Kytra Hunter

Background

Kytra Hunter was born to parents Kimberly and DeForrest Hunter.

Education

Kytra qualified as an elite in 2006 where she finished with silver medals in the All-Around and Vault finals of the Junior Olympic championships. She went on to compete at the 2006 Visa Championships in the Junior Elite competition where she finished 6th on Vault. In 2009, Kytra competed at the CoverGirl Classic in Des Moines, Iowa where she finished 7th on Vault.

Career

As a result of her outstanding athletic excellence, she was a 2015 recipient of the Honda Award – awarded during her senior year. On the roster from 2012 to 2015, Hunter scored four Perfect 10 scores also. She was then not seen back on the elite competitions until she was a Senior.

She went on to compete at the Visa Championships in Dallas where she performed well finishing with a Bronze on Floor as well as placing 4th in the All-Around.

She made the National Team and asked to come to the Worlds selection camp. She was chosen to be an alternate for the 2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships - due to it being an Individual competition, they were only allowed a team of 4 gymnasts.

That same year she received her first international assignments competing in Germany, France and Japan. She once again came 4th in the All-around at the Visa Championships, and showed improvement on Beam placing 4th (she had placed 8th the year before).

She was invited to the Team selection camp, and once again chosen as an alternate for the 2010 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

She became the first Florida Gators gymnast to claim multiple National Collegiate Athletic Association titles in the same year by winning the all-around (scoring 39725) and vault. Hunter was also the recipient of the Honda Sports Award, recognizing her as the nation"s outstanding college women"s gymnast for 2011-2012.

Achievements

• One of Florida"s most decorated gymnasts, Hunter is a 25-time All-American and a four-time individual National Collegiate Athletic Association National Champion. She helped the United States of America teams win Gold in the European Tour and won a Bronze Medal in Toyota City on Floor Exercise. In 2010, she was chosen to represent Team United States of America at Jesolo where she helped the United States of America win Gold in the team competition and placed 9th All-Around. She won Gold and Bronze medals at the CoverGirl Classic. She performed successfully for the Florida Gators during the 2012 season, earning the maximum of five All-American honors, becoming the Raleigh regional floor exercise champion, and winning the Securities and Exchange Commission all-around and vault championships. Hunter graduated from the University of Florida in 2015, finishing her college career as a 2 time team sec champion, a 3 time team National Collegiate Athletic Association champion, a 4 time individual National Collegiate Athletic Association champion (2 National Collegiate Athletic Association all-around titles, a vault title and a floor title), a 7 time Securities and Exchange Commission individual champion and a finalist for the Honda award. Kytra won the 2015 Honda Award for gymnastics.

Membership

Hunter accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida beginning the 2011 fall semester, where she is a member of coach Rhonda Faehn"s Florida Gators women"s gymnastics team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (National Collegiate Athletic Association) and Southeastern Conference (Securities and Exchange Commission) competition.