The Florida Gators women's gymnastics team represents the University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

 in the sport of gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics

Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics where gymnasts perform short routines on different apparatus, with less time for vaulting . The sport is governed by the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique , which designs the Code of Points and regulates all aspects of international elite...

. The team competes in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...

 (SEC). The Gators host their home matches in the O'Connell Center on the university's Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...

 campus, and are currently led by head coach Rhonda Faehn

Rhonda Faehn

Rhonda Faehn is an American college gymnastics coach and former college and elite gymnast. Faehn is the current head coach of the Florida Gators women's gymnastics team of the University of Florida...

. In the thirty-eight-year history of the Gators women's gymnastics program, the team has won seven SEC championships and the 1982 AIAW national tournament championship.

History

The University of Florida first fielded a women's varsity gymnastics team in the fall of 1973. Gymnastics was one of the first women's sports added at the University of Florida and achieved early success winning the 1982 AIAW Championship. Since the NCAA assumed sponsorship for women's sports championships in 1982, Florida has advanced to the National Championships (Top 12) fifteen times, and has advanced to the Super Six ten times. Florida's highest finish in NCAA competition was a runner-up (second place) finish in 1998.

The Gators are coached by Rhonda Faehn

Rhonda Faehn

Rhonda Faehn is an American college gymnastics coach and former college and elite gymnast. Faehn is the current head coach of the Florida Gators women's gymnastics team of the University of Florida...

 and finished fourth at the 2006 NCAA Championships.

Individual National Champions

The Florida Gators have produced six individual national collegiate championships, including Maria Anz (1984), Betsy Hamm (1998), Susan Hines (1997, 1998), Lynn McDonnell (1982) and Ann Woods (1982).

All-Americans

The Florida gymnastics program has produced thirty-seven All-American selections as of 2010.

• Ann Woods, 1980, 1981, 1982
• Lynn McDonnell, 1981, 1982
• Lana Marty, 1982
• Elfi Schlegel
  Elfi Schlegel
  Elfi Schlegel-Dunn is a sportscaster for NBC Sports and a former college and national champion gymnast from Canada.- Early years :...
  
  , 1983, 1984,1985
• Maria Anz, 1984
• Tammy Smith, 1985
• Melissa Miller, 1987, 1988, 1989
• Janice Kerr, 1988
• Pam Titus, 1989, 1990, 1991
• Tracy Wilson, 1990
• Christina McDonald, 1991
• Kristen Guise, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
• Colleen Johnson, 1993
• Lisa Panzironi, 1994
• Amy Myerson, 1994, 1995
• Sybil Stephenson, 1995, 1996, 1997
• Chrissy Vogel, 1995, 1996, 1997
• Susan Hines, 1996, 1997, 1998
• Chrissy Van Fleet, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000

• Betsy Hamm, 1998
• Kara Waterhouse, 2001
• Hilary Thompson, 2001, 2002
• Lindsey Miner, 2002, 2003
• Orley Szmuch, 2003, 2004
• Kristen Stucky, 2003
• Erinn Dooley, 2003, 2004, 2005
• Chantelle Tousek, 2004
• Orley Szmuch, 2004
• Katie Rue, 2004
• Samantha Lutz, 2004, 2006
• Breanne King, 2004
• Savannah Evans, 2004, 2006, 2007
• Erinn Dooley, 2004, 2005
• Tiffany Murry, 2006
• Corey Hartung, 2006, 2007, 2009
• Melanie Sinclair, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Ashley Reed, 2007, 2008
• Amanda Castillo, 2007, 2008
• Maranda Smith, 2009, 2010
• Alicia Goodwin, 2009, 2010
• Elizabeth Mahlich, 2009
• Marissa King
  Marissa King
  -Biography:Marissa Petra King is a British gymnast who represented Great Britain at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as well as the 2007 and 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Marissa is the daughter of a British Father and Thai mother and began gymnastics at age 8...
  
  , 2010
• Ashanee Dickerson, 2010

See also

• Florida Gators
  Florida Gators
  The Florida Gators are the intercollegiate sports teams that represent the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida. The "Lady Gators" is an alternative nickname sometimes used by the Gators women's teams...
  
  
• History of the University of Florida
  History of the University of Florida
  The history of the University of Florida is firmly tied to the history of public education in the state of Florida. The University of Florida, colloquially known as "Florida" or "UF," originated as several distinct institutions that were merged to create a single state-supported university by the...
  
  
• List of University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame members
• List of University of Florida Olympians
• University Athletic Association
  University of Florida Athletic Association
  The University Athletic Association, Inc. is a non-profit corporation that is responsible for maintaining the Florida Gators intercollegiate sports program of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida...
  
  

External links

• GatorSports.com – Florida Gators women's gymnastics news from The Gainesville Sun.
• GatorZone.com – Official webpage of the Florida Gators women's gymnastics team.