INDIANAPOLIS (March 21, 2023) – The U.S. will send eight trampoline gymnasts to represent the country at the 2023 Senior Pan American Championships May 12-14 in Monterrey, Mexico. The roster of selected National Team athletes features Olympians and World champions and medalists.
Pan American Championships
The men’s roster includes Olympian Aliaksei Shostak, 2022 World team all around silver medalists Cody Gesuelli and Isaac Rowley, and reigning World and U.S. double mini champion Ruben Padilla.
Olympian Nicole Ahsinger is set to represent the women in trampoline competition along with last year’s U.S. individual and synchronized trampoline champion Sarah Webster, 2022 World team all around silver medalist Jessica Stevens, and 2022 U.S. individual and synchro trampoline bronze medalist Ava Hernando.
Each athlete will compete in the individual and synchronized trampoline divisions.
The Pan American Gymnastics Championships are the official continental gymnastics championships for North, South and Central America and the Caribbean. The Trampoline Championships serve to qualify countries to the 2023 Pan American Games, to be held in Santiago, Chile in November. The Championships feature men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, acrobatic gymnastics, trampoline and tumbling, as well as aerobic gymnastics. U.S. rosters in other disciplines will be announced later this spring.
Participating athletes are listed alphabetically below.
Men
Cody Gesuelli – Huntsville, Ala./Merino Trampoline Gymnastics Academy
Ruben Padilla – Bluffdale, Utah/Wasatch Trampoline & Tumbling
Isaac Rowley – Allen, Texas/Eagle Gymnastics Academy
Alexi Shostak – Lafayette, La./Trampoline and Tumbling Express
Women
Nicole Ahsinger – Lafayette, La./Trampoline and Tumbling Express
Ava Hernando – Holmdel, N.J./Elite Trampoline Academy
Jessica Stevens – Ellicott City, Md./Fairland Gymnastics
Sarah Webster – Lafayette, La./Trampoline and Tumbling Express