2005 VISA Championships
The VISA Championships were held August 10-13 at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN. This event highlighted the forerunners for the 2005 World Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games.
Eight college & former college athletes took the top 10 All-Around spots. They were:
  #2 David Sender (Stanford)
  #3 David Durante (Stanford - alumnus)
  #5 Jonathan Horton (Oklahoma)
  #6 Guillermo Alvarez (Minnesota - alumnus)
  #7 Jamie Henderson (Oklahoma)
  #8 Sho Nakamori (Stanford)
  #9 Daniel Diaz-Luong (Michigan)
#10 Michael Reavis (Iowa).  | Results... |
The national competition to qualify to compete in the VISA Championships was held June 25 at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. College athletes from the following universities competed as Senior All-Around or Event Qualifiers:
· University of Michigan
     # 1 All-Around - Geoffrey Corrigan
     # 5 All-Around - Daniel Diaz-Luong (alumnus)
     Pre-qualified - Justin Laury
· University of Minnesota
     # 2 All-Around - Clay Strother (alumnus)
· University of Iowa
     # 3 All-Around - Michael Reavis
· University of Oklahoma
     # 4 All-Around - Jamie Henderson
     Pre-qualified - Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons
     Pre-qualified - Jonathan Horton
· Stanford University
     # 6 All-Around - Sho Nakamori
     Pre-qualified - David Sender
· Ohio State University
     Parallel Bars - DJ Bucher
     Horizontal Bar - Ron Ferris
     Pre-qualified - Randy Monahan
· Penn State
     Still Rings - Kevin Tan (alumnus)
· Temple University
     Still Rings - Nyika White
· University of California, Berkeley
     Horizontal Bar - Colin Christ
· University of Illinois
     Pommel Horse - Ted Brown
     Pre-qualified - Justin Spring
Visit USA Gymnastics Online for the complete results and photos.
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