1standTenFlorida – No. 2 Florida Use Road Best for Win at No. 18 Arkansas

No. 2 Florida Use Highway Finest for Win at No. 18 Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A few 10.0s by Florida’s Leanne Wong and season highs on a pair of occasions helped Florida take the win tonight at Arkansas. No. 2 Florida gymnastics was only a fraction off its season-high, claiming a 197.875 – 197.40 win at No. 18 in entrance of a file crowd of 11,031 on the Bud Walton Enviornment.

Florida’s 197.875 stands because the nation’s eighth-highest because the season’s enters its second month.

TONIGHT’S MEET Florida equaled the nation’s excessive uneven bars complete for the second time this season to open Friday’s competitors. Highlighting the lineup was Leanne Wong’s second 10.0 bars mark of the season. Three different Gators posted collegiate or season excessive bars marks Friday – Trinity Thomas (9.975), Kayla DiCello (9.925) and Victoria Nguyen (9.90).

Payton Richards led off Florida’s vault lineup with the night’s successful mark of 9.925 – a season finest for Richards. Thomas shared second at 9.9 with Arkansas’ Frankie Value.

Thomas anchored the Gators’ flooring set with a 9.95, sharing the occasion win with Arkansas’ Lauren Williams. Wong additionally posted a 9.90 and Rachel Baumann turned in a 9.875 for the second consecutive week.

Wong completed her night simply as she began it – with a ten.0. The sophomore closed her night together with her second good mark of 2023 on stability beam. DiCello additionally turned in her second collegiate better of the evening, with a 9.95 to take second total. Florida’s beam complete of 49.60 set the workforce season excessive on the occasion.

It was a Gator all-around sweep. Wong took her second consecutive all-around win and third of 2023 at 39.775. Thomas was second (39.70) and DiCello was third (39.475).

GATOR PERFORMANCE NOTES:

* Florida’s 197.875 is the workforce’s highway excessive of 2023.

* Leanne Wong is one in all three within the nation with a ten.0 on bars in 2023 and the primary with a number of UB good marks.

* That is the second meet of 2023 Wong turned in 10.0s for each bars and beam. She and Sunisa Lee of Auburn are the one two with a number of beam 10.0s in 2023.

* At the very least one 10.0 has been scored by a Gator in 4 of the 5 meets of 2023. Seven 10.0s from Wong (2 bars, 2 beam) and Thomas (1 every for vault, beam, flooring) leads all packages.

* Payton Richards picks up her third vault title of her profession – and first since 2020. Her 9.925 tonight is a season-high

* Thomas posted her second-consecutive close to good bars mark of 9.975. It’s the third time she’s earned the mark in her 5 2023 bars performances.

* Collegiate bests equaled or set tonight:

* Kayla DiCello – 9.925 (bars), beam (9.95)

* Leanne Wong – 10.0 (bars & beam)

RECORDS: Florida (7-0, 4-0 SEC), Arkansas (2-3, 1-3 SEC) THE SERIES: Florida leads 49-3.

Nationwide Rank: Florida – Florida is No. 2 within the Jan. 30 Highway to Nationals rankings Arkansas – The Gymbacks are No. 18

UP NEXT:

A Florida fan favourite is subsequent because the seventeenth Annual Gators Hyperlink to Pink versus Missouri is Friday within the Exactech Enviornment on the Stephen C. O’Connell Heart. No. 2 Florida at No. 18 Arkansas Ultimate Crew Totals Feb. 3, 2023

● Bud Walton Enviornment (11,031 – sellout) Crew Vault Bars Beam Ground Whole

Florida 49.400 49.625 49.600 49.250 197.875

Arkansas 49.275 49.300 49.350 49.475 197.400