USA Gymnastics has released the list of women expected to compete at next week's Visa Championships in St Louis. Shawn Johnson is on the list for now, though her status is still unknown. More on that here. Absent from the list is Chellsie Memmel whose petition to USAG was denied after an uncharacteristic one event performance at Saturday's Secret Classic. More on that here.

Information from USAG is below. 

Gymnastike's coverage from St Louis will begin Wednesday with podium training videos and interviews. 

Last year's senior all around top 3: Wieber, Maroney, and Raisman

INDIANAPOLIS, May 30, 2012 – The road to the 2012 Olympic Games in London continues next week in St. Louis, Mo., with the 2012 Visa Championships, June 7-10 at Saint Louis University's Chaifetz Arena. Twenty-four senior women, representing 15 states, are scheduled to compete, including 2011 U.S. and World all-around champion Jordyn Wieber of DeWitt, Mich./Gedderts’ Twistars USA. Performances at the Visa Championships, which serve as USA Gymnastics’ national championships, will determine the gymnasts who advance to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials – Gymnastics in San Jose, Calif., June 28-July 1.

Wieber is joined by fellow 2011 World team champions Gabrielle Douglas of Virginia Beach, Va./Chow's Gymnastics and Dance; McKayla Maroney of Laguna Niguel, Calif./AOGC, who is also the World vault champion; Alexandra Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan's American Gymnastics, floor exercise World bronze medalist; Alicia Sacramone of Winchester, Mass./Brestyan’s American Gymnastics; Sabrina Vega of Carmel, N.Y./Dynamic; and Anna Li of Aurora, Ill./Legacy Elite, alternate.

Four members of the 2008 Olympic team, including 2008 Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin of Parker, Texas/WOGA, and 2008 Olympic balance beam champion Shawn Johnson of West Des Moines, Iowa/Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance, who combined for eight medals in Beijing, have qualified to compete.  Sacramone, the 2010 World vault champion, and Bridget Sloan of Pittsboro, Ind./Sharp’s Gymnastics, 2009 World all-around champion, are also expected in St. Louis.

Brandie Jay of Colorado Springs, Colo./GK Gymnastics, and Grace McLaughlin of Allen, Texas/WOGA, who along with Johnson and Sloan won the team gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Games, are expected to compete.

The 2012 Visa Championships will showcase first-year seniors Kyla Ross of Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max Gymnastics, junior all-around champion at the 2009-10 Visa Championships, Kennedy Baker of Flower Mound, Texas/Texas Dreams, who finished third in the all-around at the 2012 Secret U.S. Classic; Sarah Finnegan of St. Louis, Mo./Great American Gymnastics Express, runner-up at the 2012 Secret U.S. Classic; and Elizabeth Price of Coopersburg, Pa./Parkettes.

In the junior division, reigning U.S. junior all-around champion Katelyn Ohashi of Plano, Texas/WOGA, is back to defend her title.  Ohashi is joined by fellow 2012 Kellogg's Pacific Rim Championships team gold medalists Amelia Hundley of Hamilton, Ohio, and Lexie Priessman of Cincinnati, Ohio, both of whom train at Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy. 2012 Secret U.S. Classic junior all-around champion, Simone Biles of Spring, Texas/Bannon’s Gymnastix, and junior national team members Madison Desch of Lenexa, Kan./Great American Gymnastics Express, and Bailie Key of Coppell, Texas/Texas Dreams, have also registered for the event.

The Visa Championships determine the U.S. champions and the national team for both the junior and senior elite levels for men’s and women’s gymnastics.  NBC Sports and Universal Sports will broadcast and webcast the action from St. Louis.

2012 Visa Championships Competition Schedule (all times are Central)

Thursday, June 7

1 p.m. Junior Men Competition – Day 1

6:30 p.m. Senior Men's Competition – Day 1

Friday, June 8

1 p.m. Junior Women’s Competition – Day 1

6:30 p.m. Senior Women's Competition – Day 1

Saturday, June 9

11:30 a.m. Senior Men’s Competition – Final Day

6 p.m. Junior Men's Competition – Final Day

Sunday, June 10

10 a.m. Junior Women’s Competition – Final Day

2:30 p.m. Senior Women's Competition – Final Day


The ladies of the 2012 Secret US Classic. Photo by Scott and Emer Hults