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Courtney Kupets
All-Around - AA
Height: 5-3 
Sophomore
Previous Affiliations
   Gaithersburg
   Hill's Gymnastics   (Kelli Hill)
Previous Experience
  
Hometown
   Athens, Ga.
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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.

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