Special report on the Florida Gators gymnastics team:

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – In a meet worthy of the nation’s top billing, No. 4 Florida delivered the country’s highest score of the season Sunday to edge No. 2 LSU in a showdown between collegiate gymnastics’ elite.

 

Backed by a roaring sellout crowd of 9,229 inside the Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center, the Gators produced the nation’s best 2026 team total of 198.45 to edge LSU, which posted the nation’s top road score with a 198.325.

 

The teams traded the advantage throughout a tightly contested meet that matched the weekend’s lofty expectations. Florida and LSU were tied after the opening rotation before the Tigers edged ahead by 0.075 at the midway point. The Gators reclaimed momentum in the third rotation, carrying the slimmest of leads – 0.025 – into the finale.

 

Florida sealed the victory in dramatic fashion on floor exercise, delivering the nation’s second-highest floor total of the season (49.75) while LSU also recorded its season-high balance beam score in the final rotation.

 

High team totals came with equally impressive individual performances. Each apparatus title was claimed with a perfect or near-perfect mark, and the meet’s five all-around competitors produced the top collection of all-around scores recorded in a single meet this season, with totals ranging from 39.85 to 39.65.

 

TONIGHT’S MEET

The meet was tied after each team opened with totals of 49.375. Florida’s total came on the vault, as both Kayla DiCello and Selena Harris-Miranda led the Gators with season-high 9.95s.

 

Scores were high for both teams during the second rotation. For the second week in row, Skye Blakely posted her collegiate-best of 9.975 to share her third uneven bars win with LSU’s Konner McClain. Harris-Miranda took third after matching her season-high 9.95

 

LSU owned a 0.075 lead at the midpoint after posting the nation’s second-highest vault total of the season (49.70).

 

Florida took the narrowest advantage, 0.025, into the final rotation after posting a 49.70 on balance beam. Anchoring that beam lineup was Harris-Miranda’s second 10.0 of her career. Florida also got back-to-back 9.95s from eMjae Frazier and DiCello plus Blakely earned a 9.925.

 

All six Gators in the floor lineup turned in marks of 9.90 or better Sunday. Blakely and Frazier shared the event title with LSU’s Kaliya Lincoln as each posted a near-perfect 9.975.

 

Sunday’s meet featured five all-arounders – all with totals among the nation’s top nine tallies of 2026. Harris-Miranda took the win with a season-high 39.85 – the nation’s No. 2 total of the season. Her former club teammate, LSU’s Kailin Chio, was runner-up at 39.775. DiCello (39.725), Blakely (39.70) and Frazier (39.65) all turned in season bests.

 

EVENT WINNERS:
Vault: Kailin Chio, LSU, Amari Drayton, LSU, Kaliya Lincoln, LSU 9.975
Bars: Skye Blakely, UF and Konner McClain, LSU 9.975
Beam: Selena Harris-Miranda, UF 10.0
Floor: Skye Blakely, UF, eMaje Frazier, UF, Kaliya Lincoln, LSU 9.975
All-Around: Selena Harris-Miranda, UF 39.85

Florida In High Scoring Meets:
There’s been 12 dual meets in NCAA history that both teams turned in a score that started with a 198.

Florida’s been in eight of the last 11.

Date
First Place
Score
Second Place
Score
3/8/25
@ No. 4 Florida
198.450
No. 2 LSU
198.325
3/17/24
@ No. 1 Oklahoma
198.775
No.7 Alabama
198.025
3/3/24
No. 5 Florida
198.225
@No.6 Kentucky
198.100
3/4/22
No. 3 Florida
198.575
@No. 6 Auburn
198.575
2/12/21
No. 1 Florida
198.15
@No. 2 LSU
198.05
2/23/20
No. 3 Utah
198.075
@ No. 4 UCLA
198.025
2/1/19
@ No. 1 Oklahoma
198.350
No. 2 Florida
198.025
1/28/18
@ No. 5 Florida
198.150
No. 1 Oklahoma
198.125
3/6/15
@ No. 1 Oklahoma
198.500
No. 3 Florida
198.100
3/14/04
@ No. 13 Nebraska
198.000
No. 9 Iowa State
198.00
3/12/04
No. 1 UCLA
198.250
@ No. 7 Florida
198.225
2/16/03
No. 1 UCLA
198.400
@ No. 7 Arizona State
198.150

 

 

shading denotes a tie

The combined total of Sunday’s team totals is No. 3 all-time, behind the 2022 Florida at Auburn tie at 198.575 and the 2024 Oklahoma (199.775) and Alabama (198.025) meet.

Gators Senior Night:
The careers of Florida’s four seniors – Lori Brubach, eMjae Frazier, Selena Harris-Miranda and Riley McCusker plus manager Peyton Harbert – were celebrated in a post-meet ceremony.

Florida Gators Senior Class Notes:

* Advanced to NCAA team final in 2022 (2nd), 2023 (2nd) and 2024 (4th)
* Won 2022, 2023 & 2024 Southeastern Conference regular-season trophies
* Swept 2022 & 2023 Southeastern Conference regular-season and Championship meet titles
* Earned 29 All-America honors (Frazier/10, SHM/18; McCusker/1)
* Two SEC event titlists with meet records of 10.0 (2025 Harris-Miranda – vault; McCusker – uneven bars)
* Each earned WCGA Scholastic All-American and Academic All-Southeastern Conference honors during their collegiate careers