Queen City Gymnastics
(Jennifer and Trevor O'hara, Jenni Cox)
Previous Experience
Hometown
Cincinnait, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Courtesy: UGA Sports Communications
Release: 07/08/2006
2007 Missed the NCAA
Championships with an ACL injury that happened just days prior to
nationals. Won the North Central
Regional bars title with a 9.925 - her highest score in any NCAA Regional
meet. Tied her career high with a 9.95
on floor in the season-opener against No. 8 Stanford. At Kentucky,
she had the highest score of the night with a 9.925 on bars. She re-injured her right heel on the third
tumbling pass on floor in Lexington
and missed the fourth rotation. Sat out
five meets with a foot injury. Returned
to action on the uneven bars against No.4 Utah, scoring a 9.85. Posted a trio of 9.825s on vault, bars and
floor at the SEC Championship. Senior class finished with a final record of
130-13-1, three NCAA titles, three SEC Championships and three NCAA Regional
wins. Named to the SEC Academic Honor
Roll. Listed as a NACGC Academic All-American.
2006 - First-Team All-American on floor and second-team on vault and beam. At the SEC Championships she claimed the All-Around, vault, bars and floor titles. All-SEC. SEC Honor Roll. SE Regional All-Around and Floor champ. At the NCAA Championships she tied a career high of 9.95 on vault in the final rotation of the Super Six Finals, and she tied a career best of 9.95 on floor in the Super Six. She also scored a 9.95 on bars in the Super Six. At the end of the regular season she ranked fourth nationally in the all-around and third on the uneven bars. Won the SEC All-Around title with a season-high 39.625. Had a 39.6 in the all-around at Michigan. Tied her season high of 9.95 on bars against Kentucky after the two competitors before her each fell. Competed in Georgia’s leadoff spot on beam in 14 meets. Also ranked in the nation’s top 25 on vault, beam and floor at the end of the regular season. Was first in the all-around against Florida and LSU with scores of 39.5 and 39.55, and was second with a 39.425 against UCLA. Named the SEC Gymnast of the Week following her performance against Arkansas. She has won that award twice in her career.
2005: First-team All-American on bars, floor and the all-around. Second-team All-America honors on beam. All-SEC when she placed sixth in the all-around at the SEC Championships. SEC Honor Roll. Won the vault title at the Southeast Regional with a 9.875 on the event. Ranked ninth in the country and third in the SEC in the all-around with an RQS of 39.405 at the end of the regular season. Won four consecutive individual all-around titles between the Arkansas and Oklahoma meets and her fifth all-around victory against N.C. State earned her the SEC Gymnast of the Week award. She was Georgia’s only Gymnast of the Week in 2005. Her 39.55 against N.C. State included wins on the bars and floor. Trailed only Katie Heenan on the team as she has competed on 62 of 64 possible events this year. Presented with the Coaches Award at the team’s season-ending banquet."
2004: Second-Team All-American on bars with a 9.875 during prelims of the NCAAs. Georgia’s sixth SEC Freshman of the Year. Ranked 14th nationally on bars and 19th on floor. She tied with Utah’s Rachel Tidd as nation’s top ranked freshman on bars at the conclusion of the regular season. A 39.4 in the all-around of the NCAA team finals. Her 39.650 in the all-around vs. Kentucky was the highest four-event total by a Gym Dog freshman since Cory Fritzinger scored a 39.700 at the SEC Championships in 2001. Inside Gymnastics South Region co-Gymnast of the Week following the LSU meet.Turned down numerous scholarship offers to walk-on at Georgia and competed in the all-around in nine of 14 meets for the Gym Dogs this year.
Club / High School: Trained at Queen City Gymnastics under coaches Jennifer and Trevor O’hara and Jenni Cox from 2000-2003, and at Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy from 1995-1999...Placed first in both the All-Around and Floor and second on bars at the 2001 J.O. Nationals in Eugene, Oregon... Finished in second in the All-Around, vault, and bars at the 2001 Region 5 Regionals in Chicago, Illinois...Member of the 2001 J.O. National Team and honored as the 2001 Region 5 Gymnast of the Year award...Tallied another first-place finish in the All-Around and on bars at the 2003 Region 5 Regionals in Cincinnati, Ohio..
Personal: Born: Jan. 7, 1985. Daughter of Susan, a teacher, and Mark, a sales manager...Has two brothers Brent (26) and Ross (24)... Attended Anderson High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she graduated with a 4.25 GPA and was a member of the National Honor Society, an Honor Roll Student, and also won the Top Scholar-Athlete award...A member of the University of Georgia Honors Program for academics. Recipient of the Turner Family Athletic Scholarship.
Courtesy: Georgia Sports Communications
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