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| Simone Biles will lead the USA gymnasts at the Pacific Rim Championships. Photo by John Cheng/USA Gymnastics |
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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA (March 24, 2014) Five athletes from Texas
were selected to represent the United States
at the 2014 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships in Canada on April 9-11, 2014.
2013 World all-around champion Simone Biles
of the World Gymnastics Centre will lead the team of elite American gymnasts to
the competition in Richmond,
B.C.,
Simone is the 2013 World Championships
all-around & floor exercise gold medalist, vault silver medalist and
balance beam bronze medalist. She also finished fourth in the uneven bars
final.
In
addition, she is the 2013 U.S.
all-around champion and vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise
silver medalist and the 2013 AT&T American Cup silver medalist.
The Spring, Texas
native will be accompanied on the artistic team by fellow Texan Bailie Key (Montgomery, Texas)
of Texas Dream Gymnastics.
Bailey is the 2013 P&G
Championship junior division gold medalist in all-around, balance beam, and
floor exercise.
On the men’s side, Houston’s
Chris Brooks of Team Hilton HHonors and Cypress Gymnastics and Katy’s Davis Grooms of Champions Gymnastics will also compete in Canada.
Brooks is the 2014
Winter Cup Challenge all-around champion, high bar silver medalist, and an
alternate for the 2013 U.S. Olympic Team.
Grooms is the 2013 Men's Junior
Olympic (13-14) national champion in the all-around, high bar and still rings.
In
addition, Nicky Wojtana of Plano, Texas and the Texas Rhythmic
Academy will compete in
the female junior rhythmic competition.
The
Pacific Rim Championships is a
major regional gymnastics competition held every two years and is open to
teams from member nations of the Pacific Alliance of National Gymnastics.
Member countries include Australia,
Canada,
China,
Japan,
Mexico,
New Zealand,
Russia,
United States and other nations on the Pacific
coast.
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