HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS

2007 – (31-2-1, 5-0-1 SEC) Won eighth NCAA Championship with a score of 197.850, becoming the first team to win three in a row since Utah in the early 1980s ... Sophomore Courtney Kupets won her second straight NCAA All-Around title – the fifth gymnast to accomplish that feat and the first since Georgia’s Kim Arnold in 1997-98. Kupets also won the NCAA Vault title, bringing her total individual titles to five ... Georgia earned a total of 12 All-America honors by Megan Dowlen, Katie Heenan, Courtney Kupets, Marcia Newby, Grace Taylor, Tiffany Tolnay ... Courtney Kupets named the Honda Award Winner for women’s gymnastics ... Katie Heenan named SEC Gymnast of the Year ... Kupets and Heenan tied for SEC All-Around titles ... Kupets, Heenan and Tolnay received All-SEC honors ... 10 Gym Dogs named Academic All-Americans by NACGC ... Nine listed as Academic All-SEC with five freshmen on the SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll.

2006 - (36-0, 6-0 SEC) won 7th NCAA Championship with a score of 197.75. Won 15th SEC Team Championship. Second time winning back-to-back NCAA Championship (1998-1999).
Fourth undefeated season, no other team has done it once. Georgia becomes the only school in NCAA history to qualify for every Super Six team final since this format began in 1993….Freshmen Courtney Kupets wins three NCAA Titles, All-Around, Bars, and Beam. All American honors earned by Courtney Kupets, Ashley Kupets, Kelsey Ericksen, Nikki Childs, Katie Heenan, and Tiffany Tolnay…a total of 18 All-Americans. Suzanne Yoculan was named the SEC and NCAA Coach of the Year and Jay Clark was named the NCAA Assistant Coach of the Year. Kelsey Ericksen wins SEC All-Around, Vault, Bars and Floor Championship. C. Kupets ties Ericksen for the SEC Bars Championship. Tolnay and Heenan earn All SEC honors…Audrey Bowers, Childs, Adrienne Dishman, Heenan, C. Kupets earn SEC Honor Roll.

2005 - Won 6th NCAA Championship. Won 14th SEC Championship. Georgia's championship was its first since 1999 and sixth in program history...The Super Six Final was the first meet in Georgia history that no gymnast scored lower than a 9.8 on any event....Georgia's 17 All-America awards at the annual NCAA Awards Banquet led all teams and was the most by a Georgia team since 1999...Katie Heenan became the sixth Gym Dog freshman to collect multiple first-team All-America honors with her first-team honors on vault, bars and the all-around...Heenan, Emmons, Kupets, Smith, Ericksen, Childs earn All-America honors...program hosts live Internet broadcasts (video & audio for home meets - audio for away meets) through GXtra, allowing fans to follow the Gym Dogs like never before.

2004 - Finished 2nd at NCAA Championship. Won 13th SEC Championship. Georgia’s 13th SEC title is more than all other teams combined...Byrd, Fritzinger, Kupets, Stephens, Sapunar earn All-America honors...Byrd, Ericksen, Fritzinger, Smith, Stephens earn All-SEC...Kelsey Ericksen named SEC Freshman of the Year...Kinsey Rowe named SEC Scholar Athlete and wins NCAA Postgraduate scholarship...program hosts live Internet broadcasts for each post-season meet.

2003 - Finished 3rd at NCAA Championship. The Gym Dogs placed third at the NCAA Championships, making the 15th time in 17 years the team has finished third or higher at the national championships...Suzanne Yoculan, in her 20th year as head coach, led the team to its 16th NCAA Regional title...Chelsa Byrd was named co-SEC Gymnast of the Year, the first Gym Dog to earn the award since 1999...Bair, Byrd, Smith, Rowe, Ackerman earn All-America honors...Byrd (two vaults) and Cory Fritzinger (vault and beam) each scored two 10s during the year...Sellout crowds of 9,951 packed Stegeman Coliseum to watch Georgia’s SEC dual meets against rivals Auburn and Florida.

2002 - Georgia claimed its' 12th SEC title by defeating Alabama by a mere one tenth (197.025-196.925). Marline Stephens defended her 2001 SEC floor title by placing first on the event again in 2002, and added a SEC vault title as well. At the NCAAs, the Georgia Gym Dogs ended in second-place, and had seven gymnasts earn a total of 12 All-American honors.

2001 - At the NCAA Championship held at home, in Athens, Freshman Cory Fritzinger won the NCAA individual vault title. The Gym Dogs also captured their 11th SEC team title. Individual SEC titles were won by: Suzanne Sears and Marline Stephens on floor exercise, Kristi Lichey on Vault, Kathleen Shrieves on Bars, Cory Fritzinger on Beam, Bars and All-Around. Cory was also awarded the SEC Freshman of the year honor.

2000 - Junior Suzanne Sears became the 13th Georgia gymnast to win an individual NCAA title, bringing home the floor exercise title.

1998 - With the largest margin of victory in more than 10 years, the Gym Dogs captured their fourth NCAA title. Suzanne Yoculan was named NACGC Coach of the Year and assistant Doug McAvinn was named NACGC Assistant Coach of the Year. Senior Kim Arnold won the AAI American Award and three Gym Dogs won four individual national crowns. At the NCAA Southeast Regional, Georgia set an NCAA record for team score with its 198.575 tally.

1997 - Junior Kim Arnold won the all-around title at the NCAA Championships and earned the Honda Award as the nation's top collegiate gymnast

1996 - With perfect 10.00s on all four events versus Kentucky, freshman Karin Lichey earned the first 40.00 all-around score in the history of gymnastics. Her feat can never be beaten, only matched. For such mastery, Lichey took the 1996 SEC Freshman of the Year award and two All-America honors.

1995 - Georgia hosted its second NCAA Championships, and Gym Dog Leslie Angeles delighted the home crowd by winning the floor exercise title.

1994 - Fittingly, former U.S. Olympian Hope Spivey bid farewell to the world of collegiate gymnastics with a perfect 10.00 to win the 1994 floor exercise title, her fourth national championship. With 27 career 10.00s and 12 All-America honors, Spivey was one of the greatest gymnasts in NCAA history.

1993 - Georgia captured its third national title, setting three NCAA Championships records in the process: 49.725 on vault, 49.750 on bars and 198.00 of a possible 200 overall (all three since broken). Three Gym Dogs earned individual NCAA titles, and in her perfect "10th" season head coach Suzanne Yoculan was crowned NCAA Coach of the Year.

1989 - The Gym Dogs took their second NCAA title on home turf, edging out favorite UCLA by the slimmest of margins, 192.65-192.60. It was the first NCAA meet in Athens.

1987 - Georgia captured its first national title by scoring 187.90 at the NCAA Championships. Earlier that season, Lucy Wener earned the program's first 10.00 with a perfect mark on the uneven bars.

1986 - Freshman Lucy Wener became Georgia's first individual national champion with her triumph on the uneven bars. She went on to win the same title in 1987 and 1989.

1984 - In her first year as head coach, Suzanne Yoculan led Georgia to a 27-13 record and its first berth in the NCAA Championships, where the Gym Dogs placed ninth.

1975 - Andy Long hired as the second University of Georgia women's gymnastics coach. Practices are moved to the Women's PE Building and meets are held in the Coliseum.

1973-1974 Practices are held in Stegeman Hall and meets are held in the volleyball gym in the Women's PE Building (currently the Dance and Marine Programs Building).

1973 - The University of Georgia established women's gymnastics as a varsity sport and named Melinda Airhart as its first head coach.