U.S. Women’s National Team camp

The final U.S. Women’s National Team camp for 2014 concluded this month at the USA Gymnastics National Team Training Center in Huntsville, Texas. The five-day camp began Friday, Nov. 21.

National Team Coordinator Martha Karolyi, who has lead Team USA to a successful 79 medals at the World Championships and Olympic Games since 2001, led the camp with the rest of her national team staff. She said, “I was very pleased with the progress achieved since the last camp. It was a very productive camp with athletes working on new skill acquisition and reconstructing routines from the 2015 season.” Athletes that were in attendance at this camp are in the process of increasing difficulty by trying to attain and perfect new skills, and reconstructing routines for maximum score possibility.

Five members of the 2014 World Championships gold medal winning team (Alyssa Baumann of Plano, Texas/WOGA; Simone Biles of Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre; Madison Desch of Blue Springs, Mo./GAGE; Ashton Locklear of Huntersville, N.C./Everest Gymnastics; and Kyla Ross of Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max) participated in their first camp since giving Team USA its first back-to-back World team titles.

Along with Ross, 2012 Olympic gold medalists Gabrielle Douglas of Virginia Beach, Va./Buckeye Gymnastics, and Aly Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan's, are also at the camp.

Following the conclusion of the camp, the International Elite Committee voted to add Douglas, Raisman, Rachel Gowey of Urbandale, Ill./Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance, and Victoria Nguyen of West Des Moines, Ill./Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance, to the National Team. Gowey finished third on balance beam and fourth in the all-around at the 2014 Secret U.S. Classic. Nguyen tied for third on floor exercise and finished eighth in the all-around at the 2014 P&G Gymnastics Championships earlier this year.

One of the first big competition that this girls will participate in is the AT&T American Cup (which will be held in Arlington, TX in March 2015). This competition will give them the opportunity to debut new routines with higher difficult and set the bar for the 2015 Elite Season.

Here is a list of all the athletes that participated in the final Team USA Camp of 2014.

Alyssa Baumann, WOGA


Simone Biles, World Champions Center


Jordan Chiles, Naydenov


Nia Dennis, Buckeye


Madison Desch, GAGE
 Christina Desidero, Parkettes


Gabby Douglas, Buckeye


Norah Flatley, Chow's Gymnastics


Jazmyn Foberg, MG Elite


Ashley Foss, North Stars Gym


Margzetta Frazier, Parkettes


Rachel Gowey, Chow's Gymnastics


Felicia Hano, Gym-Max


Lauren Hernandez, MG Elite


Amelia Hundley, Cincinnati Gymnastics


Sydney Johnson-Scharpf, Brandy Johnson's


Bailie Key, Texas Dreams


Ashton Locklear, Everest Gymnastics


Laney Madsen, Gym Max


Abigail Matthews, Cincinnati


Maggie Musselman, Hill's Gymnastics


Victoria Nguyen, Chow's Gymnastics


Marissa Oakley, Phenom


Grace Quinn, Texas Dreams


Aly Raisman, Brestyan's


Lexy Ramler, Kidsport


Kyla Ross, Gym-Max


Emily Schild, Everest Gymnastics


Polina Shchennikova, TIGAR


Megan Skaggs, Gymnastics Academy of Atlanta


Ragan Smith, Texas Dreams


Alexis Vaszquez, Chow's Gymnastics


Sabrina Vega, GAGE