It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. Not in her senior year. She wasn’t supposed to be relegated to the sidelines save for her signature event — the balance beam — because of a nagging hip injury. But such was life for senior Gym Dog Grace Taylor through her team’s first five meets. The seven-time [...]

For the second straight week, Georgia’s Shayla Worley has been named SEC Freshman Gymnast of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday. The Orlando, Fla., native won her second straight all-around title with a 39.375 in Georgia’s win over then-No. 3 Arkansas last Friday. She finished above the Razorbacks’ Jaime Pisani and Casey Jo Magee, [...]

The Georgia gymnastics team moved up two spots from ninth to seventh in the latest GymInfo Top 25 released Monday. Alabama is No. 1 with a 196.575 average followed by Oklahoma (196.563), Oregon State (196.129), Florida (196.117), Utah (196.008), Arkansas (196.079), Georgia (195.996), Stanford (195.983), UCLA (195.982) and Nebraska (195.721) to round out the top-10. [...]

A 10-time national championship program doesn’t rebuild after losing an all-everything athlete. They reload. The Georgia gymnastics team’s early-season struggles proved to be greatly exaggerated with its last two wins over Kentucky and Friday’s win over No. 3 Arkansas. And no Gym Dog has played a bigger role in Georgia’s resurgence than freshman Shayla Worley. [...]

The Gym Dogs are back. Not that the five-time defending national champions ever left, but all the critics’ reservations just did, silencing the pundits with their second consecutive Gym Dogs-like performance. Following their best meet of the season against Kentucky last Friday, the No. 9 Gym Dogs (3-3, 2-2) used that momentum to propel them [...]

The Georgia Gym Dogs meet against No. 3 Arkansas tonight at 7:30 is “still on”, according to associate athletic director for sports communications, Claude Felton. Georgia will be looking for their second consecutive win of the season, after defeating Kentucky last Friday.

She is one of the fiercest Gym Dogs supporters on the planet. She holds eight season tickets to all home meets and religiously listens to every road meet. But two weeks ago, Nancy Butts Thompson was diagnosed with lung cancer, which had metastasized to her liver and pancreas, effectively ending her ability to attend meets [...]

Shayla Worley’s world, it seemed, had come crashing down. On the eve of the selection of the 2008 U.S. women’s gymnastics Olympic team in July, Worley fractured her right leg during a balance beam routine and saw her lifelong Olympic dreams evaporate in an instant. “My main goal was to make the U.S. Olympic team, [...]

Georgia gymnast Shayla Worley has been named SEC Freshman of the Week following her performance against Kentucky, the league office announced Tuesday. Worley won the all-around title with a 39.500 in helping the Gym Dogs post their highest score of the season in a 197.200-195.550 win over the 11th-ranked Wildcats. Worley posted career-highs on vault [...]

Courtney McCool could hardly contain her excitement. Less than 30 minutes after the Gym Dogs’ 197.20-195.55 romp over an overwhelmed Kentucky squad in Stegeman Coliseum Friday night, McCool was in the media room exalting her team’s best meet of the season. “Oh God, we just killed it,” the senior said. “We blew it up and [...]