Seven Gators earn WCGA Regular-Season All-America honors
Florida led the nation in 2021 with seven earning 13 All-America honors
Mary Howard
3/25/2021
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Florida led the nation with seven earning 2021 Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) regular-season All-America honors. This is the ninth year the WCGA has recognized regular-season All-Americans.
Final national qualifying scores (NQS) in the Road to Nationals rankings determines the WCGA All-Americans. The top eight gymnasts on each event and the all-around receive first-team honors and gymnasts Nos. 9-16 receive second-team honors with all ties included.
The seven Gators tallied a national high 13 WCGA All-America honors.
Gators Earning 2021 WCGA All-America Regular Season Honors
| Name | AA | V | UB | BB | FX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alyssa Baumann | 2nd | 2nd | |||
| Leah Clapper | 1st | ||||
| Ellie Lazzari | 1st | ||||
| Nya Reed | 2nd | ||||
| Savannah Schoenherr | 2nd | ||||
| Megan Skaggs | 2nd | 2nd | |||
| Trinity Thomas | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st |
Alyssa Baumann – Senior
2021 All-America honors:
- Second Team: Balance Beam
- Second Team: Floor Exercise
- Claimed third Southeastern Conference balance beam title to become the first in the 40-year history of the SEC Championship meet to claim three balance beam titles.
- Equaled collegiate floor best of 9.975 to share event title at Alabama
- 2021 All-SEC
- Six consecutive floor marks of 9.90 or better
- Six beam marks of 9.925 or better
Leah Clapper – Junior
2021 All-America honors:
- First Team: Balance Beam
- 10.0 balance beam routine won title versus Kentucky. Sixth gymnast in Florida gymnastics’ 49-season history to earn a perfect beam mark
- Followed that performance with a near perfect 9.975 to share beam win versus Auburn (Feb. 26)
- 2021 All-SEC
- Five 2021 beam routines scored 9.90 or better
Ellie Lazzari – Freshman
2021 All-America honors:
- First Team: Balance Beam
- Shared SEC balance beam title at 9.95. First freshman to claim title since Baumann in 2018.
- Set collegiate best with a near perfect 9.975 to share beam win versus Auburn (Feb. 26)
- Only freshman to earn All-America first-team honors on beam
- 2021 All-SEC
- Six 2021 beam routines scored 9.90 or better
Nya Reed – Junior
2021 All-America honors:
- Second Team: Floor
- Every floor routine of 2021 scored 9.925 or better. Two-time floor winner
- Set collegiate floor best of 9.975 to take win versus Georgia
- Three-time SEC Specialist of the Week in 2021
Savannah Schoenherr – Junior
2021 All-America honors:
- Second Team: Vault
- Set collegiate vault best of 9.95 to win title at Arkansas. Performance earned SEC Specialist of the Week honor
- Equaled that mark to take win versus Auburn (Feb. 26)
- Four vault marks of 9.90 or better
Megan Skaggs – Senior
2021 All-America honors:
- Second Team: All-Around
- Second Team: Uneven Bars
- Won all-around at Arkansas (39.50) and that performance claimed SEC Gymnast of the Week accolades
- Six all-around performances tallied 39.50 or better. Twice posted collegiate-best 39.60 (Jan. 29 and Feb. 26)
- Equaled or set collegiate bests for vault (9.925), uneven bars (9.95) and beam (9.95) in 2021
- Five bars routines were 9.925 or best
- Six beam routines scored 9.90 or better.
- 2021 All-SEC
Trinity Thomas – Junior
2021 All-America honors:
- First Team: All-Around, Vault, Balance Beam, Floor Exercise
- Second Team: Uneven Bars
- Nation’s only gymnast with maximum five All-America honors in 2021 WCGA regular-season awards.
- Set nation’s 2021 high and Florida record all-around best (39.90) to win title at then No. 2 LSU. Nation’s fifth-highest total all-time.
- Owns four of 2021’s top 11 all-around totals (No. 1: 39.90; No.T-8: 39.75 3x). No other gymnast with more than two scores among 2021 top 11 all-around totals
- One of three in nation with three 10.0s in 2021 (bars; floor-twice)
- Second Gator ever with a pair of 10.0 in single meet (uneven bars and floor exercise) versus Auburn on Feb. 26
- Leads Gators with 19 event wins in 2021 – four all-around, vault, bars, floor; three beam.
- Four SEC Gymnast of the Week led all league gymnasts in 2021 and gives her 15 for career – the most in the 22-year history of the honor.
2021 WCGA All-America Regular Season Awards
| All-Around First Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | AA NQS | Team |
| 1 | Trinity Thomas | 39.788 | Florida |
| 2 | Lynnzee Brown | 39.756 | Denver |
| 2 | Lexy Ramler | 39.756 | Minnesota |
| 4 | Luisa Blanco | 39.738 | Alabama |
| 5 | Anastasia Webb | 39.706 | Oklahoma |
| 6 | Natalie Wojcik | 39.625 | Michigan |
| 6 | Maile O'Keefe | 39.625 | Utah |
| 8 | Kennedy Hambrick | 39.600 | Arkansas |
| All-Around Second Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | AA NQS | Team |
| 9 | Haleigh Bryant | 39.594 | LSU |
| 10 | Adnerys De Jesus | 39.575 | Iowa State |
| 10 | Nevaeh DeSouza | 39.575 | California |
| 12 | Megan Skaggs | 39.569 | Florida |
| 13 | Ona Loper | 39.556 | Minnesota |
| 14 | Raena Worley | 39.538 | Kentucky |
| 15 | Sierra Brooks | 39.531 | Michigan |
| 16 | Hannah Scharf | 39.506 | Arizona State |
| Vault First Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | AA NQS | Team |
| 1 | Evy Schoepfer | 9.963 | Oklahoma |
| 1 | Anastasia Webb | 9.963 | Oklahoma |
| 3 | Ona Loper | 9.956 | Minnesota |
| 3 | Haleigh Bryant | 9.956 | LSU |
| 5 | Sierra Brooks | 9.950 | Michigan |
| 5 | Lexy Ramler | 9.950 | Minnesota |
| 7 | Trinity Thomas | 9.944 | Florida |
| 7 | Abby Heiskell | 9.944 | Michigan |
| Vault Second Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | AA NQS | Team |
| 9 | Kennedy Hambrick | 9.938 | Arkansas |
| 10 | Alexia Burch | 9.931 | Utah |
| 10 | Adnerys De Jesus | 9.931 | Iowa State |
| 12 | Savannah Schoenherr | 9.925 | Florida |
| 12 | Madi Dagen | 9.925 | Oregon State |
| 12 | Alyona Shchennikova | 9.925 | LSU |
| 12 | Luisa Blanco | 9.925 | Alabama |
| 12 | Maddie Quarles | 9.925 | Minnesota |
| 12 | Naomi Morrison | 9.925 | Michigan |
| 12 | Lynnzee Brown | 9.925 | Denver |
| 12 | Natalie Wojcik | 9.925 | Michigan |
| 12 | Kiya Johnson | 9.925 | LSU |
| Uneven Bars First Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | AA NQS | Team |
| 1 | Trinity Thomas | 9.975 | Florida |
| 2 | Lynnzee Brown | 9.969 | Denver |
| 3 | Lexy Ramler | 9.963 | Minnesota |
| 4 | Emily Muhlenhaupt | 9.950 | Boise State |
| 4 | Audrey Davis | 9.950 | Oklahoma |
| 6 | Margzetta Frazier | 9.944 | UCLA |
| 6 | Natalie Wojcik | 9.944 | Michigan |
| 8 | Luisa Blanco | 9.938 | Alabama |
| Uneven Bars Second Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | AA NQS | Team |
| 9 | Nina Schank | 9.931 | California |
| 9 | Makarri Doggette | 9.931 | Alabama |
| 11 | Megan Skaggs | 9.925 | Florida |
| 11 | Maggie O'Hara | 9.925 | Arkansas |
| 11 | Andi Li | 9.925 | California |
| 11 | Katherine Levasseur | 9.925 | Oklahoma |
| 11 | Maile O'Keefe | 9.925 | Utah |
| 11 | Sami Durante | 9.925 | LSU |
| Balance Beam First Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | AA NQS | Team |
| 1 | Lexy Ramler | 9.975 | Minnesota |
| 1 | Maile O'Keefe | 9.975 | Utah |
| 3 | Anastasia Webb | 9.969 | Oklahoma |
| 4 | Ellie Lazzari | 9.956 | Florida |
| 4 | Natalie Wojcik | 9.956 | Michigan |
| 6 | Leah Clapper | 9.950 | Florida |
| 6 | Abby Paulson | 9.950 | Utah |
| 6 | Elizabeth Culton | 9.950 | North Carolina |
| Balance Beam Second Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | AA NQS | Team |
| 10 | Trinity Thomas | 9.944 | Florida |
| 10 | Adeline Kenlin | 9.944 | Iowa |
| 10 | Alexis Vasquez | 9.944 | Denver |
| 13 | Alyssa Baumann | 9.938 | Florida |
| 13 | Karrie Thomas | 9.938 | Oklahoma |
| 13 | Kennedy Hambrick | 9.938 | Arkansas |
| 13 | Sienna Schreiber | 9.938 | Missouri |
| 13 | Mary Korlin-Downs | 9.938 | Minnesota |
| Floor Exercise First Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | AA NQS | Team |
| 1 | Kiya Johnson | 9.988 | LSU |
| 2 | Trinity Thomas | 9.975 | Florida |
| 3 | Lynnzee Brown | 9.969 | Denver |
| 4 | Mya Hooten | 9.956 | Minnesota |
| 4 | Derrian Gobourne | 9.956 | Auburn |
| 4 | Lexi Graber | 9.956 | Alabama |
| 4 | Haleigh Bryant | 9.956 | LSU |
| 8 | Lauren Guerin | 9.950 | Iowa |
| 8 | Sydney Soloski | 9.950 | Utah |
| Floor Exercise Second Team | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | AA NQS | Team |
| 9 | Sabrina Vega | 9.930 | Georgia |
| 9 | Maya Washington | 9.930 | Washington |
| 11 | Kyla Bryant | 9.925 | Stanford |
| 11 | Sophia Carter | 9.925 | Arkansas |
| 11 | Maddie Karr | 9.925 | Denver |
| 11 | Sydney Soloski | 9.925 | Utah |
| 11 | Anastasia Webb | 9.925 | Oklahoma |
| 16 | Lynnzee Brown | 9.920 | Denver |
| 16 | Lauren Guerin | 9.920 | Iowa |
