Richard Locations Second at USA Gymnastics Championships, Xiao Named Males’s Senior Coach of the Year

NEW ORLEANS, La. — The University of Michigan males’s gymnastics program was properly represented on the 2025 USA Gymnastics Championships on the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, La., Aug. 7-9, with three medals and Coach of the Year honors acquired.

Senior Fred Richard and alum Crew Bold led the trouble, with Bold taking second on the excessive bar, and Richard ending second within the all-around and third on the excessive bar. U-M head coach Yuan Xiao was named the USA Gymnastics 2025 Men’s Senior Coach of the Year following the Wolverines’ efficiency on the championships and the collegiate season. Richard was named the USA Gymnastics Men’s Sportsperson of the Year.

Both Bold and Richard earned a spot on the 2025 Men’s Senior National Team.

Richard was gradual to begin on day one, sitting in tenth after the primary rotation with a rating of 13.752 on the ground train. The Stoughton, Mass., native moved into fourth place in any case six rotations with an all-around rating of 79.852 — with a 14.050 on vault and 13.450 on the excessive bar serving to him transfer up within the standings. Asher Hong of Stanford (85.585), Fuzzy Benas of Oklahoma (81.105) and Colt Walker of Stanford (81.058) took the highest three spots after the primary session.

Bold had the second-best excessive bar rating of the evening, posting a 14.452 to sit down simply 0.053 factors behind occasion chief Taylor Burkhart of Stanford. Charlie Larson sat in sixth on the ground train after the primary session with a 14.150, whereas Aaronson Mansberger was seventh (13.502) on the pommel horse and Carson Eshleman was eighth on nonetheless rings (13.350).

Richard bounced again on day two, scoring the fourth-best flooring train rating (14.002) and second-best excessive bar rating (14.650) for a second session whole of 82.703. Richard’s remaining rating got here in at 162.555, edging third-place finisher Benas (162.310) by 0.245 factors. Hong took the all-around crown with a rating of 170.020.

Bold posted a complete excessive bar rating of 28.254 to earn silver and Richard earned bronze (28.100). Bold additionally made the rostrum on the parallel bars, ending sixth (27.450), whereas Larson got here in fourth (28.100) on the ground train and missed a top-three end by 0.763 factors.

Mansberger completed eighth on the pommel horse (27.152). Eshleman completed sixteenth on nonetheless rings (25.450), twenty first on the parallel bars (25.400) and thirteenth on the excessive bar (26.450).

Incoming freshman Joseph Hale competed, inserting twenty ninth within the all-around.