Women's Gymnastics
Main article: Florida Gators women's gymnasticsGymnastics was one of the first women's sports added at the University of Florida and achieved early success by winning the 1982 AIAW National Championship. Since the NCAA assumed sponsorship of the national gymnastics championships in 1982, Florida has earned invitations to the NCAA National Championships (top twelve teams nationally) fifteen times, and advanced to the NCAA "Super Six" ten times. Florida's highest finish in NCAA competition was a second-place national finish in 1998, and the team has only failed to qualify for the NCAA championships once in the past twenty-eight seasons.
The Gators have won a total of seven SEC gymnastics championships since 1982. The team's biggest SEC rivals are Alabama and Georgia, both of which are also perennial national contenders.
Rhonda Faehn has coached the Gators gymnastics team since 2003. Under Faehn, the Gator gymnasts have been nationally competitive and remarkably consistent—finishing seventh, fifth, seventh, fourth, third, fourth and fourth at the NCAA National Championships over the past eight seasons. Faehn's Gator gymnasts won their most recent SEC championship in 2010.
The Gators gymnastics team holds its home meets at the O'Connell Center.
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