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Senior gains experience playing for national Puerto Rican team

GEORGIA VOLLEYBALL Saturday: UNC-Charlotte 7 p.m. Sunday: Middle Tennessee State – 2 p.m. Both games are at the Ramsey Center. It has become a common practice for many University students to skip the first couple of days of class to stretch the summer a little bit. But senior Alexandra Oquendo had a much different reason [...]

Freshmen expected to deliver on court

Most freshmen don’t enter the University expecting to make an early impact on one of the school’s varsity athletic teams. Of course, most freshmen haven’t won a national championship, let alone two months before their arrival in Athens. Incoming freshmen Anjelica Partridge and Maria Taylor spent their early summer helping their club team, the Atlanta [...]

Gym Dog’s coach stays

When Suzanne Yoculan led the Gym Dogs to the national championship in April, she put her team on the top of the heap. On Wednesday, she agreed to a four-year contract that will put her on top as the highest paid college gymnastics coach in the nation. Yoculan and the Athletic Association agreed to a [...]

New head coach no stranger to program

A head coach leaves. A new one is named. On occasion, there are some transitional problems. However, when the new head coach is already part of the program, things generally go well. This is the case with the Georgia volleyball team. Former head coach Mary Buczek left in March to spend more time with her [...]

Gym Dogs capture 14th SEC crown

DULUTH — Five words sum up the Georgia gymnastics team: Back-to-back SEC Champions. When the Gym Dogs won their second SEC Championship title in as many years Saturday night, they relied on a popular party game to keep themselves loose and ready for competition during the downtime between rotations. “We started out playing charades on [...]

Gym Dogs hope for SEC repeat

With five freshmen in the line-up for the SEC championship Saturday in Duluth, the Gym Dogs will look to “dance” their way to back-to-back conference titles. The team’s dancing will keep the freshmen loose during the bye rotations of the competition. In each rotation, three teams will sit out since there will be seven teams [...]

Gym Dogs head for regionals after last meet

As University students finish the first half of the semester, the Gym Dogs will complete their regular season tonight playing host to No. 7 Michigan at 7:30. The meet will provide the team one last chance to tune up for the postseason. “We need this win; it’s not just competing against Michigan, it’s the whole [...]

Gym Dogs upset UCLA

Less than a week removed from calling her team underachievers and using words like “choke” to describe their performance, head gymnastics coach Suzanne Yoculan was singing a decidedly different tune Sunday night. Her attitude had turned 180 degrees after the Gym Dogs beat two top-five teams in one weekend. “This team is no longer a [...]

Gym Dogs drop fourth straight

For the fourth straight time, the Gym Dogs tasted defeat, losing to No. 5 Alabama 197.025-196.175 Friday night. “We’re a great practice team, but we can’t compete,” said head coach Suzanne Yoculan. “We have a better team than we had last year. They’re underachieving, they are underachieving in competition.” The Gym Dogs got off to [...]

Gym Dogs, ‘Bama to wear pink for cancer awareness

After three straight dual meet losses, the No. 7 Gym Dogs will prepare to face a new challenge tonight as No. 5 Alabama visits Stegeman Coliseum. The Gym Dogs and the Crimson Tide will wear pink leotards to raise awareness for cancer research, but just because the meet will have a secondary purpose won’t change [...]

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