17-year-old Maggie Nichols from Minnesota finished second in all-around behind Simone Biles and is in the running to make the world-championship team that will travel to Scotland in October.
Saturday, in the P&G Gymnastics Championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, their first national championship meet since 2012, Aly Raisman finished third in all-around and Gabrielle Douglas fifth.
Dominant. That’s a way to describe Simone Biles’ performance Saturday at the P&G Gymnastics Championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Biles scored a two-day total of 124.1 points in all-around for the national championship in front of 15,370 fans.
Finishing 1, 2, 3 in the junior all-around at the 2015 P&G Championships, Lauren Hernandez, Jazmyn Foberg and Ragan Smith have proven that they can compete on the senior level.
Sam Mikulak’s 16.250 on parallel bars helped him take a formidable lead in all-around in the P&G Championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
Yul Moldauer and Peter Daggett and in first and second place, respectively, in the men’s age 17-18 junior division of the 2015 P&G Championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Ind.
An uncharacteristic fall on a tumbling-pass in floor exercise could have derailed Simone Biles. There was also trouble on the balance beam. But she wiped those away with a rocketing Amanar vault that put her in first place of the P&G Gymnastics Championships on Thursday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.