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The Florida Gators women's gymnastics team represents the University of Florida in the sport of gymnastics. The team competes in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Gators host their home matches in the O'Connell Center on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus, and are currently led by head coach Jenny Rowland. In the forty-year history of the Gators women's gymnastics program, the team has won nine SEC championships, and four national championships, including the 1982 AIAW national tournament, and the 2013, 2014 and 2015 NCAA national tournaments. == 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 by winning the 1982 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) championship (the AIAW was the governing body for women's college sports from 1971 to 1982). Since the NCAA assumed sponsorship for women's sports championships in 1982, Florida has advanced to the NCAA national championship tournament (top twelve teams nationally) thirty times, and has only failed to qualify for the national championship once since 1982. The Gators have advanced to the "Super Six" finals of the NCAA championship nineteen times. Florida has placed second in the NCAA national championship tournament twice, finishing as the runner-up in 1998 and 2012,〔Pat Dooley, "( Top 25 Gator teams: #24 1998 Gymnastics )," ''Gainesville Sun'' (June 1, 2009). Retrieved August 8, 2009.〕〔Laura Owens, "( UF gymnastics finishes second at NCAAs )," ''The Gainesville Sun'' (April 21, 2012). Retrieved May 14, 2012.〕 and won back-to-back-to-back NCAA championships in 2013, 2014 and 2015.〔"(National Champions: Gators Claim Program's First NCAA Gymnastics Title )," GatorZone.com (April 20, 2013). Retrieved April 20, 2013.〕 Ernestine Weaver was the head coach of the Gators gymnastics program from 1980 to 1992, and she was responsible for much of the team's early success in AIAW, NCAA and SEC competition. Under Weaver, the Gators won five SEC tournament championships, won the AIAW national championship in 1982, and appeared in thirteen consecutive NCAA national championship tournaments; Gators gymnasts won five AIAW and NCAA individual national championships. Judi Markell succeeded Weaver as head coach in 1993, and her teams qualified for nine NCAA national championship tournaments in ten seasons, including three Super Six appearances, and a second-place finish in 1998; Markell's Gators won three NCAA individual national championships. The Gators have been coached by Rhonda Faehn since 2003, and have won four SEC tournament championships, and appeared in the NCAA national championship tournament thirteen consecutive times under Faehn, including ten Super Six appearances, a NCAA national runner-up performance in 2012, and three straight national championships from 2013-2015. The 2014 NCAA championship team also scored the highest total ever at an NCAA championship with a 198.175.〔 Faehn's Gators have won nine NCAA individual national championships. Marissa King won the vault title in 2011, Kytra Hunter won the all-around and vault title in 2012 and the all-around and floor titles in 2015, Alaina Johnson won the uneven bars title in 2013, and Bridget Sloan won the all-around and balance beam titles in 2013 and the uneven bars title in 2014. After Faehn's resignation following the 2015 national championship florida hired Auburn assistant Jenny Rowland to be the new head coach. The Gators' major national rivals include the Georgia Gym Dogs of the University of Georgia and the Alabama Crimson Tide women's gymnastics team of the University of Alabama. Both Alabama and Georgia are fellow SEC members. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Florida Gators women's gymnastics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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