UGA Gymnastics will have one final year under the tutelage of Suzanne Yoculan (807-116-7). After this season, she plans to hang up her dress, high-heels and retire on top. She will be canonized as perhaps the greatest college gymnastics coach of all time - not to mention one of the best in collegiate history regardless of sport.
Yoculan includes on her resume 9 National Championship titles, 16 SEC titles, 38 Individual NCAA titles, 20 Regional Championships, 5-time Coach of the Year, and 68 All-Americans in her 25-year tenure at UGA. Let's not forget these girls are pound-for-pound stronger than the football team - yes, they do this test every year - and are quite smart.
This year Yoculan does not feel the spark the team usually posses. After a relatively weak win over West Virginia, Yoculan warns, “We are in big trouble unless some things change —- and things will change.”
Indeed, The #1 Gym Dawgs return to the floor this year as the team to beat behind the master ringleader. Let's get the irreplacable Yoculan one more.
[I digress. I once saw Coach Yoculan walk on a bed of rocks in the tallest, skinniest high-heels ever. Her balance was unnerved as she gracefully passed through the rough terrain. To this day, i have never seen such skill in walking.]
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I went to New Zealand with her daughter...
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