As of June 15, gymnasts within the class of 2027 are permitted to decide to NCAA gymnastics packages.
Whereas these gymnasts is not going to be competing for his or her respective faculties till the 2028 season, a lot of them shall be busy competing elite via the summer season and fall. As we head into the recruiting interval for the category of 2027, there isn’t any time like the current to familiarize ourselves with the gymnasts which may be committing to high packages and making up the subsequent class of school gymnastics legends.
Claire Pease – USA
For American followers, Claire Pease would be the most acquainted identify among the many class of 2027 gymnasts. The WOGA standout burst onto the elite scene as a junior in 2024, profitable the all-around titles at Winter Cup and U.S. Traditional earlier than turning into the U.S. junior all-around champion.
In her first yr as a senior, Pease has already began to show heads, profitable the beam title at Winter Cup and the Antalya World Cup. Whereas she has struggled a bit with consistency in 2025, when she hits, her beautiful approach units her other than her friends, particularly on bars and beam.
Pease is at the moment certified to the united statesChampionships on vault and beam, however she continues to be within the hunt for an all-around berth. Look out for Pease’s sky-high Silivas on flooring, inbar and Endo work on bars, and her packed-with-connections beam routine. With stars like Simone Biles and Suni Lee on hiatus after the Olympic yr, Pease shall be trying to problem for a podium spot at nationals in August.
Lia Monica Fontaine – Canada
Together with Pease, Lia Monica Fontaine might be essentially the most embellished gymnast of the category, profitable each Canadian Championships all-around title she has competed for since 2022.
Fontaine has taken 2025 by storm, profitable this yr’s Canadian Championship all-around title with a 54.316 – the very best all-around complete of her profession – whereas additionally taking house titles on vault and flooring.
Fontaine’s double-twisting Yurchenko is definitely among the best we now have seen this yr, with an enormous block and excellent twisting kind main her to among the best vault scores – 14.150 – that anybody has posted this season. Her energy carries over to flooring, the place she competes a jam-packed routine full with a Silivas and a entrance full via to double tuck.
Fontaine was named to the Canadian Pan American Championships crew, the place she positioned second within the all-around and certified for each occasion closing. She went on to win the ground closing with a 13.8 – among the best worldwide flooring scores this season. After Pan Ams, she’s going to come house instantly eligible to commit to a school program ought to she select. Barring damage, the younger star appears to be all however a lock for the Canadian Worlds crew this coming fall.
Alyssa Guerrier Calixte – Canada
Though a tough beam efficiency throughout day one of many 2025 Canadian Championships stored her off the general podium, Alyssa Guerrier Calixte posted the third-highest all-around rating of the day on day two of the competitors, behind solely Fontaine and 2026 Utah commit Gabrielle Black.
Guerrier Calixte’s standout occasion is flooring, the place she gained a silver medal at each this yr’s Worldwide Gymnix and Canadian Championships. Whereas she competed arduous expertise like a full-twisting double tuck and a Gomez flip, the actual deal with is in her expressive efficiency and dynamic choreography.
Together with Fontaine and Black, Guerrier Calixte was despatched to Panama for Pan Ams, the place she earned the sixth-highest all-around rating (however the two-per-country rule stored her from formally inserting), together with serving to Canada win the crew silver medal. Whereas the two-per-country rule stored Guerrier Calixte from getting a reserve spot within the closing, maintain a watch out for her beam routine over the remainder of the season – she has struggled to place all the items collectively to this point this yr, however with a routine boasting a entrance handspring to entrance tuck, double flip, and double tuck dismount, she is due for giant scores if she will hit.
Reese Esponda – USA
Reese Esponda gained notoriety amongst gymnastics followers in 2024 for her tough flooring routine, which included a Silivas, double structure, full-twisting double tuck, and a entrance tuck to double tuck – however this solely scratches the floor of her potential on the occasion.
The Montana native went viral in early 2024 after posting a video of her performing a triple tuck onto a mat within the pit at a nationwide crew camp. The triple again is just not the one distinctive talent Esponda has carried out, nonetheless. She turned heads earlier this yr when she debuted a entrance structure half to double tuck at an elite qualifier.
Esponda is not any stranger to going viral both, with a 2023 video of her performing a facet aerial to structure step-out to tuck full collection on beam amassing over 14,000 likes. On high of all of this, Esponda originated a talent – the backwards butterfly bounce on flooring – that was added to the Code of Factors after she carried out it on the 2024 Baku World Cup (it was not named after Esponda as a consequence of its ‘B’ worth – expertise should be rated not less than ‘C’ to be named).
Whereas Esponda is just not at the moment certified to nationals, her current 51.700 all-around rating on the Coastal Realm Elite Qualifier has certified her for the American Traditional and U.S Traditional, giving her ample alternative to earn her means there.
Lia Redick – Canada
After beginning off her 2025 elite marketing campaign with a bang, inserting third within the all-around on the DTB Pokal Workforce Problem and profitable silver on beam within the accompanying Combined Cup, Lia Redick had a reasonably unsavory Canadian Championships, ending the competitors in eighth.
Regardless of this, she was named to the Pan Ams crew for the second yr in a row. Whereas a low issue rating relegated her to sixth place in final yr’s junior Pan Am beam closing, Redick got here again with a brand new and improved routine to win the occasion as a senior this yr with a private finest worldwide rating of 13.267.
Whereas her beam routine – fueled by a again handspring mount and a triple collection – has been her highest scoring and most profitable occasion in competitors this yr, Redick has the makings of a profitable NCAA competitor on the opposite occasions. Her entrance structure to again 2.5 twist on flooring and stable Yurchenko full look lineup prepared for a lot of faculty packages.
Ema Kandalova – Nice Britain
Wanting again to 2023, Ema Kandalova was a key junior gymnast for Nice Britain, ending third within the all-around on the European Youth Olympic Competition and being named to the British junior Worlds crew.
With a British elite season but to function a Downie, Gadirova, or Kinsella, Kandalova was picked as a part of the DTB Pokal Workforce Problem squad in her first yr as a senior. She made the a lot of the alternative, bringing again bronze medals from the crew competitors and beam closing.
Beam has been Kandalova’s most profitable occasion since she turned senior, including a silver on the 2025 British Championships to her DTB Pokal medal. She competes a clear, composed routine that incorporates a change leap mount and a break up leap full.
With so many British gymnasts trying like they plan to take the yr off, look out for Kandalova to realize some extra worldwide expertise throughout her senior debut.
Natalia Jacoby – Serbia
Since switching to compete for Serbia, the Ohio-based Natalia Jacoby has earned quite a few worldwide assignments, together with a spot on the Serbian crew at this yr’s European Championships.
Jacoby has shut ties to gymnastics legend Svetlana Boginskaya, who coached her at Euros. As the one Serbian gymnast to compete at Euros, a spot on their Worlds crew appears all however inevitable. If she makes it to Jakarta, be careful for her flooring routine, which is carried out to the identical music as Silvia Mitova’s iconic 1992 Olympic routine (and her daughter Jessica Hutchinson’s 2023 tribute).
When not competing for Serbia, Jacoby trains alongside present elites Kelise Woolford, Avery Moll, and Jazlene Pickens at Buckeye Gymnastics in Ohio. Whereas an ankle damage has hampered her issue scores to this point this season, Jacoby’s approach has nonetheless shone via, significantly on bars and beam – the latter of which she begins off with a again handspring mount.
