It’s NLI day!

To review:

NLI = National Letter of Intent

The National Letter of Intent is a document signed by future college athletes confirming their intent to attend and compete for a particular school. Signing the NLI signals the end of the recruiting process—i.e., all other schools must immediately cease recruiting that gymnast. The NLI is accompanied by the athletic aid (scholarship) agreement. Gymnasts can’t sign NLIs if they are not receiving athletic aid.

Wednesday marks the beginning of this year’s signing period, during which schools will finally reveal to us which gymnasts have signed on to join their programs for the 2021 competitive season. The large majority will be unsurprising since most of these gymnasts have been verbally committed to these schools since the womb, but there are always a few little pieces of interest (usually regarding who doesn’t sign rather than who does).

So, let’s see what we see.

Note: Many teams announce their classes one-by-one on social media, so if you’re desperate to know who has been signed by a particular school, keep an eye on that. I’ll note them here once the schools post their official press release.

NLIs 2020-2021 OKLAHOMA Audrey Davis

Julianne Fehring

Bell Johnson

Katherine LeVasseur

Quinn Smith

Meilin Sullivan Oklahoma announced its six on Twitter. By my count of who has signed over the last four years, that would put OU at 13 scholarship athletes for the 2021 season, so someone who originally signed must no longer be on scholarship. LSU Release Olivia Dunne

Haleigh Bryant

Elena Arenas Two former elites and a L10 star in LSU’s signing group. There were some other names that verbally committed along the way, but these three are the big names. Others could end up as walk-ons. UCLA Release Chae Campbell UCLA has announced one signing, that of Chae Campbell. She joins Jordan Chiles and Frida Esparza, who already signed last year and then deferred. That means we’re waiting on news from Brooklyn Moors and Ana Padurariu—and Emma Malabuyo after TD seemed to indicate that she would be going early. Word is that Laney Madsen may be searching for a new home after removing college verbal information from her bios. DENVER Release Rose Casali

Jessica Hutchinson

Isabel Mabanta

Rylie Mundell

Abbie Thompson You’ll recall Mabanta competed elite in 2018, finishing 19th at Classic. MICHIGAN Release Carly Bauman

Reyna Guggino

Naomi Morrison OREGON STATE Release Sydney Gonzales

Kaitlyn Hoiland

Anna Yeates

Ariana Young UTAH Release Deanne Soza

Jaylene Gilstrap

Lucy Stanhope Soza and Gilstrap provide Utah with its class of US gymternet form favorites, and you’ll remember Stanhope from GBR’s 2018 Euros team, where she performed a DTY (vault is her best piece) and competed bars. Carina Jordan from WCC was also originally a verbal for this class but is not part of the signing group. GEORGIA Release Victoria Nguyen

Nhyla Bryant

Katie Finnegan Victoria Nguyen is a previously unreported big-get style signing for Georgia. KENTUCKY Release Ashlyn LaClair (2020)

Bailey Bunn

Carissa Clay

Isabella Magnelli

Krista Zultevicz LaClair will join to compete this coming season. FLORIDA Release Morgan Hurd

Riley McCusker Both Hurd and McCusker, by year, were supposed to sign last November but elected to push back a year to pursue 2020. They have both signed now, but Morgan Hurd is pushing back her entrance for another year to go after worlds in 2021 and doesn’t plan to start until the 2022 season. So that’s a unqiue move. We never see two-year deferrals unless the second year is the Olympic year. Also fascinating, Shilese Jones was supposed to be part of this class as well but is not in the announcement. CAL Release Gabby Perea

Andrea Li It’s a big deal for Cal to get these two, and they’ve been looking forward to this “we’re getting some of the top recruits in the country” group for a while. ALABAMA Release

Release 2 Luisa Blanco (2020 season)

Ella Burgess (2020 season)

Cameron Machado Alabama has confirmed that Blanco and Burgess will join the roster for the 2020 season (and they needed it) and later added Cameron Machado for the 2021 season. No word on Shania Adams, who was also supposed to be part of that 2021 season class. MINNESOTA Release Gianna Gerdes The gymnasts coming in as part of this class have to replace the Lexy Ramler, Ona Loper scores. This class is supposed to be bigger than one person, so… NEBRASKA Release Caroline Williams

Chloe Lorange

Kinsey Davis BOISE STATE

Release Courtney Blackson

Talia Little

Emily Lopez AUBURN

Release Brooke Butler

Olivia Hollingsworth

Payton Smith MISSOURI

Release Kambrie Brandt (for 2020)

Kyra Burns

Amaya Marshall ARKANSAS Release Emma Kelley

Jordan Olszewski

Gillian Rutz

Jensen Scalzo WASHINGTON Release Taylor Russon

Cathy Eksteen

Skylar Killough-Wilhelm IOWA STATE

BYU Release

Release 2 Sydney Benson

Sophia McClelland STANFORD

Release Irina Alexeeva

Tan Sze En

Amanda Zeng ILLINOIS

Release Amelia Knight

Allie Morgan

Abby Mueller PENN STATE

Release Natalie Cross

Maddie Johnston

Maggie Mace ARIZONA STATE

Release Cassandra Barbarente

Sarah Clark

Skye Harper

Jada Mangahas

Anaya Smith

Emily White SOUTHERN UTAH

Release Emma Ingrassia

Aubri Schwartze

Hailey Vultaggio WEST VIRGINIA

Release Chloe Asper

Agatha Handono

Kiana Lewis OK don’t say “Butts Inks” NC STATE

OHIO STATE

MARYLAND Release Elizabeth DeBarberie

Tayler Osterhout

Alexa Rothenbuescher

Olivia Weir IOWA GEORGE WASHINGTON

Release Kendall Whitman

Annelise Silverman CENTRAL MICHIGAN

Release Adriana Bustelo NEW HAMPSHIRE

ARIZONA

KENT STATE UC DAVIS

NORTHERN ILLINOIS

MICHIGAN STATE

UTAH STATE

PITTSBURGH Release Macy Ferrera

Emily Liszewski

Trinity Macy BALL STATE

Release Victoria Henry

Hannah Ruthberg

Kelly Sulek TEMPLE

Release Brooke Donabedian

Renee Schugman

Cyrena Whalen RUTGERS

EASTERN MICHIGAN

Release Raisa Boris NORTH CAROLINA

Release Tienna Nguyen

Kate Greene

Cory Shinohara WESTERN MICHIGAN

Release Sarah Moravansky

Dani Petrousek BOWLING GREEN

Release Sydney Bennett

Lauren Bannister

Kylie Yacamelli SAN JOSE STATE

Release Natasha Forrand

Jaudai Lopes

Lauren Macpherson ILLINOIS STATE

Release Isabella Decroo

Kaitlyn Donovan

Carly Hawksworth

Madison Kipp

Jazmine Neely

Kaylee Sugimoto TOWSON

Release Cassidy Stuart

Sarah Girot

Grace Vaillancourt ALASKA

WILLIAM & MARY

SACRAMENTO STATE

Release Emma Morgenthaler

Torri Tavenner SEMO

Release Anna Speller

Sophia Studdard

Lydia Test

Lydia Webb