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UGA Gymnastics will have one final year under the tutelage of Suzanne Yoculan (807-116-7). After this season, she plans to hang up her dress, high-heels, and retire on top. She will be canonized as perhaps the greatest college gymnastics coach of all time - not to mention one of the best in collegiate history regardless of sport.

Yoculan includes on her resume nine National Championship titles, 16 SEC titles, 38 Individual NCAA titles, 20 Regional Championships, five-time Coach of the Year, and 68 All-Americans in her 25-year tenure at UGA. Let's not forget these girls are pound-for-pound stronger than the football team—yes, they do this test every year—and are quite smart.

This year Yoculan does not feel the spark the team usually posses. After a relatively weak win over West Virginia, Yoculan warns, “We are in big trouble unless some things change—and things will change.”

Indeed, The No. 1 Gym Dawgs return to the floor this year as the team to beat behind the master ringleader. Let's get the irreplacable Yoculan one more.

[I digress. I once saw Coach Yoculan walk on a bed of rocks in the tallest, skinniest high-heels ever. Her balance was unnerved as she gracefully passed through the rough terrain. To this day, I have never seen such skill in walking.]
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All Hail Yoculan