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Jordan Crooks, Camille Spink win medals at SEC Championships

Tennessee’s Jordan Crooks and Camille Spink win medals at SEC Championships.

Tennessee swimmers Jordan Crooks and Camille Spink won medals at the SEC Championships on Thursday.

Crooks won the 50m freestyle for the Vols and Spink captured the event for the Lady Vols.

Crooks won a bronze medal in the 200m freestyle, finishing the race in 1 minute, 31.17 seconds and setting a school record.

Spink finished second in the women’s 200m freestyle (1:42.37), the second fastest time in Lady Vols’ program history.

In the men’s 100m butterfly, Tennessee’s Harrison Lier finished fourth (45.40 seconds) setting a program record in the event.

The Vols and Lady Vols have combined to win 12 medals over the first four days of SEC Championships competition.

Arkansas outdoor team confident ahead of SEC championships

The Arkansas outdoor track and field teams are hitting their stride ahead of this weekend’s SEC Championships.

Death, taxes and Arkansas track and field being one of the best programs in the country. These are seemingly life’s only guarantees.

Following a national championship in men’s and women’s indoor track and field, the Razorbacks are proving to be back to form ahead of the outdoor SEC Championships this weekend.

Last weekend’s Arkansas Twilight event was the final tune-up before the conference championship meets. Both the Razorback men’s and women’s outdoor teams are currently ranked in the top three nationally (men No. 2, women No. 3) and have a lot to prove following 2022’s conference championships.

Last year, the Razorback women’s team lost the outdoor SEC title by just four points to Florida, something that still stings for head coach Lance Harter to this day.

“[Last year] definitely is a factor,” said Harter. “They interrupted our chain by four points. It’s a reconfirmation to those kiddos that every point is important.”

On the men’s side, it’s all about building on what won them the indoor title in February.

“I still feel like we’ve got a really, really good outdoor team. Our indoor team was on point and we nailed that at the NCAA Championships. The 14 guys that we brought, 13 scored,” said men’s head coach Chris Bucknam. “If we can continue to come together as a team and improve and pull this thing together I do feel our outdoor team has the same kind of potential, if not even a little bit better. We’re deep and well-rounded.”

Arkansas’ quest for another track and field championship begins on Thursday in Baton Rouge. Following this week’s conference championship meets, the outdoor NCAA Championships will begin on May 24.

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LSU places 3 gymnasts on All-SEC team

Haleigh Bryant, Aleah Finnegan and Bryce Wilson earned honors after the SEC championships.

Following the SEC championship meet, a few Tigers have earned all-conference honors. [autotag]Haleigh Bryant[/autotag], [autotag]Aleah Finnegan[/autotag] and [autotag]Bryce Wilson[/autotag] made the All-SEC team.

Bryant and Finnegan earned it for their performances on the floor while Wilson excelled on vault. It should be noted that these honors are strictly based on performance at the SEC championship rather than the entire season.

For Finnegan and Wilson, it was the first time either has appeared on an all-conference team. Bryant is no stranger to the honor, having received it three straight years now.

Bryant entered the weekend with a chance at gymnast of the year, but that nod went to Florida’s Trinity Thomas as the Gators took home the team title, too.

With the regular season over, LSU sets its sights on NCAA competition where the Tigers are seeded No. 2 in the Denver Regional.

Hosted by No. 14 Denver, LSU will be one of nine teams competing in the regional. Notably, LSU will be joined by No. 3 Michigan and SEC peer Georgia. The postseason begins on March 31.

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Auburn gymnastics wins first session of SEC Championships with 197.100

Cassie Stevens posted a 39.650 all-around score and earned a share of the vault title during the first session of the SEC Championship on Saturday.

Auburn gymnastics began the postseason on the right foot by taking first place in the afternoon session of the SEC Championships at Gas South Arena in Duluth, Georgia.

The Tigers competed with Arkansas, Missouri, and Georgia in Session I of the championship, and took home the crown by scoring 197.100. Auburn edged out a persistent Missouri squad who built high scores on bars, beam, and floor. However, amazing personal scores by [autotag]Cassie Stevens[/autotag] and [autotag]Derrian Gobourne[/autotag] pushed Auburn to the title.

“I felt that for the most part, the team did a good job of picking each other up and getting through the meet,” head coach [autotag]Jeff Graba[/autotag] said Saturday. “We talked a lot about how that is what it takes to get through the postseason. You’re going to have adversity and you have to conquer it. I really feel like we did a good job with that today.”

Stevens posted a 39.650 all-around score and took home a share of the vault title on Saturday. She did not score below a 9.9 on any event during the championship.

“Knowing we had some bumps and bruises along the way, I just wanted to do it for them and I wanted it for us,” Stevens said. “We’ve worked so hard, and we’ve been through a lot this season. We’re ready for the hard work to pay off and just to be able to do this and step up in these moments for my team was really rewarding.”

Gobourne’s highlights include a 9.9 on bars and 9.875 on floor.

The Tigers ended fifth in the SEC Championships. Here’s a look at how the rest of the field did on Saturday:

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LSU gymnastics earns No. 2 seed at SEC Championships

The Tigers will look to capture their fifth SEC Championship this weekend.

Editor’s Note: The following is an official press release courtesy of LSU’s athletics department.

BATON ROUGE – The sixth ranked LSU gymnastics team secured the number two seed going into the 2023 SEC Championships following a historical regular season finale win over West Virginia, announced by the league.

LSU will look for the program’s fifth SEC Championship on Saturday, March 18, as the squad competes in the evening session alongside top seeded Florida, third seeded Kentucky and fourth seeded Alabama.

Session II begins at 7 p.m. CT inside Gas South Arena in Duluth, Georgia. The conference championships will be televised on SEC Network with Bart Conner, Kathy Johnson Clarke and Samantha Peszek on the call. Streaming and live stats of the meet will also be available.

The Tigers will start the meet on bars and rotate to beam and floor before finishing on vault. The squad owns top-10 rankings on all four events as they placed third on vault, fourth on floor, eighth on bars and ninth on beam.

LSU owns an NQS of 197.780, which is the average of a team’s top six scores, three of which must be away and the highest score dropped. The Tigers six scores are 198.100, 198.025 and 197.700 from home meets and 197.975, 197.700 and 197.500 away from the PMAC.

The Tigers won its first of three-straight SEC titles in 2017 as well as the inaugural championship in 1981.

A total of 25 LSU gymnasts have combined to win 47 SEC titles since 1981. The program has also recorded 98 All-SEC honors amongst 44 gymnasts.

Auburn scores school-best at SEC Championships

The Tigers finished third behind Alabama and SEC-champion Florida.

The Auburn Tigers may not have won the SEC title, but they won’t be ashamed to have broken a school record.

Auburn placed third in the SEC championships on Saturday with a score of 197.225, behind Alabama and the SEC champions in Florida. The score is the Tigers’ best result in the SEC Championships in school history and the third-place finish is the highest for Auburn in the history of the championships’ third-place format. Freshman Sunisa Lee also won the bars event with a perfect 10, her fourth overall on the year.

The event didn’t start out well for the Tigers. Auburn had its first rotation on the beam and it had to count a fall, scoring a low 48.9 on the event. The Tigers bounced back, though, and both Lee and senior Derrian Gobourne were runner-ups on the floor with 9.95s. Fifth-year Drew Watson led Auburn on the vault with a 9.90 in its third rotation.

Lee’s perfect 10 on the bars came in Auburn’s final rotation. Gobourne had high praise for Lee’s performance, saying in a team release that the score after the Tigers’ rough start showed the team’s resiliency.

“That was phenomenal. The feeling was magical. It was like we were building off each other. It was so much fun. What matters is how you close it out. I’m super proud of this team. It shows how tough we are.”

Auburn’s next action will be as hosts at the NCAA Regionals on March 31 and April 2, where it hopes to advance on to the NCAA Championship in Fort Worth, Texas in mid-April.

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