Last year’s Pan American championships star from the United States was Kayla DiCello, who lit up the arena in Rio De Janeiro before her impressive freshman season at Florida. Her recent announcement that she would defer her sophomore season in order to make a run at Paris 2024 continues the exciting trend that we’ve been seeing in recent years, perhaps aided by the introduction of NIL; an NCAA commitment doesn’t have to mean the end of an elite career.
The United States took first place in the team competition with a dominant performance for a score of 163.700 in the three up, three count format. Mexico took the silver with 154.689, and Canada scored 150.998 for the bronze.
There were seven countries whose teams included gymnasts with a connection to an NCAA team and 17 athletes with pasts, presents, or futures in college gymnastics. Take a look at each country to see how these gymnasts did.
Note: Full scores have not yet been released, so some numbers may be missing below.
United States
Unfortunately, future LSU Tiger (class of 2023, four-star recruit) Zoe Miller sustained a concussion in training and did not compete. This gave us the opportunity to see traveling alternate Madray Johnson. The team came away with nine medals from the two days of…
