3 NCAA Championships ● 13 SEC Championships ● 9 with 20 NCAA Individual Titles MEET INFORMATION MEET 12 FORT WORTH, TEXAS Meet: NCAA Championships No. 1 seed Florida Gators NCAA Championships Date: Friday, April 16 – Semifinal Head Coach: Jenny Rowland NCAA Championship Meet Seed Semifinal 1 – 1 p.m. ET (California, Career: 83-14 / sixth season 1. Florida 5. California Florida, Michigan, Minnesota) At UF: same 2. Oklahoma 6 Utah 2021: 18-2 / 7-0 SEC 3. LSU 7. Alabama Semifinal II – 6 p.m. ET (Alabama, LSU, 4. Michigan 8. Minnesota Oklahoma, Utah) Saturday, April 17 - Team Final What’s Happening? 3:30 p.m. ET - Top two teams from each It’s been a goal the Gators spoke of throughout the 2021 season – to contend for the NCAA semifinal Championship. No. 1 seed Florida looks for the program’s fourth NCAA team title this weekend Site: Dickies Arena (physically distanced 2,000) when the NCAA Championships’ makes its debut in Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena. Television: Semifinals: Final: Florida advanced to the NCAA Championships 37 times in the meet's 39-year history, missing the Olympic medalists Bart Conner and Kathy 2000 and 2019 events. Florida moved from NCAA Championships semifinal competition to the Johnson-Clarke call the action NCAA team final 13 of the Gators’ last 16 national competition appearances (2004, 2006, 2007, Video: Semifinal I – ESPN2 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018). Florida won the 2013, 2014 (tie) and Semifinal II – ESPN2 2015 NCAA titles. Final – ABC Apparatus video stream available The four-team semifinals/final format is in play for the second time, making its debut in 2019. From Live Stats: FloridaGators.com 1993-2018, the NCAA Championships consisted of 12 advancing to the final site, with six advancing Tickets: Sold Out. to the NCAA Super Six team final. UF NCAA Gators making 37th NCAA Championships’ Championship appearance, winning 2013, 2014 and 2015 The top eight team seeds advanced to the NCAA Championships’ final site. 2014 was the first Meet History: NCAA team titles. season the seeding determined at the time of regional selections was maintained throughout the championships. This is the second time the seeds held through regional competition (also in GATOR SOCIAL 2015). Florida Gators Gymnastics Florida Gators Last Time Out: @GatorsGym Florida won the NCAA Athens Regional at 197.70 to claim the program’s 37th NCAA Championship @FloridaGators berth. The Gators moved from last after the opening rotation to take a narrow 0.075 lead heading @JennyRowlandUF into the final rotation. Florida’s 49.55 on floor exercise to close the meet led all Athens Regional final gatorsgym teams on all events to seal the Gators’ win. Junior Leah Clapper shared the evening’s balance floridagators beam title at 9.95. In NCAA Second Round action, Florida posted its third-highest total of 2021 (197.95) to advance to the final. Two event totals rank among the Gators top 10 – uneven bars 49.675 (No. T3) and Florida Communications Contact: balance beam 49.625 (No. T8). Junior Trinity Thomas posted her second uneven bars 10.0 of the Mary Howard season to win the event title. Senior Alyssa Baumann was nearly perfect on balance beam with her Phone: 352-375-4683 x6100 winning mark of 9.975. The floor exercise title was shared by junior Nya Reed, Denver’s Lynnzee Email: [email protected] Brown and Minnesota’s Ona Loper at 9.95. DID YOU KNOW? Junior Sydney Johnson-Scharpf ruptured her Achilles tendon during 30-second touch floor warm- Florida senior All-American Alyssa Baumann returns to her up for the regional final. She underwent surgery to repair the injury and looks to return to the Gator hometown for the 2021 NCAA Gymnastics Championships. lineup in 2022. She’s not the only NCAA competitor from the Lone Star State. 2021 Awards: The SEC Coach of the Year honor went to Florida’s Jenny Rowland for the second consecutive Each of the eight teams have at least one season. It is her third honor in her six season with the Gators, which is the most for a SEC competitor from Texas coach in their first six seasons. The Gators claimed their third consecutive SEC regular-season 15 of the 21 Texans at the NCAA Championships title in 2021, using a 7-0 record for the second straight campaign. are from Dallas area The Gators led the nation with seven collecting 13 Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) Regular-Season All-America honors. Thomas is the nation’s only gymnast to earn All- America honors in all five events. Picking up a pair of honors each were Baumann (beam, floor) and Skaggs (all-around, bars). Also collecting All-America honors were Clapper (beam), Lazzari (beam), Nya Reed (floor) and Savannah Schoenherr (vault). MEET COACH ROWLAND 2021 GATOR GYMNASTICS ROSTER Jenny Rowland, one of the nation’s rising coaching talents, is in her sixth season as NAME EVTS HT CL HOMETOWN (CLUB) University of Florida’s head gymnastics coach. Alyssa Baumann AA 5-1 SR Dallas, Texas (WOGA) Rowland is the seventh head coach for the Leah Clapper AA 4-11 JR Ann Arbor, Mich. (Gym America) Gator program, which is in its 49th season in Chloi Clark AA 5-2 FR Denver, Colo. (Colorado Gymnastics Inst.) 2021. Jazmyn Foberg AA 5-2 SR Bayville, N.J. (MG Elite) Gabrielle Gallentine AA 5-0 FR Iron Station, N.C. (Everest Gymnastics) Sydney Johnson-Scharpf V, BB, 4-11 JR Clermont, Fla. (Brandy Johnson's Global The 2021 Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year, Rowland FX Gymnastics) swept 2020 coaching awards – Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Ellie Lazzari AA 5-0 FR Wheaton, Ill. (Legacy Elite Gymnastics) Association (WCGA) National, Region 5 and SEC Coach of the Alex Magee AA 5-4 FR Orlando, Fla. (Orlando Metro) Nya Reed AA 5-3 JR Landover, Md. (Capital Gymnastics NTC) Year. She also shared the 2016 SEC Coach of the Year honor with Payton Richards AA 5-1 SO Mokena, Ill. (Aerials Gymnastics) Arkansas’ Mark Cook. Savannah Schoenherr AA 5-3 JR Columbus, Ga. (Georgia Elite) Rowland’s experiences from the sport’s highest level are the same Megan Skaggs AA 5-3 SR Marietta, Ga. (Gymnastics Academy of as many current Gators. She is a former U.S. National Team Atlanta) member, a collegiate All-American and was named a 2015 National Halley Taylor AA 5-2 JR Tampa, Fla. (LaFleur’s Gymnastics Tampa) Trinity Thomas AA 5-3 JR York, Pa. (Prestige Gymnastics) Collegiate Assistant of the Year. Rowland is a Category 3 International Brevet level judge. She Staff: Pronunciation Guide: served on the judging panel for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 U.S. Head Coach: Jenny Rowland Alyssa Baumann – Baugh-man Olympic Trials. Assistant Coaches: Adrian Burde & Owen Field Chloi Clark – KLO-ee Volunteer Coach: Jeremy Miranda Jazmyn Foberg – FOE-berg In the fall of 2019, Rowland was appointed to the NCAA Women's Assistant to the Head Coach: Brittany Arlington Gabrielle GALLENTINE – rhymes with Valentine Gymnastics Committee. Her term runs through the 2023 season. Managers: Natalie Hoffman & Shea Wheeler Sydney Johnson-SCHARPF - shärpf Athletic Trainer: Janet Taylor Ellie LAZZARI – La-zar-ee Rowland’s Coaching Career: NYA Reed – nī-uh Payton Richards - Peyton At Florida: Savannah SCHOENHERR – Shane-hair Florida reached the NCAA Super Six team final in each of Halley Taylor – hAE-lee (rhymes with valley) Rowland’s first three seasons with the Gators, taking fourth in 2016 and third in 2017 & 2018. Rowland swept all coaching awards in Jenny Rowland – ROE-lund 2020 (national, region & SEC) after the Gators finished at No. 2 with Adrian Burde - bur-DAY a 10-0 record in the pandemic shortened season and repeated as All-Americans: Seven with 31 honors SEC Coach of the Year in 2021. She claimed her first SEC Coach Alyssa Baumann 2021 – beam, floor; 2020 – beam, floor; 2019 – beam; 2018 – of the Year honor in 2016 when the Gators won the SEC beam, floor Championship meet. Florida won the last three SEC regular-season titles – 2019 (6-1 record), 2020 and 2021 (7-0). Leah Clapper 2021 - beam Ellie Lazzari 2021 - beam Gators won NCAA individual event titles in each of the last four Nya Reed 2021 - floor NCAA Championships. Bridget Sloan won the 2016 NCAA all- around and shared that season’s uneven bars and balance beam Savannah 2021 – vault; 2020 – bars; 2019 vault (NCAA) titles. Alex McMurtry won the 2017 NCAA all-around champion and Schoenherr shared that season’s uneven bars crown. She finished her career by Megan Skaggs 2021 – all-around, bars; 2019 bars claiming a share of the 2018 vault title. In 2019, Alicia Boren claimed a share of the NCAA floor title. The Honda Award for Trinity Thomas 2021 - – all-around, vault, bars, beam, floor; 2020 – all-around, gymnastics went to Sloan (2016) and McMurtry (2017), vault, bars, beam, floor; 2019 all-around, bars, floor (NCAA & distinguishing them as the nation’s top collegiate gymnast. regular season), beam McMurtry was part of a rare double in 2017 and 2018, claiming both the SEC Gymnast (2017)/SEC Event Specialist (2018) and the SEC Scholar-Athlete awards. Trinity Thomas received the 2020 SEC All-SEC: Six Gymnast of the Year award. Alyssa Baumann 2021 beam@ 2019 beam@, floor In WCGA All-America regular-season awards, 15 Gators earned 63 2018 beam@ honors since 2016. Leah Clapper 2021 beam At Auburn: Ellie Lazzari 2021 beam@ Rowland came to Florida after spending five seasons at Auburn. She joined the Auburn coaching staff as an assistant coach in Savannah 2020 bars Schoenherr October of 2010 and was elevated to associate head coach in March of 2013.