Alex McMurtry is the Southeastern Conference's top gymnast AND scholar-athlete. McMurtry is the 2017 SEC Gymnast and Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Alex McMurtry is SEC Gymnast & Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Thursday, March 23, 2017 | Gymnastics
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The 2017 SEC all-around champion is second in league history to take both honors in a single season.
By: Mary Howard
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Last Saturday, she claimed her first collegiate all-around title at the Southeastern Conference Championships. Today, junior Alex McMurtry is the first Gator to be both the Southeastern Conference Gymnast and Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
She joins Rebekah Zaiser (2008) as Gator recipients of SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. In the 14-year history of the SEC Scholar-Athlete award, McMurtry is the second to claim both Gymnast and Scholar-Athlete in the same season and first since Alabama's Kayla Hoffman in 2011.
SEC GYMNAST OF THE YEAR SEC SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR Alex McMurtry - ALL-SEC TEAM
Southeastern Conference Championships' all-around champion and shared floor exercise title
Top-10 national rankings for the trio of events she primarily competed – No. 3 vault (9.95 RQS), No. 6 uneven bars (9.930) and No. T10 beam (9.925)
Four all-around performances in 2017, with first win coming with a collegiate-best 39.70 in the SEC Championships. That total ties for No. T11 in nation. Limits her all-around contributions to manage back pain.
One of two gymnasts in nation to post 10.0 marks in three events in 2017 – vault, bars and floor.
Leads UF with 16 event wins in 2017 (6 bars, 4 vault, 3 beam, 2 floor, 1 all-around)
SEC Gymnast of the Week after Missouri meet. Two-time SEC Specialist Gymnast of the Week (Jan. 24 and Feb. 10).
Has won a SEC event title each season of collegiate career
Owns a 4.0 grade point average in Applied Physiology & Kinesiology- Exercise Physiology
2016 Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America At-Large third team
Two-time National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women (NACGC) Scholastic All-American (2015, 2016)
Academic All-SEC in 2016 and SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll in 2015
A Gator has claimed the Southeastern Conference all-around title five of the last six years. Alex McMurtry's winning total of 39.70 is her collegiate best.
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In addition, Florida equaled the league high with five on the All-SEC team and a pair on the All-SEC Freshman team.
The All-SEC Team is comprised of the student-athletes with the top two event scores (including ties) in each session of the SEC Championships. The All-Freshman team is comprised of the freshmen student-athlete with the top score (including ties) on each event in each SEC Championships' session.
The six Gators on the 2017 All-SEC and/or SEC All-Freshman teams are:
Shared second in SEC Championships' vault competition (9.95)
First appearance on All-SEC team.
Second consecutive season earning all-conference honors. While with Eastern Michigan, earned 2016 All-Mid-American Conference first team honors after leading the league in nation's final regular-season national vault rankings
