(GYM) Florida Gifts First HBCU Team Fisk Leotards, Spring Floor

This is so cool!
From welcoming transfers to treating lone qualifying gymnasts at nationals like their own, time and time again Florida shows that it’s about more than winning. And it’s done it again with the gift of leotards and a spring floor to Fisk, the country’s first gymnastics team at a Historically Black College and University.

Before Fisk head coach Corrinne Tarver was hired, the donation process had started years before. Tarver, a former Georgia gymnast, was a competitor against Florida head coach Jenny Rowland during her time as an Auburn Tiger and Oklahoma Sooner, forming a connection between the two. So when the time came to help, Rowland didn’t hesitate, saying that Florida’s executive associate athletics director for administration, Lynda Tealer, told her about Fisk’s new program and asked if they could do anything to help. “We can do lots of things,” Rowland said.

The Gators had just recently switched out their spring floor and among the dust came a bigger purpose for it. Rowland says it was not a difficult discussion when asking Tarver if she wanted the floor. “Yes, definitely yes! We’re [not] gonna say no to that,” Tarver said. Weeks later another encounter arose, and tank and sleeve leotards came into the mix. The Gator leotards are a piece of history, but a majority of them just sit around, especially after the designs fall out of rotation. Rowland said it was “a special thing” to be able to help the program.

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