Five Gymbacks Receive All SEC Honors
After posting the program’s best-ever team score at an SEC Championships over the weekend, Arkansas gymnastics’ hard work keeps being rewarded as five Hogs have been named to the 2023 All-SEC and All-SEC Freshman teams.
Norah Flatley, Frankie Price, Cami Weaver, and Lauren Williams have all received All-SEC designation. Price, Weaver, and Williams, all in their first years of eligibility, have also been named to the SEC All-Freshman team, along with Reese Drotar.
Athletes must post one of the top two scores (including ties) on an event or all-around in each session of the championships to receive All-SEC honors, while All-Freshman team members must post the top freshman score (including ties) on an event in each session.
At her first SEC Championships, graduate transfer Flatley racked up all-conference honors on vault, floor, and all-around. She earned a 9.900 on vault, which tied her teammates Price, Weaver, and Williams, for the top vault mark of the afternoon. She also received a matching 9.900 on floor, which placed her in a seven-way tie for first at the end of the session. She finished the day with a 39.500 all-around score, second-best in the session for an All-SEC spot and eighth place overall.
Flatley’s SEC plaudits make her a seven-time all-conference honoree, as she was named All-Pac-12 four times at UCLA. She has also now earned conference awards on each of the four events and all-around.
The trio of Price, Weaver and Williams all showed poise under pressure as they took the vault runway for their first SEC Championships appearances and got all-conference and all-freshman team honors out of it. Weaver led off the vault squad with a career high 9.900 for her Yurchenko full, followed by a matching mark for Flatley.
Price then stuck her Yurchenko full for Arkansas’ third 9.900 midway through the lineup, which matched her career high and was her third score of 9.9+ on the event so far this season.
Williams, a true freshman from Rogers, Ark., vaulted fifth for the Hogs and put up a solid Yurchenko 1.5, which scored another 9.900, also her third score of 9.9+ in 2023.
Flatley, Weaver, Price and Williams all contributed to a huge 49.425 vault score for the Hogs, a new SEC Championships record, and helped propel Arkansas to a 196.825 in the final rotation, a new overall team best at championships. Each also matched the program individual high score at SECs of 9.900, achieved by five other Gymbacks dating back to 2009.
Rounding out the conference honors for Arkansas is Reese Drotar, who earned a spot on the all-freshman team after she posted a 9.850 on bars, the best mark by a rookie in the afternoon session and second-best by any freshman at the championships.
The five total gymnasts with All-SEC and All-SEC Freshman designation are the most for Arkansas since 2018 and second-most ever. The four All-SEC Freshman team honorees in Price, Weaver, Williams, and Drotar are the most in program history.
Arkansas continues its postseason journey with NCAA regionals next week. The Hogs will compete against No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 16 Ohio State, and either NC State or Ball State in the evening semifinal from Norman, Okla. on Thursday, March 30 at 6:45 p.m. The top two teams from each of Thursday’s semifinals will advance to the regional final on Saturday, April 1 at 4:45 p.m. All sessions of regional competition will be streamed live via ESPN+.
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