Washington has announced the promotion of Elise Ray to the position of Head Coach to replace Joanne Bowers. Elise has been with the Huskies for five seasons.
Emma Brown, L10 at Chow's, has committed to Denver. She placed 2nd AA at her state meet this season and 1st AA at regionals. At JOs, she placed 10th AA.
Alexa Augustine will join the Bowling Green team this fall. Alexa competes at Level 10 at Xtreme Gymnastics in Arizona. She competed two events at her state meet this season and picked up the beam title. She finished 15th AA at regionals.
Gabryel Wilson, L10 at the Michigan Academy of Gymnastics, has committed to Michigan. She pulls big scores on all events. She won vault titles in every meet this season, including state, regionals and JOs. She hauled in top honors on other events as well at most of her meets. She placed 1st AA and 1st on vault, beam and floor at JOs.
Arizona has signed Jenny Leung, a L10 from Stars Houston. She'll be graduating early to join the Gymcats this fall. At the 2016 Region 3 L10 Regionals, she finished 8th AA and 2nd on VT. In 2015, she placed 18th AA at JO Nationals and also placed 4th on VT.
Link: Release
Amanda Huang will transfer to Ohio State for 2016-2017. She spent her first year at Alabama and will have four years of eligibility remaining.
Link: Ohio State Release
Minnesota has added Julia Huebert for 2016-2017, making for an incoming class of seven. She's a L10 at Eagles in Kanasas. This past season, she placed 9th AA at the Region IV L10 Regionals. She also placed 13th AA(t) at the Region IV L10 Regionals in 2015.
Link: Release
Amid accusations,allegations and turmoil, Rachelle Thompson has resigned. Jeff Thompson plans to stay on as Head Coach. PSU will have to fill two assistant coach positions.
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Bowling Green has added Jovannah East, Lexi Augustine and Michigan transfer India McPeak for 2016-2017.
Washington Head Coach Joanne Bowers has stepped down after 10 seasons to spend more time with her family. She intends to move across the country to Virginia to her husband John, who is now an assistant football coach at JMU. Her son is battling for the starting QB spot at Cal. No word on replacement plans has been released. However, in an interview with the UW Daily, Bowers noted that she had recommended Associate Head Coach Elise Ray for the position. A final decision has not yet been made.
Link: Washington Release
Esperanza Abarca, L10 from WOGA, has committed to West Virginia. This season she placed 6th AA at her state meet. She placed 1st AA and 1st on Bars and beam at regionals. She placed 28th AA at JOs.
Chloe Campbell, L10 out of Bull City Gymnastics, has committed to William and Mary. This season she finished 7thAA at the N.C. state meet and 12th AA at regionals.
Minnesota commmit Lexy Ramler tied with Lauren Navarro at 55.95 to take the senior title and qualify to the P&G Championships. Utah commit Abby Paulson was close behind in third (55.9) LSU commit Christina Desiderio, OU commit Kaitlin DeGuzman, Maggie Musselman and OU commit Olivia Trautman also qualified.
Morgan Hurd (Florida) won the jr. title, with Jaymes Marshall 2nd and Irina Alexeeva 3rd. Michigan commit Alyona Shchennikova was fourth while UCLA commit Kalyany Steele tied with Florida commit Riley McCusker for fifth.
Link: USA Gymnastics
Jillian Hoffman, L10 at SCEGA, has committed to Utah. She won her SoCal meet this season while placing 1st on beam and floor; 2nd on vault and bars. At regionals, she picked up the fx title and placed 2nd AA. She placed 3rd on fx at JOs.
Avery Bennett, L10 from Desert Lights, has committed to BYU. She placed 8th AA at her state meet and finished the season off with a 9th place AA finish at regionals.
Lauren Guerin, L10 at Olympia Hills in Texas, has committed to Iowa. She earned regional floor gold this season and finished 16th AA at JOs.