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Begin forwarded message: > From: Shane Ford <[email protected]> > Date: January 16, 2016 at 9:00:48 AM CST > To: GatorNews <[email protected]> > Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: Florida gymnastics overwhelms UCLA in home opener > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Florida gymnastics overwhelms UCLA in home opener > > > Florida gymnast Alicia Boren is congratulated by head coach Jenny Rowland > after she completed her routine on the bars. > Matt Stamey/Staff photographer > By Pat Dooley > Gainesville SUN Staff writer > Published: Friday, January 15, 2016 at 9:33 p.m. > Last Modified: Friday, January 15, 2016 at 9:33 p.m. > A gymnastics season is a climb. You build and build and hope to peak at the > NCAA Championships. > > Photo Galleries > > UF Gymnastics beats UCLA > And for the Florida gymnastics team, there may not have been any perfect > scores Friday night but it was a perfect second step in the season. > > The third-ranked Gators improved from their opening meet on every apparatus > as they overwhelmed No. 5 UCLA 197.675-196.925. > > “The better we get each meet, the better we'll be in postseason,” said senior > Bridget Sloan. “That's exactly how it's supposed to be. We're definitely on > track for good things in the future. > > “You peak at the right time. We're exactly where we want to be.” > > For Sloan, that was on the floor exercise at home for the first time in two > years. She suffered a severe ankle injury in last year's opener at Ball State > and didn't compete on the floor until regionals. > > “It felt good to get back out there,” she said. > > Sloan won the all-around title -- the 20th of her career -- for UF with a > score of 39.65. She narrowly missed a perfect score on the bars with a 9.975 > as a crowd of 6,511 chanted for a “10”. > > The All-American had plenty of support. Sophomore Kennedy Baker and freshman > Alicia Boren each scored 39.575 in the all-around. For Boren, it was her > first meet as a Gator at the O'Connell Center. > > “The experience was amazing,” Boren said. “They tried to prepare us for it, > but they told us you have to go through it.” > > The freshman is part of a class ranked No. 2 in the nation and while Boren > can't replace a multiple All-American in the graduated Kytra Hunter, she's > doing her best. > > “It kind of reminded me of a past Dynamic Duo I used to be a part of,” Sloan > said. > > The meet was also the first home meet for new coach Jenny Rowland, who was > given advance notice about what to expect in the O'Connell Center. > > “The team told me there is no place like competing in the O-Dome,” she said. > “And they are absolutely right.” > > Rowland's biggest thrill of the night, she said, was getting Boren to smile > during her floor routine. Imagine being a freshman who has joined a team that > has won three straight national titles. > > “Most of the athletes on this team were her idols,” Rowland said. “She's so > serious. She hasn't learned yet to have fun on the competition floor. Maybe > that started tonight.” > > Baker and Alex McMurtry tied for the win on the vault, Sloan won the bars, > Baker the floor and UCLA's Danusia Francis won the beam. UCLA was competing > without head coach Valerie Kondos Field, who was not with the team because of > a family emergency. > > If the Gators were feeling the effects of new gymnasts and a new coach, it > certainly didn't show. > > “We still have work to do,” Rowland said. “We will always have work to do.” > > Contact Pat Dooley at 352-374-5053 or at [email protected]. And follow at > Twitter.com/Pat_Dooley. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent From Shane's iPhone > Go Gators! & Skål Vikes! > ALPCA #8756 > Europlate #1045 > -- > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 > National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 > National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GatorNews" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GatorTalk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
