GymDogs Face North Carolina for Senior Night on Saturday

Saturday, March 12

Athens, Ga.

4:00 p.m.

University of Georgia

North Carolina

GymDogs Face North Carolina for Senior Night on Saturday

March 11, 2022 | Gymnastics

Meet Information
Georgia vs. North Carolina
Saturday, March 12 | 4:00 p.m. | Stegeman Coliseum | Athens, Ga.
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Livescoring
NOTES

ATHENS, Ga. --- The University of Georgia gymnastics team will face North Carolina in the regular season finale on Saturday, March 12 at 4 p.m. in Stegeman Coliseum.  The GymDogs will honor seven gymnasts for Senior Night prior to the meet.

GYMDOGS HITTING CAREER HIGH MARKS IN 2022
Nine Georgia gymnasts have hit 13 new career high scores so far in 2022.  Additionally, three gymnasts have matched their career high scores, for a total of 17 routines hitting a GymDogs' best score.  Senior Rachel Baumann has hit two vault scores better than her previous high at the end of 2021.  Sophomore Katie Finnegan began the season with a career-high of 9.850 on bars. She then scored a 9.875 in the second meet of the season and increased that again to 9.900 in meet four.  Her 9.875 in meet six, although no longer matching her career-high, is still an increase of her previous best score.  Similarly, senior Abbey Ward began the 2022 season with a career-high score of 9.575 on bars.  She hit a 9.825 in meet two to notch a new career-high, did it again in meet five with a 9.850, and again in meet nine with a 9.900.

See more stats in the notes packet.

RACHEL BAUMANN IN THE RANKINGS
Prior to her last home meet in Stegeman Coliseum, Rachel Baumann is ranked as the 16th best gymnast in the country on floor with an NQS score of 9.925.

STEPPING UP FOR THE TEAM
Prior to this season, senior Abbey Ward had only competed bars twice in her collegiate career. When she saw the lack of depth on the event, she stepped up and consistently trained the event so that she would be ready to compete for the GymDogs.

PERFECT 10 FOR RACHEL BAUMANN
Senior Rachel Baumann earned a Perfect 10 on floor against Florida. It marked the first Perfect 10 by a GymDog since Marissa Oakley earned the score on bars at the 2019 Athens Regional.

Georgia's last three Perfect 10s on floor were all against Florida (Sydney Snead in 2018 and Courtney Kupets in 2009).

COURTNEY KUPETS CARTER EXPECTING BABY No. 4
Head coach Courtney Kupets Carter and her husband Chris are expecting their fourth child in July. The couple has two daughters, Brooklyn (6) and Savannah (3), and a son Bentley (4).

COMPETING NEW SKILLS
Haley de Jong is competing a round-off, back handspring, back layout 3/1 in the first pass of her floor routine. She competed this skill prior to coming to Georgia, but this is the first season she is competing it as a GymDog.

HAWTHORNE CONTINUES THE MOONWALK
Junior Soraya Hawthorne assumed the responsibility of taking over the Georgia moonwalk tradition on beam as a sophomore and debuted the move at LSU in 2021. She is the seventh GymDog to perform the moonwalk on the balance beam, following Nikki Childs, Cassidy McComb, Lindsey Cheek, Mary Beth Box, Morgan Reynolds, and Sabrina Vega.

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