No. T-1 Gators at SEC Championship Meet Saturday

Saturday, March 20

Huntsville, AL

Florida Gators

SEC Championships

Nya Reed celebrates her floor routine with Gators

No. T-1 Florida looks to add the Southeastern Conference Championship meet title this Saturday in Huntsville, Ala. The Gators claimed their third consecutive SEC regular-season title last month.

No. T-1 Gators at SEC Championship Meet Saturday

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By: Mary Howard

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Top-ranked Florida looks to add another title this Saturday.

Florida claimed its third consecutive Southeastern Conference regular-season title last month. Now the Gators look to double their 2021 SEC hardware with a win Saturday at the 40^th edition of the SEC Championship meet.

The SEC Championships makes its first appearance in Huntsville, Ala.'s Von Braun Center. The Von Braun Center is the ninth venue to play host to the SEC Championship meet since the event moved to neutral sites starting in 2001. Each SEC Championship since 2006 has been contested on podium.

The SEC Championship meet is split in two four-team sessions. Teams seeded No. 5-8 (based on March 8 national qualifying scores) compete in Saturday's opening session at 3:30 p.m. ET followed by seeds 1-4 at 8 p.m. ET. Scores from the two sessions combine to determine the team and event champions. As the evening session's top seed, Florida has the Olympic rotation (vault--bars-beam-floor).

Start Event	V	UB	BB	FX
3:30 p.m. ET	Kentucky	Auburn	Georgia	Missouri
8 p.m. ET	Florida	LSU	Alabama	Arkansas

How to Follow the SEC Championship Action:
Follow the action live:

SEC Network - action called by Olympic medalists Bart Conner and Kathy Johnson-Clarke
SEC Network at 3:30 p.m. ET: Session I
Apparatus Live Feed: Vault Bars Beam Floor All-Around
Session I Scores
SEC Network at 8 p.m. ET: Session II
Apparatus Live Feed: Vault Bars Beam Floor All-Around
Session II Scores
Tickets: Sold out

SEC Championship Meet is Back!
The pandemic shut down the 2020 season just as league teams looked toward their final regular-season meets on March 13 or 14. The 2020 SEC Championship meet was set for March 21 in Duluth, Ga.

All SEC programs enter the 2021 SEC Championships among the nation's top 25 – No. T-1 Florida, No. 4 LSU, No. 8 Alabama, No. T- 9 Arkansas, No. 14 Kentucky, No. 15 Auburn, No. T-16 Georgia and No. 23 Missouri.

This is the 18^th time since 1987 that a league team enters the SEC Championship meet ranked No. 1. The No. 1 ranked team claimed 12 SEC Championship meet titles, with Florida being the last in 2012 and 2013.

The Gators in 2021:

Opened the season at No. 1 and maintained that position through Week 10.
Won its third consecutive Southeastern Conference regular season title (7-0). Second straight undefeated SEC record for UF since every league team started meeting in regular-season action in 1992.

Florida leads all programs with three 2021 scores among nation's top 10 – No. 1 (198.275), No. 3 (198.15), No. 10 (197.85).
Finished regular-season with top-four national qualifying averages (NQS) for every event: No. 1 beam (49.656), No. 1 floor (49.544), No. 2 overall (197.994), No. 2 bars (49.475), No. 4 vault (49.488)