Courtesy: Robert Newcomb - UGA Broadcast, Video, & Photography
Courtney Kupets
Manager - MGR
Previous Affiliations
Gaithersburg
Hill's Gymnastics
(Kelli Hill)
Previous Experience
Hometown
Athens, Ga.
Courtesy: UGA Sports Communications
Release: 09/30/2009
2009
(Senior Season):
Named the winner of the 2009
Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation's top female student-athlete - the first
honoree in Georgia history.
Won the 2009 Honda Award as the nation's
top gymnast.
Finished her collegiate career as the all-time
leader in NCAA individual championships with nine.
Won the nine NCAA titles in just three
years after missing the 2008 NCAAs with an Achilles injury.
At the 2009 NCAAs, won the all-around,
bars, beam and floor titles.
Became the first gymnast ever to win at
least one national title in each event.
Led Georgia to its fourth straight team
national title with all-around scores of 39.8 and 39.9 in back-to-back nights,
including three 10.0s (to give her seven for the season and eight in her
career).
Earned five more First-Team All-America
honors, giving her the maximum of 15 for the three years in which she competed
at the NCAAs.
Chosen as the AAI National Senior Gymnast
of the Year.
Was a member of the senior class that won
four NCAA titles, two SEC crowns and had a career record of 130-5-1.
Finished the regular season ranked No. 1 in
the nation in the all-around, bars and beam, and was second on floor and vault.
Chosen as the NCAA Southeast Regional
Gymnast of the Year.
At the Southeast Regional, won the
all-around, vault and bars titles.
Recorded a 10.0 on vault at the regional
giving her both the single-season and career grand slams of perfection, joining
Heather Stepp (1993) and Karin Lichey (1996) in Gym Dog annals.
Named the SEC Gymnast of the Year and
picked for the All-SEC First Team by the league's coaches.
At the SEC Championship, won the
all-around, vault, bars, beam and floor titles.
Set an SEC Championship record of 9.975 on
bars.
Posted 48 scores of 9.9 or better this year
to set the single-season record.
Had all-around figures of 39.9, 39.85,
39.825 and 39.8 this year to rank second, fourth, sixth and seventh on
Georgia's all-time list.
Posted a 10.0 on floor against Florida.
Recorded two 10.0s (bars and beam) against
Alabama, becoming the ninth Gym Dog to accomplish that feat.
Chosen as the SEC Athlete of the Week four
times.
Won the all-around titles in 14 of the 15
meets this year.
Has won outright or shared 59 of the
possible 75 individual titles this year.
Named to the Fall Semester Athletic
Director's Honor Roll.
Nominated by the University of Georgia for
the SEC's H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship.
Named the recipient of the Don Leebern Jr.
and Don Leebern III Scholarship.
Earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
based on her academic and athletic accomplishments.
Chosen as a recipient of the Richard B.
Russell Student Leadership Award, which is given each year to a Blue Key
National Honor Society member who has demonstrated leadership ability and
potential.
2008
(Junior Season):
Claimed the bars title at Utah with a 9.95.
Won the all-around against LSU with a
nation-leading 39.750, just .05 away from her career high of 39.8.
Scored a then-nation-leading 9.975 on bars
against N.C. State, her highest mark on the event since scoring a 10 in 2007
against Alabama, and matched that against Kentucky.
Tore her Achilles against Arkansas on floor
and was out for the remainder of the season.
Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Named First-Team Academic All-American by
the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women.
Inducted into the Blue Key Honor Society.
Chosen as a member of the CoSIDA/ESPN the
Magazine Academic All-America Women's At-Large Second Team.
2007
(Sophomore Season):
Won the Honda Award for gymnastics.
Claimed NCAA titles in the all-around and
vault, becoming the first gymnast since Georgia's Kim Arnold (1997-98) with
back-to-back NCAA all-around victories.
Named a First-Team All-American in all five
possible categories.
Was the NCAA North Central Regional
All-Around champion.
Tied teammate Katie Heenan for the SEC
all-around title with a score of 39.6.
Took SEC Championship titles on the vault
and bars.
Chosen for the All-SEC Team.
Her score of 10.0 on the bars against
Alabama was the first for a Georgia gymnast since the 2004 SECs (Cory
Fritzinger on beam, Marline Stephens on floor).
Also against Alabama, became the first
Georgia gymnast since 2002 to receive a 10.0 on uneven bars (Fritzinger).
Ended the regular season as the nation's
second-ranked gymnast on beam and bars.
Led the nation with a season average of
9.921 on bars.
Named the SEC Gymnast of the Week after the
Alabama and Utah meets.
Chosen as a member of the CoSIDA/ESPN the
Magazine Academic All-America Women's At-Large First Team.
Earned a 4.0 spring GPA.
Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Listed as an NACGC Academic All-American.
2006
(Freshman Season):
Won individual national titles in the
all-around, bars and beam at the NCAA Championship.
Named First-Team All-American on beam,
bars, floor and the all-around, and Second-Team All-American on vault.
Became just the second Georgia gymnast,
joining Hope Spivey in 1991, to win three NCAA individual titles in one year.
Named to the All-SEC Team.
Led the nation at the end of the regular
season in the all-around, and was No. 2 on bars and beam, No. 3 on floor and
No. 4 on vault - the only gymnast ranked in the nation's top 5 on every
event.
Named the SEC Freshman of the Year, the
seventh in Georgia history.
Tied for first on bars at the SEC
Championship.
Had the SEC's three best all-around scores
of 39.7 at Utah, 39.75 in the Super Six Finals and 39.8 at Michigan.
The 39.8 in Ann Arbor tied for Georgia's
best all-around total away from Athens (Agina Simpkins, 1993 NCAA
Prelims).
Won the all-around competition in 10 of 13
meets, including seven straight.
Her 40 scores of 9.9 or better ranked second
all-time among Gym Dogs, trailing only Karin Lichey's 42 in 1999.
Earned SEC Gymnast of the Week honors three
times.
In the Oklahoma meet, competed in the fifth
spot in the floor lineup, going just ahead of sister Ashley for the only time
during the year.
Club/International:
Trained at Hill's Gymnastics under Kelli
Hill.
Competed in the 2004 Olympics for the
United States, winning silver in the team competition and bronze on bars.
Also at the Athens Games, finished ninth in
the all-around and fifth on beam.
Named the 2004 USA Gymnastics Co-Athlete of
the Year and USOC Athlete of the Month for June.
Was the United States national champion on
beam and was the co-champ in the all-around in 2004.
Won the 2005 all-around title at the U.S.
Olympic Trials.
Was a member of the gold-medal winning team
at the 2003 World Championships, but did not compete due to injury.
Named the 2003 USA Gymnastics Athlete of
the Year.
Won the 2002 World Championship on bars,
becoming just the third American woman to win the event and the first United
States World Champion since 1994.
Community
Service:
Has worked with Special Olympians.
Participated in the Do It For Broph 5K
Run/Walk, with proceeds benefiting a scholarship fund in honor of late UGA
basketball player Kevin Brophy.
Participated in the SEC "Together We Can"
food drive that collected more than 1,200 pounds of food.
Personal:
Born July 27, 1986.
Daughter of Mark and Patti Kupets, and has
two brothers, Mark and Christopher, and a sister Ashley, who was an
All-American Gym Dog from 2004-07.
Majoring in Housing/Property Management and Consumer Economics.