The class of 2025 started making it official last week following the opening of the signing period on November 13. You can track your favorite teams and their recruit’s status on our signing day tracker. Ly Bui, the final remaining uncommitted five-star in the class, surprised everyone by announcing her commitment and signing with Florida on the same day, boosting the Gators to the No. 3 signing class over LSU, which dropped to No. 4.
Tabitha Kelly competed at the Central American Gymnastics Championships for Panama. The team placed third and Kelly qualified for the individual finals. While she was able to compete, a bout of food poisoning affected her competition.
Tonya Paulsson (California, ’25) has announced her nationality switch for international competition from Sweden to Taiwan, her mother’s home country. Paulsson cited a “loss of trust in the leadership style of the Swedish national team” as the reason for the change.
Commitment Changes
- Class of 2025 three-star recruit Daisy Bowles has signed to Iowa on a full ride. She was previously verbally committed to Washington.
- Addisyn Doan, who previously committed to New Hampshire, will join the team at Texas Woman’s in the class of 2025.
- Gold Medal’s three-star ’25 recruit Stella DePaola was due to join Kent State but has since signed with Iowa.
New Commitments
For a full list of recruits and where they are committed for each of the active classes, check out our complete database. To learn more about the gymnasts, click their name to visit their CGN profile where you’ll find high scores, links to their score page(s), their social media accounts, and more.
Class of 2025
- Florida added five-star elite Ly Bui to its class on signing day, making her the third five-star recruit to sign with the class. Bui finished top on bars at the 2024 Core Hydration Classic and came in sixth all-around at the 2023 US national championships.
- Kara Johnson, a level nine, has committed to Hamline. She is currently training a double pike dismount on bars.
- Lola Kiesel and Alisya Dorman become the first two athletes in their class to commit to Utica.
- Rhode Island signed both Hannah Radcliff and Arden Ficek.
- Bridgeport added three in Belle Schmidt, Veronica Castillo, and Canada’s Delphine Desjardins. Schmidt has an all-around high of 37.275 and excels on floor. Desjardins does a double layout dismount on bars, and Castillo has solid form across the events.
- Springfield added two to their class with the commitment of level nines Caitlyn Alekshun and Taylor Fewins.
- Alaska native Madison Jordan will join the Seawolves in Anchorage.
- Washington has picked up two more future Huskies with the commitments of three-star Lydia Rak and Charlotte Gray. Rak is a fifth-year level 10 at San Mateo who has an all-around high of 38.325 and is a four-time national qualifier. Gray was a national qualifier in 2024 and competes a double layout on bars.
- The University of Wisconsin added athletes to four out of its five programs that sponsor gymnastics:
- La-Crosse added four commits with Canada’s Marisa Stewart, whose clean leaps and tumbling will make her a strong all-around prospect; Ashley Dalton, a 2024 nationals qualifier, who competes a Yurchenko one and a half and a triple series on beam; Cobi Powell who looks set to compete a Yurchenko layout this season, but is also working a tuck full on vault; and Jaime Yehle. Look out for her unusual triple series on beam of a front handspring, front toss, back handspring.
- UW-Stout adds Cora Cardellino, Kadyn Swank, and Caroline Dimarco, bringing the number of commits in the class to four. Cardellino has a blind to piked jaeger and a double layout on bars. Swank, who trains at Buckeye, excels on vault and floor, and Dimarco has competed in the X-Cel Diamond program throughout her high school career.
- UW-Eau Clare added fourth-year level 10 Aliana DeSarno who brings a beam high of 9.525.
- UW-Whitewater gains its first of the class with the verbal commitment of Carly Musschoot who has a double back dismount on bars and is training a Yurchenko full.
- West Chester added a trio with Ava Griffith, Katelynne Tatum, and Ziyan Williams.
- Raphaëlle Perreault, a Canadian native, has announced her commitment to LIU.
- Winona State added Canadian level 10 Ashley-Elizabeth Lynch.
- Syvanna Navarro will join Northern Illinois on a full ride. Navarro is a consistent all-around athlete with a high score of 37.825.
- Celina Satter and Estelle LeBoeuf become the fourth and fifth members of the class of 2025 to commit to Brockport.
- Cortland picked up Madison Wilt, an athlete at Edgewater (FL), who has an all-around high of 36.050.
- Penn State added two more to its class with the commitments of two-time national qualifier Kayla Bender as well as ENA’s Lizzy Ryan, whose strong tumbling will put her in the mix for lineup spots.
- Izabella Yanis becomes the first in her class to commit to Greenville.
Class of 2026
- Kee Anne Cura, who trains at Pacific Reign, has committed to San Jose State on a full ride. Cura is a two-time national qualifier with a bars high of 9.725, where she competes a textbook double layout and a sky high Tkatchev.
- Three-star McKinley James has announced her intention to sign for the Beavers, bringing Oregon State’s class of 2026 to three. James, who trains at Pearland Elite, has a standout vault with a high score of 9.900.
- Christina Shelton has announced her commitment to NC State. Shelton is an elite who has competed in a number of level 10 meets. While she competes a difficult Ray on bars, her highest score from level 10 comes on vault where she competes a Yurchenko one and a half, a skill which is sure to contend for a lineup spot with the Huskies.
- Mackenzie Showers, a three-star who trains at Everest in North Carolina, will attend Ball State on a full-ride. She is the first commitment in the class for the Cardinals. She has clean gymnastics across all events and though she has an impressive high score of 37.750 in the all-around she is especially fun to watch on bars.
- Rory Liegl, whose debut level 10 season ended with her securing a spot at nationals, has announced her commitment to Denver on a full-ride. Liegl has a lot of difficulty and looks set to compete a Yurchenko one and a half this season.
- Buckeye athlete and three-star recruit Carly Weinberg has verbally committed to BYU. Weinberg has an all-around high of 38.425 and was a Nastia Liukin Cup qualifier in 2022. She has a handspring layout layout series on beam, the apparatus with her highest score: 9.700.
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Article by Katie Couldrey
