Per USA Gymnastics
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (November 21, 2024) – The premier gymnastics occasion within the nation will head to New Orleans in 2025. The U.S. Gymnastics Championships and the USA Gymnastics Nationwide Congress and Commerce Present shall be hosted within the Crescent Metropolis August 7-10, USA Gymnastics and the Higher New Orleans Sports activities Basis introduced Thursday.
Held on the Smoothie King Heart August 7-10, the Championships will function the nation’s greatest junior and senior males’s and ladies’s gymnasts as they compete for nationwide titles and vie to make the U.S. Nationwide Crew, from which the roster for the 2025 World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, in the end shall be chosen. Greater than 2,500 attendees and exhibitors will participate within the accompanying Nationwide Congress and Commerce Present from August 8-10 on the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Conference Heart.
“We’re excited to convey our championships and Nationwide Congress and Commerce Present to New Orleans,” USA Gymnastics President and CEO Li Li Leung mentioned. “The post-Olympic yr is when athletes start their construct towards 2028, when the Summer time Olympic Video games return to america for the primary time since 1996. With its historical past as a bunch of world-class sporting occasions, New Orleans is a good setting for our largest annual occasion.”
New Orleans final hosted the U.S. Championships in 1995, when three-time Olympian John Roethlisberger and Olympic gold medalist Dominique Moceanu had been the boys’s and ladies’s all-around champions. The championships had been first held within the state in 1977, in Baton Rouge.
“With the U.S. workforce incomes Olympic workforce gold by the ladies and bronze by the boys, New Orleans is thrilled to welcome the primary U.S. Gymnastics Championships for the reason that Paris Video games,” mentioned Jay Cicero, President and CEO of the Higher New Orleans Sports activities Basis. “It has been 30 years for the reason that Sports activities Basis hosted the Nationwide Championships in 1995 at what’s now generally known as the Caesars Superdome, 5 years previous to the opening of the Smoothie King Heart. With the native and regional surge in reputation of gymnastics as a result of success of the LSU Nationwide Champion program, we’re wanting ahead to nice crowds.”
The information was introduced on the Smoothie King Heart and was attended by USA Gymnastics management and members of the gymnastics and sport communities in Louisiana. Members of the LSU gymnastics workforce, together with 2022 U.S. all-around champion Konnor McClain and head coach Jay Clark, additionally had been a part of the announcement.
Hundreds set to attend Nationwide Congress
Working together with the championships, the 2025 USA Gymnastics Nationwide Congress and Commerce present is the academic hub for the gymnastics group, offering greater than 2,000 attendees entry to useful instructional alternatives, together with seminars and dwell demonstrations. A whole lot of distributors additionally participate within the commerce present, the place gymnastics professionals can join with distributors who present items and providers to the group.
Tickets for the 2025 U.S. Gymnastics Championships will quickly be introduced, with data accessible at usgymchampionships.com. Go to usagymcongress.com for all particulars in regards to the USA Gymnastics Nationwide Congress and Commerce Present.
