2025 U.S. Championships Recap
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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
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 CupÂ
- September 26-28: Szombathely World Cup
- September 29-October 2: US Women’s Selection Camp
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| 0:00.0 | Remember, this show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
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| 0:33.7 | Hesley Rivera and Asher Hong are the 2025 All-Around National Champions. |
| 0:38.8 | Two women's college gymnast won event titles. |
| 0:42.1 | And we have lots of interviews to share with you from National Championships. |
| 0:46.5 | Welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the Galaxy. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam situation. |
| 0:52.7 | Let's start with the results from the women's competition. |
| 0:57.1 | All right. |
| 0:57.4 | All around results. |
| 0:58.8 | We have, we have champions. |
| 1:00.8 | Hesley Rivera, all around champion. |
| 1:03.0 | Leanne Wong second, silver medal in the all around. |
| 1:05.8 | Joss Roberson, third, all around. |
| 1:08.0 | Event champions, Leanne Wong, one vault. |
| 1:11.3 | Hesley Rivera and Sky Blakely tied on bars, and then Hesley-R-Virra won, |
| 1:15.8 | beam, and four. |
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