No. 22 Kentucky Wraps Up Regular Season Against No. 3 Florida
LEXINGTON, Ky. – No. 22 Kentucky (1-9-1, 1-5-1 SEC) will conclude the 2026 regular season inside Historic Memorial Coliseum on Friday, hosting No. 3 Florida (11-2, 5-2 SEC) at 7 p.m. ET. The contest will be streamed live on SEC Network + with Dick Gabriel and Leah Little on the call.
The meet will also serve as Senior Night for the program’s lone graduating gymnast, Isabella Rivelli. Senior festivities will take place after the conclusion of competition. Fans at Historic Memorial Coliseum will receive a Kentucky friendship bracelet while supplies last and shakers, posters, and 10.0 cards presented by UK Healthcare will be available. Tickets for the meet are still available at ukathletics.com/gymtix and on Ticketmaster.
The Wildcats return to Lexington after a 196.675 posting at Alabama last weekend, the team’s fifth straight score of at least 196.500. In that stretch, the Cats have broken the 197 point mark three times, including in their last appearance inside Historic Memorial Coliseum.
Delaynee Rodriguez continues to rank inside the top ten in the all-around, sitting at No. 9 with a 39.510 National Qualifying Score. The junior has won the all-around title in seven of nine meets this season and has claimed a total of 16 event wins on the year. Rodriguez also ranks No. 19 on the balance beam and No. 24 on the uneven bars with identical NQS of 9.905.
Creslyn Brose sits in the top ten on the floor exercise, slotting at No. 10 with a 9.930 NQS. Brose has scored at least a 9.900 in every meet this season and has met that mark in 30 of her 33 career floor routines. Her average of 9.929 slots as the fifth best in the NCAA as the junior inches near her third consecutive regular season All-America honor on the event.
Kentucky’s beam rotation has solidified over the past five weeks, scoring at least a 49.200 in every meet since the start of February. With the consistency of late, the Cats have jumped from No. 51 in the country on the event to No. 21, climbing 30 places in five weeks. In that stretch, five different Wildcats have scored at least a 9.900 on the event.
The Cats also rank inside the top 15 on both the vault and the floor exercise, slotting at No. 13 on the former and No. 15 on the latter. Kentucky has seen its most consistent scores on vault, scoring at least a 49.100 in eight of nine meets this season. The Wildcats have surged on the floor exercise, with five scores of 49.300 or better in the last six weeks.
The Wildcats will begin postseason action next week, heading to Tulsa, Okla. for the 2026 SEC Gymnastics Championship. For the first time in the event’s history, nine teams will be competing in the championship. The meet will take place on Saturday, March 21, with Session I featuring seeds 5-9 at 3 p.m. ET and Session II consisting of seeds 1-4 at 8 p.m. ET. Both sessions will be televised on SEC Network.
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