Coach Jenny Rowland in her statement said “We wish them well moving forward. Our focus remains on supporting our athletes and maintaining a team culture built on accountability, respect and commitment.” Skylar Draser, senior University of Florida gymnast, along with juniors Ly Bui and Lily Bruce were removed from the team roster on Wednesday.
“EDIT: Second source so this is the story I have been told. Told one of the dismissed may actually have been dismissed for an unrelated instance of showing up somewhere black out drunk,” one wrote , adding “Latest update: More than the three athletes were involved. Yet another said that Draser and Bruce looked like ‘big party girls’. If you told little Skylar who committed to Florida in 8th grade that this is how this chapter would end, she never would have believed you.
Upperclassmen take a freshmen out to a bar. Freshmen is drunk and wants to go home. they put her in an uber and stay to keep partying. Freshmen alone and drunk in the back of an uber feels unsafe and scared and calls a friend of hers who happens to be a recruit. Recruit is worried and tells her parents. Mom calls the coaches worried about the Freshmen. There was drinking involved but the recruit was not drinking. The recruit was not on an official visit. Another added that the row might have started from putting a drunk freshman in an Uber . Draser issued a lengthy statement after the removal. She slammed the speculations surrounding the decision, labeling them ‘hurtful’. Her statement was shared by Planet of Gymnastics. Simply put I made my commitment to UF at such a young age and gave EVERYTHING to the best of my ability to stay true to that commitment even when I questioned my happiness and whether this was truly where I belonged.
