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.

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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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