2025 U.S. Championships Recap

The most impressive gymnastics, stories, highlights and controversies of the 2025 U.S. Men's and Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

GymCastic LIVE featuring: MORGAN HURD get your replay tickets here Women's Highlights from USA Championships

• Hezly Rivera is your new 2025 USA national all-around champion!
• Who are our event champions?
  • Vault: Wong with highest score in the world
  • Bars: Rivera and Blakely
  • Beam: Rivera
  • Floor: Rivera
• Our favorite moments from the meet:
  • Leanne Wong said "you're not leaving me off the Worlds team," and pulled a stuck Cheng for night two
  • Joscelyn Roberson whipped out a massive 6.5 D-score floor routine with a full-twisting double layout for her third pass!

Men's Highlights from USA Championships

• Question: Was this the right Worlds team pick? What about Frederick Richard? We debate
• How Patty Hoops 15.7'd himself a plane ticket to Jakarta
• We need to talk about Jackson Harrison's growth in the past year
• Fan favorites Charlie Larson and Jackson Harrison talk about the new men's transition (read that as dance) rules on men's floor.
• Kameron Nelson has not one, but TWO triple-backs on floor!
• Fred Richard and his new uniform: yay or nay?
• Are there too many triple-backs?

GYMTERNET NEWS

• Li Li Leung is stepping down as president & CEO of USA Gymnastics. Read her exit interview here

2025 U.S. Championships – Women's Senior Results Rank No. Athlete Gym Prelim Final Combined 1 219 Hezly Rivera WOGA 55.600 56.400 112.000 2 217 Leanne Wong U of Florida 55.100 56.100 111.200 3 215 Joscelyn Roberson U of Arkansas 55.400 54.200 109.600 4 207 Ashlee Sullivan Metroplex 53.700 54.250 107.950 5 210 Simone Rose Pacific Reign 53.450 54.450 107.900 6 209 Jayla Hang Pacific Reign 52.250 55.400 107.650 7 214 Gabrielle Hardie Twin City Twisters 53.750 53.100 106.850 8 220 Dulcy Caylor World Champions 53.800 52.900 106.700 9 224 Tiana Sumanasekera World Champions 53.100 52.850 105.950 10 218 Claire Pease WOGA 51.600 53.950 105.550 11 206 Alicia Zhou Love Gym 51.950 52.800 104.750 12 204 Izzy Stassi Gym X‑Treme 53.300 50.750 104.050 13 211 Harlow Buddendeck RGA 52.000 52.000 104.000 14 201 Nola Matthews Airborne 52.150 51.750 103.900 15 223 Brooke Pierson World Champions 52.450 51.000 103.450 16 222 Reese Esponda World Champions 51.350 51.900 103.250 17 212 Ally Damelio San Mateo 50.450 52.150 102.600 18 221 Jordis Eichman World Champions 51.250 51.050 102.300 19 203 Annalisa Milton GAGE 51.300 50.600 101.900 20 208 Catherine Guy Pacific Reign 50.550 50.050 100.600 2025 Senior Women's National Team

• Skye Blakely — Frisco, Texas/University of Florida
• Dulcy Caylor — Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre
• Jayla Hang — Bellevue, Wash./Pacific Reign Gymnastics
• Gabrielle Hardie — Sioux Falls, S.D./Twin City Twisters
• Claire Pease — Sunnyvale, Texas/WOGA Gymnastics
• Hezly Rivera — Oradell, N.J./WOGA Gymnastics
• Joscelyn Roberson — Texarkana, Texas/University of Arkansas
• Simone Rose — Sammamish, Wash./Pacific Reign Gymnastics
• Ashlee Sullivan — Richardson, Texas/Metroplex Gymnastics
• Tiana Sumanasekera — Pleasanton, Calif./World Champions Centre
• Leanne Wong — Overland Park, Kan./University of Florida

2025 Men's World Team

October 19-25 in Jakarta, Indonesia Taylor Burkhart — Arvada, Colo./Stanford University^ Brandon Dang — San Jose, Calif./University of Illinois Asher Hong — Tomball, Texas/Stanford University Patrick Hoopes — Lehi, Utah/U.S. Air Force Academy Brody Malone — Aragon, Ga./EVO Gymnastics Kameron Nelson — Columbus, Ohio/Ohio State University Donnell Whittenburg — Baltimore, Md./EVO Gymnastics

2025 Senior Men's National Team

• Fuzzy Benas — Richmond, Texas/University of Oklahoma
• Taylor Burkhart — Arvada, Colo./Stanford University
• Crew Bold — Delray Beach, Fla./University of Michigan
• Brandon Dang — San Jose, Calif./University of Illinois
• Asher Hong — Tomball, Texas/Stanford University
• Patrick Hoopes — Lehi, Utah/U.S. Air Force Academy
• Jun Iwai — Lewisville, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics
• Josh Karnes — Erie, Pa./Penn State University
• Riley Loos — El Dorado Hills, Calif./ Stanford University
• Brody Malone — Aragon, Ga./EVO Gymnastics
• Kameron Nelson — Columbus, Ohio/Ohio State University
• Dante Reive — West Point, N.Y./United States Military Academy
• Frederick Richard — Stoughton, Mass./University of Michigan
• Donnell Whittenburg — Baltimore, Md./EVO Gymnastics
• Colt Walker — Austin, Texas/Stanford University

UPCOMING COMPETITIONS

• August 19-22: Junior Pan Am Games
  • US: Lavi Crain, Charleigh Bullock, Kylie Smith, Addie VanGrinsven
• September 13-14: Paris World Cup
• September 26-28: Szombathely World Cup
• September 29-October 2: US Women's Selection Camp

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• Photo Galleries from 2025 U.S. Championships
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• 2025 U.S. Championships Preview Episode

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RESOURCES

• The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles by Aimee Boorman with Fact Checker. Aimee coached Simone from day one in gymnastics to three back to back World All Around titles, 14 world medals and an unprecedented 5 medals at the Rio Olympics. Get your copy now. And if you loved reading (or listening) to the book, please leave a review.
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• Kensley's men's gymnastics site Neutral Deductions

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