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: Jenny Rowland 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 Bridget Sloan 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 Rachel Gowey’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, Trinity Thomas and Alyssa Baumann. Thomas shared the floor win for the UF-UK meet; Boost your sock with LSU’s Sarah Finnegan 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 Southeastern Conference 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, uneven bars, balance beam; Alex @JennyRowlandUF McMurtry: 2017 all-around, uneven bars; 2018 vault). 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 Amelia Hundley. 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) University of Florida’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 Megan Skaggs 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.