New Orleans Selected to Host 2025 U.S Gymnastics Championships

New Orleans has been selected to host the 2025 U.S. Gymnastics Championships and the USA Gymnastics National Congress and Trade Show. The event, hosted by Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, will be staged at the Smoothie King Center, August 7–10.
It will be the first time in 30 years that New Orleans has hosted the U.S. Championships. In 1995, three-time Olympian John Roethlisberger and Olympic gold medalist Dominique Moceanu were the men’s and women’s all-around champions. The event was first held in Louisiana in 1977, when Baton Rouge served as host.

“We are excited to bring our championships and National Congress and Trade Show to New Orleans,” USA Gymnastics President and Chief Executive Officer Li Li Leung said. “The post-Olympic year is when athletes begin their build toward 2028, when the Summer Olympic Games return to the United States for the first time since 1996. With its history as a host of world-class sporting events, New Orleans is a great setting for our biggest annual event.”

The championships will feature the country’s best junior and senior men’s and women’s gymnasts competing for national titles and to make the U.S. National Team, from which the roster for the 2025 World Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, will be selected.

More than 2,500 attendees and exhibitors are expected to participate in the National Congress and Trade Show, which will be staged August 8–10 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and is the educational hub for the gymnastics community. Hundreds of vendors also take part in the trade show, where gymnastics professionals can connect with vendors who provide goods and services to the community.

“With the U.S. team earning Olympic team gold by the women and bronze by the men, New Orleans is thrilled to welcome the first U.S. Gymnastics Championships since the Paris Games,” said Jay Cicero, president and CEO of the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation. “It has been 30 years since the Sports Foundation hosted the National Championships in 1995 at what is now known as the Caesars Superdome, five years prior to the opening of the Smoothie King Center. With the local and regional surge in popularity of gymnastics due to the success of the LSU National Champion program, we are looking forward to great crowds.”