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The Florida Gators Gymnastics team had their first home meet of the season Friday night against the Kentucky Wildcats. The home opener had the Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center packed with fans all in orange. There were 7,683 people in attendance. This was the 14th largest attendance …

On Tuesday afternoon at the Otis Hawkins Center in Gainesville, Mississippi State’s Scott Stricklin was introduced as the next athletic director for the University of Florida. Stricklin, the 14th athletic director in school history, is set to replace Jeremy Foley, who has been the AD for the Gators since 1992.  Stricklin had been the …

Today is the official start date of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 207 countries will be represented at this year’s Olympiad in 28 different sports. Sports taking the center stage this weekend are gymnastics and swimming. The USA women’s gymnastics team are defending Olympic champions and the London …

The Florida gymnastics team saw its back to back to back national title run come to an end this past weekend as Oklahoma won the 2016 national championship with the Gators finishing fourth.  . Florida’s score of 197.350 was good enough for fourth place behind Oklahoma (197.675), LSU (197.45) and Alabama (197.435), and ahead …

The Florida Gymnastics team is heading to the NCAA championships after winning the NCAA Minneapolis Regional, held Saturday at the University of Minnesota. The Gator gymnasts pulled out a score of 196.725 in front of a crowd of about 2,000 to receive their fifth-straight NCAA Regional title. The Gators now will move on …

The arena that served as a stage to two consecutive men’s basketball national championships, (’06, ’07) and three consecutive gymnastics national championships (’13, ’14, ’15) won’t house a show again until December 2016. Demolition and renovation of the 36 year-old O’Connell Center is finally underway. The $64.5 million project is …

All good things must come to an end. Following 13 seasons under the leadership of former Florida gymnastics head coach Rhonda Faehn, Faehn has moved on to become the Senior Vice President of USA Gymnastics. The Gators have moved on to new leader Jenny Rowland, but the program’s focus is …

It’s a top match up as the second ranked Florida Gators take on the top ranked Oklahoma Sooners in gymnastics Friday in Gainesville. The last time that these two teams met was at the NCAA Championship when the Sooners were runners-up to the title winning Gators. Florida beat Oklahoma by 0.2 with …