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The Pacific Rim Championships will be held this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in the XFINITY Arena in Everett, WA.
Held every two years, Pac Rim Championships include approximately 200 athletes competing in men’s & women’s artistic gymnasts, trampoline, and rhythmic gymnastics.
Countries in the Pac Rim include; Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Panama, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, and the United States.
What makes the Pac Rim Championships unique is that the team competition includes a combination of athletes from the junior and senior levels for all disciplines of gymnastics. During the team competition, the team and all-around medalists are named in artistic and rhythmic gymnastics.
In addition, the qualifiers for event finals are named during the team competition.
The competition format for trampoline consists of one day of competition that will determine the athletes that will move onto event finals. The top 8 athletes will move onto event finals with a maximum of 2 athletes per country will be eligible to advance.
The athletes who will be representing the US at Pac Rim include:
Women’s Gymnastics
- Ragan Smith
- Simone Biles
- Brenna Dowell
- Laurie Hernandez
- Ashton Locklear
- Aly Raisman
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Men’s Gymnastics
- Jake Dalton
- Sam Mikulak
- John Orozco
- Alex Naddour
- Eddie Penev
- Donnell Whittenburg
Trampoline
Seniors
- Charlotte Drury
- Shaylee Dunavin
- Jeffrey Gluckstein
- Steven Gluckstein
Juniors
- Isaac Rowley
- Tristan Ackerson
- Miah Bruns
- Alyssa Oh
Rhythmic
- Brigita Budginas
- Heather Chan
- Camilla Feeley
- Nicole Kaloyanov
- Aliya Protto
- Lili Mizuno
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The schedule for Pac Rim:
Men’s & Women’s Artistic Gymnastics & Trampoline
FRIDAY, APRIL 8Â
- 1:30 pm:  Men’s Team Final, All-Around Final, Event Qual. – Subdivision 1; Women’s Trampoline Team Final and Ind. PrelimsÂ
- 7:00 pm:  Men’s Team Final, All-Around Final, Event Qual. – Subdivision 2 (incl. USA); Men’s Trampoline Team Final and Ind. Prelims
SATURDAY, APRIL 9Â
- 1:30 pm:  Women’s Team Final, All-Around Final, Event Qual. – Subdivision 1; Jr. Trampoline FinalsÂ
- 7:00 pm:  Women’s Team Final, All-Around Final, Event Qual. – Subdivision 2 (incl. USA); Sr. Trampoline FinalsÂ
SUNDAY, APRIL 10Â
- 12:00 pm:  Jr. Women’s and Men’s Individual Event FinalsÂ
- 6:00 pm:  Sr. Women’s and Men’s Individual Event FinalsÂ
Rhythmic Gymnastics Schedule
FRIDAY, APRIL 8Â
- 2:00 pm: Â Rhythmic Team and All-Around Day 1Â
SATURDAY, APRIL 9Â
- 2:00 pm: Â Rhythmic Team and All-Around Day 2Â
SUNDAY, APRIL 10Â
- 1:00 pm: Â Rhythmic Individual Event Finals
Pac Rim coverage will be televised on Sunday, April 10 on NBC from 1pm – 3pm EST. USA Gymnastics will also provide webcast coverage of all 3 days of competition for each of the 6 sessions of artistic gymnastics and for trampoline & rhythmic gymnastics.
For more information on the Pacific Rim Championships click here.
Sources: pacrimchamps.com, usagym.org
