- ABC News
- April 15, 2023
Reigning NCAA all-around gymnastics champion Trinity Thomas of the University of Florida earned the 28th perfect 10 of her career Saturday, tying the 27-year-old record set by Kentucky's Jenny Hansen in 1996 and matched by UCLA's Jamie Dantzscher in 2004. Thomas earned the score on vault during NCAA championships in Fort Worth, Texas, and after weeks of speculation as to whether she would compete again this postseason due to a lower right-leg injury she sustained at Regionals last month. "I was not focused on [the record] at all," Thomas said in a TV interview after the meet. "I was just focused on being out here one last time with my team. We left it all out there on the floor and I could not be more proud of us." Thomas hadn't practiced in the two weeks since Regionals, but shortly before competition Florida added Thomas to its bars and vault lineups for Thursday's semifinal meet. She was nearly perfect in her return on bars, drilling a stuck landing on her double layout...