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Fort Worth, Texas • Florida gymnast Bridget Sloan likes to talk about going "four for four" — hitting all the routines in one meet.

On Saturday, the senior will go for another "four for four" — four consecutive NCAA titles with the Gators.

Sloan was the early leader in the all-around and carried her team to the top score in the first semifinal session at the NCAA women's championships Friday.

The Gators, with a score of 197.475, qualified for the Super Six finals along with Southeastern Conference rivals LSU and Georgia. The other three finalists were to be set in the second semifinal Friday night.

Sloan already has three individual NCAA titles, including the all-around when she was a freshman in 2013. And she has a shot at two more event crowns since she shares the lead on uneven bars with Georgia's Brittany Rogers at 9.95, the same score Sloan had for the outright lead on beam.

"It's been an incredible journey, but we've got one more day," said Sloan, a 2008 U.S. Olympian whose all-around score was 39.7 with all four events at 9.9 or higher. "We're going to bring the heat tomorrow."

Florida shared the 2014 championship with Oklahoma, the top-ranked team for this year's meet and one of the late competitors. The Gators have a new coach in Jenny Rowland, who replaced Rhonda Faehn when Faehn took a job with USA Gymnastics a week after winning the 2015 title.

Only two teams have won at least four straight titles. Georgia took five straight from 2005-09, and Utah won the first five NCAA meets from 1982-86.

"Everybody that asks me, 'Hey, are you going to win a fourth one?' And my answer has always been, 'You know what? I've never won one before,'" Rowland said. "So this is an opportunity for me help this team win another championship and it would be the first time that I would have a championship of my own."

Ashleigh Gnat and Myia Hambrick boosted LSU to the second spot in the early session at 197.3375, with Gnat recording a 9.925 on vault and Hambrick matching that score on floor exercise. A year ago, the Tigers didn't qualify for the Super Six.

"I don't think we were really thinking a lot about last year," Gnat said. "We were just focused on what we had to do today and the team that we have creating the momentum to be able to go into tomorrow with a good mindset."

Brandie Jay energized the Georgia crowd with the top early score on vault at 9.95 to help the team reach the finals for the third time in the past four years with a score of 196.725.

"No question we've had an up-and-down season and I think a lot of people counted us out," Georgia coach Danna Durante said. "They're tough, they're resilient. We had no doubt."

Stanford's Elizabeth Price, the only individual event winner returning from last year, won't repeat her crown on vault. The sophomore, an alternate on the 2012 U.S. Olympic team, was tied for third after the early session at 9.9.

Alabama was going for its ninth straight Super Six bid in the late session.