Florida's Ashan?e Dickerson Picks Up Fourth SEC Freshman Gymnast of the Week
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | Gymnastics
University of Florida's Ashan?e Dickerson (Ah-ZHAH-nay) picked up her fourth Southeastern Conference Freshman Gymnast of the Week honor, the league office announced Tuesday. Seniors Courtney McCool of Georgia and Morgan Dennis of Alabama shared the SEC Gymnast of the Week honor.
Dickerson picked up her fifth all-around win of the season last Friday at No. 16 Auburn with her total of 39.35. She is the second Gator gymnast since 1990 to collect five or more all-around wins as a freshman (Corey Hartung earned six in 2006). Dickerson also won the evening's floor exercise title at 9.875 – her fourth floor title of the season.
Dickerson's 14 event wins leads the Gators this year and is the most since Hartung collected 10 event titles through the first eight meets of her premiere season. In the Gym Info national rankings, Dickerson holds three top-10 positions - No. 5 all-around (regional qualifying average: 39.395), No. T7 vault (9.90 RQS) and No. T5 floor (9.895 RQS).
Next up, No. 4 Florida begins a two-meet home stand by playing host to North Carolina and Ball State on Friday, March 5. The triangular is set to begin at 7 p.m. in the Stephen C. O'Connell Center. Look for a half price admission coupon for the triangular in Thursday's edition of the Gainesville Sun. The first 1,000 fans at Friday's meet receive a free cinch bag courtesy of Verizon. For a complete list of promotions for Friday's meet, please check out the gymnastics promotions page here. Want to follow the meet rotation by rotation? Sign up for Meet Tweets. Just visit http://twitter.com to join, then go to http://twitter.com/GatorZoneGym and start following.
| Did You Know… | ||
| Florida's Ashan?e Dickerson has been honored by the SEC five of the eight weeks of the 2010 season – four times as SEC Freshman of the Week and once as SEC Gymnast of the Week. | ||
| 2010 Southeastern Conference Honorees - Gymnastics | ||
| Week | SEC Gymnast of the Week | SEC Freshman of the Week |
| 1 | Courtney McCool - Georgia | Ashley Sledge - Alabama |
| 2 | Ricki Lebegern - Alabama | Ashan?e Dickerson - Florida |
| 3 | Morgan Dennis - Alabama | Ashan?e Dickerson - Florida |
| 4 | Allyson Sandusky - Auburn | Ashan?e Dickerson - Florida |
| 5 | Susan Jackson - LSU | Shayla Worley - Georgia |
| 6 | Geralen Stack-Eaton – Alabama | Shayla Worley - Georgia |
| 7 | Ashan?e Dickerson - Florida | Marissa King - Florida |
| 8 | Morgan Dennis - Alabama | Ashan?e Dickerson – Florida |
| Courtney McCool - Georgia | ||
