3 NCAA Championships ● 11 SEC Championships ● 9 with 20 NCAA Individual Titles MEET INFORMATION MEET 2 COLUMBIA, MO. Date: Friday, Jan. 17 / 7 p.m. ET No. 2 Florida Gators No. 19 Missouri Site: Hearnes Center (13,611) Head Coach: Jenny Rowland Head Coach: Shannon Welker Television: SEC Network Career (5th season): 56-12 Career (1st season): 46-50 Video: SEC Network + At UF: same At MU: same Live Stats: FloridaGators.com Tickets: Adult - $8; Children/Seniors - $5 2020: 1-0 / 1-0 SEC 2020: 1-2 / 0-1 SEC Series History UF leads 25-1. Last meeting: UF was (all-time): second in 2019 SEC Championships (197.75) and Missouri was eighth (195.90). What’s Happening? Gator gymnastics makes its 2020 SEC Network Friday Night Heights debut at No. 19 Missouri. Florida combines its first road meet with its SEC road opener when its visits the Hearnes Center. GATOR SOCIAL Florida Gators Gymnastics This is Florida’s only Friday Night Heights appearance for January. The Jan. 24 meet versus No. 7 LSU Florida Gators airs live on ESPN2. The Gators close SEC regular-season action with three consecutive Friday Night @GatorsGym Heights appearances – at Auburn (Feb. 14), vs Alabama (Feb. 21) and at Georgia (Feb. 28). Courtney @FloridaGators Lyle and Lauren Sisler call the action for Friday’s action at Missouri. @JennyRowlandUF Florida matched the nation’s top 2020 opening total in its Jan. 10 197.35 – 194.40 win over Arkansas in gatorsgym front of an Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center crowd of 7,531. The total also set Florida’s floridagators all-time best for a season opener. Florida swept the top two spots for each apparatus, with sophomore Trinity Thomas taking titles for bars (9.925), beam (9.975) and floor (9.975) and earned her seventh collegiate all-around win with the nation’s No. 3 total (39.70) of this young season. Fellow sophomore Nya Reed equaled her collegiate best for both events competed – vault (9.875) and floor (9.925) – and won her Florida Communications Contact: first vault title. Thomas picked up her fourth career SEC Gymnast of the Week honor after the Arkansas Mary Howard meet. Phone: 352-375-4683 x6100 Email: [email protected] Florida Head Coach Jenny Rowland begins her fifth season with the Gators in 2020. In her first four seasons, the Gators won the 2016 Southeastern Conference Championships and the 2019 SEC regular- DID YOU KNOW? 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 Florida’s Top 10 Road Opener Scores years, including winning seven NCAA event titles (Bridget Sloan: 2016 all-around, uneven bars, balance Date UF Meet Result Meet beam; Alex McMurtry: 2017 all-around, uneven bars; 2018 vault; Alicia Boren: 2019 floor exercise). Score # 1/18/19 197.500 LSU W 2 Missouri opened 2020 by taking second with a 195.60 in its Jan. 4 home triangular. Morgan Porter took 1/8/17 197.100 NC State W 1 second in the season opener all-around with MU’s 2020 high of 39.20. A pair of Tigers claimed the first league weekly honors after their performances in the tri-meet – senior Aspen Tucker (Specialist of the 1/11/15 196.925 Ball State W 1 Week) and Helen Hu (Freshman of the Week).The Tigers lost last Friday in its SEC opener at No. 10 1/8/16 196.825 TWU W 1 Kentucky 196.525-195.50. Hu used a 9.95 to win her second consecutive beam title last Friday. 1/11/14 196.650 UCLA W 1 1/11/13 196.575 LSU L 2 The Gators missed advancing to the 2019 NCAA Championships after taking third in the NCAA Corvallis 1/11/03 196.575 Super Six 3rd 1 Regional final. It was the second time in the NCAA Championships’ 38-year history Florida didn’t advance Challenge 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 1/5/07 196.55 Super Six 1st 1 Championships, with Boren and then freshmen Savannah Schoenherr and Trinity Thomas earning All- Challenge America honors. 1/21/11 196.425 LSU W 3 1/6/12 196.025 NC State W 1 Florida returns six with 17 All-America honors - Alyssa Baumann, Rachel Gowey, Amelia Hundley, Savannah Schoenherr, Megan Skaggs and Trinity Thomas. Twenty Gators 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. (Oconee Gymnastics member, a collegiate All-American and was named a 2015 National Center) Collegiate Assistant of the Year. Megan Skaggs AA 5-3 JR Marietta, Ga. (Gymnastics Academy of Atlanta) Rowland is a Category 3 International Brevet level judge. She Halley Taylor AA 5-2 SO Tampa, Fla. (LaFleur’s Gymnastics Tampa) served on the judging panel for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 U.S. Trinity Thomas AA 5-3 SO York, Pa. (Prestige Gymnastics) Olympic Trials. Staff: Pronunciation Guide: In the fall of 2019, Rowland was appointed to the NCAA Women's Head Coach: Jenny Rowland Sierra Alexander – see-er-uh Gymnastics Committee. Her term runs through the 2023 season. Assistant Coaches: Adrian Burde & Owen Field Alyssa Baumann – Baugh-man Volunteer Coach: Jeremy Miranda Jazmyn Foberg – FOE-berg Assistant to the Head Coach: Brittany Arlington Amelia Hundley – Hund-lee Rowland’s Coaching Career: Managers: Tory Cohen & Rachel Slocum Sydney Johnson-Scharpf - shärpf At Florida: Athletic Trainer: Janet Taylor Nya Reed – nī-uh Florida reached the NCAA Super Six team final in each of Payton Richards - Peyton Rowland’s first three seasons with the Gators, taking fourth in 2016 Savannah Schoenherr – Shane-hair and third in 2017 & 2018. Rowland was named the 2016 Halley Taylor – hAE-lee (rhymes with valley) Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year after the Gators won that season’s team title. Florida won the 2019 SEC regular-season Jenny Rowland – ROE-lund title with a 6-1 record Adrian Burde - bur-DAY Gators won NCAA individual event titles in each of the last four Returning All-Americans: Six with 17 honors seasons. Bridget Sloan won the 2016 NCAA all-around and shared Alyssa Baumann 2019 – beam; 2018 – beam, floor that season’s uneven bars and balance beam titles. Alex McMurtry Rachel Gowey 2018 bars, beam (NCAA & regular season won the 2017 NCAA all-around champion and shared that season’s uneven bars crown. She finished her career by claiming a share of Amelia Hundley 2018 bars; 2017 all-around (NCAA & regular season), bars the 2018 vault title. In 2019, Alicia Boren claimed a share of the Savannah 2019 vault NCAA floor title. The Honda Award for gymnastics went to Sloan Schoenherr (2016) and McMurtry (2017), distinguishing them as the nation’s top collegiate gymnast. McMurtry was part of a rare double in 2017 and Megan Skaggs 2019 bars 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. In Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) All- Returning All-SEC: Five America regular-season awards, 11 Gators earned 41 honors since Alyssa Baumann 2019 beam@, floor 2016. 2018 beam@ At Auburn: Rachel Gowey 2019 beam@ Rowland came to Florida after spending five seasons at Auburn. 2018 uneven bars017 floor She joined the Auburn coaching staff as an assistant coach in Amelia Hundley 2018 vault, uneven bars October of 2010 and was elevated to associate head coach in 2017 uneven bars March of 2013.