2018 Gymnastics Roster

Tim Casey
Erin Long

Grace McLaughlin

  • Position BB, FX
  • Height 5-2
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Allen, Texas
  • Club WOGA

Biography

 

Collegiate Bests:

 

 

Vault:

Bars:           


9.85

1-20/2-3-17

Beam:

9.90

2-24-17

Floor:


9.90

2-19-16/3-2-18

AA:

 

 

FLORIDA CAREER NOTES:
· 2015, 2017 & 2018 NACGC Scholastic Academic All-American
· 2016, 2017 & 2018 SEC Academic Honor Roll
· 2016, 2017 & 2018 UF President Service Award
· 2016 & 2017 Southeastern Conference Community Service Team
· 2015 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
 
AS A SENIOR (2018):
· Equaled collegiate floor exercise best of 9.90 to share third at Missouri
· Received UF Presidential Service Award for third-straight year. Recorded more than 660 community service hours during UF career
· Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll
· Received $5000 postgraduate scholarship as Florida’s nominee for SEC’s Brad Davis Community Service Award
· National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches (NACGC) Scholastic Academic All-American

AS A JUNIOR (2017):
· Turned in two collegiate-best marks at North Carolina – uneven bars (9.85/second) and balance beam (9.875/third)
· Bars performance at UNC was first appearance in lineup since 2016 opener
· Upped collegiate beam best three times in 2017, as opened home action versus Kentucky with a then best of 9.85 and was third versus Missouri with a 9.90
· Competed in every meet
· Named to SEC Community Service Team for second consecutive season
· Received UF President Service Award for second-straight year after recording 250-plus community service hours
· Received CommuniGator honor at team’s annual awards banquet
· Member of SEC Academic Honor Roll
· NACGC Scholastic Academic All-American.
 
AS A SOPHOMORE (2016):
· Set collegiate-best floor exercise mark (9.90) at Missouri
· Earned 9.80 on bars at Texas Women’s University
· Named to SEC Conference Community Service Team
· Fourth Gator ever to receive UF President Service Award after volunteering more than 225 community service hours in a year
· Member of SEC Academic Honor Roll.
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AS A FRESHMAN (2015):
· Turned in a balance beam mark of 9.775 at Arkansas in collegiate debut
· Earned a 9.80 in exhibition beam performance at Oklahoma
· Member of SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll and named to NACGC Scholastic All-America team.
 
PRIOR TO FLORIDA:
· U.S. Senior National team member in 2011-12 and a senior International Elite competitor
· Eighth on the uneven bars at the 2013 Secret U.S. Classic
· Took 13th in 2012 Visa Championships’ all-around
· .11th in 2012 Secret U.S. Classic all-around
· 10th in senior division all-around at the 2011 Visa Championships
· .2011 American Classic all-around champion - also second on beam, third on the uneven bars and the floor exercise, and tied fifth on vault
· Part of the U.S.’s 2011 Pan American Games gold-medal team which included current Gators Bridgette Caquatto and Bridget Sloan
· Third in 2009 Visa Championships’ junior division uneven bars competition
· Part of World Olympics Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) since age 10 and coached by Valeri Liukin and Nataliya Marakova
· Trained at Brandy Johnson’s Global Gymnastics in Orlando under coaches Kelly Pitzen and Brandy Johnson-Scharpf in 2014.
 
MAJOR:
Graduated cum laude in August 2018 with degree in Family, Youth and Community Sciences

Historical Player Information

  • 2015Freshman

    AA
    5'2"
  • 2016Sophomore

    AA
    5'2"
  • 2017Junior

    AA
    5'2"
  • 2018Senior

    BB, FX
    5'2"