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Heenan Wins Honda Sports Award For Gymnastics * Katie Heenan Takes Over Gym Dog Scoring Record * Heenan Named to SEC Community Service Team * Katie Heenan Named SEC Gymnast of the Week - March 25, 2008 * Georgia's Heenan Named Finalist For Sportswoman Of The Year • 13-Time All-American • 4-Time All-SEC • 2005 & 2007 SEC All-Around Champion • 2007 SEC Gymnast of the Year • 2007 Southeast Region Gymnast of the Year • 2007 Georgia Sportswoman of the Year • NACGC Academic All-American • SEC Academic Honor Roll
| Event Titles (Career) | | Career Bests
| Vault: 20 Bars: 20 Beam: 14 Floor: 12 All-Around: 15 Total: 71 |  | Vault: 10.0 (3-1-08 vs. Arkansas)
Bars: 9.950 (3 times; last 4-12-08 at NCAA Regionals)+
Beam: 9.950 (6 times; last:4-25-08 at NCAA Finals)
Floor: 10.0 (3-21-08 vs. Iowa State)
All-Around: 39.775 (3-21-08 vs. Iowa State)
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2008 Won the Honda Awards for Gymnastics after leading the Gym Dogs to a fourth straight NCAA title. She is the seventh Georgia gymnast to receive this prestigious honor and the second in a row as Courtney Kupets was the 2007 Honda Award winner for gymnastics. Earned First-Team All-America honors in the all-around with a third-place finish and on vault, bars and beam as well, to finish her career with 13 total All-America awards. Finished as the NCAA uneven bars runner-up in the Individual Event Finals. Also finished 11th on beam. Moved into first place all-time in total points scored in Gym Dog history at SEC Championships. Named to the All-SEC First Team -- becoming just the fifth Georgia gymnast and 12th overall to be All-SEC four straight years. SEC Vault Champion. Finished Second in SEC All-Around, the third time in four years she has finished in the top 2. Won the NCAA Northeast Regional Bars and Beam titles, tying career-high 9.950s on both events. Did not compete all-around in the first eight meets, still recovering from herniated discs in her back. Posted a new career high on bars vs. LSU with a 9.950 to lead all scorers. Matched that against Alabama the following week. Competed in the all-around for the first time this season against Arkansas, winning with a 39.600. She scored a Perfect 10 on vault in that meet, the first of her career and first for Georgia since Ashley Kupets on vault against Michigan in 2007. She won the all-around again in her second try against UCLA, tying a career-best 39.725 set in the 2005 Super Six finals. She tied a career high on beam (9.950) in that meet and set a new career high on floor (9.975). She then bettered that in her third all-around try, winning again with a personal best of 39.775 -- the third highest all-around score in the country in 2008 at the time. She also posted her first Perfect 10 on floor in her final dual meet routine at Stegeman Coliseum. Was named SEC Gymnast of the Week for that performance. Hit all but one of her 50 competitive routines this year. Named to SEC Community Service Team. Finished her career as part of the winningest class in Gym Dog history with four NCAA titles, three SEC titles, 19 All-America honors and a 131-9-1 record in four years.
2007 A 39.6 in the all-around at the NCAA Super Six Finals helped propel Georgia to its third consecutive NCAA team title. Earned First-Team All-America honors on the uneven bars as well as Second-Team honors in the all-around. The 2007 SEC Gymnast of the Year, the sixth in Georgia history and first since Chelsa Byrd in 2001. The Southeast Region Gymnast of the Year. Tied teammate Courtney Kupets for SEC All-Around title to become just the second Gym Dog with multiple SEC All-Around wins (Kim Arnold 1997-98). Captured the NCAA North Central Regional beam title with a score of 9.925. Sat out the meet against Michigan, resting a strained calf, missing a meet for the first time in her career. Ended regular season tied for first in the national all-around rankings with LSU’s Ashleigh Clare-Kearney. Also the nation’s No.9 gymnast on the floor exercise and No. 4 on vault. Named the SEC’s Gymnast of the Week following a win over Stanford. Scored a 9.9 or higher in every event in the meet against No.3 Alabama and also on the road at No. 6 UCLA. She’s been Georgia’s top all-around scorer in the first meet of the season in each of her three years. Received a 4.0 spring GPA. Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. Listed as a NACGC Academic All-American.
2006 First-Team All-American on bars and second-team on vault. All-SEC. SE Regional beam champ. SEC Honor Roll. At the end of the regular season was tied for third nationally on the floor exercise and No. 9 on the balance beam. Also ranked in the nation’s top 18 on vault, bars and the all-around. Tied her career high on balance beam with a 9.95 at the SE Regional. Season-high 39.5 in the all-around at Michigan including a 9.95 on beam. Six of her eight top all-around scores were on the road against top-13 teams, in the SEC Championship or at NCAAs. In her career she has now competed the all-around in 28 of 32 meets. For the second straight year she was Georgia’s high all-arounder in the season opener, winning the Cancun Classic at 39.25. Her 9.95 on floor was the highest score of the Cancun Classic and it tied her career-best on that event, which she equaled against LSU. Her 9.975 on vault against Arkansas set a new career high and came in the fourth position in the lineup. Her 9.925 on bars against Oklahoma was new career high and she tied that in the NCAA prelims to earn her All-America award. Her 9.9 on beam at Auburn came in the anchor position of the lineup after three of Georgia’s first four gymnasts received scores of less than 9.4. Her 9.9 on beam at Utah was also a must for Georgia to hold on to the win. And at Michigan, she anchored the beam again with a score of 9.95, which tied her career high. A recent honoree of the UGA Athletic Association Academic Roundtable. In the second half of the season she has teamed with freshman Courtney Kupets as one of Georgia’s top balance beam duos as the lineup generally placed Kupets in the fifth position and Heenan in the sixth and final spot.
2005 First-Team All-American on vault, bars and the all-around. Second-Team All-American on beam. Only the sixth Georgia freshman to win multiple First-Team All-America awards. Her 39.725 at the Super Six Finals tied for a meet high. The first freshman to win the all-around at SECs since former Gym Dog Cory Fritzinger in 2001. Also the SEC balance beam champion with a career-high 9.95 on the last routine of the competition. She became the first freshman at Georgia to compete in the all-around in the first nine meets of the season since Kelly Macy in 1991. Set her career high in the all-around in four of the last six meets of the year. Competed on 63 of a possible 64 events during the year. She was Georgia’s high all-arounder in the first meet of the year. Presented with the MVP Award at the team’s season-ending meet.
Club / High School Trained the last seven years at Capital Gymnastics under Tatiana Periskaia, Victor Vetrov and Marina Gerome. Six-year member of the U.S. National team. Competed at 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials and was an athlete representative for the 2004 Olympic Team Selection Camp. Placed first on bars at the 2004 Pacific Alliance Championships, the 2003 U.S. National Championships, the 2003 National Elite Podium Meet and the 2001 U.S. Gymnastics Championships. Bronze medalist on bars at the 2001 World Championships. TOPS Athlete of the Year in 2001.
Personal Born: Nov. 26, 1985. Daughter of John and Lisa Heenan. Has three brothers, Danny, David and Robby. Major is Middle Education. Recipient of the Suzanne A. Yoculan Gymnastics Scholarship.
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