
2015 NCAA Champion Gators Receive Rings Friday
Saturday, September 26, 2015 | Gymnastics
Florida celebrated its third consecutive NCAA Championship Friday evening with a team dinner in the G. Edwards Evans Champions Club level of the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Each member of the team received rings for the Gators' 2015 NCAA Championship.
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· Gymnastics joins men's indoor track & field (2010, 2011, 2012) as the only Gator teams to win three consecutive NCAA titles.
· Florida is the first team to win its first three NCAA Championships in consecutive years since Utah claimed the first five NCAA titles (1982-86). Six teams have claimed national gymnastics team titles. – Alabama, UCLA, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Utah. That is the fewest number of different teams to claim the national crown among the 13 sports challenging for national titles since the NCAA began fielding women's championships in the 1981-82 season.
· Florida topped the GymInfo preseason poll in 2014 and 2015. The last team to win the NCAA title after starting No. 1 on the preseason poll was Georgia in 2009.