Gator Ready! eMjae Frazier Is Prepared For Her Senior Season!

eMjae Frazier has proven herself as one of the top NCAA gymnasts through her first three years in college. Frazier spent her first three years of eligibility as a California Bear where she earned a perfect 10.0 on beam and floor and a career high All-Around score of 39.825. In the spring of 2025, Frazier graduated from Cal with a degree in Psychology. After graduation, she faced a tough decision: which school could provide her with the best masters program in psychology, while also pursuing her gymnastics career? 

 “Now the next thing is where am I gonna do it? Am I gonna stay at Cal, or am I gonna go to Florida? I love Cal. It was a big, big decision. Florida is a top academic program as well, and gymnastics is way up there as well. It’s unbeatable, and the master’s program was a way better fit for me,” Frazier said. 

Ultimately Frazier decided to transfer to Florida for her senior year and is working towards a masters in applied physiology and kinesiology with a concentration in human performance, with the long term goal of becoming a sports psychologist. The transfer to Florida could not come at a better time for the Gators Gymnastics program. The team is stacked with superstar athletes including World Championship medalists, Skye Blakely, Kayla DiCello, and Riley McCusker and other NCAA stars including Selena Harris-Miranda and Anya Pilgrim. Frazier could be the missing piece the Gators needed to catapult them to an NCAA National Title. Gator nation made it impossible for Frazier to not make the move to Florida.

 “Gator nation is something that you can’t compare,” Frazier said. “The support, the resources here, this is a big family. When I imagine college gymnastics it’s where I’m at right now, and it just feels so at home, and I’m just loving it.”

Frazier found her home quickly in Florida and is loving every minute. Reuniting with her former teammates has made the transition even easier than expected. She grew up in club gymnastics with Skylar Draser and was on the 2021 World Championship team with DiCello. Her new teammates have been a big factor behind the smooth transition. She immediately found her family in Florida. Whether it is grabbing food in a dining hall, attending a sporting event, or training in the gym, she enjoys spending her days with her new team. 

“From the second I was here, everyone’s been so open and so inclusive and it doesn’t matter whether it’s a freshman or a super senior, we all hang out, we eat two or three meals together every day. And it’s not because we’re forced to, but it’s because we want to,” Frazier said. 

Frazier is grateful for every experience she has had throughout her career. During her time at Cal, she was able to compete in the Pac-12 and the ACC, and now is able to compete in the SEC as a Gator. 

“I’m so grateful because each place has built me as a person,” Frazier said. “I’ve been able to experience so many things, meet so many amazing people and it’s really built the character of who I am, and forever I will be grateful, and forever I will be a Golden Bear, and now I also get to be a Florida Gator forever. It’s just amazing to have both.”

Family Support

Frazier looked to many people in her life when making the decision to transfer to Florida. She was able to ask around Cal for letters of recommendations when applying to different schools and programs. Frazier was the president of the Black Student Athlete Community at Cal and found support from advisors about what they thought her best path would be. She calls her family the biggest support she has and always asks them for advice when making life changing decisions. 

“My family was, and is always the biggest support system that I have,”  Frazier said. “If I’m not sure on something they make me feel better about the decisions that are going on, and those big decisions I always feel better about because I have them there.”

Frazier’s sister, Margzetta Frazier, is also a former U.S. National Team member and has long been considered a UCLA gymnastics legend. eMjae is able to use her older sister’s gymnastics experience when advice is needed. When eMjae arrived in Florida there was a specific piece of music she wanted to use for her senior year floor routine. Florida choreographer Jeremy James Miranda immediately helped to make this dream a possibility. Making the routine more special is Margzetta helping with the choreography. Margzetta is remembered for her legendary floor routines throughout her own career and has had a knack for the music and choreography process in a floor routine, something eMjae is excited to incorporate into her own routine. 

 “I got to work on it with him [Miranda] and my sister. Margzetta came down and worked with me on my floor routine,” eMjae said. “That’s never happened before, and it was just so much fun, because this year I got to use this music I’ve been dying for, and I got to have my sister, which was even cooler, such a full circle moment, and it just felt so surreal.”

“I was truly honored that Florida trusted me with eMjae’s floor routine, and even more grateful that my sister wanted to create something fun together,” said Margzetta. “It was such a treat being part of Jeremy’s choreography process. I learned so much from him. It’s always such a joy watching éMjae. She looks so polished and confident, and I can’t wait to see her performance this season.”

Frazier is keeping the music used in the routine a secret until the season begins, but assures us the routine will be worth the wait. She also plans on keeping her double layout in her routine, and keep her routines similar across the other three events.

Senior Year: Big Goals 

As Frazier enters her final year of NCAA gymnastics, there is no shortage of big goals she hopes to accomplish. Some of these goals include getting a 10.0 on beam and floor, and helping the Gators to NCAA and SEC team titles. While some teams may shy away from openly talking about their goals, Frazier says these goals are openly talked about in the gym.

“We all have vision boards,” Frazier said. “We want to get it done. But you take it one day at a time. It’s more about what are we doing right now? What are we getting done in the gym? How are we trying to be better today? Now, we’re just at that point you verbalize it, and then you kind of just let it go, and you work towards it, but you stay in the present.”

It has been a joy to watch Frazier throughout her gymnastics career. She brings a unique level of confidence and pizzazz to the competition floor that fans have loved watching. For Frazier, it does not feel like she should be old enough to be a senior in college. While she is working everyday in the gym to accomplish her loftiest dreams, she also wants to stay present and enjoy each moment. 

“My biggest goal is to stay within me and not get ahead of myself,” Frazier said. “This is one year and I want to just absorb everything that’s coming at me.”

Frazier is immensely grateful to have the opportunity to compete as a Florida Gator. Attending other sporting Florida sporting events excites her knowing that her time to compete is approaching. Her love for the Florida Gators runs deep and is ready to take in every moment with the team she is extremely fond of.  

“I think having this chapter is such a cool story,” she said. “I’m in shock every day that I’m here in the SEC. It is unreal. You would think, with having so little time and being so much older that you won’t really get those opportunities to make those relationships. But I was wrong. These girls are my best friends.” 

Catch Frazier absorbing every moment when the Florida Gators make their season debut on Jan. 9.

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