2025 Gator Gymnastics - National Title Contender

[ocalaman]

The season starts Friday, Jan. 10 with a Quad Meet at Exactech Arena on SEC+ at 6:45 PM. The pre-season #3 Gators host #11 Michigan State, #23 Nebraska and North Illinois. Florida suffered a couple of key injury losses to potential All Americans Kayla DiCello & Skye Blakely, who both suffered ruptured achilles' tendons during last summer's Olympic trials. But even with those devastating losses, the team has enough talent to still compete for SEC and NCAA titles. Here are links to their full schedule and roster:

2025 Gymnastics Schedule - Florida Gators

The official 2025 Gymnastics schedule for the Florida Gators Gators

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2025 Gymnastics Schedule - Florida Gators

The official 2025 Gymnastics schedule for the Florida Gators Gators

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[ocalaman]

New additions to the gymnastics team:

Four New Gator Gymnasts Sign with Florida - Florida Gators

Florida adds four gifted gymnasts in fall 2024 signing period.

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Florida Gymnastics Adds a 12x All-American Selena Harris to 2025 Roster - Florida Gators

Selena Harris, the 2024 Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year, joins the Gators for her junior year.

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Plus AA Riley McCusker rejoins the team after missing last season due to an injury.

 

[Countygator1]

Thanks for the update Ocala!!

 

[ocalaman]

Lowest team score in a couple of years, but still got the Quad win.

Preseason No. 3 Florida Gymnastics Opens with Quad Meet Win - Florida Gators

Florida used some national high individual marks toward its winning total of 196.675 in its season opening quad.

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[gatordad3]

I believe UF coach Jenny Rowland also appeared as a gymnast in the 1986 movie, American Anthem, with Mitch Gaylord and Janet Jones(Gretzky) as lead actor/actress, or did I read that wrong? Her maiden name is Ester.

 

[ocalaman]

We underperformed on the uneven bars and our best gymnasts, Leann Wong, scored 6th in both the florr and beam, thus we lost by .100 to defending national champs LSU at their place. This team still is one of the best in the nation and can win the national title.

No. 7 Florida Nipped by a Tenth at No. 2 LSU - Florida Gators

This is becoming a trend. LSU won 197.55 - 197.45 over Florida in the Southeastern Conference openers for both teams. It was the ninth of the last 27 UF-LSU meetings

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[ocalaman]

I think a major thing that hurt us last night was that this was only the Gators 2nd meet and our first meet was a Quad that didn't have another Top 10 team in it. We chose not to schedule a match for opening weekend 2 weeks ago. Meanwhile, LSU opened with Iowa State and then competed in a Quad meet that included #1 Oklahoma, #4 Utah and #6 California. They were just a little sharper than Florida, although talent-wised, we're pretty even. College gymnastics is fun to watch, though, although understanding the complicated scoring is beyond my comprehension. And this year the NCAA has imposed even tight scoring criteria that is lowering scores across the board.

 

[ocalaman]

UF Gymnastics is the first team in the nation to score over 198.00 this year. Awesome performance in demolishing #13 Georgia.
https://floridagators.com/news/2025...t-nations-high-in-win-over-no-13-georgia.aspx

 

[ocalaman]

#2 Gators win a tri-meet in Morgantowen, WV this afternoon. They weren't great, but good enough. Leanne Wong won the All-Around with her best meet of the year and Grad Transfer Selena-Harris Miranda continues to be our consistent star.

No. 2 Gators Take Groundhog Day Tri-Meet over No. 4 Utah & WVU - Florida Gators

No. 2 Florida won Sunday's tri-meet in Morgantown, W.Va., at 197.575. No. 4 Utah was second (197.425) followed by West Virginia (195.475).

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[ocalaman]

The #2 Gators went to Arkansas Friday night to take on #15 Arkansas and were cruising with a big lead of .650 going to the final routine. Arkansas was solid on the floor, not great, and Florida came into the meet as the #1 beam team in the nation. But the Gators totally collapsed and lost the match by .625. That's a gigantic turnaround in 1 routine that almost NEVER happens. But They had 2 girls fall off the beam and 3 others with bad wobbles, causing them to have to count 1 fall score and 3 more under 9.8. In fact their highest score on the beam was 9.80, which is totally unlike Gator gymnastics, who usually has 3 or more score on all event 9.90 or better. One of our most consistent performers, Sloane Blakely, missed the match probably due to illness that has been going through the team. But we are so deep and talented, to score that low in any routine hasn't happened in many years. Anyway, here's the article.

No. 2 Florida Gymnastics Drops Meet at No. 15 Arkansas - Florida Gators

No. 2 Florida lost 197.175 - 196.55 at No. 15 Arkansas Friday evening.

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[gatordad3]

I can only see they got screwed by the judges. Eff Arky!

 

[LizardGrad89]

The #2 Gators went to Arkansas Friday night to take on #15 Arkansas and were cruising with a big lead of .650 going to the final routine. Arkansas was solid on the floor, not great, and Florida came into the meet as the #1 beam team in the nation. But the Gators totally collapsed and lost the match by .625. That's a gigantic turnaround in 1 routine that almost NEVER happens. But They had 2 girls fall off the beam and 3 others with bad wobbles, causing them to have to count 1 fall score and 3 more under 9.8. In fact their highest score on the beam was 9.80, which is totally unlike Gator gymnastics, who usually has 3 or more score on all event 9.90 or better. One of our most consistent performers, Sloane Blakely, missed the match probably due to illness that has been going through the team. But we are so deep and talented, to score that low in any routine hasn't happened in many years. Anyway, here's the article.

No. 2 Florida Gymnastics Drops Meet at No. 15 Arkansas - Florida Gators

No. 2 Florida lost 197.175 - 196.55 at No. 15 Arkansas Friday evening.

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Meh. If we are going to have a mental fart, now is the time. Sharp is for the post-season.

 

[ocalaman]

I can only see they got screwed by the judges. Eff Arky!

When you lose by .550 that's a big, humiliating loss. Judges don;t cause that type of discrepancy. Arkansas did not score great. Their score was good, but ours was horrible. I watched the match and the judges did fine. We totally fell apart on our last rotation, fell off the beam twice and wobbled badly on 3 others. You can't come back from that.

 

[ocalaman]

Meh. If we are going to have a mental fart, now is the time. Sharp is for the post-season.

I agree. However, my top priority is like Steve Spurrier's when he was HBC. Win the SEC title first and the national rankings take care of themselves. I think we've won 3 straight regular season SEC titles in gymnastics and with 2 losses our chances of repeating are very slim now. We still have a good enough team to win the national championship, but I like getting the SEC championship as well.