Lacey Gardner, a L10 from Arizona Dynamics, has committed to continue her academic and athletic career at ASU, starting in 2025-2026. In 2024, she placed 10th AA and tied for 3rd on BB at the Region 1 Level 10 Regionals. She also placed 29th AA at the 2022 Women's Development Program L10 Nationals.
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Grace Wellington, an elite gymnast from New Zealand, has committed to Alaska, starting in 2024-2025. In 2024, she competed on VT and FX at Challenge Cup meets in Varna and Kper. She was a sliver medalist on VT and bronze medalist on BB at the 2023 New Zealand Championships.
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Charlotte Ritchey, a L10 from Coksiders, has committed to continue her academic and athletic career at Maryland, starting in 2025-2026. In 2023, she placed 6th on VT and tied for 14th AA at the Women's Development Program L10 Nationals.
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Maggie Ball, a L10 with Bart Connor Gymnastics, has committed to a full scholarship offer at Iowa, starting in 2025-2026. In 2024, she won the BB title and placed 5th AA at the Women's Development Program L10 Nationals. Ball is the daugher of OU coaches KJ Kindler and Lou Ball.
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UCLA has hired Mark Freeman and Lacy Dagen as assistant coaches. Freeman has been serving as an assistant for the Stanford's Men's team for the last five years, and prior to that, with the Cal Men's team. He was a former gymnast at Cal and for the UK National Team. Dagen was an assistant and recruiting coordinator at ASU. Prior to that, she coached at Oregon State and UC Davis. She competed at Oregon State after starting her career at Florida.
Link: UCLA Release
BGSU has hired Brittney Emmons as their new Head Coach. She has spend the last five seasons at W&M and was a student-athlete at Ball State. Prior to that, she was an assistant at SEMO and a volunteer assistant at USU.
Link: Release
GWU has hired India Anderson as an assistant. She was previously an assistant at Fisk and Ursinus. She was also a student-athlete at Temple.
Link: GWU Release
Sophie Tressler, a L10 at YellowJackets, has committed to continue her academic and athletic career at Brown, starting in 2025-2026. In 2024, she tied for 24th AA at the Women's Development Program L10 Nationals. She's a two time L10 Regional qualifier.
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Ritch, a L10 at Gladiator Sports, has committed to a full scholarship offer at Towson, starting in 2025-2026. In 2024, she qualified as specialist on UB to the Women's Development Program L10 Nationals, where she won the UB title. She competed primarily as an UB/FX specialist since 2022, when she last competed AA. She is, however, training BB.
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Jamilia Duffus, who spent her first season at Talladega, has accepted a full gymnastics scholarship at Alaska-Anchorage. The Jamaican gymnast competed on up to three events last season.
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Sophia Rivera, a L10 from Aeon, has committed to continue her academic and athletic career at Towson. A 2nd year L10, she placed 15th AA at the Region VII L10 Regionals in 2024.
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Addi Watson, a L10 at WCC, has committed to continue her academic and athletic career at Ohio State, starting in 2025-2026. In 2024, she placed 28th AA at the Women's Development Program L10 Nationals.
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Kyrstin Johnson, who won a National USA Collegiate title on VT (Yurchenko 1 1/2) as a frosh at Talladega, will transfer to Temple for next season.
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Abygail MacKinney became the latest Class of 2026 commit. The in-state L10 from Arizona Dynamics committed to a full scholarship offer from Arizona, starting in 2026-2027. In 2024, she tied for 33rd AA at the Women's Development Program (WDP) L10 Nationals. She also won the VT and placed 16th AA at the 2021 WDP L10 Nationals.
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Trinity Macy will compete for WVU next season, where she will take her fifth year. She previously was at EMU and Pitt. She competed on up to three events for EMU last season.
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Rising sophomore Alexa Chuy will transfer from Talladega to GWU for next season. She competed AA for Talladega, hitting a high of 38.65.
Link: Insta