The
No. 1 University of Florida gymnastics team will travel to Raleigh, N.C., to
compete as the top seed for the NCAA Regional on Saturday, April 7. Start time
is set for 4 p.m. (ET) in North Carolina State’s Reynolds Coliseum. The NCAA Gymnastics
Committee announced
the fields for each of the six 2012 NCAA Region Championships sites Monday.
The
top two teams and the top two all-around competitors (who are not on an
advancing team) from each region site advances to the NCAA Championships, set
for April 20-22 at The Arena at Gwinnett
Center
in Duluth, Ga. Florida competed at The Arena at Gwinnett Center last Saturday, claiming the program’s
eighth Southeastern Conference team title.
Last
year, UF used a runner-up finish at the NCAA North Central Region in Denver,
Colo., to advance to the NCAA Championships for the 29th time in the 30-year
history of the meet. The Gators took seventh overall in the NCAA Championships.
No.12
Ohio State and No. 13 Penn State are the other seeded teams at the Raleigh
Regional. No. 20 NC State, No. 26 Kent State and No. 31 North Carolina round
out the field for the regional site. NC State is the only team in the field UF
has met in 2012 regular season action, as the Gators opened the campaign with a
196.025-194.675 dual meet win in Raleigh.
Florida
will open regional competition on the uneven bars.
The
top 18 teams nationally, based on regional qualifying score (RQS), were paired
into the six regions (three per region). Each region site contains one team
each from the nation’s No. 1-6, No. 7-12, and No. 13-18 ranking positions. The
final three spots in each regional were filled from teams ranked 19-36 by RQS. The
committee tried to keep those teams within their own region as much as possible.
In
addition five all-around competitors (who are not on a qualifying team) and one
individual specialist per event advance to each of the six regions. The
all-around competitors and event specialists came from within the region. Monica
Mesalles Sallares of Bridgeport will be paired with the Gators for regional
competition.
The
National Qualifying Score (NQS) determines the pairings for day one of the team
competition at the NCAA Championships. The NQS is calculated by adding a team's
RQS and score from the regional meet. Teams will be ranked 1 to 12 based on the
NQS. Teams 1, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 12 will be placed in Group A; and teams 2, 3, 6,
7, 10 and 11 placed in Group B. A random draw will be used to determine
competition session for Groups A and B for the 2012 NCAA Championships.
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2012 NCAA Southeast
Region Competition Order
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Vault
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Bye
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Bars
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Beam
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Bye
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Floor
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NC State
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Penn
State
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Florida
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Kent State
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Ohio State
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UNC
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II
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UNC
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NC State
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Penn
State
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Florida
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Kent State
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Ohio State
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III
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Ohio State
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UNC
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NC State
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Penn
State
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Florida
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Kent State
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IV
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Kent State
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Ohio State
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UNC
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NC State
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Penn
State
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Florida
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V
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Florida
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Kent State
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Ohio State
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UNC
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NC State
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Penn
State
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VI
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Penn
State
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Florida
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Kent State
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Ohio State
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UNC
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NC State
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2012 NCAA Gymnastics Regional Fields (with national rank)
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Raleigh
Regional (Raleigh, N.C.) – April 7 @ 4 p.m. ET
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Florida
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12.
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Ohio
State
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13.
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Penn
State
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20.
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NC
State
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26.
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Kent
State
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31.
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North
Carolina
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Auburn
Regional (Auburn, Ala.) – April 7 @ 6 p.m. CT
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6.
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Georgia
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7.
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Oregon
State
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18.
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Auburn
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21.
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Michigan
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27.
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West
Virginia
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T32.
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Michigan
State
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Seattle
Regional (Seattle, Wash.) – April 7 @ 4 p.m. PT
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4.
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Alabama
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9.
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LSU
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16.
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Arizona
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23.
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Washington
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30.
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Iowa
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36.
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Central
Michigan
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Fayetteville
Regional (Fayetteville, Ark.) – April 7 @ 4 p.m. CT
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3.
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UCLA
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10.
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Arkansas
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15.
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Boise
State
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19.
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Missouri
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29.
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New
Hampshire
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34.
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Maryland
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Champaign
Regional (Champaign, Ill.) – April 7 @ 4 p.m. CT
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2.
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Oklahoma
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11.
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Stanford
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14.
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Denver
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22.
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Illinois-Champaign
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T24.
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Kentucky
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32.
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Illinois-Chicago
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Salt
Lake City Regional (Salt Lake City, Utah.) – April 7 @ 6 p.m. MT
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5.
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Nebraska
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8.
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Utah
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17.
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Minnesota
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T24.
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Iowa
State
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28.
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Arizona
State
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35.
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San
Jose State
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