With the 2025 NCAA gymnastics season in full swing, top college athletes are already eyeing mid-April competitions national championship in Fort Worth, Texas.
Unlike elite gymnastics, where difficulty is more important than execution, the collegiate level emphasizes precision over big moves, so Division I athletes all aim to score a perfect 10 in competition.
Despite this disparity, many of the world’s most decorated elite gymnasts also compete in the NCAA. Two-time Olympian Jade Carey returns to OSU for her senior season at No. 14 while her U.S. teammates compete in Tokyo and Paris. Jordan ChilesEntering his junior year at No. 11 at UCLA.
The Bruin took the 2024 NCAA season off to prepare for last summer’s Olympics, where she will try to regain the uneven bars and floor exercise national titles she won in 2023.
Top teams ready for the podium
in winning their first national championship Last spring, No. 2 LSU headed into 2025 with a loaded roster headlined by 2024 all-around champion Halle Bryant and social media star. Livi Dunn.
Add to that last year’s freshman phenom Konnor McClain, whose stellar performance on the balance beam culminated in an NCAA trophy for LSU, and 2024 Olympic alternate Kaliyah Kaliya Lincoln, known as 9.825 Treasury The Tigers were more than capable of playing back-to-back games two weeks ago.
LSU isn’t the only SEC team expected to make big strides this season, as the league is once again filled with perennial contenders.
Elite USA star Kayla DiCello and early Freshman of the Year front-runner Skye Blakely will join two-time U.S. Olympic reserve Leanne Wong in an effort to make seventh-ranked Florida Return to the NCAA Championship Game. Meanwhile, the new SEC team No. 1 OklahomaThe winner of seven of the past 10 NCAA trophies, senior Jordan Bowers will likely replace Bryant as the 2025 all-around champion.
Also generating early national championship buzz is No. 5 Cal, a 2024 finalist, which returns two of the nation’s best all-around players in senior Mia Lauzon and junior EMjae Frazier, as well as No. 6 Michigan State, the Big Ten champion, has a veteran roster that features stars Skylar Schulte and Sage Kellerman.
How to watch the NCAA gymnastics competition this weekend
No. 7 Florida’s gymnastics team will travel to No. 2 LSU on Friday at 7:30 p.m. ET, featuring some of the nation’s top NCAA gymnasts. Live coverage will be at ESPN2.
