BATON ROUGE – For the seventh time in her career LSU gymnastics head coach D-D Breaux received the Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year award, while senior Lloimincia Hall earned SEC Event Specialist of the Year in a vote of the league’s coaches, the SEC office announced Thursday.
Breaux shared the coach of the year honor with Auburn’s Jeff Graba.
The SEC Specialist of the Year award is only in its second year of existence, and Hall won the vote in part by ranking as the nation’s No. 1 performer on floor in both regional qualifying score (9.975) and season average (9.941).
For the fourth time in her four-year career, Hall won at least a share of the SEC floor exercise title with a 9.975 at the 2015 SEC Championship. She became only the second gymnast in conference history to win four SEC titles in the same event, joining Ashley Miles from Alabama, who won the floor title from 2003-06.
A two-time recipient of the SEC Specialist of the Week award this year, Hall added two perfect 10.0 scores on floor this season to bring her career total to seven, the most on floor in LSU history. Hall is the only gymnast in the nation with two 10s on floor this season.
She has captured seven individual titles this season, winning six on floor and one on vault. For her career, she holds 31 titles on floor, the most in LSU history.
Breaux guided fourth-ranked LSU to a 13-1 overall regular season record, which included a perfect 7-0 conference mark for the first time in school history.
In addition, LSU has shattered school records all season, including earning the highest score in program history at 198.375. In fact, LSU has recorded the Nos. 1, 3 and 5 best team scores in program history this season, highlighted by two 198 scores.
Breaux coached the Tigers to a second-place finish at the SEC Championship, the best team finish since 2005 when LSU was also second.
Florida’s Kytra Hunter was named the SEC Gymnast of the Year, while Florida’s Kennedy Baker and Arkansas’ Paige Zaziski shared SEC Freshman of the Year honors. Missouri’s Katelyn Trevino earned SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
LSU also placed four gymnasts on the All-SEC Team. It is only the second time in school history four Tigers earned All-SEC honors in the same season, joining the 2012 squad.
Rheagan Courville, Jessie Jordan, Myia Hambrick and Hall netted All-SEC honors with their performance at the 2015 SEC Championship. In addition, Hambrick tallied SEC All-Freshman Team honors.
The All-SEC Team is comprised of the student-athletes with the top two scores (including ties) on each event and in the all-around competition in the first and second sessions of the SEC Championship. The All-Freshman Team is comprised of the freshman student-athlete with the top score (including ties) on each event in the first session of the SEC Championship and the student-athlete with the top score (including ties) on each event in the second session of the SEC Championship. The All-Freshman Team will also include the freshmen student-athletes with the top two all-around scores (including ties) in the first session of the SEC Championship and the freshmen student-athletes with the top two all-around scores (including ties) in the second session of the SEC Championship.
Courville and Jordan tied for the SEC all-around title to earn their spots on the All-SEC team. Hambrick tied with Courville for the SEC vault title, and Hall won her fourth SEC floor title to make the All-SEC team.
Courville and Hall have earned All-SEC honors all four years of their career, and Jordan is a three-year honoree.
Hambrick is the fifth Tiger to receive SEC All-Freshman Team honors since the honor was first given in 2011. Hambrick joins Sarie Morrison (2011), Courville (2012), Hall (2012), Jordan (2012) and Jessica Savona (2013).
LSU has now featured 32 gymnasts who have produced 66 total All-SEC honors in program history.
LSU (19-2) returns to action at the NCAA Ames Regional hosted by Iowa State on April 4. The Tigers are the No. 1 seed and will compete for a spot at the NCAA Championships against No. 9 Nebraska, No. 16 Denver, Washington, Michigan State and Iowa State.
2015 SEC Gymnastics Awards
Gymnast of the Year: Kytra Hunter, Florida
Event Specialist of the Year: Lloimincia Hall, LSU
Co-Freshmen of the Year: Paige Zaziski, Arkansas and Kennedy Baker, Florida
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Katelyn Trevino, Missouri
Co-Coaches of the Year: D-D Breaux, LSU and Jeff Graba, Auburn
2015 All-SEC Team
Lauren Beers, Alabama
Kaitlyn Clark, Alabama
Keely McNeer, Alabama
Carley Sims, Alabama
Heather Elswick, Arkansas
Amanda Wellick, Arkansas
Paige Zaziski, Arkansas
Lexus Demers, Auburn
Abby Milliet, Auburn
Megan Walker, Auburn
Kennedy Baker, Florida
Claire Boyce, Florida
Bridgette Caquatto, Florida
Kytra Hunter, Florida
Alex McMurtry, Florida
Bridget Sloan, Florida
Gigi Marino, Georgia
Mary Beth Box, Georgia
Rachel Schick, Georgia
Brittany Rogers, Georgia
Taylor Puryear, Kentucky
Sydney Waltz, Kentucky
Rheagan Courville, LSU
Lloimincia Hall, LSU
Myia Hambrick, LSU
Jessie Jordan, LSU
Laura Kappler, Missouri
SEC All-Freshman Team
Paige Zaziski, Arkansas
Abby Milliet, Auburn
Kennedy Baker, Florida
Alex McMurtry, Florida
Gigi Marino, Georgia
Natalie Vaculik, Georgia
Cori Rechenmacher, Kentucky
Myia Hambrick, LSU
Becca Schugel, Missouri