The 2016 Honda Award nominees again include Bridget Sloan. She won the honor as the top collegiate gymnast as a freshman in 2013.
Florida’s Bridget Sloan is among final four for 2016 Honda Award
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 | Gymnastics
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – University of Florida senior Bridget Sloan is among the final four candidates for gymnastics' Honda Award. Sloan won the 2013 Honda Award after her freshman year. The Honda Award is given to the top collegiate female athlete in 12 different sports each season.
Sloan won her second NCAA all-around title last Friday at the NCAA Championships in Fort Worth, Texas. She also shared the NCAA uneven bars and balance beam titles. All three titles were the second of her career. Sloan's six wins makes her Florida's career leader for NCAA titles. That total is also No. 3 in the 35-year history of the NCAA Championships, trailing two past Honda Award winners – Courtney Kupets/Georgia (9 titles from 2006-09) and Jenny Hansen/Kentucky (8 titles from 1993-96).
Sloan also led the all-arounders in last Saturday's NCAA Super Six team final for the third time. She's been the top all-arounder in five of the eight NCAA Championships' (team semifinal and Super Six) competitions she's performed in.
Here's some more highlights from Sloan's 2016 season:
The CWSA presents the Honda Sports Award annually to top women student-athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports. Honda Sports award winners will be presented with the honor during on-campus presentations throughout the year and all Honda Sports award winners become a finalist for the prestigious 2016 Honda Cup award. The Cup is presented on a live televised broadcast from Los Angeles on June 27.
The Collegiate Women Sports Awards has honored the nation's top NCAA women athletes for 40 years, recognizing superior athletic skills, leadership, academic excellence and eagerness to participate in community service. Since commencing its sponsorship in 1986, Honda has provided more than $3 million in institutional grants to the universities of the award winners and nominees to support women's athletics programs at the institutions.
Three different Gator gymnasts have received the sport's Honda Award – Ann Woods (1982), Hunter (2012 & 2015) and Sloan (2013).
| 2016 Honda Award Nominees (Gymnastics) | |
| Lindsay Mable | Minnesota |
| Nina McGee | Denver |
| Elizabeth Price | Stanford |
| Bridget Sloan | Florida |
Sloan also led the all-arounders in last Saturday's NCAA Super Six team final for the third time. She's been the top all-arounder in five of the eight NCAA Championships' (team semifinal and Super Six) competitions she's performed in.
Here's some more highlights from Sloan's 2016 season:
- First Gator and only gymnast in 2016 to earn All-America first-team honors in each of the five events in NCAA Championships' competition. Now Florida's career leader with 16 All-America honors earned at NCAAs.
- Only gymnast in nation to earn All-America honors in each event of the NACGC regular-season awards (first team – all-around, bars, beam, floor; second team – vault).
- NACGC Southeast Region Gymnast of the Year.
- Six-time SEC Gymnast of the Week in 2016.
- Three 10.0s in 2016 [two beam & one floor]. Only gymnast in nation to earn multiple beam 10.0s
- Of the six gymnasts in the nation to post an all-around total of 39.70 or better in 2016, Sloan is only one with multiple appearances (39.775/twice; 39.70/once). Of the three to earn the nation's high of 39.775 in 2016, Sloan is only one to earn the total twice.
- Led Gators with 27 event titles (nine all-around, seven bars, five beam, four floor, two vault)
- Florida's career leader for:
- All-Around wins (27)
- Event titles (95)
- 10.0 marks (8)
The CWSA presents the Honda Sports Award annually to top women student-athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports. Honda Sports award winners will be presented with the honor during on-campus presentations throughout the year and all Honda Sports award winners become a finalist for the prestigious 2016 Honda Cup award. The Cup is presented on a live televised broadcast from Los Angeles on June 27.
The Collegiate Women Sports Awards has honored the nation's top NCAA women athletes for 40 years, recognizing superior athletic skills, leadership, academic excellence and eagerness to participate in community service. Since commencing its sponsorship in 1986, Honda has provided more than $3 million in institutional grants to the universities of the award winners and nominees to support women's athletics programs at the institutions.
Three different Gator gymnasts have received the sport's Honda Award – Ann Woods (1982), Hunter (2012 & 2015) and Sloan (2013).
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