TiaraPhipps

2015, 2014, 2013
SEC Academic Team

2016 (Senior): Named to SEC Community Service Team … Competed in nine meets, specializing in the floor exercise … Hit her stride at the end of the season with four consecutive 9.8 plus performances … Scored a season best 9.85 on floor at home against Florida (3/4) … Added a pair of 9.825 performances against Iowa State (3/11) and at the SEC Championships (3/19) … Scored a 9.8 on floor at the NCAA Regional in Tuscaloosa, Ala., (4/2) …. Vaulted once during the season, scoring a 9.725 at Alabama (2/5) … Helped Kentucky to the second and third highest team scores in program history against Arkansas (196.7; 2/26) and Florida (196.65) in back-to-back weeks … Named to SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll.

2015 (Junior):
Named to the SEC Academic Team for third consecutive season … Competed on floor
in every meet and on vault in five contests for the Wildcats as a junior … Led
UK on floor three times and on vault twice … Notched season-highs of 9.875 on
both vault and floor vs. Auburn on March 6, both team-high totals, and the
9.875 on vault was a new career best … Posted a team-high 9.850 on vault the
following week.

2014 (Sophomore):
Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll … Named to the SEC Community Service
Team … Competed in 12 meets for UK in 2014, 12 times on floor and twice on
uneven bars … Recorded a career-best and team-high 9.925 on floor, tied for
second on the event at the NCAA Regionals … Notched a meet-best 9.825 in her
career debut on uneven bars in Kentucky’s win at Missouri on Jan. 24.

2013 (Freshman):
Named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll … Stepped right into the UK
floor exercise lineup and contributed immediately as a freshman … Earned a
9.725 at her first career meet at Cal … Scored a season-high 9.8 three times
including at NCAA Regionals … Averaged over a 9.75 on floor.

Pre-College:
Competed for Aerial Athletics and National Elite Gymnastics under Kristen
Danson, Mark England , Ryan Snider and Heather Schnelzer … Three-time Western
National Team member … Finished second at 2011 Texas State Meet in
all-around, beam and floor … Third Place in all-around at 2011 Regionals …
Took 24th in all-around at 2011 JO Nationals … Level Nine Western champion on
floor and vault in 2010 … Level Nine Regional champion in all-around, bars,
floor and vault in 2010 … Level Nine State champion in all-around, floor and
vault in 2010 … Competed in track and field during 2012 where she was part of
team that set school record in 4×100 meter relay … Regional qualifier in
4×100 and 4×200 … Track and Field Brennan Bear Female MVP … Member of
National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta and magna cum laude graduate of William
J. Brennan High School.

Personal: Full
name is Tiara Monique Phipps … Parents are Altoneyar and Lori Phipps … Has
a sister Taliah, 16 … Native of San Antonio, Texas … Baptized by Basketball
Hall of Famer and former San Antonio Spurs player David Robinson … Intends to
major in Psychology … Dream job is to be a Cirque de Soleil performer.