 Jeana Rice - FX Marna Neubauer - UB Kim Masters, 1988-91 ...... 3 Chasity Junkin, 1992-95 ...... 2 Kristin Sterner - AA Meredith Willard - AA Kara Stilp, 1991-94 ...... 3 Mari Bayer, 2003-06 ...... 2 2002 Morgan Dennis, 2007-present ...... 2 Tina Rinker, 1984-87 ...... 1 Jeana Rice - V * Dee Foster’s total of 17 first-team Sheryl Dundas, 1991-94 ...... 1 All-American honors is best in Raegan Tomasek, 1999-02 ...... 1 2001 NCAA History Jeana Rice - V, UB, BB ** Jeana Rice’s 18 combined first Mandy Chapman, 1996-98 ...... 1 and second-team All- Kristin Sterner - AA, V, FX Lisa Farley, 1985-87 ...... 1 American honors is best Lexa Evans, 1997-2000 ...... 1 Raegan Tomasek - BB in NCAA History Kelly Good, 1986-89 ...... 1 Katie Hornecker, 1998-2001 ...... 1 2000 Kassi Price Andreé Pickens - FX Gina Basile, 1989-92 ...... 1 Lissy Smith - BB Barbara Mack, 1982-85 ...... 1 Stephanie Kite, 2001-04 ...... 1 Kristin Sterner - AA Michelle Reeser, 2002-05 ...... 1 1999 Dana Filetti, 2003-06 ...... 1 Lexa Evans - FX Melanie Banville, 2006 ...... 1 Dara Stewart - UB Brittany Magee, 2006-present ...... 1 Kassi Price, 2007-present ...... 1 50 TOTAL ...... 223 Brittany Magee

Tide Timeline April 16, 2004 – Senior Jeana Rice win the NCAA All-Around Championship, it is Alabama’s fi ft h national all-around crown. 109 Alabama has dominated the NCAA Regional Championships for over 20-plus years and last season was no exception. Alabama hosted its 10th NCAA Regional in 2007, and came away with its 22nd regional title, advancing to its 25th NCAA Championships. Terin Humphrey won the NCAA Central Region All-Around and Uneven Bars titles while Morgan Dennis won the vault title. Ashley Miles won two regional titles in 2006, pushing her career total to 10, the most in Alabama history. Miles also became the first Tide gymnast to win the same region event all four years of Ashley her career, sweeping the vault and floor exercise from 2003 to 2006. Miles On her way to the Tide regional title record, Miles passed Andreé Pickens and Dee Foster who were tied for the record with nine apiece. Foster and Miles also own the most titles in a single season. Foster won four Kim in 1993 a number Miles matched in 2005. Lissy The regional is a crucial step to making it to the NCAA Kelly Championships. The top 36 teams around the nation advance to six Jeana Smith regional sites. The top 18 teams in the nation are seeded into the Rice regions, while team’s 19-36 stay in their home region or are placed in the next nearest regional. To advance to the NCAA Championships, a team must finish first or second in one of the six regions. Alabama gymnasts have won 105 individual regional titles over the past 25 years. In addition to Miles, Andreé Pickens won NCAA Region Gymnast of the Year honors four years running, giving way to Jeana Rice in 2003. Twice, in 1992 and 1993, assistant head coach David Patterson was named NCAA Central Region Assistant Coach of the Year. In 2000 and 2002, former UA gymnast and current Associate Athletics Director for the Crimson Tide Marie Robbins was named NCAA Central Region Administrator of the Year. The Crimson Tide owns one Southeast Regional title, 1983, before making the jump to the Central Regional, and winning 13 there. In 1999, the region structure changed, going to six regions. Alabama won the inaugural Region 6 title in 1999 and the Region 4 title in 2000. For the 2001 season, the names of Andreé the regions were changed back to directional designations and Dee Alabama was once again in the Central Region. Foster Pickens

Did You 110 Know? Alabama gymnasts have won 17 NCAA Regional All-Around championships since 1984. The list below includes all of Alabama’s NCAA Regional appearances. The Crimson Tide competed in the Southeast region in 1982 and 1983. From 1984 to 1998, the Tide competed in the Central region. In 1999 and 2000, after the NCAA went from five to six regions, Alabama competed out of Region 4. In 2002, Region 4 was renamed the Central region.

2007 - Tuscaloosa, Ala. 2003 - Tuscaloosa, Ala. 1999 - Morgantown, WV 1995 - Ann Arbor, Mich. 1990 - Minneapolis, Minn. 1986 - Baton Rouge, La. 1. Alabama 196.475 1. Alabama 197.550 1. Alabama 196.625 1. Alabama 196.675 1. Alabama 194.150 1. LSU 185.250 2. *Oklahoma 195.925 2. *Auburn 196.350 2. West Virginia 195.275 2. Michigan 195.725 2. LSU 190.850 2. Alabama 185.050 3. Iowa State 195.925 3. Central Michigan 196.350 3. NC State 194.900 3. LSU 195.075 3. Minnesota 188.650 3. Michigan State 177.950 AA Terin Humphrey 9.900 AA Kristin Sterner 39.625 AA Robin Hawkins 39.225 V Kim Kelly 10.000 V Marie Robbins 9.800 AA Julie Estin 37.850 V Morgan Dennis 9.950 V Ashley Miles 9.950 UB Andreé Pickens 9.875 UB Kimbo Bonaventura 9.850 BB Dana Dobransky 9.725 UB Julie Estin 9.600 UB Terin Humphrey 9.900 BB Kristin Sterner 9.950 BB Lissy Smith 9.925 BB Stephanie Woods 9.950 FX Dee Foster 9.825 FX Penney Hauschild 9.650 FX Ashley Miles 10.000 FX Andreé Pickens 9.950 *Advanced on the tie-breaker *Advanced on the tie-breaker 1994 - Tuscaloosa, Ala. 1985 - Tuscaloosa, Ala. 1998 - Tuscaloosa, Ala. 1. Alabama 196.900 1989 - Tuscaloosa, Ala. 1. Alabama 186.350 2006 - Palo Alto, Calif. 2002 - Morgantown, WV 1. Alabama 196.550 2. LSU 194.400 1. Alabama 192.750 2. LSU 181.500 1. Alabama 196.475 1. Alabama 197.900 2. Michigan 196.000 3. Michigan 193.600 2. LSU 187.550 3. Michigan State 178.350 2. Oregon State 195.800 2. Minnesota 196.050 3. Louisiana State 195.250 3. Michigan State 186.700 3. Stanford 195.275 FX Kim Kelly 9.925 AA Penney Hauschild 37.700 3. West Virginia 194.850 UB Dara Stewart 9.900 UB Gina Basile 9.800 V Cindy Wilson 9.550 V Ashley Miles 9.900 AA Jeana Rice 39.625 BB Gina Logan 9.900 1993 - Baton Rouge, La. Cheri Way 9.800 UB Penney Hauschild 9.550 Brittany Magee 9.900 V Alexis Brion 9.900 Gwen Spidle 9.900 1. Alabama 196.075 BB Katherine Kelleher 9.700 Barbara Mack 9.550 BB Terin Humphrey 9.900 Jeana Rice 9.900 Danielle McAdams 9.900 2. LSU 194.700 FX Tina Rinker 9.850 BB Barbara Mack 9.600 FX Ashley Miles 9.900 UB Andreé Pickens 9.975 3. Auburn 194.200 FX Kathy Bilodeau 9.550 Brittany Magee BB Alexa Martinez 9.950 1997 - Ann Arbor, Mich. 1988 - Baton Rouge, La. Andreé Pickens 9.950 1. Michigan 197.700 AA Dee Foster 39.800 1. Alabama 191.750 2005 - Tuscaloosa, Ala. Jeana Rice 9.950 2. Alabama 196.250 V Dee Foster 9.925 2. LSU 190.050 1. Alabama 196.675 Kristin Sterner 9.950 3. Louisiana State 196.175 BB Dee Foster 9.950 3. Michigan State 187.150 1984 - Columbia, Mo. 2. Iowa State 195.625 FX Andreé Pickens 9.950 FX Dee Foster 9.975 1. Alabama 180.500 3. Auburn 194.800 AA Meredith Willard 39.625 AA Kim Masters 38.600 2. Southern Illinois 173.550 2001 - Tuscaloosa, Ala. BB Meredith Willard 9.925 1992 - Columbia, Mo. V Kim Masters 9.750 3. Missouri 173.300 AA Ashley Miles 39.525 1. Alabama 198.000 1. Alabama 193.125 UB Kim Masters 9.750 V Ashley Miles 9.925 2. Arizona State 195.950 1996 - Baton Rouge, La. 2. Michigan 189.775 Marie Robbins 9.750 AA Julie Estin 37.350 UB Ashley Miles 9.850 3. Minnesota 195.800 1. Alabama 198.075 3. Auburn 188.525 BB Kathy Bilodeau 9.700 UB Penney Hauschild 9.400 Terin Humphrey 9.850 AA Jeana Rice 39.475 2. Michigan 196.275 FX Cheri Way 9.750 BB Julie Estin 9.200 FX Ashley Miles 9.950 V Andree Pickens 9.925 3. LSU 194.525 V Dee Foster 9.850 FX Julie Estin 9.400 Kristin Sterner 9.925 BB Gina Basile 9.800 1987 - Tuscaloosa, Ala. Penney Hauschild 9.400 2004 - Corvallis, Ore. UB Andreé Pickens 9.950 AA Kim Kelly 39.750 FX Kara Stilp 9.700 1. Alabama 189.050 1. Oklahoma 197.100 BB Lissy Smith 9.950 V Kim Kelly 9.950 2. LSU 186.600 1983 - Gainesville, Fla. 2. Alabama 196.900 FX Jeana Rice 9.975 UB Meredith Willard 9.925 1991 - Auburn, Ala. 3. Michigan State 183.600 1. Alabama 184.750 3. Oregon State 196.850 Stephanie Woods 9.925 1. Alabama 195.575 2. Florida 184.650 2000 - Tuscaloosa, Ala. BB Kim Kelly 9.900 2. Auburn 192.150 AA Marie Robbins 38.150 3. LSU 182.650 AA Jeana Rice 39.550 1. Alabama 197.300 Meredith Willard 9.900 3. LSU 191.750 FX Cheri Way 9.700 V Ashley Miles 9.950 2. Iowa State 196.100 Stephanie Woods 9.900 UB Jeana Rice 9.900 3. Central Michigan 193.200 FX Kim Kelly 10.00 AA Dee Foster 39.375 1982 - Athens, Ga. Shannon Hrozek 9.900 V Kim Masters 9.850 1. Florida 144.850 FX Ashley Miles 9.950 AA Andreé Pickens 39.475 UB Dee Foster 9.825 UB Dara Stewart 9.975 2. Alabama 143.900 Katherine Kelleher 9.825 3. Georgia 143.700 BB Lissy Smith 9.925 BB Sheryl Dundas 9.925 FX Andreé Pickens 9.925 FX Dee Foster 9.925

Tide Timeline April 17, 2004 – Sophomore Ashley Miles wins Alabama’s 16th and 17th NCAA Championships, taking fi rst on the vault and the fl oor exercise. 111 The Southeastern Conference has long been the most dominating gymnastics conference in the NCAA and Alabama has led the charge. Since the first NCAA championship in 1982, the SEC has had at least one team in the top-10 and since 1983, the conference has placed at least one team in the top-5 and at least two teams in the top-10. Alabama has been the league’s top finisher at the NCAA Championships 10 times. Over the past 18 years, the conference has placed at least one team in the NCAA top-3 and in 1998, the national top-3 all hailed from the SEC, as Georgia, Florida and Alabama took first, second and third respectively. The SEC put a conference-high five teams in the national top-10 in both 1993 and 2003. An SEC school has stood atop the collegiate gymnastics world as national champions 12 times since 1987, with Alabama winning four titles, the last coming in 2002. The SEC has done well on an individual level as well. Thirteen times a conference athlete 2000 has taken home the NCAA all-around title, including Alabama’s Jeana Rice in 2004. Alabama athletes have been especially productive in that arena as four Crimson Tide athletes have pro- 2003 duced five all-around titles (Jeana Rice 2004, Meredith Willard 1996, Dee Foster 1990, Penney Hauschild 1985 and 1986). From 1989-98, the conference claimed nine of the 10 crowns, includ- ing six straight from 1993-98. Of the 12 conference schools, seven sponsor gymnastics programs: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Louisiana State. Alabama in the SEC The Crimson Tide has won five SEC Championships, with the first coming in 1988 and the latest in 2003. Individually, Alabama has tallied 40 conference crowns, includ- ing an incredible 25 titles over the past five years. Tide gymnasts have also won four SEC All-Around titles over the past eight seasons, including back-to-back crowns for Jeana Rice in ‘03 and ‘04. Last season Ricki Lebegern won the league balance beam title as a rookie. Four times an Alabama gymnast has been voted SEC Female Athlete of the Year, an 1990 award that spans all sports offered by the league. The league’s top scholar-athlete has come from the Tide three times as well. The SEC Gymnast of the Year has hailed from Alabama 1995 five times and the Freshman Gymnast of the Year has worn Alabama’s crimson and white three SEC Quick Facts times. In the classroom Alabama has earned Founded: 1933 SEC Academic All-SEC honors 171 Headquarters: Birmingham, Ala. Commissioner: Mike Slive times, including a conference record Members (Those with Gymnastics in bold): Alabama, Arkansas, 15 in 2002. Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana State, Mississippi, 1988 Mississippi State, South Carolina, Tennessee & Vanderbilt First Year to Sponsor Championship: 1985 2007 Champion: Florida 2008 Championship Site: Duluth, Ga. Associate Commissioner for Gymnastics: Debbie Corum Media Contact for Gymnastics: Chuck Dunlap Dunlap’s e-mail address: [email protected] Phone: (205) 458-3010 World Wide Web Site: www.sec.org Mailing Address: 2201 Civic Center Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35203

Did You 112 Know? Ashley Miles became the fi rst gymnast in Southeastern Conference history to win the same event all four years of her career when she won the 2006 fl oor exercise title. 2007 at Little Rock, Ark. 2003 at Birmingham, Ala. 1998 at Baton Rouge, La. 1992 at Baton Rouge, La. 1988 at Tuscaloosa, Ala. 1. Florida 197.325 1. Alabama 197.575 1. Georgia 198.375 1. Georgia 196.40 1. Alabama 190.15 2. Georgia 197.175 2. Georgia 197.525 2. Florida 196.050 2. Alabama 194.50 2. Georgia 189.20 3. Alabama 197.000 3. Florida 195.950 3. LSU 196.025 3. Auburn 191.35 3. Florida 188.85 4. LSU 196.250 4. LSU 195.650 4. Alabama 195.775 4. Florida 189.60 4. LSU 187.40 5. Arkansas 194.550 5. Auburn 195.025 5. Kentucky 195.075 5. LSU 188.65 5. Kentucky 183.40 6. Auburn 194.475 6. Arkansas 194.875 6. Auburn 192.550 6. Kentucky 185.95 6. Auburn 183.20 7. Kentucky 194.000 Kentucky 194.875 BB Dana Dobransky 9.900 BB Ricki Lebegern 9.900 UB Jeana Rice 9.925 1997 at Athens, Ga. 1987 at Athens, Ga. BB Jeana Rice 9.950 1. Georgia 198.375 1991 at Lexington, Ky. 1. Georgia 189.40 2006 at Birmingham, Ala. FX Ashley Miles 9.975 2. Florida 196.050 1. Georgia 194.10 2. Florida 185.65 1. Georgia 197.275 AA Jeana Rice 39.600 3. LSU 196.025 2. Alabama 194.05 3. Alabama 185.30 2. Alabama 196.975 4. Alabama 195.775 3. LSU 192.40 4. LSU 184.45 3. Florida 196.275 2002 at Birmingham, Ala. 5. Kentucky 195.075 4. Florida 191.30 5. Auburn 181.40 4. LSU 195.900 1. Georgia 197.025 6. Auburn 192.550 5. Auburn 189.25 6. Kentucky 180.95 5. Auburn 194.975 2. Alabama 196.925 6. Kentucky 186.00 6. Arkansas 194.650 3. Florida 196.425 1996 at Lexington, Ky. V Dee Foster 9.950 1986 at Gainesville, Fla. 7. Kentucky 191.150 4. LSU 196.225 1. Georgia 197.450 UB Gina Basile 9.850 1. Georgia 185.15 UB Melanie Banville 9.900 5. Auburn 194.325 2. Alabama 196.950 BB Dee Foster 9.850 2. Florida 184.10 FX Ashley Miles 9.950 Kentucky 194.325 3. Florida 195.650 FX Dee Foster 9.950 3. Alabama 183.75 Brittany Magee 9.950 V Andreé Pickens 9.950 4. Kentucky 195.250 4. LSU 176.60 UB Andreé Pickens 9.950 5. LSU 193.150 1990 at Athens, Ga. 5. Kentucky 175.95 2005 at Gwinnett, Ga. BB Andreé Pickens 9.925 6. Auburn 191.150 1. Alabama 193.55 6. Auburn 171.40 1. Georgia 197.250 AA Andreé Pickens 39.725 FX Kim Kelly 9.950 2. LSU 192.05 V Julie Estin 9.550 2. LSU 196.975 3. Georgia 191.85 UB Julie Estin 9.550 3. Alabama 196.700 2001 at Birmingham, Ala. 1995 at Gainesville, Fla. 4. Auburn 188.15 4. Florida 196.050 1. Georgia 198.000 1. Alabama 196.175 5. Florida 188.00 1985 at Tuscaloosa, Ala. 5. Arkansas 195.225 2. Alabama 197.425 2. LSU 196.125 6. Kentucky 186.30 1. Florida 185.65 6. Auburn 195.125 3. Florida 196.450 3. Georgia 195.875 AA Marie Robbins 38.800 2. Alabama 183.65 7. Kentucky 193.925 4. LSU 196.300 4. Florida 195.650 3. Georgia 181.80 V Ashley Miles 9.925 5. Kentucky 195.850 5. Kentucky 191.975 1989 at Gainesville, Fla. 4. LSU 180.50 UB Ashley Miles 9.950 6. Auburn 194.500 6. Auburn 190.675 1. Florida 191.50 5. Kentucky 173.45 Terin Humphrey 9.950 UB Natalie Barrington 9.950 V Kim Kelly 10.000 2. Alabama 191.05 6. Auburn 158.90 FX Ashley Miles 9.950 BB Lissy Smith 9.950 UB Stephanie Woods 9.900 3. Georgia 190.40 UB Barbara Mack 19.050 4. LSU 187.90 AA Penney Hauschild 37.700 2004 at Gwinnett, Ga. 2000 at Gainesville, Fla. 1994 at Auburn, Ala. 5. Kentucky 182.65 1. Georgia 198.175 1. Alabama 197.200 1. Georgia 196.700 6. Auburn 185.05 2. Alabama 197.950 2. LSU 196.825 2. Alabama 195.175 V Katherine Kelleher 9.550 3. LSU 197.275 Georgia 196.825 3. LSU 194.150 4. Florida 197.225 4. Florida 195.775 4. Florida 194.125 5. Auburn 195.925 5. Kentucky 194.650 5. Auburn 192.700 6. Arkansas 194.825 6. Auburn 192.500 6. Kentucky 189.750 7. Kentucky 193.850 V Andreé Pickens 9.925 V Jeana Rice 9.975 UB Andreé Pickens 9.925 1993 at Tuscaloosa, Ala. UB Jeana Rice 9.950 AA Andreé Pickens 39.600 1. Georgia 197.05 FX Ashley Miles 10.000 2. Alabama 196.05 AA Jeana Rice 39.850 1999 at Tuscaloosa, Ala. 3. Auburn 193.20 1. Georgia 197.475 4. LSU 192.90 2. Alabama 196.775 5. Florida 192.10 3. Florida 195.875 6. Kentucky 189.35 4. LSU 195.375 AA Dee Foster 39.650 5. Kentucky 194.875 6. Auburn 194.000

Tide Timeline April 23, 2004 – Aft er winning the NCAA All-Around Championship, senior Jeana Rice is honored with the Honda Award, given annually to the nation’s best gymnast. 113 H. Boyd McWhorter SEC Postgraduate Scholarship SEC Gymnastics SEC Good Works Team SEC Scholar-Athlete 2003 Kristin Sterner Scholar-Athlete of the Year 2007 Courtney Priess 2002 Andreé Pickens 2005 Michelle Reeser 2006 Dana Pierce of the Year 1997 Meredith Willard 2005 Dana Pierce 2003 Kristin Sterner 1993 Dana Dobransky 2004 Stephanie Kite 1997 Meredith Willard 1992 Katherine Kelleher 1987 Julie Estin 1990 Marie Robbins 1989 Kelly Good 1987 Julie Estin

Did You 114 Know? Four Alabama gymnasts have been named Southeastern Conference Athletes of the Year and three others have been named SEC Scholar-Athlete of Year, both awards span all sports. SEC Gymnasts SEC Athletes of the Year and Freshmen of the Year Meredith Willard 1997 SEC Gymnast of the Year & 1994 SEC Freshman Gymnast of the Year Jeana Dee Rice Andreé Foster Penney Pickens Hauschild Robin Hawkins 1998 SEC Freshman Gymnast of the Year

Andreé Pickens 2000, 2001 & 2002 SEC SEC Scholar Gymnast of the Year & 1999 SEC Freshman Athletes Gymnast of the Year of the Year Meredith Jeana Rice 2003 SEC Julie Willard Gymnast of the Estin Kristin Year Sterner

Tide Timeline Oct. 31, 2004 – Stephanie Kite is honored as the NCAA Woman of the Year for the State of Alabama. She is the eighth Alabama gymnast to earn the award. 115 Alabama’s SEC Championships

2003 SEC Champions 1995 SEC Champions 1988 SEC Champions It was a battle from the word ‘go’. But in the end, the Alabama was in Gainesville, Fla., for the SEC At the 1988 SEC Championships the Crimson Tide faced youngest team Alabama had ever put on the floor won the Championships and going into the last rotation, the vault, Georgia, LSU and Florida, all three of which were ranked in program’s fifth Southeastern Conference team title, upending Alabama was fourth. the top-10 nationally. All three, along with the Tide, would be second place Georgia 197.575-197.525. Junior Jeana Rice was “We dug a tremendous hole for ourselves on bars, the first in the hunt for the NCAA title come April. named SEC Gymnast of the Year after winning three events event,” Sarah said. “David told the ladies, ‘We can be first or The championships were in Tuscaloosa, where they had including the all-around. Freshman phenom Ashley Miles won we can be fourth, you just have to go out there and lay it on been in 1985, the year Alabama’s captains, the senior duo of the floor exercise with a 9.975 that clinched the Tide’s victory. the line and do the absolute best job that you can’.” Alli Beldon and Kathy Bilodeau had been freshmen. Sophomore Michelle Reeser earned second-team All-SEC Alabama responded with the highest vault total in NCAA “I remember when we had SECs here when I was a fresh- honors on the balance beam and freshman Larissa Stewart was history, counting nothing less than a 9.9. Freshman Merritt man, and we didn’t do a good job at all and I felt really bad for second-team All-SEC on the uneven bars. Booth and senior Chasity Junkin both posted career-best our senior, Barbara Mack,” Beldon said. “I said if we get SECs marks of 9.975. Junior Kim Kelly posted a perfect 10.0 to fin- here my senior year, I want to win it more than anything.” 2000 SEC Champions ish the series. Now the Tide had to wait and see if their best Alabama didn’t claim a single individual title, but came Sarah Patterson and company couldn’t have been much had been good enough. Even the coaches didn’t know until away with its first conference crown, and an SEC champion- looser coming into the championships. Warm-ups in Florida’s the scores were announced. Auburn was sixth, Kentucky fifth, ship record as well. UA’s 190.15 marked only the second time O’Connell Center were filled with laughter. Time in the locker Florida fourth, Georgia third, at this point a sigh of relief went in school history that it had scored in the 190s. The Tide out- room was spent playing games and singing along with CDs the up from the Crimson Tide contingent - they were at least sec- pointed second-place Georgia by .95. Tide had brought along. And along with the laughter and the ond. LSU was second, and the Alabama contingent roared with In 1988, Sarah noted how important the senior leadership smiles there was a quiet confidence. the pleasure of winning by .05. was for that team. “Our ladies were relaxed and loose from the start of the “The depth and strength of our team is with our freshman warm-up,” Sarah Patterson said. “They were confident. I told 1990 SEC Champions and sophomore class,” Sarah said at the time. “I don’t think them at the beginning to focus only on themselves, because Alabama started the decade of the ‘90s off with a bang. those young ladies could ever have competed on this level they controlled their own destiny.” Sarah and David Patterson and company won the 1990 SEC without Alli and Kathy. They have been the backbone of our From start to finish the Tide stayed loose and stayed in Championship in Athens, Ga. Senior Marie Robbins led the team. If it weren’t for them, I don’t think we could have gotten control of the meet. By the time Alabama finished up, they Tide, winning the all-around. It marked a triumphant return here tonight.” knew after the very last vault, that they had won the meet over from an ankle injury that had cut short her 1989 season. LSU and Georgia, which tied for second, by .375. If Florida was Alabama’s main rival in the early to mid In addition to winning the all-around, vault and uneven ‘80s, Georgia stepped into that position in the late ‘80s through bars, Pickens earned All-SEC honors and was named SEC today. Gymnast of the Year. Her three SEC titles in one season “It was nice because we quieted them, quieted their crowd,” matched Dee Foster’s 1991 effort for best in Tide history. Sarah Patterson said of winning in Georgia’s arena. “In the “I couldn’t be more proud of this team,” Sarah Patterson ‘80s, our main rival was Florida, and we would have to go said just after the meet. “What they have endured throughout down to Gainesville for the regional championships. I remem- the season and what they have overcome, has made them ber finally beating them in Gainesville in 1983. The ‘90 SEC the team they are today. We have great memories of all our Championships was very reminiscent of that, going into our Southeastern Conference championships, but the road we trav- main rival’s arena and coming away with a title.” eled to win this one makes it the most rewarding.”

Did You 116 Know? Alabama set an SEC Championship record of 193.55 on the way to winning the 1990 title in Athens, Ga. Alabama’s SEC Champs 2007 2003 1996 1990 Ricki Lebegern balance beam Alabama Team Kim Kelly floor exercise Alabama Team Jeana Rice all-around, Marie Robbins all-around 2006 uneven bars, balance beam 1995 Melanie Banville uneven bars Ashley Miles floor exercise Alabama Team 1989 Brittany Magee floor exercise Kim Kelly vault Katherine Kelleher vault Ashley Miles floor exercise 2002 Stephanie Woods uneven bars Andreé Pickens all-around, 1988 2005 vault, uneven bars, 1993 Alabama Team Terin Humphrey uneven bars balance beam Dee Foster all-around Ricki Ashley Miles vault, uneven bars, 1986 floor exercise 2001 1992 Julie Estin vault, uneven bars Lebegern Natalie Barrington uneven bars Dana Dobransky balance beam 1985 2004 Lissy Smith balance beam Jeana Rice all-around, 1991 Penney Hauschild all-around vault, uneven bars 2000 Gina Basile uneven bars Barbara Mack uneven bars Ashley Miles floor exercise Alabama Team Dee Foster vault, balance beam, floor exercise 1983 Andreé Pickens all-around, Patti Rice floor exercise vault, uneven bars 1982 Ashley Alabama’s All-SEC Julie Garrett uneven bars Miles 2007 2001 1993 1986 Ricki Lebegern (BB) Natalie Barrington (UB) Dee Foster (AA) Julie Estin (AA) Morgan Dennis (AA*) Andreé Pickens (AA) Penney Hauschild (AA) Jeana Rice (AA) 1992 2006 Lissy Smith (BB) Dana Dobransky (AA) 1985 Melanie Banville (UB) Kristin Sterner (AA) Katherine Kelleher (AA) Julie Estin (AA) Brittany Magee (FX) Penney Hauschild (AA) Ashley Miles (FX) 2000 1991 Andreé Pickens (AA, V, UB) Gina Basile (UB) 1984 2005 Kristin Sterner (AA) Dee Foster (V, BB, FX) Julie Estin (AA) Terin Humphrey (UB) Ashley Miles (V, UB, FX) 1998 1990 1983 Mandy Chapman (AA) Dee Foster (AA) Julie Garrett (AA) 2004 Marie Robbins (AA) Patti Rice (AA) Andreé Ashley Miles (FX) 1997 Mandy Chapman (AA) 1989 1982 Pickens Jeana Rice (AA, V, UB) Katherine Kelleher (AA) Julie Garrett (AA) 1996 Kim Masters (AA) 2003 * indicates Ashley Miles (FX) Kim Kelly (AA, FX) Tina Rinker (AA) Meredith Willard (AA) second team Jeana Rice (AA, UB, BB) honor Michelle Reeser (BB*) 1988 Larissa Stewart (UB*) 1995 Kim Masters (AA) Kim Kelly (V) Tina Rinker (AA) 2002 Stephanie Woods (UB) Marie Robbins (AA) Jeana Andree’ Pickens (AA, V, UB, BB) Alexis Brion (FX*) 1994 1987 Rice Natalie Barrington (UB*) Kim Kelly (AA) Julie Estin (AA) Raegan Tomasek (FX*)

Tide Timeline Dec.3, 2004 - Jeana Rice is honored as the Southeastern Conference Athlete of the Year. 117 While it is clearly evident that Alabama gymnastics is one of the Southeastern Conference’s best teams in the gym, it is absolutely dominant when it comes to the 2007 classroom. The best barometer of such success on a con- ference level is the SEC Academic Honor Roll, instituted Academic in 1984, and a league-best 171 Alabama gymnasts have MORGAN TERIN RICKI BRITTANY CASSIE earned the award. The Crimson Tide has averaged over DENNIS HUMPHREY LEBEGERN MAGEE MARTIN 10 honors a year since 2000 including a program best 15 All-SEC in 2002. From 1984-2001 the honor roll was open to all gymnasts sophomores class or better in academic stand- Honorees ing. Starting in 2002, the awards were determined by the academic year (fall and spring semester) or cumula- tive GPA, making freshmen eligible for the first time. AMANDA CASEY KASSI PRICE ERIN MONTGOMERY OVERTON Plantation, Fla. RIGHTLEY 2007 2005 2002 Morgan Dennis FR Pre-Major Studies Mari Bayer JR 3.77 Nutrition Natalie Barrington SR 3.55 Sports Fitness Mgt. Terin Humphrey JR Criminal Justice Rachael Delahoussaye JR 3.73 Pre-Med Helen Burgin SO 3.52 Elementary Education Ricki Lebegern FR Pre-Major Studies Shannon Hrozek SR 3.68 Consumer Science Tiffany Byrd SO 4.00 Pre-Med Brittany Magee SO Criminal Justice Meredith Laxton SO 3.83 Restaurant & Hospitality Mgt. Erin Holdefer SO 3.34 Public Relations Cassie Martin SO Interdisciplinary Dana Pierce JR 3.27 Physical Education Lauren Holdefer SO 3.34 Psychology Amanda Montgomery SO Pre-Business Michelle Reeser SR 3.98 Accounting Shannon Hrozek FR 3.53 Pre-major Studies Casey Overton FR Pre-Major Studies Erin Rightley SO 3.21 Psychology Stephanie Kite SO 4.00 Marketing Kassi Price FR Pre-Business Alexa Martinez SR 3.73 Advertising Erin Rightley SR Psychology Whitney Morgan SR 3.54 Secondary Education 2004 Andreé Pickens SR 3.27 Biology Mari Bayer SO 3.75 Nutrition Jeana Rice SO 3.06 Advertising Rachael Delahoussaye SO 3.62 Pre-Med 2006 Sara Scarborough JR 3.37 Nursing Melanie Banville FR Human Environ. Science Johnna Gay FR 3.68 Elementary Education Kristin Sterner JR 3.94 Biology Mari Bayer SR Nutrition Lauren Holdefer SR 4.00 Psychology Raegan Tomasek JR 3.42 Restaurant & Hospitality Mgt. Ashley Ford FR Pre-Major Studies Shannon Hrozek JR 3.60 Consumer Science Rachael Delahoussaye SR Pre-Med Stephanie Kite SR 4.00 International Marketing Dana Filetti SR Restaurant & Hospitality Mgt. Meredith Laxton FR 3.71 Pre-Major Studies 2001 Terin Humphrey SO Pre-Psychology Ashley Miles SO 3.09 Advertising Natalie Barrington JR 3.65 Sports Fitness Mgt. Ashley Miles SR Advertising Michelle Reeser JR 3.94 Accounting Krista Gole JR 3.67 Health Care Mgt. Cassie Martin FR Pre-Major Studies Erin Rightley FR 3.10 Pre-physical Therapy Robin Hawkins SR 3.83 Telecommunication/Film Amanda Montgomery FR Human Environ. Science Larissa Stewart SO 3.07 Pre-Med Katie Hornecker SR 3.92 Mechanical Engineering Ashley O’Neal FR Pre-Business Alexa Martinez JR 3.63 Advertising Dana Pierce SR Physical Education Whitney Morgan JR 3.25 American Studies Courtney Priess FR Communication 2003 Andreé Pickens JR 3.08 Biology Mari Bayer FR 3.74 Pre-major Studies Bianca Puello FR Pre-Major Studies Sara Scarborough SO 3.35 Human Nutrition Rachael Delahoussaye FR 3.57 Pre-Med Erin Rightley JR Psychology Lissy Smith SR 3.26 Psychology Lauren Holdefer JR 3.47 Psychology Kristin Sterner SO 3.87 Pre-major Studies Shannon Hrozek SO 3.57 Consumer Science Dara Stewart SR 3.31 Human Development Stephanie Kite JR 4.00 International Marketing Raegan Tomasek JR 3.57 Human Nutrition Dana Pierce FR 3.66 Physical Education Michelle Reeser SO 3.95 Accounting Kristin Sterner SR 3.93 Biology

Did You 118 Know? Alabama leads the Southeastern Conference in Academic All-SEC honors by a wide margin. 2000 1996 1991 Natalie Barrington SO 3.46 Elementary Education Merritt Booth SO 3.62 Pre-Major Studies Dana Dobransky SO 3.58 Communication Krista Gole SO 3.16 Pre-business Kim Kelly SR 3.00 Elementary Education Katherine Kelleher JR 3.83 Corporate Finance Lexa Evans SR 3.61 Journalism Danielle McAdams SO 3.61 Pre-Business Shea McFall JR 3.55 Corporate Finance Robin Hawkins JR 3.59 Telecommunication/Film Shay Murphy SO 3.24 Biology Tina Rinker SR 3.49 Chemical Engineering Katie Hornecker JR 3.50 Mechanical Engineering Heather Nasser SO 3.28 Early Child. Education Gina Logan SR 3.24 Health Care Mgt. Marna Neubauer SR 3.25 Early Child. Education 1990 Alexa Martinez SO 3.73 Advertising Meredith Willard JR 3.91 Marketing Gina Basile SO 3.03 Communication Whitney Morgan SO 3.48 Biology Ali Blumberg SR 3.18 Rec. & Park Leadership Andreé Pickens SO 3.03 Biology 1995 Katherine Kelleher SO 3.89 Commerce & Business Lissy Smith JR 3.54 Psychology Chasity Junkin SR 3.42 Accounting Shea McFall SO 3.44 Arts & Sciences Dara Stewart JR 3.20 Human Development Kim Kelly JR 3.50 Elementary Education Tina Rinker JR 3.57 Chemical Engineering Raegan Tomasek SO 3.41 Nutrition Marna Neubauer JR 3.24 Elementary Education Marie Robbins SR 3.84 Interdisciplinary Meredith Willard SO 3.92 Pre-Business Tracey Tillman SR 3.70 Public Relations 1999 Cheri Way SR 3.00 Advertising Mandy Chapman SR 3.49 Food & Nutrition 1994 Lexa Evans JR 3.50 Journalism Sheryl Dundas SR 3.48 Accounting 1989 Robin Hawkins SO 3.44 Telecommunication/Film Chasity Junkin JR 3.51 Accounting Wendy Anderson SO 3.02 Sports Fitness Mgt. Katie Hornecker SO 3.51 Chemical Engineering Kara Stilp SR 3.16 Marketing Kelly Good SR 3.68 Interdisciplinary Gina Logan JR 3.24 Health Care Mgt. Gretchen Stockley JR 3.06 Sports Psychology Tina Rinker SO 3.47 Engineering April Makinson SO 3.97 Human Development Marti Watson SR 3.25 Management Marie Robbins JR 3.72 Interdisciplinary Lissy Smith SO 3.38 Elementary Education Tracey Tillman JR 3.76 Advertising Gwen Spidle SR 3.07 Social Work 1993 Cheri Way JR 3.02 Advertising Dara Stewart SO 3.20 Pre-major Studies Dana Dobransky SR 3.54 Telecommunication/Film Sheryl Dundas JR 3.57 Interdisciplinary 1988 1998 Chasity Junkin SO 3.61 Pre-Major Studies Alli Beldon SR 3.59 Marketing Merritt Booth SR 3.64 Psychology Gretchen Stockley SO 3.15 Pre-Medicine Kathy Bilodeau SR 3.22 Public Relations Mandy Chapman JR 3.38 Food & Nutrition Kelly Good JR 3.61 Biology Lexa Evans SO 3.51 Journalism 1992 Marie Robbins SO 3.61 Arts & Sciences Becca Fields SO 3.11 Pre-major studies Gina Basile SR 3.11 Advertising Tracey Tillman SO 3.78 Communications Gina Logan SO 3.23 Health Care Mgt. Dana Dobransky JR 3.53 Telecommunication/Film Danielle McAdams SR 3.57 Sports Fitness Mgt. Sheryl Dundas SO 3.60 Pre-Major Studies 1987 Shay Murphy SR 3.15 Biology Katherine Kelleher SR 3.88 Corporate Finance Alli Beldon JR 3.51 Interdisciplinary Shea McFall SR 3.60 Corporate Finance Kathy Bilodeau JR 3.05 Public Relations 1997 Kara Stilp SO 3.13 Pre-Major Studies Julie Estin SR 3.92 Mathematical Stats Merritt Booth JR 3.58 Psychology Marti Watson SO 3.05 Human Envir. Science Mandy Chapman SO 3.06 Biology 1986 Lisa Gianni SO 3.63 Interior Design Alli Beldon SO 3.48 Fashion Marketing Gina Logan SO 3.23 Health Care Mgt. Julie Estin JR 3.96 Pre-Medicine Danielle McAdams JR 3.49 Sports Fitness Mgt. Stephanie Kehr SO 3.40 Marketing Shay Murphy JR 3.05 Biology Heather Nasser JR 3.35 Education 1985 Meredith Willard SR 3.94 Marketing Julie Estin SO 4.00 Pre-Medicine Barbara Mack SR 3.85 Political Science 1984 Barbara Mack JR 3.77 Political Science Patti Rice SO 3.71 Marketing

Tide Timeline Feb. 4, 2005 - More than 13,000 fans, most wearing pink, jam Coleman Coliseum for the Alabama-Auburn “Target the Cure” meet designed to raise awareness of the fi ght against breast cancer. 119 Mari Bayer 2006 2003 SEC Championship team Ashley Miles 2006 • Two-time All- Dana Filetti American • Four- 2003 SEC Championship team • Four-time NCAA 2006 Champion - 2006, 2004, 2003 Vault, 2004 Floor year Scholastic 2003 SEC All-American • Exercise • Six-time SEC Champion - 2006, 2005, Championship team 2004, 2003 Floor Exercise, 2005 Vault, 2005 Uneven Four-year Academic • All-American • All-SEC Bars • First Gymnast in SEC history to win the same Academic All-SEC event, floor exercise, all four years • Four-year All-SEC • 10-time NCAA Regional Champion • 12-time All- American • Honda Award Winner • Academic All-SEC

Stephanie Kite 2004 2002 NCAA Shannon Championship team • 2003 Hrozek Michelle SEC Championship 2005 Reeser team • All- 2002 NCAA 2005 American • NCAA Woman of Championship 2002 NCAA team • 2003 SEC the Year State Alexis Championship Honoree • Four- Championship team • 2003 SEC Brion team • 3-time year Scholastic Championship All-American • 2004 All-American • team • NCAA NCAA Regional CoSIDA Academic 2002 NCAA Woman of the Champion • Four- All-American Championship Year finalist • year Scholastic All- At-Large Student- team • 2003 SEC All-American • American • Four- Athlete of the Year Championship SEC Gymnastics year Academic • Two-year CoSIDA team • Five-time Scholar-Athlete of All-SEC Academic All- All-American the Year • Four- American At-Large • NCAA Regional year Scholastic First Team • Three- Vault Champion All-American • year Academic Four-year Academic All-SEC • All-SEC All-SEC

Did You 120 Know? Alabama’s 2006 senior class fi nished in the top-3 at the NCAA Championships all four years of their career, including a pair of runner-up fi nishes. Jeana Andreé Rice Kristin Pickens 2002 2004 Sterner 2002 NCAA 2002 NCAA 2003 Championship Championship team • 2000 team • 2002 NCAA SEC Championship 2003 SEC Championship team • 1999 Championship team • NCAA Balance Beam team • 18-time 2000 & 2003 Champion • 2002 All-American SEC Championship NCAA Uneven Bars • NCAA All- team • NCAA Champion • 13-time Around Top VIII Award • All-American • Champion • NCAA Woman of Scholastic All-American Honda Award the Year finalist • Three-year Academic • SEC Athlete • SEC Scholar- All-SEC • State of of the Year • Athlete of the Year • Alabama NCAA Woman NCAA Postgraduate SEC Gymnast of Natalie Barrington 2002 of the Year • the Year • Six-time SEC Champion • Three-year Scholarship • SEC SEC Postgraduate NCAA Regional All-Around Champion • SEC All- Boyd McWhorter 2002 NCAA Championship team • 2000 Scholarship Winner • Around Record Scholarship • CoSIDA Academic All-American • SEC Championship team • Three-time NCAA Top VIII Award 11-time All-American • Four-time NCAA Region All-American • Two-year Scholastic All- Winner • Honda Award Champion • Two-year All-SEC • Four-year American • Three-year Academic All-SEC Winner Scholastic All-America • Three-year Academic All-SEC

Lissy Smith 2001 Dara Katie 2000 SEC Hornecker Championship team Stewart 2001 • Three-time All- 2001 American • Three- 2000 SEC 2000 SEC year Scholastic Championship team Championship All-American • • Three-time All- team • All- Three-year Academic American • Two-year American • Two- All-SEC • All-SEC • Scholastic All-American year Scholastic 2001 SEC Balance • Three-year Academic All-American Beam Champion • All-SEC • 1998 and • Three-year Three-year NCAA 2000 NCAA Regional Academic All-SEC Regional Balance Uneven Bars Champion Raegan Tomasek 2002 • All-SEC Beam Champion 2002 NCAA Championship team • 2000 • All-SEC SEC Championship team • All-American • Scholastic All-American • Three-year Academic All-SEC

Tide Timeline April 23, 2005 – Terin Humphrey wins Alabama’s fourth NCAA Uneven Bars Championship. It is the Crimson Tide’s 18th individual national title. 121 Merritt Booth 1998 1996 NCAA Championship Lexa Evans Gwen team • 1995 SEC Championship team • 2000 Spidle 1999 Six-time All-American 2000 SEC 1996 NCAA • Four-year Scholastic Championship team Championship All-American • Three- • NCAA Woman of team • Five-time year Academic All-SEC the Year — State All-American • NCAA Woman of the of Alabama • All- • Three-year Year finalist • GTE American • Three- Academic All- Academic All-American year Academic SEC • NCAA • NCAA Postgraduate All-SEC • Three-year Mandy Team Record Scholarship Winner Scholastic All- squad American Chapman 1999 1996 NCAA Championship team • All-American • Three-year Scholastic All-American • Two- Shay Murphy year All-SEC • Three- 1998 year Academic All-SEC 1996 NCAA Championship team • 1995 SEC Championship team • Two-time Meredith Willard 1997 All-American Danielle McAdams 1996 NCAA Championship Team • 1995 • Three-year 1998 SEC Championship team • NCAA Team Record Academic All- squad • NCAA All-Around Champion • 11-time SEC • Scored 1996 NCAA Championship All-American • NCAA “Top-Eight” Award • a 10.0 on the team • 1995 SEC “Scholar-Athlete of the Year” • H. Boyd floor exercise SEC Championship team • McWhorter SEC Postgraduate Scholarship Winner in 1998 • Three-time All-American • • NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Winner • SEC NCAA Team Four-year Scholastic All- “Gymnast of the Year” • NCAA “Woman of the Record squad American • Three-year Year” finalist • NCAA Central Regional Champion Academic All-SEC • Scored • Four-year Scholastic All-American • CoSIDA a 10.0 on the vault at the Academic All-American 1996 NCAA Championships • NCAA Team Record squad

Did You 122 Know? All fi ve members of the 2002 senior class earned Scholastic All-American honors during their career. Kim Kim Kelly 1996 Bonaventura 1996 NCAA Championship team • 1995 SEC Championship 1997 team • NCAA Floor Exercise Champion • NCAA Team Record • Nine-time All-American • NCAA Team Vault Record • 1996 NCAA NCAA Team Floor Exercise Record • Five-time Regional Championship Champion • Two-time SEC Champion • Three-year All-SEC team • 1995 • Scholastic All-American • Two-year Academic All-SEC SEC Championship Stephanie team • NCAA Team Woods Record squad • 1997 Marna Four-time All- American • NCAA 1996 NCAA Neubauer Central Regional Championship 1996 Champion team • 1995 SEC Championship team 1996 NCAA • NCAA Uneven Bars Championship Champion • NCAA team • 1995 Team Record squad • SEC Championship Five-time All-American team • NCAA Team • Three-time NCAA Record squad • Regional Champion Three-time All- • SEC Uneven Bars American • NCAA Champion Floor Exercise Team Record • Two-year Scholastic All- American • Two-year Academic All-SEC

Sheryl Dundas 1994 1991 NCAA Championship Team • NCAA Central Region Kara Stilp 1994 Balance Beam Champion • Phi 1991 NCAA Championship Eta Sigma • All-American • Team • Two-time Academic All-SEC • Scholastic All-America • Scholastic All-American All-American • Academic All-SEC

Chasity Junkin 1995 Shea McFall 1994 1995 SEC Championship Team • Two- 1991 NCAA Championship Team time All-American • AAI Senior Award • Two-time All-American • Finalist • Three-year Scholastic All- Three-time Academic • All-SEC American • Three-year Academic All-SEC • Scholastic All-American

Tide Timeline Oct. 29, 2005 – Michelle Reeser is honored as a top-10 fi nalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year award. She is the fourth Alabama gymnast to be a fi nalist. 123 Katherine Kelleher 1992 1991 NCAA Championship Team • 1990 SEC Dana Championship Team • Three-time All-American Dobransky • NCAA & SEC Postgraduate Scholarship • Alabama NCAA Woman of the Year • Two-time 1993 Dee Foster All-SEC • Three-time Academic All-SEC • Paul 1991 NCAA 1993 W. Bryant Award Championship 1991 NCAA • SEC Champion team • 1990 Championship team • • Two-Time SEC Championship 1990 SEC Championship Regional Champion team • Two-time team • Honda Award • Scholastic All- NCAA Uneven Bars for Gymnastics NCAA American Champion • Five- All-Around Champion time All-American • • SEC Athlete of the NCAA Postgraduate Year • 17-time All- Scholarship • American • Four-time SEC Postgraduate SEC Champion Nine- Gina Scholarship • NCAA time Regional Champion Basile 1992 Woman of the Year - • Four-time All-SEC State Honoree • second-team GTE Academic 1991 NCAA Championship Team • 1990 SEC 1993 Alabama Amateur Championship Team • NCAA Champion • All- All-American • Academic All-SEC • All-SEC Athlete of the Year • Regional Champion • SEC Champion American • All-SEC • Two-time Academic All- SEC • SEC Champion • Regional Champion

Marie Robbins 1990 1988 NCAA Championship Team • 1988 SEC Championship Team • Four-time All-American • Two-time SEC Champion Tina Rinker • Two-time Regional Champion • Two-time All-SEC • Paul Kim 1991 W. Bryant Award • NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship • 1988 & 1991 NCAA Masters Three-time Academic All-SEC Championship Teams 1991 • 1988 & 1990 SEC 1988 & 1991 Championship Team NCAA • All-American Championship • Two-time All- Teams • 1988 SEC • Regional & 1990 SEC Champion • Cheri Way 1990 Championship Teams Three-Time • Three-time All- Academic All- 1988 NCAA Championship Team American • Two-time SEC • 1988 SEC Championship All-SEC • Four-time Team • Three-time All- Regional Champion • American • Two-time Academic Academic All-SEC All-SEC • Four-time Regional Champion

Did You 124 Know? Kim Masters and Tina Rinker are the only two gymnasts in Alabama history to win two national team championships during their careers. Kelly Good 1989 Penney Hauschild 1986 1991 NCAA Championship Team • 1990 SEC Julie Two-time NCAA All-Around Champion • Floor Exercise Championship Team • NCAA Champion • Estin Champion • NCAA Uneven Bars Champion • 10-time All-American • All-SEC • Two-time Academic All-American • Two-time Broderick Award Winner All-SEC • SEC Champion • Regional Champion 1987 • AMF American Award • SEC Athlete of the Year 1988 NCAA Championship Team • 1988 SEC Six-time • SEC Champion • Five-time Regional Champion • Championship Team • All-American • GTE All-American Two-time All-SEC • World University Games District IV Academic All-American • NCAA • Two-time SEC Postgraduate Scholarship • SEC Postgraduate Champion • Scholarship • Two-time Academic All-SEC Five-time Regional Champion • NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship • SEC Scholar Athlete of the Kathy Year • Four-time All- SEC • Two-time GTE Barbara Mack Bilodeau 1988 Academic All-American 1985 1988 NCAA Championship Team • 1988 • Paul W. Bryant Award All-American • SEC Champion SEC Championship Team • Two-time All- • Three-time Academic • AMF American Award • American • Two-time Academic All-SEC All-SEC Rhodes Scholarship Finalist • Paul W. Bryant Award • NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Two-time Regional Champion Julie Garrett 1983 • Two-time Academic All-SEC Three-time All-American • SEC Champion • Two-time All-SEC • Regional Champion Patti • NCAA Post-graduate Kleckner Scholarship 1983 All-SEC

Denise Balk 1983 Luann Ann Patti Rice 1984 Guzzetti Wilhide Angie Alexander SEC Champion • All-SEC 1983 1982 All-SEC • Academic All-SEC 1983 All-SEC All-SEC All-SEC

Tide Jan. 20, 2006 - Alabama hosts the second “Power of Pink” meet raising awarness and money in the fi ght against breast cancer. Timeline A standing room only crowd of 15,162 fans set a new SEC and Alabama record. 125 The success that Sarah Patterson has University,” Patterson said. “One of my most “Building a championship program that enjoyed coaching the Alabama Gymnastics memorable moments from any of our cham- brought recognition to this great univer- team these last 30 years has brought a host of pionships is of him holding the championship sity was always my mother’s dream,” Jessie honors her way but there are two that stand trophy up in one hand and having a look Patterson said at the ceremony. “But over the above all the rest. of such satisfaction as he presented it to the years her desire to help make a difference in In 2003, she became the first female coach, team. I have that picture in my office and it the lives of others became of equal impor- and only the sixth woman ever, to be inducted is one of my most prized possessions. He had tance to her. Her love for this university and into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and last such a sincere appreciation for what we had the Tuscaloosa community has been a driving year she received the highest honor that the accomplished and that meant the world to force in her career.” University of Alabama can bestow when she me.“ It is an honor that Sarah Patterson will was named the E. Roger Sayers Distinguished The only drawback to the whole affair cherish for the rest of her life. Service Award winner for 2007. was that the award was presented during “I don’t think there will be a recipient “I have been fortunate through my career the University’s annual Honors Day, while that is more proud to receive that award than to be honored for what we have achieved here Patterson and the Crimson Tide were at the I am,” Sarah Patterson said. “There maybe at Alabama,” Patterson said. “But the Sayers NCAA Championships in Salt Lake City, someone equally as proud, but not more Award and being elected to the Alabama Utah. proud.” Sports Hall of Fame stand atop the list.” “Very few things outside of the champion- ships could have kept me from being there to Alabama Sports Hall of Fame - 2003 E. Roger Sayers Distinguished Service Award receive that award from Dr. Sayers,” Patterson As for the Hall of Fame, it came sooner - 2007 said. “I would have relished being there for than she thought it would, and to be honest, She was stunned when she first found out that moment.” she wasn’t sure it would ever happen. that she was to receive the E. Roger Sayers Her daughter Jessie, a UA junior and “I never really thought about making it Distinguished Service Award, absolutely sports editor of the Crimson White at the into the hall much,” Sarah Patterson said. “I floored. time, accepted on her behalf. guess in the back of mind I thought that if I “Never in my wildest dreams did I ever ever did make it, it would be long after my think I’d be nominated much less be the career was over and you’d have to push me up recipient of the Sayers Award,” Patterson said. in my wheelchair.” “That’s right up there with being selected as to the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame “ Created in 1996 by members of the President’s Cabinet and the National Alumni Association, the E. Roger Sayers Distinguished Service Award recognizes faculty and exempt administrative personnel who have performed in an exemplary manner to further the mission of the University. It is one of the highest honors bestowed by the University. What made the award even sweeter for Patterson, beyond what it represented, was that she had worked for Sayers during his tenure as the University’s President and had a great respect and admiration for what he’d accomplished for Alabama. “I had a tremendous amount of respect for Dr. Sayers and what he meant to the

Did You 126 Know? Sarah Patterson was the fi rst female coach and the fi rst coach of a women’s sport to be inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. But her induction into the Raschilla, past assistants Marc women’s sport and the first Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Cohen and Scott Mackall and female coach. She is only the came sooner rather than later. long time administrative assis- sixth woman to gain entrance. Sarah and David Patterson tant Rita Martin. Patterson was inducted with were in the midst of their 25th “You believed in our dream friend and former boss Steve season coaching the Crimson and shared in our vision for the Sloan, who in addition to an Tide when the induction cere- future,” Patterson said. “I am All-American football career at mony rolled around on March grateful for your loyalty, your Alabama that included a national 8, 2003. support and most of all your title in 1965, was athletics direc- “For me, the most impor- friendship.” tor in the late 1980s. tant thing to understand is In being inducted, she joins “Steve, it is an honor to stand that while it’s my name on the an impressive group. Founded here with you tonight,” Patterson plaque, this honor is David in 1967, nine of ESPN’s top 100 said during her speech. “I will and mine together,” she said. athletes of the past century are never forget the thrill of you “Because everything we’ve also members of the Alabama presenting me with been able to accomplish over Sports Hall of Fame. Olympic our first national the past 25 years, we’ve done champions Jesse Owens and championship together.” Carl Lewis are both members ring in front of So on that night, the as is legendary Alabama foot- 85,000 fans. It Pattersons, surrounded by ball coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, doesn’t get much family, friends and supporters, who hired Patterson in his role better than that.” traveled to Birmingham for the as athletics director in 1978. induction ceremony. Among the legends in the They were surrounded by hall, Patterson is both worthy living reminders of just how and unique. In the history of much they have accomplished the ASHoF, among its hun- over the years. Many of their dreds of inductees, Patterson former gymnasts made the trip is both the first coach of a from all over the country for the induction banquet. “To our student-athletes, past and present, you are the reason I continue to coach,” Patterson said during her induction speech. “To see you grow and mature into confi- dent, successful young women - doctors, lawyers, business- women and mothers - I stand in awe of your accomplish- ments in life and feel honored that David and I have been a small part of your success.” Patterson also thanked her staff, both past and present, making special mention of current assistant coach Bryan

Tide Timeline March 25, 2006 - At the SEC Championships, senior Ashley Miles becomes the fi rst gymnast in conference history to win the same event four years in a row by taking top honors on the fl oor exercise. 127 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 11-3-0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIP FINISH — 3rd CENTRAL REGIONAL FINISH — 1st REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 10-7-0 2005 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP FINISH — 2nd SEC CHAMPIONSHIP FINISH — 1st CENTRAL REGIONAL FINISH — 1st The Team: 2003 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP FINISH — 2nd Mari Bayer, Jr. Meredith Laxton, So. Head Coach: The Team: Alexis Brion, Sr. Ashley Miles, Jr. Sarah Patterson Mari Bayer, Fr. Ashley Miles, Fr. Head Coach: REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 8-2-0 Brittany Comeaux, So. Dana Pierce, Jr. Assistant Head Coach: SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 3rd Alexis Brion, So. Dana Pierce, Fr. Sarah Patterson Rachael Delahoussaye, Jr. Michelle Reeser, Sr. David Patterson NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st Rachael Delahoussaye, Fr. Lauren Pruitt, Fr. Assistant Head Coach: Dana Filetti, Jr. Erin Rightley, So. Assistant Coach: 2007 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 9th Dana Filetti, Fr. Michelle Reeser, So David Patterson Shannon Hrozek, Sr. Jessie Silver, Fr. Bryan Raschilla Lauren Holdefer, Jr. Jeana Rice, Jr. Assistant Coach: The Team: Terin Humphrey, Fr. Kaitlin White, Fr. Volunteer Coach: Dana Shannon Hrozek, So. Kristin Sterner, Sr. Bryan Raschilla Alyssa Chapman, Fr. Ashley O’Neal, So. Head Coach: Dobransky Duckworth Morgan Dennis, Fr. Casey Overton, Fr. Sarah Patterson Stephanie Kite, Jr. Larissa Stewart, Fr. Volunteer Coach: Dana Terin Humphrey, Jr. Kassi Price, Fr. Assistant Head Coach: Dobransky Duckworth Ricki Lebegern, Fr. Courtney Priess, So. David Patterson Brittany Magee, So. Erin Rightley, Sr. Assistant Coach: Cassie Martin, So. Jacqueline Shealy, Fr. Bryan Raschilla Amanda Montgomery, So. Kaitlin White, Jr. Volunteer Coach: Dana Dobransky Duckworth

REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 14-1-0 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 12-1-0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIP FINISH — 2nd REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 12-3-0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd SEC CHAMPIONSHIP FINISH — 2nd NCAA WEST REGIONALS — 1st NCAA CENTRAL REGIONAL FINISH — 2nd NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP FINISH — 3rd CENTRAL REGIONAL FINISH — 1st 2006 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 3rd 2004 2002 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP FINISH — 1st The Team: The Team: The Team: Melanie Banville, Fr. Ashley Miles, Sr. Head Coach: Mari Bayer, So. Stephanie Kite, Sr. Head Coach: Natalie Barrington, Sr. Alexa Martinez, Sr. Head Coach: Mari Bayer, Sr. Amanda Montgomery, Fr. Sarah Patterson Alexis Brion, Jr. Meredith Laxton, Fr. Sarah Patterson Alexis Brion, Fr. Whitney Morgan, Sr. Sarah Patterson Rachael Delahoussaye, Sr. Ashley O’Neal, Fr. Assistant Head Coach: Brittany Comeaux, Fr. Ashley Miles, So. Assistant Head Coach: Helen Burgin, So. Andreé Pickens, Sr. Assistant Head Coach: Dana Filetti, Sr. Dana Pierce, Sr. David Patterson Rachael Delahoussaye, So. Dana Pierce, So. David Patterson Tiffany Byrd, So. Michelle Reeser, Fr. David Patterson Ashley Ford, Fr. Courtney Priess, Fr. Assistant Coach: Dana Filetti, So. Michelle Reeser, Jr. Assistant Coach: Erin Holdefer, So. Jeana Rice, So. Assistant Coach: Terin Humphrey, So. Erin Rightley, Jr. Bryan Raschilla Johnna Gay, Fr. Jeana Rice, Sr. Bryan Raschilla Lauren Holdefer, So. Sara Scarborough, Jr. Bryan Raschilla Brittany Magee, Fr. Kaitlin White, So. Volunteer Coach: Dana Lauren Holdefer, Sr. Erin Rightley, Fr. Volunteer Coach: Dana Shannon Hrozek, Fr. Kristin Sterner, Jr. Volunteer Coach: Cassie Martin, Fr. Dobransky Duckworth Shannon Hrozek, Jr. Larissa Stewart, So. Dobransky Duckworth Stephanie Kite, So. Raegan Tomasek, Sr. Dana Dobransky

Did You 128 Know? All fi ve members of the 1997 and 1996 senior classes earned All-American honors during their careers. REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 13-2-0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 4th NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 2nd REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 15-2-1 1997 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 9th SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 8-3-0 The Team: SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd 2001 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 4th Kim Bonaventura, Sr. Gina Logan, Fr. Head Coach: NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st The Team: 1999 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 3rd Merritt Booth, Jr. Danielle McAdams, Jr. Sarah Patterson Mandy Chapman, So. Shay Murphy, Jr. Assistant Head Coach: Natalie Barrington, Jr. Whitney Morgan, Jr. Head Coach: The Team: Lexa Evans, Fr. Heather Nasser, Jr. David Patterson Helen Burgin, Fr. Andreé Pickens, Jr. Sarah Patterson Natalie Barrington, Fr. April Makinson, So. Head Coach: Becca Fields, Fr. Rachel Rochelli, Fr. Assistant Coach: Tiffany Byrd, Fr. Jeana Rice, Fr. Assistant Head Coach: Mandy Chapman, Sr. Alexa Martinez, Fr. Sarah Patterson Lisa Gianni, So. Gwen Spidle, So. Bryan Raschilla Robin Hawkins, Sr. Sara Scarborough, So. David Patterson Lexa Evans, Jr. Whitney Morgan, Fr. Assistant Head Coach: Lauren Graffeo, Fr. Meredith Willard, Sr. Erin Holdefer, Fr. Lissy Smith, Sr. Assistant Coach: Krista Gole, Fr. Andreé Pickens, Fr. David Patterson Heidi Harriman, Fr. Stephanie Woods, Sr. Lauren Holdefer, Fr. Kristin Sterner, So. Bryan Raschilla Robin Hawkins, So. Lissy Smith, So. Assistant Coach: Katie Hornecker, Sr. Dara Stewart, Sr. Volunteer Coach: Katie Hornecker, So. Gwen Spidle, Sr. Bryan Raschilla Stephanie Kite, Fr. Raegan Tomasek, Jr. Tom Haley Gina Logan, Jr. Dara Stewart, So. Volunteer Coach: Dana Alexa Martinez, Jr. Raegan Tomasek, Fr. Dobransky

REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 14-3-0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 1st REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 10-3-0 NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 4th REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 12-1-0 2000 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 5th NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd The Team: 1998 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 3rd NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st 1996 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 1st Natalie Barrington, So. Whitney Morgan, So. Head Coach: The Team: Lexa Evans, Sr. Andreé Pickens, So. Sarah Patterson Merritt Booth, Sr. April Makinson, Fr. Sarah Patterson The Team: Krista Gole, So. Sara Scarborough, Fr. Assistant Head Coach: Mandy Chapman, Jr. Danielle McAdams, Sr. Assistant Head Coach: Kim Bonaventura, Jr. Shay Murphy, So. Head Coach: Robin Hawkins, Jr. Lissy Smith, Jr. David Patterson Lexa Evans, So. Shay Murphy, Sr. David Patterson Merritt Booth, So. Heather Nasser, So. Sarah Patterson Katie Hornecker, Jr. Kristin Sterner, Fr. Assistant Coach: Becca Fields, So. Lissy Smith, Fr. Assistant Coach: Mandy Chapman, Fr. Marna Neubauer, Sr. Assistant Coach: Gina Logan, Sr. Dara Stewart, Jr. Bryan Raschilla Robin Hawkins, Fr. Gwen Spidle, Jr. Bryan Raschilla Lisa Gianni, Fr. Gwen Spidle, Fr. David Patterson April Makinson, Jr. Raegan Tomasek, So. Volunteer Coach: Katie Hornecker, Fr. Dara Stewart, Fr. Volunteer Coach: Kim Kelly, Sr. Meredith Willard, Jr. Assistant Coach: Alexa Martinez, So. Tom Haley Gina Logan, So. Head Coach: Dana Dobransky Danielle McAdams, So. Stephanie Woods, Jr. Scott Mackall

Tide Timeline April 22, 2006 - Senior Ashley Miles wins the NCAA Vault Championship, her fourth national title and the Crimson Tide’s 19th. 129 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 15-1-0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 1st NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st 1995 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 9-2-0 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 16-0-0 The Team: SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd Kim Bonaventura, So. Shay Murphy, Fr. Head Coach: NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st Merritt Booth, Fr. Heather Nasser, Fr. Sarah Patterson 1993 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd 1991 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 1st Chasity Junkin, Sr. Marna Neubauer, Jr. Assistant Coach: The Team: The Team: Kim Kelly, Jr. Meredith Willard, So. David Patterson Dana Dobransky, Sr. Kim Kelly, Fr. Head Coach: Gina Basile, Jr. Shea McFall, Jr. Head Coach: Danielle McAdams, Fr. Stephanie Woods, So. Assistant Coach: Keri Duley, Jr. Marna Neubauer, Fr. Sarah Patterson Scott Mackall Dana Dobransky So. Kim Masters, Sr. Sarah Patterson Sheryl Dundas, Jr. Jenny McKernan, Fr. Assistant Coach: Keri Duley, Fr. Tina Rinker, Sr. Assistant Coach: Dee Foster, Sr. Kara Stilp, Jr. David Patterson Sheryl Dundas, Fr. Kara Stilp, Fr. David Patterson Chasity Junkin, So. Gretchen Stockley, So. Assistant Coach: Dee Foster, So. Marti Watson, Fr. Marti Watson, Jr. Scott Mackall Katherine Kelleher, Jr.

REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 7-3-1 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 8-4-0 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 14-1-0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 1st NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st 1994 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd 1992 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 3rd 1990 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd The Team: The Team: The Team: Kim Bonaventura, Fr. Marna Neubauer, So. Head Coach: Gina Basile, Sr. Katherine Kelleher, Sr. Head Coach: Gina Basile, So. Kim Masters, Jr. Head Coach: Keri Duley, Sr. Kara Stilp, Sr. Sarah Patterson Dana Dobransky, Jr. Shea McFall, Sr. Sarah Patterson Ali Blumberg, Sr. Tina Rinker, Jr. Sarah Patterson Sheryl Dundas, Sr. Gretchen Stockley, Jr. Assistant Coach: Keri Duley, So. Kara Stilp, So. Assistant Coach: Dana Dobransky, Fr. Marie Robbins, Sr. Assistant Coach: Kim Gigante, Fr. Marti Watson, Sr. David Patterson Sheryl Dundas, So. Gretchen Stockley, Fr. David Patterson Dee Foster, Fr. Tracey Tillman, Sr. David Patterson Chasity Junkin, Jr. Meredith Willard, Fr. Assistant Coach: Dee Foster, Jr. Holly Voorheis, Fr. Katherine Kelleher, So. Cheri Way, Sr. Kim Kelly, So. Stephanie Woods, Fr. Scott Mackall Chasity Junkin, Fr. Marti Watson, So. Shea McFall, So.

Did You 130 Know? Alabama fi nished in the top two at the NCAA Championships fi ve of the six years between 1991 and 1996. REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 13-3-0 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 12-5-0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 3rd NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st 1989 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 3rd 1987 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 4th The Team: The Team: Wendy Anderson, So. Michelle Maxwell, Fr. Head Coach: Alli Beldon, Jr. Jamie Jenkins, So. Sarah Patterson Gina Basile, Fr. Shea McFall, Fr. Sarah Patterson Kathy Bilodeau, Jr. Marie Robbins, Fr. Assistant Coach: REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 16-4-0 Ali Blumberg, Jr. Tina Rinker, So. Assistant Coach: Ali Blumberg, Fr. Tracey Tillman, Fr. David Patterson SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd Kelly Good, Sr. Marie Robbins, Jr. David Patterson Julie Estin, Sr. Cheri Way, Fr. Assistant Coach: NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 4th Katherine Kelleher, Fr. Tracey Tillman, Jr. Assistant Coach: Lisa Farley, Jr. Ann Winston, So. Marc Cohen 1985 Kim Masters, So. Cheri Way, Jr. Marc Cohen Kelly Good, So. Head Coach: The Team: Alli Beldon, Fr. Stephanie Kehr, Fr. Sarah Patterson Kathy Bilodeau, Fr. Barbara Mack, Sr. Assistant Coach: Julie Estin, So. Patti Rice, Sr. David Patterson Lisa Farley, Fr. Cindy Wilson, So. Assistant Coach: Penney Hauschild, Jr. Head Coach: Marc Cohen

REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 14-3-0 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 18-2-0 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 15-5-0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 1st SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 3rd SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 3rd NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 2nd NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st 1988 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 1st 1986 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 3rd 1984 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 6th The Team: The Team: The Team: Wendy Anderson, Fr. Susie Pierce, Fr. Head Coach: Alli Beldon, So. Jamie Jenkins, Fr. Sarah Patterson Julie Estin, Fr. Barbara Mack, Jr. Sarah Patterson Alli Beldon, Sr. Tina Rinker, Fr. Sarah Patterson Kathy Bilodeau, So. Stephanie Kehr, So. Assistant Coach: Beverly Fry, So. Patti Rice, Jr. Assistant Coach: Kathy Bilodeau, Sr. Marie Robbins, So. Assistant Coach: Julie Estin, Jr. Patty O’Donohue, Fr. David Patterson Penney Hauschild, So. Wendy Wilfong, Fr. David Patterson Ali Blumberg, So. Tracey Tillman, So. David Patterson Lisa Farley, So. Cindy Wilson, Jr. Assistant Coach: Stacey Helm, So. Cindy Wilson, Fr. Kelly Good, Jr. Cheri Way, So. Assistant Coach: Kelly Good, Fr. Ann Winston, Fr. Marc Cohen Nora Kirk, Jr. Head Coach: Kim Masters, Fr. Marc Cohen Penney Hauschild, Sr. Head Coach:

Tide Timeline May 3, 2006 - Ashley Miles wins the Honda Award for Gymnastics, given annually to the national gymnast of the year. It marks the sixth time an Alabama gymnast has won the prestigious award. 131 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 15-1-0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 7-7-0 NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 1st REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 14-1-0 1983 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS — 4th SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 4th The Team: 1979 1981 The Team: Denise Balk, Sr. Nora Kirk, So. Head Coach: Beverly Fry, Fr. Patricia Kleckner, Sr. Sarah Patterson The Team: Debra Bodley, Jr. Kathy Willis, So. Sarah Campbell Julie Garrett, Sr. Barbara Mack, So. Assistant Coach: Angie Alexander, Fr. Patti Kleckner, So. Head Coach: Leslie Chrisman, Fr. Stacey Willis, Fr. Assistant Coach: LuAnn Guzzetti, Sr. Patti Rice, So. David Patterson Cindy DeLucas, Fr. Stacy Murin, So. Sarah Campbell Judie Norton, Jr. Ann Wood, So. David Patterson Penney Hauschild, Fr. Ann Wilhide, Sr. Alison Green, So. Lisa Palk, So. Assistant Coach: Snow White, Sr. Head Coach: Stacey Helm, Fr. Wendy Wilfong, Fr. LuAnn Guzzetti, So. Ann Wilhide, So. David Patterson

REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 17-2-0 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 16-4-0 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS — 2nd NCAA CENTRAL REGIONALS — 2nd 1982 AIAW NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS — 4th 1980 The Team: The Team: Angie Alexander, So. Nora Kirk, Fr. Head Coach: Susan Blake, Fr. Staci Murin, Fr. Head Coach: Denise Balk, Jr. Patti Kleckner, Jr. Sarah Campbell Beth Cook, Jr. Judie Norton, Sr. Sarah Campbell Kim Drane, Fr. Barbara Mack, Fr. Assistant Coach: Alison Green, Fr. Lisa Palk, Fr. Assistant Coach: Julia Garrett, Jr. Ann Wilhide, Jr. David Patterson LuAnn Guzzetti, Fr. Ann Wilhide, Fr. David Patterson LuAnn Guzzetti, Jr. Patti Kleckner, Fr.

Did You 132 Know? Julie Garrett was the fi rst Alabama gymnast to earn All-American honors and the fi rst to earn an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 6-7-0 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 3-7-0

1978 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 1-7-0 1976 The Team: The Team: Holley Brauer, So. Judie Norton, So. Kathy Willis, Fr. 1977 Cindy Beckler, Fr. Becky Payne, Fr. Harriet Troxell, Fr. Cindy Dorman, Jr. Patty Sprado, Jr. Ann Wood, Fr. Sherry Johnson, Fr. Patty Sprado, Fr. Snow White, Fr. Beth Mandy, Jr. Snow White, Jr. Head Coach: Tom Steele The Team: Beth Mandy, So. Beth Troxell, Fr. Head Coach: Sheila Hill Cindy Beckler, So. Patty Sprado, So. Head Coach: Phyllis Melissa Hunt, Fr. Carla Spruill, So. Draper Beth Mandy, So. Janice Stramiello, So. Judie Norton, Fr. Snow White, So.

1975 REGULAR SEASON RECORD — 4-4-0 The Team: Deane Chapman, Fr. Pam McAneny, Jr. Janice Stramiello, So. Carmen Charnock, Fr. Debbie Moore, So. Head Coach: Riki Sutton Lucy Harris, Sr. Francie Scarborough, So. Joy Kelly, Sr. Susan Smith, So.

Tide April 28, 2007 - Junior Terin Humphrey wins her second NCAA Uneven Bars title while freshman Morgan Dennis wins the NCAA Floor Exercise title, giving the Tide its 20th and 21st individual Timeline national championships. 133 Team Records Team Total Vault 198.075 NCAA Central Regional 4/13/96 49.775 NCAA Champ. - Super Six 4/26/96 198.025 NCAA Champ. - Super Six 4/26/96 49.750 SEC Championships 3/35/95 198.000 NCAA Regional 4/3/01 49.675 Georgia 2/20/04 197.975 Auburn 3/1/03 49.625 SEC Championships 3/20/04 197.950 SEC Championships 3/20/04 49.625 Auburn 3/1/03 49.625 NCAA Champ. Super Six 4/22/05 From the left — Dee Foster, Kim Kelly, Meredith Willard, Shay Murphy and Ashley Miles all earned 10.0s on the floor exercise during their 197.925 Florida 1/30/04 Crimson Tide careers. 197.900 NCAA Regional 4/6/02 197.825 LSU 3/6/99 Uneven Bars 197.800 UMass 2/21/99 49.625 NCAA Central Regional 4/7/01 Individual Records 49.600 Penn State 2/19/99 197.725 Michigan 3/12/04 49.575 NCAA SE Regional 4/6/02 All-Around Uneven Bars

49.550 NCAA Central Regional 4/13/96 39.850 Andreé Pickens UCLA 3/16/02 10.000 Dee Foster LSU 2/12/93 197.650 UCLA 3/16/02 49.550 Minnesota 1/30/99 39.850 Jeana Rice SECs 3/20/04 10.000 Andreé Pickens Minnesota 1/30/99, UMass 197.600 LSU 1/23/04 49.550 Auburn 1/30/00 39.800 Dee Foster NCAA Central Regional 4/3/93, 2/21/99, UGA 3/4/00, UGA 197.575 NCAA Champ.- Super Six 4/19/02 NCAA - Super Six 4/16/93 2/16/01, Auburn 2/10/02 197.575 SEC Championship 3/29/03 39.775 Meredith Willard Quad Meet 3/8/97 10.000 Natalie Barrington UGA 2/16/01 197.550 Georgia 3/1/96 Balance Beam 39.750 Dee Foster Kentucky 1/30/93, UGA 2/26/93 9.975 Stephanie Woods NCAA - Event Finals 4/27/96 49.725* NCAA SE Regional 4/6/02 39.750 Kim Kelly LSU 3/18/94, NCAA Central 9.975 Andreé Pickens Auburn 1/22/99, Penn State 197.550 Georgia 2/20/04 49.625 UMass 1/21/99 Regional 4/13/96 2/19/99, Regionals 4/6/02 197.525 Penn State 3/17/01 49.550 Georgia 1/18/03 197.500 Georgia 2/16/01 39.750 Jeana Rice Michigan 1/31/03, UGA 3/15/03 9.975 Dara Stewart NCAA Regional 4/1/00 49.500 NCAA Central Regional 4/8/95 9.975 Jeana Rice Michigan 1/31/03, LSU 1/23/04 197.475 Auburn 1/26/07 49.500 Quad Meet 3/8/97 197.425 SEC Championship 3/23/01 Vault 10.000 Dee Foster UGA 3/14/92, Auburn 1/16/93, Balance Beam Floor Exercise UGA 1/22/93, Kentucky 1/30/96, 10.000 Dana Dobransky UGA 2/26/93, NCAA - Event Finals 197.425 Kentucky 3/8/02 49.700 Georgia 2/16/01 NCAA - Super Six 4/16/96 4/17/93 197.400 LSU 2/14/03 49.675 SEC Championships 3/20/04 10.000 Kim Kelly UGA 3/12/94, UGA 3/4/95, SEC 10.000 Stephanie Woods Kentucky 2/7/97 197.400 NCAA Champ. - 4/22/05 49.625 NCAA Champ. - Super Six 4/26/96 3/25/95, NCAA Central Regional 10.000 Raegan Tomasek UMass 2/21/99 197.375 Auburn 3/16/07 49.625 Auburn 3/1/03 4/8/95, Auburn 3/19/96, NCAA - 10.000 Jeana Rice UGA 1/18/03 197.350 LSU 2/2/01 49.600 Nebraska 2/2/02 Super Six 4/26/96 9.975 Danielle McAdams Florida 1/24/97 197.325 LSU 2/21/97 49.600 Kentucky 3/8/03 10.000 Danielle McAdams NCAA - Super Six 4/26/96 9.975 Lissy Smith UMass 2/21/99 197.325 Arkansas 2/27/04 49.600 Georgia 3/15/03 10.000 Andreé Pickens UMass 2/21/99, Kentucky 9.975 Jeana Rice SECs 3/20/04 197.300 NCAA Regional 4/1/00 49.600 SEC Championships 3/29/03 2/26/99, LSU 2/8/02, UCLA 197.275 NCAA Champ. - Super Six 4/25/03 49.600 Super Six Challenge 1/9/04 3/16/02 49.600 Florida 1/30/04 Floor Exercise 197.250 Georgia 2/15/02 10.000 Ashley Miles Auburn 3/1/03, NCAA Prelims 10.000 Dee Foster SE Missouri St./Minnesota 2/6/93, 49.600 NCAA Champ. Super Six 4/22/05 197.250 LSU 3/2/07 4/24/03, NCAA Event Finals UGA 2/26/93 4/26/03, Florida 1/30/04, * NCAA Record 10.000 Kim Kelly NCAA Central Regional 4/13/96, Kentucky 2/13/04, LSU 1/21/05, NCAA - Super Six 4/26/96, NCAA - Auburn 2/4/05, NCAA - Super Event Finals 4/27/96 Six 4/22/05 10.000 Meredith Willard LSU 2/21/97, Quad Meet 3/8/97 10.000 Jeana Rice UGA 3/15/03 10.000 Shay Murphy Utah State 3/14/98 9.975 Kim Kelly LSU 3/18/94, SEC Champ. 10.000 Ashley Miles NCAA Central Regional 4/12/03, 3/26/94, NCAA 4/21/94 SECs 3/20/04, NCAA - Super Six 9.975 Chasity Junkin SEC Champ. 3/25/95 4/22/05 9.975 Merritt Booth SEC Champ. 3/25/95 9.975 Dee Foster NCAA Central Regional 4/3/93 9.975 Kim Bonaventura Kentucky 2/7/97 9.975 Kim Kelly LSU 3/18/94, NCAA - Event Finals 9.975 Andreé Pickens Nebraska 2/2/02, UGA 2/15/02, 4/23/94, NCAA - Prelims 4/25/96 Florida 2/22/02, Auburn 3/1/02 9.975 Andreé Pickens Minnesota 1/30/99, UCLA 3/16/02 9.975 Jeana Rice Kentucky 3/8/03, Arkansas 9.975 Jeana Rice UGA 2/16/01, NCAA Central 2/27/04, SECs 3/20/04 Regional 4/7/01 9.975 Ashley Miles UGA 3/15/03, Kentucky 2/11/05, 9.975 Kristin Sterner UGA 2/16/01, Nebraska 2/2/02, UGA 2/18/05, Auburn 1/27/06 Auburn 3/1/03 9.975 Alexis Brion Georgia 2/20/04, Michigan 9.975 Michelle Reeser Auburn 2/10/02 3/12/04 9.975 Morgan Dennis Auburn 1/26/07

Did You 134 Know? Ashley Miles (2005) and Kim Kelly (1996) are the only two gymnasts in NCAA history to score two 10.0s in the Super Six Team Finals. Coleman Coliseum Records

Individual Records Team Records All-Around Team Total 39.850 Andreé Pickens (UA) 3/16/02 198.025 Alabama 4/26/96 198.000 Alabama 4/7/01 Vault 197.925 Alabama 1/30/04 10.00 Dee Foster (UA) 1/30/93 197.825 Alabama 3/6/99 Hope Spivey-Sheeley (UGA) 2/26/93 197.650 Alabama 3/16/02 Jenny Hansen (UK) 3/20/93, 4/25/96 Kim Kelly (UA) 3/4/95, 3/16/96, 4/26/96 Vault Kim Arnold (UGA) 3/4/95 49.775 Alabama 4/26/96 Leah Brown (UGA) 4/25/96, 4/26/96, 4/27/96 Danielle McAdams (UA) 4/26/96 Uneven Bars Andreé Pickens (UA) 2/26/99, 3/16/02 49.625 Alabama 4/7/01 Ashley Miles (UA) 3/1/03, 4/12/03, 1/30/04, 1/21/05, 2/4/05 Jeana Rice (UA) 3/15/03 Balance Beam 49.500 Alabama 3/8/97 Uneven Bars 49.500 UCLA 4/26/96 10.00 Dee Foster (UA) 2/12/93 Andreé Pickens (UA) 1/30/99, 3/4/00, 2/24/01 Floor Exercise Natalie Barrington (UA) 2/24/01 49.700 Alabama 2/16/01 Balance Beam 10.00 Dana Dobransky (UA) 2/26/93 Stephanie Woods (UA) 2/7/97 Floor Exercise 10.00 Dee Foster (UA) 2/6/93 Hope Spivey-Sheeley (UGA) 2/26/93, 3/20/93 Kim Kelly (UA) 4/26/96, 4/27/96 Heidi Hornbeek (Ariz) 4/27/96 Meredith Willard (UA) 2/21/97, 3/8/97 Shay Murphy (UA) 3/14/98 Ashley Miles (UA) 4/12/03

Tide Timeline July 1, 2007 - Sarah and David Patterson begin their 30th year coaching Alabama. 135 Alabama has finished No. 1 in the nation Alabama has won the Honda Award for Jeana Rice finished her career with For 30 years, Alabama has been four times. The first time came in 1988 Gymnastics, which recognizes the national an NCAA best 18 All-American hon- led by Sarah and David Patterson 1 and the latest was in 2002. The Tide is 6 gymnast of the year, six times, including 18 ors, including 11 first-team honors 30 a span that has included unprec- one of only four programs in NCAA history to win an Ashley Miles in 2006. and seven second-team honors. edented success in the gym, the classroom and in NCAA title. the lives of their gymnasts. Since it’s inception in 1991, Alabama has Individual national champion- Alabama has finished in the top-2 nation- had nine gymnasts named NCAA Woman ships are hard to come by, but the Alabama gymnasts have ally 10 times since first breaking into the 9 of the Year for the State of Alabama, 21 Crimson Tide has won 21. Over the earned Scholastic All- 2 top-10 in 1983. including four that went on to be named top-10 last six seasons Alabama has won nine individual 115 American honors 115 times finalists for the award. Those figures lead the nation. championships. since the award’s inception in 1991. Three Crimson Tide gymnasts have been The next closest program has four. named H. Boyd McWhorter SEC Scholar- Since first making it to the Since the award was first 3 Athlete of the Year, an award that spans Alabama gymnasts have earned 10 NCAA Championships in 1983, given in 1984, Alabama all sports and all schools. NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships 21 Alabama has finished in the top-4 171 gymnasts have earned 10 over the years, a total that leads the nationally 21 times, more than any other program in Academic All-SEC honors 171 times, more than two- Four Crimson Tide gymnasts have been nation by a healthy margin. the nation. dozen better than the next school. named Southeastern Conference Female 4 Athlete of the Year, an award that spans Dee Foster’s 17 first-team All- The Crimson Tide has gone to 25 Every year Alabama has all sports and all schools. American honors stands as the consecutive NCAA Championships, some of the nation’s top 17 NCAA career record. 25 the second longest streak in the 223 gymnasts, which is why Five times an Alabama Gymnast has won championship history. every year, Alabama adds to its All-American count. the NCAA All-Around Title with Jeana Rice Since 1982, the Crimson Tide has had 50 gymnasts 5 winning the latest Tide title in 2005. rack up 223 honors.

Did You 136 Know? Alabama has averaged over 10,000 fans per meet each of the last four years.