As the NCAA season wrapped up last weekend, level 10 gymnasts around the country competed at regionals, hoping to qualify for nationals—one of the biggest stages many will compete on before entering the college ranks. For some, this is the beginning of their level 10 careers, but for many others, these are the final competitions before college.
Unlike regionals at the college level—a combination of seeds and geographic placement to the host—the USA Gymnastics regional competitions are truly geographic, with each state assigned to one of eight regions. With this format, some regions present stronger competition than others. Rather than looking at level 10 success, though, we sought out to discover how gymnasts from each region perform at the college level, using data compiled from the last five college seasons (2018 to 2022).
Before getting into the specifics, here’s a brief overview of the regions. Note that we categorized gymnasts into regions based on the hometown listed on the Road To Nationals roster, and all following analysis is based on that categorization.
Of the rostered college gymnasts over the past five years, Region 1, Region 5, and Region 7 have seen the most gymnasts make a collegiate roster, each producing a similar number of…
