UPDATE 4/5: Ragan Smith has been selected to replace Maggie Nichols who has withdrawn due to a knee injury.

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The U.S. Pacific Rim Championships Team has been named as Simone Biles, Brenna Dowell, Laurie Hernandez, Ashton Locklear, Maggie Nichols, and Aly Raisman. The competition is April 8-10 in Everett Washington and provides an important opportunity for these seniors to prove themselves in this Olympic year.

This will be Biles' first competition of 2016 and she will be debuting a new floor routine along with her new Cheng vault. More on Biles. Dowell's last competition was at the 2015 World Championships so this will be her first showing in 2016 as well.

Hernandez and Locklear are coming off strong performances at the 2016 City of Jesolo Trophy where they helped Team USA take the team gold. Hernandez also took third in the all-around, first on beam, and second on vault. Locklear brought home the gold on bars.

For the women, there will be a team/all-around final on Saturday April 9th and event finals are on Sunday, April 10th.


Release via USA Gymnastics  

INDIANAPOLIS, April 3, 2016 – Based on performances at the U.S. Women’s National Team Training Camp, USA Gymnastics has selected the six women who will represent the United States at the 2016 Pacific Rim Championships, presented by Hershey’s, April 8-10, at the XFINITY Arena at Everett (Wash).  The U.S. women will compete in Subdivision 2 on Saturday, April 9, at 7 p.m. in the team and all-around finals, which also serve as the qualifications for the individual event finals.  Competition begins on April 8 with the men’s team and all-around finals.


The members of the U.S. Women’s Team for the Pac Rim Championships are listed below.

Simone Biles, Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre

Brenna Dowell, Odessa, Mo./Great American Gymnastics Express

Laurie Hernandez, Old Bridge, N.J./MG Elite

Ashton Locklear, Hamlet, N.C./Everest Gymnastics

Maggie Nichols, Little Canada, Minn./Twin City Twisters

Aly Raisman, Needham, Mass./Brestyan’s American Gymnastics


Biles, Dowell, Nichols and Raisman were members of the 2015 World Championships team that won the team gold medal, and Biles is the current reigning World and U.S. all-around champion. Biles now has three straight World all-around titles and 14 World medals, including 10 gold. Biles and Locklear were both on the 2014 World team that clinched the team title. Hernandez, who moved up to the senior level in 2016, took third in the all-around at the recent Jesolo Trophy, as well as helped the USA to the team gold.

The three-day Pacific Rim Championships is expected to feature more than 200 gymnasts from 18 Pac Rim countries, competing in men’s and women’s gymnastics, trampoline and rhythmic gymnastics.  The countries are Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Panama, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, and the United States.


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