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Coach Rhonda Faehn talks to freshman Bridget Sloan before her performance on beam during Florida’s 197.3-194.625 victory against Missouri on Jan. 18 in the O’Connell Center.

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UF gymnastics preparing for unknown in season opener

By GRAHAM HACK | Jan. 8, 2015

The wait is almost over.

Kytra Hunter performs a floor routine during Florida's win against LSU on Feb. 21 in the O'Connell Center.

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Florida gymnastics ready for pressure of defending title, tough schedule

By GRAHAM HACK | Jan. 6, 2015

Being the two-time defending national champions brings pressure.

Bridget Sloan performs a flip on the balance beam during Florida’s win against Kentucky on Feb. 22, 2013, in the O’Connell Center.

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Eyeing the three-peat: Previewing the 2015 Florida gymnastics season

By GRAHAM HACK | Jan. 1, 2015

Every team enters the season hoping to win a championship.

Bridget Sloan performs on the uneven bars during UF’s 198.125 - 197.625 win over LSU during on Feb. 21. Sloan was named the 2014 NCAA uneven bars champion during individual competition Sunday.

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Sloan wins uneven bars title on final day of NCAAs

By JORDAN MCPHERSON | Apr. 20, 2014

After No. 1 Florida earned a share of its second-straight national title on Saturday, Bridget Sloan won a title of her own.

Kytra Hunter performs a balance beam routine during Florida’s 198.125-197.625 win against LSU on Feb. 21 in the O’Connell Center. Hunter and the Gators begin competing at the NCAA Championships on April 18.

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Hunter competed at regionals despite flu-like symptoms

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Apr. 10, 2014

Kytra Hunter battled more than nerves at the 2014 NCAA Regionals meet. The junior all-arounder competed through an illness she’d been fighting the week prior.

Bridget Sloan performs a beam routine during Florida’s 197.525-196.025 win against Arkansas on Feb. 14 in the O’Connell Center.

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Weekend off helping UF prior to title meets

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Apr. 7, 2014

The Gators are gearing up for the meet they’ve been waiting for all season: the 2014 NCAA Championship. With less than two weeks until Florida has to defend the title it claimed for the first time in 2013, coach Rhonda Faehn is looking for some key improvements.

Senior Alaina Johnson performs on the uneven bars during UF’s 198.125-197.625 win against LSU on Feb. 21.

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UF makes nationals despite falls

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Apr. 6, 2014

Florida may have fallen — but not too far.

Bridget Sloan performs on the balance beam during UF’s 198.125 - 197.625 win over LSU Feb. 21 in the O’Connell Center. Florida starts competing in the NCAA Regionals on Saturday in University Park, Penn.

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Florida to compete in NCAA Regionals

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Apr. 3, 2014

The Gators will be more rested than usual when they compete at the 2014 NCAA University Park Regional on Saturday.

Bridget Sloan performs a balance-beam routine during Florida’s 197.525-196.025 win against Arkansas on Feb. 14 in the O’Connell Center.

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Sloan, Gators focusing on team competition in postseason play

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Apr. 1, 2014

For Bridget Sloan and the rest of the Florida gymnasts, the time for individual goals is over.

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UF resting before NCAAs

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Mar. 31, 2014

A week off gave Florida gymnasts exactly what they need to regroup after an unexpected second-place finish at the 2014 Southeastern Conference Championship.

Kytra Hunter performs a balance beam routine during Florida’s 198.125-197.625 over LSU on Feb. 21. Hunter won the balance-beam title at the Southeastern Conference Championships, but the Gators finished in second — behind the Crimson Tide.

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Florida falls short of 10th Southeastern Conference title

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Mar. 23, 2014

After a record-breaking regular season, No. 1 Florida couldn’t clinch the 2014 Southeastern Conference Championship title.

Rachel Spicer performs a floor routine during Florida’s 197.525-196.025 win against Arkansas on Feb. 14 in the O’Connell Center.

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Florida ahead of championship team’s pace

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Mar. 17, 2014

Florida may have won its national championship in 2013, but the 2014 squad is far ahead of its predecessor.

Bridget Sloan performs a bar routine during Florida’s 198.125-197.625 win against LSU on Feb. 21 in the O’Connell Center.

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Sloan sets career high in Florida's regular-season finale

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Mar. 15, 2014

Bridget Sloan led the No. 3 Gators to finish their regular season on a high note—a season-high note.

Claire Boyce competes on the balance beam during UF’s win against LSU on Feb. 21 in the O’Connell Center.

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Boyce, Sloan hope to perform well in front of families

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Mar. 13, 2014

For tonight’s meet, the Gators travel to Columbia, Mo., for the first time since the Tigers joined the Southeastern Conference in 2012.

Alaina Johnson performs a beam routine during Florida’s win against Oklahoma on Jan. 31 in the O’Connell Center.

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Johnson breaks all around record, Hunter records fifth 10 of year

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Mar. 8, 2014

Alaina Johnson outdid herself in her final meet in the O’Connell Center on Friday.

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Florida solidifying postseason lineup against Alabama

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Feb. 27, 2014

For the first time this season, Florida will travel to Alabama, but if the Gators continue to succeed, tonight’s outing likely will not be the last.

Kytra Hunter performs a vault routine during Florida’s 197.525-196.025 win against Arkansas on Feb. 14 in the O’Connell Center.

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Hard work paying off for Hunter on vault

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Feb. 26, 2014

It may be the quickest event in a gymnastics meet, but vault is far from simple.

Kytra Hunter performs a floor routine during Florida’s 198.125-197.625 win against LSU on Feb. 21 in the O’Connell Center. Hunter landed six perfect scores (four on floor and two on vault) during the 2014 season.

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Hunter’s perfect score leads Florida to win over LSU

By EDEN OTERO | Feb. 23, 2014

There are two names on the Florida gymnastics roster that will send a crowd into a frenzy — Kytra Hunter and Bridget Sloan.

Bridget Sloan performs a floor routine during Florida’s 197.525-196.025 win against Arkansas on Feb. 14 in the O’Connell Center.

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Florida faces fellow perfectionists

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Feb. 20, 2014

No. 2 UF will take on an equal challenger in No. 3 LSU at the O’Connell Center tonight, but two Gators will have personal challenges out on the floor.

Kytra Hunter performs a floor routine during the NCAA Regionals on April 6, 2013, in the O’Connell Center.

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Hunter fights off flu to lead Gators to perfection

By ERICA A. HERNANDEZ | Feb. 14, 2014

Kytra Hunter pretty much summed it all up after Florida’s home win against Arkansas (197.525-196.025) on Valentines Day.