Florida gymnastics opens 2023 with new faces, same old championship dreams

Florida Gators Gymnastics

The Gators will seek another national title — and are already dealing with a heartbreaking injury.

The 2023 college gymnastics season opens for No. 2 Florida on Friday night with a home quad meet against Ball State, West Virginia, and Lindenwood. 2022 NCAA and SEC all-around champion Trinity Thomas and 2022 World Championships team gold medalist Leanne Wong are back to lead the Gators to another great season.

But Florida’s lineups will look quite a bit different this season. All-Americans Megan Skaggs and Alyssa Baumann leave six lineup holes — on all four events — with their exhaustion of collegiate eligibility and the as-yet-publicly-unexplained exit of Nya Reed…