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3 NCAA Championships ● 12 SEC Championships ● 9 with 20 NCAA Individual Titles MEET INFORMATION MEET 9 UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. Date: Saturday, March 7 / 4 p.m. ET No. 2 Florida Gators No. 25 Penn State Site: Recreation Hall (6,502)) Head Coach: Jenny Rowland Head Coach: Sarah Brown Television: none Career (5th season): 64-12 Career: 22-12 / third season Video: BTN + At UF: same At PSU: same Live Stats: FloridaGators.com Tickets: Adults $8 / Youth $5 2020: 9-0 / 7-0 SEC 2020: 8-8 / 4-5 Big Ten Penn State Tickets Series History Florida leads 34-13. Last meeting: UF won What’s Happening? (all-time): a 2019 home dual 198.025 – 196.325. With the Southeastern Conference portion of its campaign concluded, Florida finishes regular-season with a pair of non-conference opponents. First of those two is a road trip to University Park, Pa., to meet No 25 GATOR SOCIAL Penn State. This is Florida’s first trip to Happy Valley since winning the 2018 NCAA University Park Florida Gators Gymnastics Regional. The Gators could make a post-season return trip, as Penn State is one of four teams playing Florida Gators host to 2020 NCAA Regional Championship action April 2-4 (other regional sites: Norman, Okla., Denver, Colo., Los Angeles, Calif.). @GatorsGym @FloridaGators Florida claimed its second consecutive Southeastern Conference regular-season title last month. The @JennyRowlandUF Gators finished undefeated in SEC action (7-0) for the first time since 1992 (first season all league teams gatorsgym met in regular-season). SEC regular-season champions began being recognized in 2017. floridagators Florida’s 197.80 – 196.50 win in front of a sellout Stegeman Coliseum crowd last Friday at No. 10 Georgia closed the Gators’ 2020 SEC regular-season schedule. The Gators swept the event titles, with sophomore Trinity Thomas claiming vault (9.95), uneven bars (9.975), floor exercise (9.95) and all-around (39.825). Florida Communications Contact: That all-around total equals Florida’s school record (now shares with Alaina Johnson, Bridget Sloan and Mary Howard Alex McMurtry) and moves into a tie for the nation’s No. 2 total for 2020. It was her sixth consecutive all- Phone: 352-375-4683 x6100 around win of the season and seventh overall for 2020. Another near-perfect mark of 9.975 gave junior Email: [email protected] Alyssa Baumann the balance beam win. DID YOU KNOW? After her performance at Georgia, Thomas claims her sixth consecutive SEC Gymnast of the Week honor. It is her seventh such honor of 2020 and 10th of her Gator career. This is the second consecutive road trip for Florida gymnastics (Georgia -Feb. 28; Penn State - March 7). Penn State is also done with league regular-season action, tying for fourth in Big Ten standings. The Nittany Lions are coming off winning the Penn State Quad last weekend with its season-high of 196.575. Junior Lauren Bridgens set the team’s season high all-around of 39.475 to win the PSU Quad. Florida last competed in two straight road meets in the regular season in 2014 when it began the season at UCLA (Jan. 11) Florida Head Coach Jenny Rowland is in her fifth season with the Gators in 2020. In her first four and then opened Southeastern Conference action at Auburn seasons, the Gators won the 2016 Southeastern Conference Championships and the 2019 SEC regular- (Jan. 17). season titles. The team reached the NCAA team final in her first three season, finishing fourth (2016) and third (2017 & 2018). Eleven Gators collected 40 All-America honors in NCAA competition in the last four years, including winning seven NCAA event titles (Bridget Sloan: 2016 all-around, uneven bars, balance beam; Alex McMurtry: 2017 all-around, uneven bars; 2018 vault; Alicia Boren: 2019 floor exercise). The Gators missed advancing to the 2019 NCAA Championships after taking third in the NCAA Corvallis Regional final. It was the second time in the NCAA Championships’ 38-year history Florida didn’t advance to the. Boren claimed a share of the NCAA floor title, becoming the third Gator to win the floor crown. NCAA Championships. Four Gators advanced as individual competitors to the 2019 NCAA Championships, with Boren and then freshmen Savannah Schoenherr and Trinity Thomas earning All- America honors. UF returns six with 17 All-America honors - Alyssa Baumann, Rachel Gowey, Amelia Hundley, Savannah Schoenherr, Megan Skaggs and Trinity Thomas. Twenty Gator routines return from the 2019 NCAA Regional final. For the third time in the program’s 48-year history, just one freshman joins the Gator roster for the 2020 season (also one freshman in 1984 and 1990). Payton Richards of Mokena, Ill., shared the 2017 Junior Olympic Level 10 Senior A beam title and was runner-up in all-around and bars. She recorded three top- four individual finishes in 2018 JO Senior D competition - floor exercise (tied for third), all-around (4th) and uneven bars (T4th). MEET COACH ROWLAND 2020 GATOR GYMNASTICS ROSTER Jenny Rowland, one of the nation’s rising coaching talents, is in her fifth season as NAME EVTS HT CL HOMETOWN (CLUB) University of Florida’s head gymnastics coach. Sierra Alexander V, FX 5-7 SR Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (West Broward Rowland is the seventh head coach for the Gymnastics Academy) Gator program, which is in its 48th season in Alyssa Baumann AA 5-1 JR Dallas, Texas (WOGA) 2020. Maegan Chant AA 5-3 SR Waterdown, Ontario (World Class Gymnastics) Leah Clapper AA 4-11 SO Ann Arbor, Mich. (Gym America) She shared the 2016 Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year Jazmyn Foberg AA 5-2 JR Bayville, N.J. (MG Elite) honor with Arkansas’ Mark Cook. She joins volleyball’s Mary Wise Rachel Gowey AA 5-1 SR Urbandale, Iowa (Chow’s Gymnastics) (1991) as a Gator coach who claimed SEC Coach of the Year Amelia Hundley AA 5-5 SR Hamilton, Ohio (Cincinnati Gymnastics) honors in their first season at UF. Sydney Johnson-Scharpf V, BB, 4-11 SO Clermont, Fla. (Brandy Johnson's Global FX Gymnastics) Nya Reed AA 5-3 SO Landover, Md. (Capital Gymnastics NTC) Rowland’s experiences from the sport’s highest level are the same Payton Richards AA 5-1 FR Mokena, Ill. (Aerials Gymnastics) as many current Gators. She is a former U.S. National Team Savannah Schoenherr AA 5-3 SO Columbus, Ga. (Georgia Elite) member, a collegiate All-American and was named a 2015 National Megan Skaggs AA 5-3 JR Marietta, Ga. (Gymnastics Academy of Collegiate Assistant of the Year. Atlanta) Halley Taylor AA 5-2 SO Tampa, Fla. (LaFleur’s Gymnastics Tampa) Rowland is a Category 3 International Brevet level judge. She Trinity Thomas AA 5-3 SO York, Pa. (Prestige Gymnastics) served on the judging panel for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials. Staff: Pronunciation Guide: Head Coach: Jenny Rowland Sierra Alexander – see-er-uh In the fall of 2019, Rowland was appointed to the NCAA Women's Assistant Coaches: Adrian Burde & Owen Field Alyssa Baumann – Baugh-man Gymnastics Committee. Her term runs through the 2023 season. Volunteer Coach: Jeremy Miranda Jazmyn Foberg – FOE-berg Assistant to the Head Coach: Brittany Arlington Amelia Hundley – Hund-lee Managers: Tory Cohen & Rachel Slocum Sydney Johnson-Scharpf - shärpf Rowland’s Coaching Career: Athletic Trainer: Janet Taylor Nya Reed – nī-uh At Florida: Payton Richards – Peyton Florida reached the NCAA Super Six team final in each of Savannah Schoenherr – Shane-hair Rowland’s first three seasons with the Gators, taking fourth in 2016 Halley Taylor – hAE-lee (rhymes with valley) and third in 2017 & 2018. Rowland was named the 2016 Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year after the Gators won Jenny Rowland – ROE-lund that season’s team title. Florida won the 2019 SEC regular-season Adrian Burde - bur-DAY title with a 6-1 record Returning All-Americans: Six with 17 honors Gators won NCAA individual event titles in each of the last four Alyssa Baumann 2019 – beam; 2018 – beam, floor seasons. Bridget Sloan won the 2016 NCAA all-around and shared Rachel Gowey 2018 bars, beam (NCAA & regular season that season’s uneven bars and balance beam titles. Alex McMurtry won the 2017 NCAA all-around champion and shared that season’s Amelia Hundley 2018 bars; 2017 all-around (NCAA & regular season), bars uneven bars crown. She finished her career by claiming a share of the 2018 vault title. In 2019, Alicia Boren claimed a share of the Savannah 2019 vault Schoenherr NCAA floor title. The Honda Award for gymnastics went to Sloan (2016) and McMurtry (2017), distinguishing them as the nation’s top Megan Skaggs 2019 bars collegiate gymnast. McMurtry was part of a rare double in 2017 and 2018, claiming both the SEC Gymnast (2017)/SEC Event Specialist Trinity Thomas 2019 all-around, bars, floor (NCAA & regular season), beam (2018) and the SEC Scholar-Athlete awards. Returning All-SEC: Five In Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) All- Alyssa Baumann 2019 beam@, floor America regular-season awards, 11 Gators earned 41 honors since 2018 beam@ 2016. Rachel Gowey 2019 beam@ At Auburn: 2018 uneven bars017 floor Rowland came to Florida after spending five seasons at Auburn. Amelia Hundley 2018 vault, uneven bars She joined the Auburn coaching staff as an assistant coach in 2017 uneven bars October of 2010 and was elevated to associate head coach in March of 2013. Rowland worked with all aspects of the Auburn Megan Skaggs 2019 beam@ gymnastics program, coordinating all of the program's community Trinity Thomas 2019 vault@, floor outreach efforts and interactions on campus as well as playing an @-SEC champion integral role in recruiting and in-gym activities.