The qualifying round for the Men's World Championships was completed, with the US finishing in 2nd. Several US Men qualified for finals. Michigan's Fred Richard and Stanford's Asher Hong qualified for the AA final. Richard qualified 2nd on FX while Hong qualified on 6th PB. Stanford's Khoi Young qualified 2nd on PH and 6th on VT while Michigan's Paul Juda qualified for 5th on VT and 6th on HB. Former OU Sooner Yul Moldauer qualified 4th on PB.
The qualifying round served as a qualifying round for the Olympics. Previously, China, Japan and Great Britain qualified. The US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, the Netherlands and Ukraine all qualified. For the AA spots, Brazil, Korea and Belgium each earned a nominative AA spot by finishing in the next three positions. The top 8 AAers not on one of the 12 qualifying teams were also named. Additional spots will be earned in the event finals, the World Cup series, the Continental Championships (AA) and a place reserved for the host country, France (if they do not qualify in any other method) and a Universality place. Unofficially, three gymnasts have already qualified in individual events by placing ahead of those on qualifying team/AA spots. These three include Kevin Penev of Bulgaria, who competed for Michigan and is from New York.
Link: Men's Olympic Qualifiers (Will download a PDF)
Link: Full Men's Results
The young US Men's squad, which includes four current NCAA gymnasts and one former champ, placed an impressive 2nd in the standings after the first day of qualifications. Japan leads the field, with the UK 3rd, Germany 4th and China 5th. Eight more teams compete tomorrow. The US team includes Michigan's Fred Richard and Paul Juda and Stanford's Asher Hong and Khoi Young. Former NCAA champ and ex-Sooner Yul Moldauer completes the squad.
Link: USA Gym Release and Results
SUU has been competing in the Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference and it makes the switch in the upcoming season.
Levandowski comes to Brown from a career in club coaching.
The US named the women's squads for the World Championships and Pan American Games following a test event. The squads have a heavy NCAA flavor. Besides Simone Biles, heading to Atwerp are Florida's Leanne Wong and Kayla DiCello (alternate) plus commits Skye Blakely and Shilese Jones. Arkansas commit Joscelyn Roberson is also on the squad. For the Pan Am Games, DiCello is joined by UCLA's Jordan Chiles and LSU commits Zoe Miller and Kaliya Lincoln. 2025 recruit Tiana Sumanasekera completes the squad. The non travelling alternates include Evy Lowe (2026), Nola Matthews (2025)and Alicia Zhou. Oregon State's Jade Carey declined a spot on the Pan Am squad due to a family conflict and will go to the Swiss Cup in stead.
Link: Release
Daniel Barclay has been the USU team manager since 2018.
Josie Angeny competed for Kentucky and took her 5th year at Georgia.
DeMarco is a former Rutgers athlete and coach.
Utah has released the results of an outside review of their gymnastics program and Coach Tom Farden. The review resulted from reports of emotional and verbal abuse. Per the release, the report, compiled from 45 interviews, finds that while Farden’s actions caused some student-athletes to feel “increased fear of failure” and pressure to retain athletics scholarships, he did not engage in “any severe, pervasive or egregious” acts of emotional, verbal or physical abuse or harassment as defined by the SafeSport Code and NCAA regulations. The outside review outlined five recommendations for improvement. The report also did find one instance where Farden violated the Student-Athlete Health, Safety and Wellbeing program of the University's Athletic Department (through degrading language).
Austyn Forbes has coached at the club level for 15 years.
Washington has hired former standout Brenna Brooks as an assistant coach. She joins the staff as the new third assistant. A former gymnast at WOGA, she has been coaching at Pacific Reign.
Link: Insta
Kendra Combs competed at West Virginia and followed that up with club coaching.
Estrella competed at Temple and served as Temple's volunteer coach.
The 2023-2024 NCAA Code Modifications for Women have been published. There are little change to this year's code, meaning we will likely be seeing more record scores broken during the 2024 season.