3 NCAA Championships ● 10 SEC Championships ● 8 with 19 NCAA Individual Titles

MEET INFORMATION MEET 3 GAINESVILLE, FLA. Date: Friday, Jan. 25 / 5:45 p.m. ET No. 3 Florida Gators No. 17 Kentucky Wildcats Site: Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. Head Coach: Head Coach: Tim Garrison O’Connell Centerr (9,166) Career (4th season): 44-9 Career (7th season): 77-90-2 Television: SEC Network At UF: same At UK: same Video: WatchESPN Live Stats: FloridaGators.com 2019: 2-0 / 2-0 SEC 2019: 3-2 / 1-0 SEC Tickets: Reserved - $8; General admission - $5 / 2018 NCAA Finish: 3rd 2018 NCAA Finish: 12th children 12 & under $1 UF Students with Gator1 admitted free. What’s Happening? Contact UF Ticket Office at 352-375-4683 It’s an early start for Florida’s home meet versus No. 17 Kentucky. This is Florida’s second of three consecutive meets for more information versus teams among the 2018 NCAA Championships’ field. Florida faces six teams among the 2018 NCAA Series Record UF leads 85-1 (last meeting: UF was Championships’ field in its nine-meet 2019 regular season schedule. (all-time): second in 2018 NCAA Semifinal II (197.5875) and Kentucky was sixth The Florida-UK dual launches a SEC Network Friday Night Heights triple-header. Courtney Lyle and Olympic medalist (196.0625 and Gator Great call the action Friday beginning at 6 p.m. Promotions: Orange Out – Wear orange to show Florida’s six-for-six beam set overcame a 0.05 three-rotation deficit to take a 197.50-197.425 win at No. 5 Louisiana State support for Gators Friday; Special in front of 12,093 at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. The win ended the Tigers’ 35-home meet win streak that dated concessions pricing - Let O’Connell Center back to March 8, 2013 (197.725-197.50 loss vs No. 5 Alabama). It was UF’s first win in four visits to the PMAC as the concessions help with Friday’s dinner Gators’ last won in Baton Rouge in 2011. Junior All-American ’s 9.925 won the evening’s beam title and plans. There is lower concession pricing three Gators shared second at 9.90 – Alicia Boren, and . Thomas shared the win for the UF-UK meet; Boost your sock with LSU’s at 9.95. Finnegan won the all-around (39.70) and Thomas was second with the season’s top game - Enhance your wardrobe by adding freshman all-around total (39.65). a pair of socks just like what the Gators After their performances Friday, Gowey and Thomas claimed SEC Weekly honors. After winning her second consecutive wear. The first 1,000 fans get a pair of beam title, this time with a Gator season-best 9.925, Gowey is the SEC Specialist Gymnast of the Week. Thomas earned socks; Post-meet autographs - Following her second consecutive SEC Freshman of the Week honor after posting a pair of Gator season-bests – 9.95 (floor) and Friday’s meet, all the Gators will autograph 39.65 (all-around). team posters. Kentucky advanced to the NCAA Championships’ field for the first time in 2018. The Wildcats are coming off a 195.275- GATOR SOCIAL 193.875 win over Arkansas last Friday in front of 12,472 at the Rupp Arena. Alex Hyland owns UK’s top all-around total (39.375), set in the season-opener versus Texas Women’s University. Florida Gators Gymnastics Florida Gators Florida Head Coach Jenny Rowland is in her fourth season with the Gators in 2019. In her first three seasons, the Gators won the 2016 title and reached the NCAA Super Six team final each year, finishing @GatorsGym fourth (2016) and third (2017 & 2018). Nine Gators collected 36 All-America honors in NCAA competition in the last three @FloridaGators years, including winning six NCAA event titles (Bridget Sloan: 2016 all-around, , ; Alex @JennyRowlandUF McMurtry: 2017 all-around, uneven bars; 2018 ).

gatorsgym The Gators were third in the final NCAA Super Six team championship as the smallest margin (0.2375) in the 26-year floridagators history of the format decided the top four teams. Starting this season, eight teams advance to the NCAA Championships in Ft. Worth, Texas, with four advancing to the team final.

Florida returns four with 11 All-America honors earned at the NCAA Championships – Alyssa Baumann, Alicia Boren, Florida Communications Contact: Rachel Gowey and . Among the teams in the 2018 NCAA Super Six team final, two return 20 routines Mary Howard (UCLA and Utah), two return 19 (LSU and Oklahoma), Florida returns 18 and Nebraska brings back 15 competitive routines. Phone: 352-375-4683 x6100 Email: [email protected] Bolstering Florida’s 2019 lineup options are six freshmen – the most for the Gators since the 2005 season (also six freshmen on 2005 and 2004 rosters). Two bring U.S. National Team credentials, including Trinity Thomas - the only DID YOU KNOW 2019 collegiate who is a member of the current U.S. Senior National Team. In September, Thomas became the fourth Florida is in the middle of a three-meet stretch versus 2018 NCAA gymnast on a collegiate roster (and first since 2011) to earn an international medal when U.S. took team gold at 2018 Championships’ teams: Senior Pan American Championships in Lima, Peru. Leah Clapper and Sydney Johnson-Sharpf also have competed at U.S. Championship events. Johnson-Sharpf, a member of the 2015-16 U.S. Senior National Team, represented the U.S. Jan. 18 at LSU at two international assignments. Three newcomers - Nya Reed, Savannah Schoenherr and Halley Taylor – all Jan. 25 vs Kentucky advanced to Junior Olympic Level 10 Nationals. In their final J.O. competition in 2018, Schoenherr won bars (also all- Feb. 1 at Oklahoma around runner-up), Reed was fourth in vault and floor and Taylor was eighth in the all-around. Clapper also competed at the 2018 J.O.s, taking ninth in the Senior D all-around. This class ranks No. 1 on the 2019 CollegeGymFans.com Top The nation’s only other program with three consecutive meets Recruiting Classes list. In the last 10 years, Florida’s recruiting classes ranked No. 1 seven times and No. 2 twice. versus 2018 NCAA Championships’ teams is Arkansas: Jan. 18 at Kentucky Jan. 25 vs Oklahoma Feb. 1 at Georgia

MEET COACH ROWLAND 2019 GATOR GYMNASTICS ROSTER Jenny Rowland, one of the nation’s rising coaching talents, is in her fourth season as NAME EVTS HT CL HOMETOWN (CLUB) ’s head gymnastics Sierra Alexander V, FX 5-7 JR Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (West Broward coach. Rowland is the seventh head coach Gymnastics Academy) for the Gator program, which is in its 47th Alyssa Baumann AA 5-1 SO Dallas, Texas (WOGA) Alicia Boren AA 4-11 SR Franklin Lakes, N.J. (North Stars season in 2019. Gymnastics Academy)

Maegan Chant AA 5-3 JR Waterdown, Ontario (World Class She shared the 2016 Southeastern Conference Coach of the Gymnastics) Year honor with Arkansas’ Mark Cook. She joins volleyball’s Amanda Cheney V, BB 5-5 SR Orlando, Fla. (Orlando Metro) Leah Clapper AA 4-11 FR Ann Arbor, Mich. (Gym America) Mary Wise (1991) as a Gator coach who claimed SEC Coach of Jazmyn Foberg AA 5-2 SO Bayville, N.J. (MG Elite) the Year honors in their first season at UF. Rachel Gowey AA 5-1 JR Urbandale, Iowa (Chow’s Gymnastics)

Rowland’s experiences from the sport’s highest level are the Amelia Hundley AA 5-5 JR Hamilton, Ohio (Cincinnati Gymnastics) Sydney Johnson-Scharpf V, BB, 4-11 FR Clermont, Fla. (Brandy Johnson's Global same as many current Gators. She is a former U.S. National FX Gymnastics) Team member, a collegiate All-American and was named a Nya Reed AA 5-3 FR Landover, Md. (Capital Gymnastics NTC) 2015 National Collegiate Assistant of the Year. Savannah Schoenherr AA 5-3 FR Columbus, Ga. (Oconee Gymnastics Center) Rowland is a Category 3 International Brevet level judge. She AA 5-3 SO Marietta, Ga. (Gymnastics Academy of served on the judging panel for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 U.S. Atlanta) Olympic Trials. Halley Taylor AA 5-2 FR Tampa, Fla. (LaFleur’s Gymnastics Tampa) Trinity Thomas AA 5-3 FR York, Pa. (Prestige Gymnastics) Rowland’s Coaching Career: At Florida: Staff: Pronunciation Guide: Florida reached the NCAA Super Six team final in each of Head Coach: Jenny Rowland Sierra Alexander – see-er-uh Assistant Coaches: Adrian Burde & Owen Field Alyssa Baumann – Baugh-man Rowland’s first three seasons with the Gators, taking fourth in Volunteer Coach: Jeremy Miranda Alicia Boren – uh-LEE-sh uh Bore-en 2016 and third in 2017 & 2018. Rowland was named the 2016 Student Coach: Vanasia Bradley Amanda Cheney – Chain-ee Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year after the Gators Assistant to the Head Coach: Brittany Arlington Jazmyn Foberg – FOE-berg won that season’s team title. Managers: Tory Cohen & Rachel Slocum Amelia Hundley – Hund-lee Athletic Trainer: Janet Taylor Sydney Johnson-Scharpf - shärpf Gators won NCAA individual event titles in each of the last Nya Reed – nī-uh three seasons. Bridget Sloan won the 2016 NCAA all-around Savannah Schoenherr – Shane-hair Halley Taylor – hAE-lee (rhymes with valley) and shared that season’s uneven bars and balance beam titles. Alex McMurtry won the 2017 NCAA all-around champion and Jenny Rowland – ROE-lund shared that season’s uneven bars crown. She finished her Vanasia Bradley - vuh-NAY-suh career by claiming a share of the 2018 vault title. The Honda Adrian Burde - bur-DAY Award for gymnastics went to Sloan (2016) and McMurtry (2017), distinguishing them as the nation’s top collegiate Returning All-Americans: Four with 11 honors in NCAA competition gymnast. McMurtry was part of a rare double in 2017 and 2018, Alyssa Baumann 2018 – floor exercise* claiming both the SEC Gymnast (2017)/SEC Event Specialist Alicia Boren 2018 – vault*, all-around^, floor exercise^ (2018) and the SEC Scholar-Athlete awards. 2017 – all-around^, vault^

2016 –beam* In National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women (NACGC) All-America regular-season Rachel Gowey 2018 uneven bars^, balance beam* awards, nine Gators earned 33 honors since 2016. Amelia Hundley 2018 uneven bars^

2017 all-around^ At Auburn: Rowland came to Florida after spending five seasons at *-first team │^-second team Auburn. She joined the Auburn coaching staff as an assistant coach in October of 2010 and was elevated to associate head Returning All-SEC: Five coach in March of 2013. Rowland worked with all aspects of the Alyssa Baumann 2018 beam@ Auburn gymnastics program, coordinating all of the program's community outreach efforts and interactions on campus as well Alicia Boren 2018 floor@, all-around as playing an integral role in recruiting and in-gym activities. 2017 floor 2016 vault, balance beam She was named co-National Assistant Coach of the Year in Rachel Gowey 2018 uneven bars 2015 after helping Auburn reach the NCAA Super Six for the first time in 22 years. Amelia Hundley 2018 vault, uneven bars 2017 uneven bars Coaching Career Start in Sooner State: @-SEC champion Rowland coached Elite gymnasts at Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy in Norman, Okla., for five years and then joined the ANOTHER GATOR TEAM MEMBER Oklahoma coaching staff in June of 2001. At OU, she helped The Gator gymnastics team welcomes back Bailey Warner. The team adopted Bailey coach the Sooners to the 2004 Big XIII title, three-time team on Oct. 13, 2017 and supported the now nine-year old as she underwent juvenile NCAA qualifiers (2004-06) and three Big XIII Gymnasts of the pilocytic astrocytoma glioma treatment at Shands Hospital in Gainesville. She rang Year. the bell in Shands Pediatric Ward on May 23, 2018 to signal the successful end to her As a Gymnast: chemotherapy treatments. During her gymnastics career, Rowland was a USA National Team member from 1985-1990 and was part of the U.S.’s 1989 The team met Bailey through the Friends of Jaclyn organization. Bailey has a locker, World Championships team. During her collegiate career, she participated in the team’s SEC Network and video board shoots and stops by for a earned All-America honors for the uneven bars in 1993 for Gator practice as often as she can. Arizona State.

After retiring from competition, she returned to her home state, enrolling at the University of Oklahoma to finish her degree.

ABOUT THE GATORS: 2018 NOTABLES UF VS UK HISTORY Location: Gainesville, Fla.  Third in NCAA Super Six team final. Florida Florida leads 85-1: President: Dr. W. Kent Fuchs is the only team to finish in NCAA Super Six Athletics Director: Scott Stricklin Rank top four each of the last seven years. W Senior Women’s Administrator: Lynda Tealer / Year Site L UK UF +/- K F Associate Athletics Director (GYM admin): Kim Green  Florida was second in Southeastern 2018 Away dual W 195.950 196.325 0.375 6 6 SEC W 196.55 196.825 0.275 12 5 Conference: Southeastern Conference regular season (5-2) and third in NCAA Semi W 196.0625 197.5875 1.5825 12 5 2017 Home dual W 196.95 197.6 0.650 14 3 Enrollment: 54,854 Championship (196.825) competition. SEC W 196.625 197.825 1.200 12 4 th 2016 Away dual W 196.65 197.525 0.875 23 2 Nickname: Gators  2018 marked the 36 NCAA Championships’ SEC W 196.25 197.775 1.525 22 2 Colors: Orange & Blue 2015 Home dual W 195.95 198.125 2.175 25 3 appearance by UF in the 37-year history of SEC W 195.025 197.4 2.375 25 2 2014 Away dual W 195.45 197.175 1.725 1 the event. SEC W 195.07 197.7 2.630 1 UF GYMNASTICS QUICK FACTS: NCAA  NCAA University Park Region champion Regional W 195.925 197.05 1.125 1 2019 Record (regular season): 2-0, 2-0 SEC 2013 Home dual W 196.075 196.975 0.900 23 1 nd (197.725) – seventh consecutive region win SEC W 194.6 198 3.400 19 1 2018 Record (regular season): 13-4, 5-2 SEC (T2 ) 2012 Away dual W 194.075 196.275 2.200 8 nd SEC W 194.35 197.15 2.800 24 1 2018 Record (overall): 25-7, 5-2 SEC (T2 )  Six gymnasts collected 12 All-America 2011 Home dual W 192.9 196.775 3.875 16 1 2017 SEC Finish: 2nd (regular season), SEC W 193.95 196.975 3.025 1 honors in NCAA Championships’ competition 2010 Away dual W 195.35 196.05 0.700 12 4 3rd (championship) SEC W 194.8 197.05 2.250 18 4 – nation’s third highest total for 2018. 2009 SEC W 195 196.75 1.750 22 6 rd 2018 NCAA Finish: 3 (197.85) Home dual W 193.85 195.925 2.075 5  Five earned nine All-America honors in 2008 SEC W 194.025 197.325 3.300 20 3 Away dual W 193.15 196.35 3.200 3 National Association of Collegiate 2007 Home dual W 194.8 197.875 3.075 22 1 COACHING STAFF: SEC W 194 197.325 3.325 1 Head Coach: Jenny Rowland Gymnastics Coaches (NACGC) regular- 2006 Away dual W 195.55 196.4 0.850 SEC W 191.15 196.275 5.125 18 3 Career & School Record/Years: 44-9 (fourth season / season awards. 2005 Home dual W 193.15 196.925 3.775 6 SEC W 193.8 196.150 2.350 T19 6 same)  Alex McMurtry shared the NCAA vault title. 2004 Away dual W 194.7 197.25 2.550 33 5 SEC W 193.85 197.225 3.375 8 Assistant Coaches: Adrian Burde, Owen Field Florida is the only program to have a 2003 Home quad W 192.200 195.975 3.775 23 7 SEC W 194.875 195.95 1.075 8 Volunteer Coach: Jeremy Miranda gymnast claim at least one NCAA Individual 2002 Away dual W 193.350 194.400 1.050 13 11 Student Coach: Vanasia Bradley SEC W 194.325 196.425 2.100 19 18 title each of the last eight seasons. 2001 Home quad W 193.700 195.175 1.475 26 10 SEC W 195.850 196.375 0.525  SEC Event Specialist Gymnast and Scholar 2000 Away quad W 194.175 195.900 1.725 RETURNING NCAA ALL-AMERICANS: SEC W 194.650 195.775 1.125 of Year went to Alex McMurtry. Third time in 1999 Home quad W 189.025 193.600 4.575 16 4 with 11 honors (only NCAA honors listed) SEC W 194.875 195.875 1.000 21 11 league history same athlete swept the 1998 Away dual L 194.100 192.250 -1.850 22 8 • Alyssa Baumann – 1x SEC W 193.600 196.725 3.125 24 5 2018 floor -first team honors (with McMurtry also with SEC NCAA Reg W 192.150 197.075 4.925 25 4 1997 Away Tri. W 194.725 195.100 0.375 18 11 Gymnast and SEC Scholar-Athlete awards in Home dual W 193.000 194.500 1.500 SEC W 195.075 196.050 0.975 10 • Alicia Boren – 6x 2017). NCAA Reg W 192.875 195.750 2.875 23 10 1996 Away dual W 195.250 197.100 1.850 14 4 2018 vault -first team, all-around, floor – second  Gators swept SEC apparatus titles – Alyssa SEC W 195.250 195.650 0.400 11 5 2017 all-around, vault – second team NCAA Reg W 193.925 195.375 1.450 11 5 Baumann (beam), Alicia Boren (floor), Alex 1995 Home Tri. W 190.600 194.550 3.950 12 6 2016 beam – first team SEC W 191.975 195.650 3.675 16 6 McMurtry (vault, bars). They were joined on NCAA Reg W 192.000 195.700 3.700 17 6 1994 Away dual W 184.950 188.150 3.200 8 NCAA Reg W 190.825 192.500 1.675 18 7 • Rachel Gowey – 2x the All-SEC team by Rachel Gowey, Amelia SEC W 189.750 194.125 4.375 19 7 1993 Home Quad W 190.450 193.950 3.500 17 10 2018 beam – first team; bars - second Hundley and Rachel Slocum, SEC W 189.350 192.100 2.750 14 11 NCAA Reg W 190.800 194.300 3.500 15 12  Gators turned in national leading marks in 1992 Away tri W 188.000 189.500 1.500 • Amelia Hundley – 2x SEC W 185.950 189.600 3.650 three individual events: vault (10.0), beam NCAA Reg W 185.075 191.475 6.400 2018 bars – second team 1991 SEC W 186.000 191.300 5.300 (10.0) and floor (10.0.) 1990 Home dual W 182.200 188.250 6.050 2017 all-around – second team SEC W 186.300 188.000 1.700  Nine Gators earned SEC Academic Honor NCAA Reg W 188.825 190.425 1.600 1989 Away W 180.650 186.650 6.000 Roll status. SEC W 182.650 191.500 8.850 NCAA Reg W 182.800 191.050 8.250  Finished the season ranked fifth in the nation 1988 Home W 178.750 186.150 7.400 SEC W 183.400 188.850 5.450 Project Gator Leo with a school-record attendance average of NCAA Reg W 183.450 189.100 5.650 1987 Away W 178.450 181.750 3.300 Using terminology familiar to fans of Bravo 8,304. SEC W 180.950 185.650 4.700 NCAA Reg W 180.050 187.900 7.850 Network’s "Project Runway", the Gators are "In."  Gymnastics recorded a team cumulative 1986 SEC W 175.950 184.100 8.150 NCAA Reg W 180.400 185.400 5.000 Team members designed three of the leotards the grade point average of 3.58 in fall of 2017 1985 SEC W 173.450 185.650 12.200 NCAA Reg W 167.500 186.450 18.950 Gators will wear this season. and 3.53 in spring of 2018. 1984 SEC W 165.350 184.150 18.800 1983 SEC W 170.500 181.950 11.450 1982 SEC W 135.000 145.600 10.600 1981 SEC W 125.250 139.900 14.650 1980 Home W 118.900 136.950 18.050

Gator Gymnastics Meet Notes

FLORIDA QUICK HITS 2019 GATOR GYMNASTICS ►Florida opened at No. 3 on the 2019 Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) preseason poll. Florida’s been among the nation’s SCHEDULE preseason top five every season since 2007. Date Opponent (Television) Result or Time 1/11 Missouri (SEC Network) W, 197.30 – 196.45 ►Florida returns four gymnasts with 11 All-America honors earned in NCAA 1/18 Louisiana State (SEC Network) W, 197.50 – 197.425 Championships competition. The four earned seven All-America honors in 1/25 Kentucky (SEC Network) 5:45 p.m. 2018 NCAA competition – senior Alicia Boren (all-around, vault, floor), 2/1 Oklahoma 7:45 p.m. juniors Rachel Gowey (bars, beam) and Amelia Hundley (bars) and Gators Link to Pink versus Auburn 2/8 (SEC Network) 6:45 p.m. sophomore Alyssa Baumann (floor) earned 2018 All-America honors. 2/15 Alabama (SEC Network) 8:30 p.m.

2/22 Georgia (SEC Network) ►Eight Gators have been a part of their national teams, including six for the 6:45 p.m. U.S. Two incoming freshmen – Trinity Thomas (2016-17, 2017-18, 2018- 3/1 Arkansas (SEC Network +) 8 p.m. 19) and Sydney Johnson-Scharpf (2015-16) j