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	There are many words which could be used to describe the Gym Dogs at the University of Georgia. Without question the one constant word which has earmarked the program is success. 59 gymnasts have earned 303 All-American awards, and Georgia gymnasts have won 37 individual NCAA titles. For 12 of the past 17 years, there has been at least one Gym Dog atop the awards stand as an NCAA individual title winner. Georgia also owns NCAA championship records for team scores on three of the four apparatus, as well as the best-ever championship team score of 198.575, set at the 1998 NCAA Southeast Regional. Fifty-two gymnasts have been named to the SEC Honor Roll, and 48 have been selected as National Scholar Athletes. In addition, five have earned prestigious NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarships, most recently Kinsey Rowe in 2004. Twenty-five years, ten NCAA Championships, 16 SEC Championships, 37 individual titles, 68 All-Americans and an absolute plethora of rabid gymnastics fans later, it appears that the Gym Dogs have...well more than accomplished the lofty goals which Yoculan set for the program in 1984.
	In the previous 25 years at Georgia, the one direction the Gym Dogs have always moved is up. In her first season, Yoculan led Georgia to its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Championships, which resulted in a modest ninth place finish. But it was only the beginning. Three years later in Salt Lake City, the Gym Dogs stood atop the awards stand as NCAA Champions. Two years after that in Athens, Ga., the Gym Dogs had their second national championship, winning it in front of the hometown fans. And four years later in 1993, Georgia won the NCAA’s with arguably the greatest team ever. At the 1993 NCAAs in Corvallis, Ore., Georgia became the first collegiate team to score a 198.0, a feat that would not be accomplished again for another three years.
	Five years later in Los Angeles the Gym Dogs would once again emphatically make their mark on the collegiate gymnastics world, winning their fourth NCAA Championship by the largest margin of victory in more than ten years and finishing the year with an unblemished mark of 35-0. Not to be outdone, the 1999 team would continue the standard of excellence set forth by its predecessors, but not without a little bit of drama. The 1999 Gym Dogs won the program’s fifth title and like the 1993 and ’98 teams before them, did it by going undefeated at 32-0.
	Two years ago not many could have predicted the run the Gym Dogs made to their sixth national title. Georgia lost four consecutive meets during the year and nearly missed qualifying to nationals with a disastrous regional meet that included four falls on the balance beam. But the team did qualify, and entered the NCAA Championships seeded 12th out of 12 teams. When the Gym Dogs left Auburn, Ala., they walked out as champions. One word says it all when discussing Georgia’s national championship run of 2006...Domination. At the conclusion of the regular season the Gym Dogs were the top ranked team on every event, something Georgia had not accomplished since 1998. The 2006 Gym Dogs won the program’s seventh national title and recorded an undefeated record of 36-0 for the fourth undefeated season in the program’s history. No other team has done it once.
	The Georgia gymnastics team found the perfect way to send Coach Yoculan into retirement. Winning another NCAA title. The Gym Dogs claimed the program's 10th national title to become the first team to reach double figures. Georgia also won it's fifth straight title to close the career of its venerable coach in style. Senior Courtney Kupets, who won her third all-around title, paced the Gym Dogs with a career-best four-event score of 39.9. Kupets had 10.0s on bars and vault as well as 9.96s on beam and floor.