GAINESVILLE, Fla. – No. 3 Florida gymnastics close 2025 home and regular-season action playing host to No. 10 Kentucky for Senior Night & GNV Night presented by Florida Dairy Farmers. The Wildcats are the Gators fifth top-10 opponent this season and each of Florida’s 10 meets this season contained a top-15 opponent.
 
Both teams come into Friday’s competition off of top performances. Kentucky turned in a season-best 197.925 versus then No. 16 Arkansas in its 2025 home finale on March 7. Florida turned in its season best road score of 198.025 in its win at then No. 14 Alabama.
 
All nine Southeastern Conference teams are among the current top 20, including six in the top 10. There is one other top-10 dual Friday and it of course includes another pair of league teams – No. 2 LSU at No. 10 Georgia.
 
The meet starts at 6:45 p.m. ET in the Exactech Arena at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center.
 
Gators Senior Night:
The careers of Florida’s two graduates and four seniors – Sloane Blakely, Bri Edwards, Ellie Lazzari, Riley McCusker, Victoria Nguyen and Leanne Wong – plus Morgan Hurd and manager Will Gomez will be celebrated in a post-meet ceremony.
 
Florida Gators Seniors Class Notes:

• Advanced to NCAA team final in 2021 (4th), 2022 (2nd), 2023 (2nd) and 2024 (4^th)
• One NCAA individual champion (Wong – 2024 bars)
• Won 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024 Southeastern Conference regular-season trophies
• Swept 2022 & 2023 Southeastern Conference regular-season and Championship meet titles
• Earned 29 All-America honors (Blakely/1, Lazzari/2, McCusker/1, Nguyen/3 & Wong/22)
• Four SEC event titles (2023 Blakely – vault; 2021: Lazzari – beam; 2022 & 2023 Wong – beam)
• Each earned WCGA Scholastic All-American and Academic All-Southeastern Conference honors during their collegiate careers
• Three already graduated with honors with their bachelor’s degrees – Edwards, Lazzari and Nguyen

 

Arrive Early to Cheer Your Gators

Be in your Exactech Arena seat by 6:45 p.m. to take in the floor projection show which leads into the Gators entrance into the arena.

 

Here’s some tips to expedite your trip to the Exactech Arena Friday:

 

Getting TO the Arena:

• Season parking holders can enter the O’Connell Center lot off Lemerand Drive OR SW 2^nd Avenue.
• A complimentary parking shuttle transports fans from which originates at Garage 109 (located at corner of Archer Road and Lemerand Drive to the O’Connell Center. The parking shuttle begins at 5 p.m. Parking map for Gator Gymnastics.
• Use the Waze app to provide the best route to parking shuttle.
• Check the Parking Lot Availability Tracker to see your options in real time.
• For 5-10 minutes following Gator gymnastics meets, Lemerand Drive will close for north and south bound traffic from University Avenue to Stadium Road to provide pedestrians a safe exit.
• More information at 2025 Meet Guide

 
Getting IN the Arena:

• To get tickets ahead of Friday’s meet, visit the FloridaGators.com ticket site or stop by the Gator Ticket Office (open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.).
• Gate 1 will be open for each gymnastics meet. UF students should enter at Gate 3.
• Check out the Exactech Arena’s new apparatus layout for 2025 season.
• All Gator Athletics tickets are mobile. Visit Mobile Ticketing Guide to help expediate your entrance into the arena. To help zip through the entrance, be sure to add your tickets to your digital wallet in case of possible connectivity issues outside the gate. Then have tickets up on device to present for scanning.

• Bags are checked before entering the building. Everyone will go through the O’Connell Center metal detectors when entering. When using the metal detectors fans need to empty their pockets prior to screening, then walk through the detector. After that, tickets will be scanned and then you are ready to cheer your Gators!

 
Friday’s Promotions:

• Ticket Deal – Get two 200 level tickets for just $10
• Free Scrunchie – First 1,000 fans get a Gators scrunchie
• Gate 1 Giveaways – Be sure to pick up 2025 Gators Gymnastics 10.0 fan cards when you enter at O’Connell Center Gate 1.
• O2B Kid’s Corner – Located on the Practice Courts near Gate 4, kids can get free giveaways, temporary tattoos, play games, make posters, meet the mascots & Dazzlers, and more!

 
How to Follow the Gators:
Follow the action live:
                Watch: SEC Network + – action called Friday by Kyle Crooks and Stacey Abbott Gleim
Live Stats: Virtius
Tickets: $15 – $30
 
Gators Last Time Out:
No. 4 Florida gymnastics used the nation’s 10^th-highest and second-highest road team score total of 2025 to take a rare dual-meet win in Coleman Coliseum.
 
The Gators won 198.025 – 197.45 over No. 14 Alabama on March 7 to claim its fourth consecutive dual meet victory in Coleman Coliseum – and the fifth in program history.
 
It’s not a site of many Gator victories. Florida is now 5-17 in dual meet action at Alabama, with those wins coming in 1979, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025.
 
The meet was tied at the midway point, but the Gators took a 0.525 lead into the final rotation after a solid floor exercise performance. A six-for-six balance beam set pushed the Gators’ winning margin out to 0.575.
 
Two Gators claimed four of the evening’s five event titles Friday. Senior All-American Leanne Wong matched the evening’s high mark of 9.975 to win vault. Junior All-American Selena Harris-Miranda won uneven bars (9.95) and then used that same mark to share the balance beam title with Wong. Alabama’s Lily Hudson took the floor exercise win at 9.975.
 
Wong used a 39.725 to win her sixth all-around title of the season and the 20^th of her career. That 39.725 shares the nation’s second-highest road total this season. The six wins equals her collegiate high set as a sophomore. Harris-Miranda shared second in the all-around with Hudson at 39.65.
 
Kentucky in 2025:
The Wildcats comes into Friday’s meet after posting its season best to win 197.925-197.725 over No. 16 Arkansas to close 2025 home action. That total stands as No. 3 in program history. UK turned in season highs for vault (49.425), beam (49.525) and set the program floor exercise record (49.725).
 
Kentucky and Florida are among the 10 programs with a gymnast who earned a 10.0 this season. Last Friday, Wildcat sophomore Creslyn Brose received her first collegiate 10.0 to win the UK-Arkansas floor title to earn the March 11 SEC Specialist of the Week award.  Florida’s Sloane Blakely (floor) Selena Harris-Miranda (vault) and Leanne Wong (beam) recorded 10.0s this season. Sloane Blakely is sidelined for remainder of season with injury suffered during Feb. 21 floor performance at Oklahoma.