The NCAA champions in female gymnastics will be crowned in Fort Worth, Texas on Saturday, while Missouri, Oklahoma, UCLA and UTAH compete for the title of the coveted team.
The national final presents many big names, led by the gold medalist of the USA Jordan Chiles of the UCLA and the silver medalist of the 2021 team, Grace McCallum of UTAH. And there is no shortage of intrigue, given the absence of the seeded n ° 1 LSU, which was surprisingly eliminated from the championship support in the semi-finals.
Oklahoma, which is the seeded n ° 2, continues what would be its sixth female university gymnastics team in nine trials, while the UCLA tries to win its first national title in sport since 2018. They have long been considered among the heavy strikers of sport.
For UTAH, this national title would be the first of the Red Rocks in exactly three decades, after a period of domination in the 1980s and 1990s. And the Missouri made its first appearance in the national final.
Here is the last in the female team final at the NCAA gymnastics championships:
Oklahoma n ° 2 has an advance of almost four tenths of point on the UCLA entering the final rotation at the NCAA 2025 championships. And although it may not seem much, it is a fairly decent margin in the world of university gymnastics.
UCLA N ° 5 will have to be almost perfect in its final rotation, on the balance beam, to have a chance to capture the Sooners, which will conclude their day on unequal bars. UTAH n ° 4 is seated in third position and will probably not be able to catch Oklahoma at this stage, while the No. 7 Missouri seems to be locked in a fourth place.
Here is the classification of the team at the NCAA 2025 gymnastics championships after the third rotation:
- Oklahoma: 148,6375 (Washing: 49.6125 | Floor: 49.5875 | Vault: 49.4375 | Currently on bars)
- UCLA: 148.3000 (Floor: 49.6125 | Vault: 49.2875 | Bars: 49.4000 | Currently on the beam)
- Utah: 148.1125 (bars: 49,4500 | Beam: 49.1875 | Floor: 49,4750 | Currently in vault)
- Missouri: 147,7250 (Vault: 49.2000 | Bars: 49,1750 | Beam: 49,3500 | Currently on the ground)
Exercise on the ground has long been one of the best events of Jordan Chiles, and it flirted with a perfect 10 on the ground during the first Rotation of the UCLA on Saturday.
Chiles, who was part of the American team who won gold at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, obtained a score of 9,9750 to briefly stimulate the UCLA in a part of the first place. The score was seven hundredths better than its performance in the semi-finals, and a hundredth better than the 9.9625 that his teammate Brooklyn Moors won to win the NCAA title of this year on the aircraft.
The national female gymnastics championship is broadcast live on ABC, with streaming options available on the ESPN or Fubo application.
ESPN + also broadcasts “team flows” with distinct comments teams, which allow fans of a particular school to follow their gymnasts more closely. One flow follows the UCLA and the Utah, while the other focuses on Oklahoma and Missouri.
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With the overall seed n ° 1, LSU was eliminated in the semi-finals on Thursday, that is difficult to say.
If you go to the semi-finals, the favorite would be Utah n ° 4. The Red Rocks punctuated the field on Thursday with a total score of 197,7625 – Fractions one point ahead of UCLA N ° 5, which finished second. But if you prefer to get out of the seeding or a recent story, it would be n ° 2 of Oklahoma. The Sooners crossed their semi-final session and are led by the individual individual title winner this year, Jordan Bowers. They also won five of the last eight national championships dating from 2016.
Here’s how the four finalists stacked in the semi-finals:
- N ° 4 Utah: 197.7625 (Beam: 49.2125 | Floor: 49.5625 | Vault: 49.3375 | Bars: 49,6500)
- N ° 5 UCLA: 197.7375 (Floor: 49.5250 | Vault: 49.2375 | Bars: 49.4250 | Beam: 49.5500)
- N ° 2 Oklahoma: 197,5500 (bars: 49.4000 | Beam: 49.3500 | Floor: 49.5250 | Vault: 49,2750)
- N ° 7 Missouri: 197.3000 (floor: 49.2225 | Vault: 49.1250 | Bars: 49,4500 | Beam: 49.5000)
Only five routines obtained perfect scores in the regional final, and we did not see one in the national semi-final on Thursday.
It is a particularly difficult feat to achieve at the national championships because there are more judges, which essentially increases the bar for a gymnast to obtain a perfect score. During regular season meetings, each event is noted by two judges. At Nationals, however, there are six – the best and the worst scores being abandoned, and the other four are on average.
While on Saturday is the team final, the individual female female championships were decided on Thursday. Here are the full results:
Containing competition
- Jordan Bowers (Oklahoma): 39.7125
- Grace McCallum (Utah): 39,6750
- Faith Torrez (Oklahoma): 39,6375
Jump
- Kailin Chio (UCLA): 9,9750
- Sage Kellerman (Michigan State) and Grace McCallum (Utah): 9,9500
- Amy Doyle (Michigan State): 9,9125
Unequal bars
- Jordan Chiles (UCLA): 9,9750
- Grace McCallum (Utah): 9,9625
- Ergue to six: 9,9375
Balance
- Helen Hu (Missouri): 9,9875
- Emma Malabuyo (UCLA): 9,9750
- Ergue at five lanes: 9,9500
Ground exercise
- Brooklyn Moors (UCLA): 9.9625
- Jordan Bowers (Oklahoma), Grace McCallum (Utah) and Faith Torrez (Oklahoma): 9,9500
- Aleah Finnegan (LSU), Skyla Schulte (Michigan State) and Lily Smith (Georgia): 9,9375
