GAINESVILLE, Fla. – University of Florida senior Bridget Sloan is the 2015-16 Roy F. Kramer Southeastern Conference Female Athlete of the Year, the league announced Thursday morning. Sloan and the male winner, Arkansas track & field athlete Jarrion Lawson, were selected by a vote of the league's athletics directors.
"What a surprise," Sloan said. "I am honored to receive this award on behalf of the Gator program. I am so happy that I chose to include the collegiate experience in my gymnastics career. It certainly has been a privilege to be a part of the Gator program and the Southeastern Conference."
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A Gator has now picked up a SEC Athlete of the Year honor 12 times since 1984. Sloan is the sixth Gator athlete to be named SEC Female Athlete of the Year and the third-straight, as softball players Lauren Haeger (2015) and Hannah Rogers (2014) are also part of the Gators' current streak.
It was another outstanding season for Sloan, the only gymnast to win World (2009), U.S. (2009) and NCAA (2013, 2016) all-around titles. Here's the stats from her final collegiate season:
* Honda Award winner as the top collegiate gymnast of 2016. Second such award of career (also won in 2013).
* NCAA all-around champion and shared NCAA titles for uneven bars and balance beam. The three wins gives her the Florida record for career NCAA event titles (6). Six event titles is third all-time in the 35-year history of the NCAA Gymnastics Championships.
* First Gator and only gymnast in 2016 to earn All-America first-team honors in each of the five events in NCAA Championships' competition. Florida's career leader with 16 All-America honors earned at NCAAs.
* Only gymnast in nation to earn All-America honors in each event of the NACGC regular-season awards (first team - all-around, bars, beam, floor; second team - vault).
* Top all-arounder in NCAA Super Six (39.65). Super Six all-around leader three of her four seasons.
* NACGC Southeast Region Gymnast of the Year.
* Six-time SEC Gymnast of the Week in 2016.
* Three 10.0s in 2016 [two beam & one floor]. Only gymnast in nation to earn multiple beam 10.0s
* Of the six gymnasts in the nation to post an all-around total of 39.70 or better in 2016, Sloan is only one with multiple appearances (39.775/twice; 39.70/once). Of the three to earn the nation's high of 39.775 this season, Sloan is only one to earn the total twice.
* Led Gators with 27 event titles (nine all-around, seven bars, five beam, four floor, two vault)
* Florida's career leader for:
o All-Around wins (27)
o Event titles (95)
o 10.0 marks (8)