Saturday, March 24
St. Louis, MO
7 PM
Florida Gators
vs
SEC Championships
Post-season action begins Saturday for the Gators at the Southeastern Conference Championships in St. Louis, Mo.
Gators Look for SEC Championship Saturday in St. Louis
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 | Gymnastics
Florida seeks its 11th SEC Championships' title this Saturday.
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— Gators Gymnastics (@GatorsGym) March 24, 2018
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida gymnastics looks for its 11th Southeastern Conference Championship Saturday in the Show-Me State. The SEC Gymnastics Championships makes its first appearance in St. Louis, Mo., in 2018.
The meet is set for Saturday at the Chaifetz Arena (SHAY-vitz) – the same site as next month's NCAA Championships. St. Louis is the SEC Championships' farthest north location in the meet's 38-year history.
Ticket Info:
2018 SEC Competition Schedule
Saturday, March 24 * Chaifetz Arena (St. Louis, Mo.)
| Start Evt | V | UB | BB | FX |
| 3 p.m. ET | Arkansas | Auburn | Georgia | Missouri |
| 7 p.m. ET | LSU | Florida | Alabama | Kentucky |
One ticket gains entrance to both sessions. Tickets range in price from $18 - $26 and can be purchased at TicketMaster
How to Follow the Gators:
Each of the 2018 SEC Gymnastics Championship sessions will be televised live.
Session I Live on SEC Network
Session II Live on ESPN2
Also airs tape-delayed:
March 25 ESPNU 10 a.m. ET
March 25 SEC Network 10 a.m. & 8 p.m. ET
March 27 SEC Network 11 p.m. ET
Olympic medalists Bart Connor and Kathy Johnson Clarke along with Gator grad Laura Rutledge call the action.
Look for a live video stream of each apparatus Saturday on WatchESPN.
About the SEC Championships:
The last SEC Championships held at a school site was in 2000 in Gainesville, Fla. Every league championships since has been held on a neutral site. This is the 12th consecutive year the SEC Championships is contested on podium.
With the addition of Missouri to the league in 2013, the format for the SEC Championships moved to two four-team sessions. Teams seeded No. 5-8 (based on March 19 regional qualifying scores) compete in Saturday's opening session at 3 p.m. ET followed by seeds 1-4 at 7 p.m. ET. Scores from the two sessions combine to determine the team and event champions. As the second seed in the evening session, Florida's rotation order will be bars-beam-floor-vault.
Quick Hits:
- Four of the nation's top-10 teams (No. 2 LSU, No. 5 Florida, No. 6 Alabama, No. 9 Kentucky) are among the eight-team SEC field.
- All of the nation's top 25 team totals of 2018 have come from five teams – UCLA, Florida, LSU Oklahoma and Utah.
- There is at least one SEC gymnast among the nation's top four on each event:
- Vault: No. T2 Alex McMurtry, Florida (9.945 regional qualifying score)
- Bars: No. T2 Alex McMurtry, Florida (9.955 RQS)
- Beam: No. 4 Sarah Finnegan, LSU (9.935 RQS)
- Floor: No. 1 Myia Hambrick, LSU (9.970 RQS)
- All-Around: No. 4 Sarah Finnegan, LSU (39.645 RQS)
- This is the first meet of 2018 on podium for Florida and Kentucky. The other six league teams competed on podium in regular-season action.
At the 2017 SEC Championships:
LSU won the 2017 SEC title over Florida, 198.075 – 197.825 in Jacksonville's Veterans Memorial Arena.
The last two SEC all-around titles went to a Gator – Kennedy Baker (2016/39.65) and Alex McMurtry (2017/39.70).
Florida's 10th SEC Championships' team title came in 2016 with a 197.775 - 197.75 win over Alabama in North Little Rock, Ark.
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