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Special Guest Simone Biles to Make Appearance at GymDogs’ Home Opener
The University of Georgia GymDogs have announced 11-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles will make a special appearance at Georgia’s home opener on Friday, Jan. 17 against Boise State at Stegeman Coliseum.
Single-meet tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online at GeorgiaDogs.com. The meet will begin at 7 p.m. Gates will open at 6 p.m. The Jan. 17 meet against the Broncos will be Olympics Night and Alumni Night. The first 500 UGA students will receive a gray belt bag and the first 300 kids at the kid’s zone will get a gold medal.
First-year co-head coach Cécile Canqueteau-Landi coached Biles to the Rio, Tokyo, and Paris Olympic Games. She and her husband, Laurent, are personal coaches to Biles.
“They’ve been big mentors in like my adulthood (because) they got to see and harness the more mature Simone,” Biles said. “They’ve helped me a lot not just in the gym but out of the gym, too.”
Georgia opens the 2025 season on Sunday, Jan. 12, at the Denver Quad Meet in Denver, Colorado. The Bulldogs will take on host Denver as well as Missouri and Long Island in the season opener. This will be the first season under the direction of co-head coaches Canqueteau-Landi and Ryan Roberts.
Malaki Starks Named All-America First Team by FWAA
The Bulldog football team had had junior S Malaki Starks named to the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) All-America First Team, according to an announcement Tuesday.
Starks, a native of Jefferson, Ga., was a 2023 consensus All-American and has been named to four of the All-America squads (FWAA, Walter Camp, AFCA, AP) so far this season.
There had already been three All-America squads named prior to the FWAA team:
Walter Camp All-America (12/12): Jalon Walker, Malaki Starks – Second Team
AFCA All-America (12/13): Tate Ratledge, Jalon Walker, Malaki Starks – First Team
AP All-America (12/16): Dylan Fairchild, Malaki Starks, Brett Thorson – Second Team; Tate Ratledge, Jalon Walker – Third Team
The Sporting News All-America team will be released on Wednesday.
Georgia takes on the winner of Notre Dame and Indiana in the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, La., on Jan. 1. ESPN will televise the matchup at 8:45 p.m. ET.
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