A new generation of gymnastics stars are ready to take center stage
The 2025 graduating class is full of champions, Olympians, and stellar athletes who have left their mark on the sport of gymnastics. These are some of the brightest stars the sport has seen in recent memory, they’ll be leaving behind enormous legacies and big shoes to fill. Oklahoma Sooners 2025 All-Around National Champion Jordan Bowers and […]
The 2025 graduating class is full of champions, Olympians, and stellar athletes who have left their mark on the sport of gymnastics. These are some of the brightest stars the sport has seen in recent memory, they’ll be leaving behind enormous legacies and big shoes to fill.
Oklahoma Sooners
2025 All-Around National Champion Jordan Bowers and her teammate Audrey Davis graduate with three team national titles from Oklahoma.
Florida Gators
Two-time Olympic alternate and NCAA standout Leanne Wong graduates from Florida on her way to med school.
Missouri Tigers
Fan favorite Helen Hu is retiring from gymnastics for real this time, after retiring in 2023, taking the 2024 season off, and coming back to win a national balance beam title in 2025.
Jade Carey competing for Oregon State Gymnastics | Stew Milne/GettyImages
Oregon State Beavers
Olympic medalist Jade Carey had an incredibly impressive senior season, earning four perfect 10s (three on floor, one on balance beam) to bring her career total to 16. Across her four years as a Beaver, Carey won 168 event titles, 51 this season alone. Carey was named the winner of the 2025 American Athlete, Inc. Award, which recognizes the top female senior gymnast nationwide. She is also a finalist for the prestigious Honda award, recognizing the top NCAA athlete in each sport, along with Oklahoma’s Bowers and Davis and LSU’s Aleah Finnegan.
UCLA Bruins
UCLA’s Brooklyn Moors, Emma Malabuyo, and Chae Campbell have left an indelible impact on the program, bringing it back to its former glory and ending their careers as National Runner-Ups. Campbell won the Big 10 All-Around Title, Moors won the national floor title, and Malabuyo helped clinch the team’s advance to the finals with a second-place finish of her own on the balance beam.
Utah Utes
Olympian and Utah cornerstone Grace McCallum will return as a student coach next year, after claiming four individual runner-up finishes at NCAAs this year. LSU graduates a shocking 10 athletes, including Olympian Aleah Finnegan and last year’s American Athlete, Inc. winner and All-Around national champion Haleigh Bryant. In her career, Bryant owns at least one perfect 10 on each event, what is referred to as a “Gym Slam” in the sport.
Who are the rising stars in gymnastics, ready to take over from these legends?
Faith Torrez competing for Oklahoma Gymnastics at the 2025 NCAA Gymnastics Seattle Regional | Ali Gradischer/GettyImages
Oklahoma Sooners
Oklahoma rising senior Faith Torrez is the heir apparent to the void left by the graduates, already having a long list of accolades to her name, including multiple individual conference and national titles the past two seasons. This year, she took silver on the floor exercise and bronze in the all-around and on balance beam at NCAAs after sharing the balance beam national title with her teammate Audrey Davis last year. Torrez is the reigning SEC champion on the floor exercise and shares the conference honor on balance beam.
OU also has a dangerous trio of rising sophomores — Addison Fatta, Lily Pederson, and Elle Mueller. Pederson is a Level 10 National Champion, while Mueller won the 2024 Nastia Liukin Cup. Fatta has Olympic Trials and international experience with Team USA as a senior elite gymnast. Fatta and Pederson both competed in the All-Around multiple times this season, with Fatta being named a first-team All-American in the All-Around after NCAAs. Mueller consistently made vault and floor lineups, breaking 9.900 in both events.
LSU Tigers
Last year’s national champions, the LSU Tigers, boast the reigning SEC Freshman of the Year and NCAA Vault champion, Kailin Chio, and former USA Gymnastics Winter Cup All-Around Champion, Lexi Zeiss. Chio hit a 39.800 in the All-Around this season and won the national vault title. Zeiss and Chio’s teammate, Kaliya Lincoln, had a limited season due to injuries, but the Olympic alternate and Pan American champion is a powerhouse and will likely become a staple in the Tigers’ All-Around lineup and especially in the floor exercise.
Utah Utes
For much of the year, the Freshman of the Year race was neck and neck between two athletes — the aforementioned Chio and Utah’s Avery Neff, who was the number 1 recruit in the class of 2024. Neff’s season took a pause after she sprained both of her ankles during her floor routine on Jan. 17 in a home meet, but she miraculously returned to competition just three weeks later after working closely with the team’s training staff. By the end of the season, she was back in the All-Around, winning the All-Around title at Utah’s regional semifinal appearance with a 39.650. She ended her freshman season as a four-time All-American and the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year.
Joscelyn Roberson competing for Arkansas Gymnastics | Stew Milne/GettyImages
Arkansas Razorbacks
Arkansas’s Joscelyn Roberson is another SEC gymnast to be reckoned with, breaking multiple program records for the Razorbacks this year. She had a nonstop year, from traveling to Paris as an Olympic alternate, touring with Simone Biles and other members of Team USA on the Gold Over America Tour, and hopping right into competition as a regular All-Around competitor for Arkansas this spring. Roberson was lights out on balance beam and floor, bringing energy and experience to the Gymbacks. She qualified to NCAAs as an individual All-Around competitor after Arkansas fell in the regional finals. She earned All-American honors on the balance beam, both at National Championships and for the regular season, and is returning to elite training during the NCAA offseason.
Florida Gators
2026 should see comebacks from Florida’s Kayla DiCello and Skye Blakely, who should join their teammate Selena Harris-Miranda as huge contenders in the 2026 season. Blakely returned to limited competition during the 2025 season, but DiCello was sidelined the whole season after rupturing her Achilles at 2024 Olympic Trials and later requiring foot surgery. Both DiCello and Blakely were considered top prospects for the 2024 Olympic Team before their untimely injuries and have the skills and consistency to be major factors for Florida next season. DiCello’s return to the vault lineup would be a huge asset for the Gators, who struggled on the event at this year’s national semi-finals.
Transfer portal
eMjae Frazier, previously at Cal, and former Georgia Bulldog Naya Howard are both currently in the transfer portal but depending on where they land next year, could make a big splash. Frazierbroke the single season NCAA scoring record as a sophomore in 2024. (This record has since been broken by Oklahoma’s Jordan Bowers and Faith Torrez.) She’s a rockstar in the classroom too, graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in three years, and will be pursuing a master’s degree at her next program. Howard will have one year of eligibility for her new program and can make an immediate impact on any program, with a career high of at least a 9.900 on all four events.
Big 10
The Big Ten should see a lot of stellar gymnastics from MSU’s Sage Kellerman, OSU’s Tory Vetter, Washington’s Mary McDonough, and Illinois’s Chloe Cho. This season, Kellerman earned All-American honors on both events she competed at NCAAs- vault and uneven bars. Vetter recently announced that she will return to Ohio State for her fifth year after being named to the First Team All Big Ten Gymnastics Team this year. Cho was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and McDonough advanced all the way to the National Championships as an individual All-Around competitor, despite Washington failing to qualify to regional competition.
Smaller programs
From smaller programs, expect a splash from Towson’s Isabella Minervini, a regional individual All-Around competitor, and Fisk’s Morgan Price, who has broken a score of records, including sweeping all five individual national titles at this year’s Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics National Invitational Championships, defending her All-Around title from last year. She also became the first HBCU gymnast to ever earn a 10.0 with an uneven bars routine earlier this season.
Despite a large graduating class of gymnasts, NCAA gymnastics has a bright future. Between rising upperclassmen, this year’s exceptional freshmen class, and a new class of recruits, the 2026 season will be star-studded and full of exciting routines. Whether you’re a gymnastics die-hard, new to the sport, or somewhere in between, each conference has plenty of new and returning gymnasts to root for. Gymnasts will begin training with their teams this summer, and competition will start again in January 2026.
No. 3 Ohio State still doing some shuffling along the offensive line ahead of opener vs. No. 1 Texas
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State coach Ryan Day says there’s still some shuffling along the Buckeyes’ offensive line ahead of their Aug. 30 season-opener. Some of that the coaches credited to a new emphasis this preseason: players learning primary and secondary positions. But as the third-ranked Buckeyes get closer to their matchup with top-ranked […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State coach Ryan Day says there’s still some shuffling along the Buckeyes’ offensive line ahead of their Aug. 30 season-opener.
Some of that the coaches credited to a new emphasis this preseason: players learning primary and secondary positions. But as the third-ranked Buckeyes get closer to their matchup with top-ranked Texas, Day is hoping to lock in his frontline sooner rather than later.
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“It’s important as we get closer to this first game for guys to really dig in and get the majority of the snaps at where they’re going to play,” Day said this week.
Austin Siereveld, a third-year sophomore who entered preseason as the presumed starter at right tackle, has been working at left tackle over the past week. That’s because Phillip Daniels, who transferred in January after two years at Minnesota, is in the running to start on the right side.
Rice transfer Ethan Onianwa is the potential backup at either spot. He is also getting a look at guard, where Tegra Tshabola and Luke Montgomery finished last season as starters flanking Carson Hinzman at center.
“We’ll see,” Day said. “By the end of this week, we’ll have more and more snaps, more and more information, and go from there.”
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Onianwa started 25 games at right tackle and nine at left tackle for Rice.
“I feel like it’s kind of important for all the O-linemen to have experience in these positions because you never know how the season’s going to progress, and that’s just been kind of like the plan,” Onianwa said Tuesday. “I’ve been playing guard, I’ve been playing tackle on both sides, and it’s just a learning experience, and I’m enjoying every second of it.”
Daniels redshirted in 2023 and played in 12 games last season for the Golden Gophers.
If outsiders were surprised at his ascension, he indicated he is not.
“I know the plays now, so everything’s just clicking,” Daniels said. “Once I know the plays, I feel like I can kill anybody.”
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Offensive line coach Tyler Bowen, who is in his first season in Columbus after spending three at Virginia Tech, downplayed the significance of the movement to a certain degree, but he confirmed the staff is putting an emphasis on learning multiple positions.
“It’s something we believe in, and that’s a good example of it,” Bowen said of Siereveld’s moving around. “He’s bounced to tackle. He’s played guard. I think what you see up front, we do that a lot. Nothing’s set in stone. We have a lot of versatility. We have some depth, but we’ve got to be able to perform at a high level on the spot we settle into, and that’s what we’ve got to figure out this week. And we’ve got to figure it out fast.”
While the starting lineup is still being determined, Day said he is happy about the depth up front with redshirt freshmen Gabe Van Sickle and Ian Moore making progress this month.
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NCAA Women’s Hockey Grads Continue Careers on International Stage
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ADRIAN, Mich. – Three Adrian College women’s hockey alumni have recently signed professional contracts to continue their careers overseas. Maya Roy ’23 and Aileena Dopheide ’24 signed with ERC Ingolstadt of the German Women’s Ice Hockey League (DFEL), while Maya Tupper ’22 signed with Sapporo Infinity of the Japan Women’s […]
ADRIAN, Mich. – Three Adrian College women’s hockey alumni have recently signed professional contracts to continue their careers overseas.
Maya Roy ’23 and Aileena Dopheide ’24 signed with ERC Ingolstadt of the German Women’s Ice Hockey League (DFEL), while Maya Tupper ’22 signed with Sapporo Infinity of the Japan Women’s Hockey League (JWHL).
After graduating, Tupper began her professional journey in Austria with Lakers Kärnten of the European Women’s Hockey League (EWHL), appearing in six regular-season games and recording one goal and one assist. She added three more assists in four playoff games. Tupper then played two seasons in Australia for the Adelaide Rush of the Australian Women’s Ice Hockey League (AWIHL), tallying five goals and 16 assists in 32 games. During her time at Adrian, Tupper played in 43 games, recording two goals and 10 assists.
Roy had an outstanding five-year career at Adrian, appearing in 118 games and recording 28 goals and 94 assists. She was a four-time All-Conference selection and earned First Team AHCA All-American honors in 2024, followed by Second Team recognition in 2025. In her final season, Roy set a new single-season record for assists at Adrian, finishing with 35.
Dopheide was another key contributor for the Bulldogs, skating in 112 games over her career and posting 26 goals and 58 assists for 84 points. Her senior season was her most productive, notching 13 goals and 25 assists for 38 points—ranking fourth on the team in both points and assists, and fifth in goals.
Adrian College has now seen 12 women’s hockey alumni advance to professional leagues around the world. Congratulations to these Bulldog alums on the next step in their hockey careers!
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South Carolina’s Rahsul Faison releases NIL apparel while awaiting eligibility decision
As he awaits an eligibility decision from the NCAA, Rahsul Faison released NIL apparel. Through a partnership with Fan Arch, the South Carolina running back launched #FreeSul apparel Tuesday. Faison released T-shirts and sweatshirts on Fan Arch’s website Tuesday. The T-shirts start at $29.99 and sweatshirts are listed at $49.99. Advertisement Faison is still seeking […]
As he awaits an eligibility decision from the NCAA, Rahsul Faison released NIL apparel. Through a partnership with Fan Arch, the South Carolina running back launched #FreeSul apparel Tuesday.
Faison released T-shirts and sweatshirts on Fan Arch’s website Tuesday. The T-shirts start at $29.99 and sweatshirts are listed at $49.99.
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Faison is still seeking another year of eligibility from the NCAA after applying for a waiver. He’s still waiting on a response, and Shane Beamer said the program still had not heard anything as of Tuesday.
Beamer also confirmed Faison did not practice Sunday, though it was not due to the eligibility situation. Instead, he has a bruised shoulder, which is why he wasn’t on the field.
“I know I’m going to get asked about Rahsul,” Beamer told reporters. “I don’t have an update for you right now. He wasn’t at practice Sunday. That wasn’t because of his situation with the NCAA, he just got hit a little bit on the shoulder in our scrimmage on Saturday night. It’s nothing serious, just a bruise. But he was in the training room or actually getting some extra work done on that Sunday night when you guys were at practice.”
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Beamer also said the hope is Faison and South Carolina get an answer “soon” on the former Utah State running back’s situation. The head coach also said the program is respecting the NCAA’s process.
“He was back out there today in good spirits,” Beamer said. “Hope to get some good news on that soon. But we’ll see. But again, extremely respectful of the NCAA and the job they have. I know they’re analyzing other cases besides Sul’s. And appreciate them taking it under consideration or into consideration and optimistic that we’ll get some good news hopefully soon.”
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Rahsul Faison spent the last two years at Utah State and put up the best numbers of his career in 2024. He ran for 1,109 yards and eight touchdowns while adding 99 receiving yards. He graduated high school in 2019 and enrolled at Marshall, though he didn’t play a snap with the Thundering Herd. Faison then took online classes at Lackawanna College in 2020, though he didn’t play football.
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In 2021, Faison enrolled at Snow College and didn’t get onto the field until 2022. A year later, he transferred to Utah State, and he’s seeking another year of eligibility in light of Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia’s legal victory last year.
Pavia’s motion for a preliminary injunction was granted in the U.S. District Court of Middle Tennessee in December. The NCAA released guidance in March to its membership, issuing a blanket waiver to former junior college players.
Carroll Soccer Teams Host Pair of Scrimmages to Open 2025
Story Links HELENA, Mont. – The Carroll College Men’s and Women’s Soccer teams will see their first on-field action of the 2025 season this afternoon, as they host a pair of exhibition contests against Casper College and the University of Calgary at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. The Carroll Men, fresh off of the program’s […]
HELENA, Mont. – The Carroll College Men’s and Women’s Soccer teams will see their first on-field action of the 2025 season this afternoon, as they host a pair of exhibition contests against Casper College and the University of Calgary at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.
The Carroll Men, fresh off of the program’s first Cascade Collegiate Conference Championship and NAIA National Tournament appearance, will look to set the tone with today’s early-season tune-up against the Thunderbirds of Casper College (Wy.) at 12 p.m.
Featuring a mix of up-and-coming young talent, as well as a bevy of All-Conference talent from the 2024 season, the Fighting Saints will look to retain their spot at head of the CCC table this Fall.
Following the Men’s opener, the Carroll Women will host Calgary at 2 p.m. to kick-off their ’25 campaign.
A trio of First Team All-CCC performers from last season (Maria Ackerman, Avery Lambourne, Delaney Moczan) will look to lead the Saints back to the top of the conference this Fall, and the Dinos are the first taste of action for the the hungry team this Fall.
Stats will not be recorded for the pair of exhibitions, but a livestream for each game can be viewed free of charge, HERE.
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