This week marked the first national team camp since November of 2017 is being held in Crossville, Tennessee at the FlipFest Gymnastics Camp. This marks the return to camp of reigning Olympic all around champion, Simone Biles. Athletes selected for the Junior Pan Am Games will be verifying full routines well other athletes complete half sets. There has been much drama surrounding this camp, with members of the USA Gymnastics Organization being asked to leave. Many athletes showed support on the incident through social media early in the week before being asked to delete the posts by an NCAA coach. Junior elite, Konnor McClain’s mom provided that the athletes did not train for the evening after finding out about the let go of Senior Vice President, Rhonda Fahen. Aside from all that, we can not yet provide much detail on the situation (other than the fact that as per usual, this is a dramatic national team camp). The roster for the camp is below via FloGymnastics:
Simone Biles, World Champions Centre
Jordan Bowers, Solid Rock
Sophia Butler, Discover Gymnastics
Jade Carey, Arizona Sunrays
Jordan Chiles, Naydenov
Kayla DiCello, Hill’s
Olivia Dunne, ENA Paramus
Kara Eaker, GAGE
Margzetta Frazier, Parkettes
Shilese Jones, Future Gymnastics Academy
Sunisa Lee, Midwest Gymnastics
Lillian Lippeatt, Cincinnati
Emma Malabuyo, Texas Dreams
Grace McCallum, Twin City Twister
Konnor McClain, Revolution
Riley McCusker, MG Elite
Gabby Perea, Legacy Elite
JaFree Scott, GAGE
Ragan Smith, Texas Dreams
Tori Tatum, Twin City Twister
Trinity Thomas, Prestige Gymnastics
Leanne Wong, GAGE
The training camp concluded on May 18th.
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