Rachel Dickson

Height:
5-1
Class:
Senior
High School:
Canton High School
Hometown:
Canton, Mich.

2020 (Senior): Tore her Achilles two days before the start of the season… did not compete

2019 (Junior): Competed all-around in 14 out of 15 meets…third on team with nine event titles- one on vault and beam, three on bars, and two on floor and in the all-around...Claimed WCGA Regular Season All-America Second Team honors on floor...Hit career-high marks on vault and floor... Changed her vault to a a yurchenko half on front pike, which is the same one that head coach Courtney Kupets Carter did as a GymDog...Scored a career-high 9.975 at Missouri... Recipient of the Clyde Bohler Memorial Scholarship

2018 (Sophomore): Competed all-around in all 14 meets...second on team with 12 event titles- one on vault, two on bars, and three on beam, floor, and in the all-around... earned first team All-American honors on bars and second team honors on vault and in the all-around at NCAA semifinals… posted season-high 9.875 on vault and 9.925 on bars... posted career-highs of 9.925 on beam, 9.950 on floor, and 39.625 in the all-around... led Georgia with a 9.850 on vault at Kentucky... led the GymDogs three times on bars with a 9.875 at Alabama, and 9.9’s against Oklahoma and at Elevate the Stage... Georgia’s top scorer on beam with a 9.925 against Missouri... led Georgia with a 9.9 at Arkansas and a 9.950 against Boise State on floor… All-SEC Team for her performance on bars at the SEC Championship with a score of 9.85…earned All-SEC accolades.
2017 (Freshman): Earned NACGC/W Regular Season Second Team All-America honors after finishing ranked 13th nationally for all around...Earned Second Team All-America honors at the NCAA Championships with a 9.9 on bars...SEC Gymnast of the Week on Feb. 21 after recording career highs on bars (9.95), beam (9.925) and all-around (39.55) at the Mardi Gras Invitational in St. Charles, Mo...First freshman all-around All-American for UGA since Courtney Kupets and Tiffany Tolnay in 2006...Competed vault in 11 meets, bars in all 14 meets, beam in nine meets, floor in nine meets and all-around seven times in 2017...First freshman to compete all-around for UGA since Brittany Rogers in 2013...Won eight event titles throughout the season, second most on the team (vault-1, bars-4, floor-2, all-around-1)...Recorded a 39.525 in her first-career all-around performance that included then-season highs on all four events against Missouri on Jan. 20...Season highs of 9.9 on vault, 9.95 on bars, 9.925 on beam, 9.95 on floor, 39.55 all-around...Posted RQS of 9.845 on vault, 9.865 on bars, 9.79 on beam, 9.905 on floor and 39.41 all-around...Recipient of the Jennifer Moree Gymnastics Excellence Scholarship Endowment.
Club: Trained at Michigan Elite Gymnastics in Novi, Michigan under Kim Tanskanen and Joseph Rodriguez...All-around gymnast who was a three-time national champion on bars...Took the bars title and finished third in all-around at the 2016 JO Nationals...Was a six-time JO National Team member...Was a two-time Region 5 All-Star Team member.
Personal: Born November 9, 1997...Daughter of Don and Sue Dickson...Has a brother, Josh, and a sister, Katie...Chose UGA over other power-five programs including Oklahoma, Arizona State, Michigan State and more