A pair of Gator gymnasts picked up weekly Southeastern
Conference honors, the league office announced Tuesday afternoon. University of
Florida junior All-American Ashanée
Dickerson (Jacksonville, Fla.) is the Southeastern Conference Gymnast
of the Week and Kytra
Hunter (Frederick, Md.) shares the SEC Freshman of the Week honor with
LSU’s Jessie Jordan.
This is Dickerson’s first
SEC Gymnast of the Week honor of the season and the third in her career. For Hunter,
this is her second consecutive SEC Freshman of the Week accolade.
In last Friday’s home win
against then-No. T-1 Arkansas, Bridgeport and then-No. 24 Maryland, Dickerson
set collegiate-best marks on the uneven bars (9.925) and matched her floor exercise
best of 9.95 for the sixth time. She claimed sole possession her 11th
career all-around title with a 39.60, and shared her floor win with Hunter. Dickerson
shared second on the bars with teammates Marissa
King and Alaina
Johnson, as well as Arkansas’ Shelby Salmon.
The two wins up Dickerson’s
total to 50 event titles in her three seasons as a Gator, placing her seventh
on the Gators’ career list.
For Hunter, the shared
floor title was her third floor win of the Gators' opening four meets. Hunter’s
mark on floor in just her fourth collegiate meet distinguishes her as the
quickest freshman to earn a 9.95 floor exercise score in the program’s history
(previous was Corey Hartung earning a 9.95 floor mark in seventh meet of
freshman year).
She also shared third in
vault and fifth in beam - both at 9.85 – in Friday’s meet where the Gators
posted the nation’s season-high team total of 197.775. Hunter leads the 2012
Gators with nine event titles and Dickerson shares second with junior
All-American Marissa King with five event wins.
Both Dickerson and Hunter
appear in the latest GymInfo national rankings. Dickerson holds the following
national rankings - No. 13 all-around (39.325) and T-7 floor exercise (9.892)
while Hunter is No. 21 in all-around (39.175), No. T-14 vault (9.875) and T-3
floor exercise (9.90).
