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Gym Dogs Set For NCAA Regional ATHENS, Ga. ----- Fifth-ranked Georgia will compete in the NCAA Columbia Regional Saturday at 7 p.m. ET. The Gym Dogs and five other teams will square off at the Hearnes Center on the University of Missouri campus. The top two teams along with the top two teams from the other five regionals will advance to the NCAA Championships in Gainesville, Fla., April 22-24. Joining the Gym Dogs in Columbia will be No. 8 Oregon State, No. 15 Missouri, No. 25 Minnesota, Iowa and North Carolina. Georgia will open the meet with a bye followed by floor, vault, bye, bars and beam. It is the same rotation the Gym Dogs had at the SEC Championship on March 27. Quick Hits -Georgia has been one of the nation’s most successful teams in the NCAA Regionals with a total of 21 titles including 11 in the last 12 years. -Georgia finished second at the NCAA Gainesville Regional in 2005. Then, the top 12 teams in all regionals combined advanced to the NCAA Championships. The Gym Dogs finished 12th, barely advancing to the NCAAs, but went on the win the first of five straight national championships. -Georgia has advanced to the NCAA Championships in each of the last 26 seasons. -The Gym Dogs own the highest overall team score in the SEC this season by a wide margin, a 197.900 against UCLA on March 6. That is second in the country, only to Oklahoma’s 197.950 against Alabama on March 5. -Georgia also boasts the highest team balance beam mark, a 49.550 in the win against UCLA. On floor exercise, the Gym Dogs’ 49.575 against the Bruins is tops in the league while the 49.550 against NC State in second. -Individually, a Georgia gymnast has posted the SEC’s high mark on each event this season: Grace Taylor posted the only perfect 10 by an SEC gymnast (vs. UCLA), Kat Ding has the high score on bars (9.975 vs. Kentucky) and is tied for the best vault score (9.975 vs. UCLA), while Courtney McCool is tied for first on floor (9.975 vs. NC State). -The 2010 senior class has lead Georgia to a 104-12-1 record over the last four years. -The home team was 11-0 in Georgia’s 11 regular season meets this year. -Courtney McCool has 13 event titles to lead the Gym Dogs this season including eight on floor, four on beam and one on bars. Kat Ding is second with 11 (eight on bars and three on vault), while Grace Taylor has seven (all on beam). McCool has finished either first (seven times) or second (five times) on floor exercise in every meet this year. Rankings Georgia is ranked No. 5 nationally with a 196.895 RQS. The Gym Dogs have been ranked in the top five in each of the last six editions of the GymInfo Top 25. In the team event rankings, Georgia is 10th on vault (49.235), fourth on bars (49.245), second on balance beam (49.300) and sixth on floor (49.290). Individually, Georgia has three gymnasts ranked in the top-25 of four events: Courtney McCool is tied for third nationally on floor (9.930), tied for 13th on balance beam (9.885) and tied for 21st on bars (9.870); Grace Taylor is tied for fourth on beam with a 9.920 RQS, while Kat Ding is tied for fourth on bars (9.915) and tied for 18th on vault (9.895). Oregon State is ranked No. 8 with a 196.545 RQS, while Missouri is No. 15 (196.085) and Minnesota is No. 25 (195.160). Last Time Out Fifth-ranked Georgia finished third at the SEC Gymnastics Championship held at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. Florida claimed the SEC title with a 197.050 followed by Alabama with a 196.875 and Georgia with a 196.825. LSU finished fourth ahead of Auburn, Arkansas and Kentucky. Three Georgia gymnasts claimed event titles while another finished second: The Gym Dogs’ Courtney McCool won the floor title with a 9.950, Kat Ding won the bars title with a 9.925 and Hilary Mauro tied for first on vault with a 9.900. Grace Taylor was runner-up on the balance beam. Georgia had a .325 lead halfway through the meet, but Florida sealed the win with a 49.400 on floor in the last rotation while Georgia scored a 49.225 on balance beam. Best Of The Best While Georgia did not win the SEC team championship this season, three Gym Dogs claimed SEC individual titles and two more were runners-up: Courtney McCool won the SEC floor title with a 9.950, Kat Ding won the SEC bars title with a 9.925 and Hilary Maruo tied for first on vault with a 9.900. Grace Taylor finished second on balance beam with a 9.925, and Marcia Newby was runner-up on the vault with a 9.875. Worley Out Of Action Georgia freshman standout Shayla Worley suffered an ankle sprain during the Gym Dogs’ win over LSU on Feb. 26 and missed the final three meets of the regular season in addition to the SEC Championship. The Orlando, Fla., native was twice named SEC Freshman of the Week. She scored a 39.500 in the all-around against Kentucky on Feb. 5, tied for the ninth-highest score of any SEC gymnast this season. She also posted a 9.950 on floor against the Wildcats, tied for third- best in the league so far. Highest Road Score In Three Years Georgia’s 197.150 at Florida on Feb. 19 was then the highest score by an SEC road team in a conference meet since 2007, and it was the sixth-highest score in the last five years; the highest is Georgia’s 197.425 at LSU in 2007. Alabama’s 197.225 at Kentucky on Feb. 26 was the highest score in an SEC road meet this season, and Georgia’s 197.150 in Gainesville was second. Grace’s 10 Senior Grace Taylor became the first gymnast in the country to record a perfect 10 on the balance beam in Georgia’s win over third-ranked UCLA on March 6. It was the 155th perfect 10 in Georgia’s history and the 10th on beam. For Taylor, it was her third career 10 and second on the balance beam. It is also the only 10 by an SEC gymnast so far this season. One For The Record Books Georgia and UCLA re-wrote the record books when the two teams met on March 6. The Gym Dogs edged the Bruins, 197.900-197.875, the smallest margin possible in college gymnastics. The combined total score of 395.775 is the highest in Georgia history and UCLA’s score is the highest ever by a Georgia opponent. SEC Weekly Honors Georgia gymnasts were honored five times by the Southeastern Conference this season. Courtney McCool was twice named SEC Gymnast of the Week while Shayla Worley was named SEC Freshman of the Week two times and Christa Tanella was named Freshman of the Week once. McCool earned the first weekly honor of the season after she scored a meet-high 9.925 on floor in Georgia’s final routine of the meet to help the Gym Dogs rally past No. 7 Stanford on Jan. 9. She also earned the honor Feb. 26 against LSU after she finished first on floor with a 9.950 and tied for first on bars and beam with a 9.875 and a 9.925, respectively. Worley was named SEC Freshman of the Week in two consecutive weeks. She won her first career all-around title with a 39.500 including season-high scores on beam (9.925) and floor (9.950) in addition to a 9.775 on vault and a 9.850 on bars vs. No. 11 Kentucky on Feb. 4. She claimed the all-around title the following week against Arkansas. Tanella earned freshman honors after claiming her first career event title with a 9.850 on beam in the regular season finale against NC State. National Attendance Leader Georgia led the country this year in average attendance - both home and away. A total of 108,719 fans watched the Gym Dogs’ 11 regular season meets this season - an average of 9,883 per meet. That is 1,000 more than second-place Alabama’s average of 8,508 per meet. Utah is third with 8,030 per meet. The Gym Dogs also led the country with 96.05 percent capacity in its six home meets this season. Three of Georgia’s meets have attracted more than 10,000 fans: 10,224 in the home opener against Stanford; 14,220 at Alabama on Jan. 15; and 15,552 at Utah on Jan. 22. The 15,552 fans at the Huntman Center in Salt Lake City is the largest crowd in the history of college women’s gymnastics. On Deck The top two teams in each regional advance to the NCAA Championships April 22-24 in Gainesville, Fla. Georgia has won a total of 10 NCAA titles including the last five.
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