ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Coming off a strong close to its regular season, the Navy men's gymnastics team turns its attention to the championship portion of its schedule with two days of action at the 2026 USAG Collegiate Championships hosted by the Air Force Academy. The highest-ranked team in the field of seven, the No. 9 Mids will look to repeat as champions of the USAG competition and collect its fifth title since 2019. The team event kicks off the two-day competition on Friday at 4 p.m. ET at Cadet West Gym before the event finals go off on Saturday beginning at 2 p.m.

All of the action will be streamed on the Mountain West Network, while the Virtius platform will be used to score the two-day competition.

The entire field of the event consists of No. 9 Navy, No. 10 Greenville, No. 11 Springfield, No. 12 Air Force, No. 13 Army, No. 14 William & Mary and No. 15 Simpson College. The competition is open to Division I, II or III, four-year institutions with gymnastics as a varsity sport that provide two or less full scholarships, as well as the military academies. In what promises to be an extremely competitive event, the top-three team in terms of average are separated by just 2.7 points on the national leaderboard for team scoring.

Last Five USAG Collegiate Championships
2025 in Annapolis: Navy - 320.70 ... Army - 315.05 ... Air Force - 313.05 ... William & Mary - 310.10 ... Springfield - 308.45 ... Simpson - 300.80
2024 in Colorado Springs: Air Force - 401.65 ... Navy - 398.25 ... Greenville - 390.75 ... Springfield - 388.35 ... William & Mary - 381.35 ... Simpson - 358.85
2023 in Springfield: Navy - 396.80 ... Air Force - 395.50 ... Springfield - 387.35 ... William & Mary - 382.20 ... Simpson - 360.50
2022 in Annapolis: Navy - 400.45 ... Air Force - 394.05 ... William & Mary - 381.05 ... Springfield - 375.95
2019 in Annapolis: Navy - 400.7 ... Air Force - 384.8 ... William & Mary - 384.5 ... Army - 383.2 ... Springfield - 377.05

Most Recent USAG Collegiate Championship: March 28 & March 29, 2025 in Annapolis
Under the bright lights of the 2025 USAG Collegiate National Championship, the Navy gymnastics team shined with a season-best performance on its way to the team title. Locked in from its first rotation on the parallel bars, the Mids hit 24-of-24 routines as every gymnast, who raised their hand for action on Friday scored 12.75 or more points on every routine and added nine stick bonuses on their way to a 320.70-point showing, 5.65 points ahead of runner-up Army.

The final leaderboard consisted of Navy in first with Army in second at 315.05 and Air Force in third with 313.05 points. William & Mary battled to the end, but missed the final medal-winning position on the podium with a fourth-place result of 310.10. Springfield and Simpson College rounded out the standings with respective scores of 308.45 and 300.80. 

Individually, Isaiah Drake highlighted the team's success as he placed top-five on four separate apparatus and won the all-around title for his first career USAG Championship gold medal. He tied for the top vault of the day before finishing fourth on the rings and fifth on both the parallel bars and high bar. The standout senior will compete again in Saturday's event finals for the rings and vault.

Drake led a contingent of nine different Mids that qualified for the event finals as fellow senior William Champagne and Matthew Petros will join him in multiple finals courtesy of strong efforts on the floor exercise and parallel bars for Champagne and high bar and parallel bars for Petros. Freshman Boone Washburn matched Drake for the result of the day as he turned in the top score on the high bar on Friday.

As a team, Navy scored 54.25 points on the floor exercise, 52.35 on the pommel horse, 52.05 on the rings, 55.0 on the vault, 53.4 on the parallel bars and 53.65 on the high bar. Four of those six marks are season-highs as the Mids' previous best score on the floor was a 53.20, a 52.05 on the horse, a 51.5 on the p-bars and a 52.85 on the high bar. This was the first time all season that the team posted scores of 52.0 or better across all six disciplines.

In the event finals on Saturday, the Mids were well represented on the podium throughout the meet as 10 of the team's 12 routines earned medals with William Champagne and Matthew Petros leading the way with first place results.

Champagne kicked off the meet in outstanding fashion as he aced his floor exercise routine with a dominant 14.0 score courtesy of a 9.4 execution grade of his 4.5-start value routine with an additional 0.1 point for a stick bonus. He cleared the runner-up Springfield's Evan Reichert by 0.6 points. 

While Champagne led off the event finals with his victory, Petros closed out the meet as his win came on the high bar. Similar to his fellow gold medalist Champagne, Petros used top-notch execution to earn his win as he garnered 9.2 execution points of his 4.2-start value routine and capped his performance off with a 0.1-point stick bonus for an overall mark of 13.5. He held off his fellow high school teammate Ricky Pizem of William & Mary by 0.1 points. 

Comparing the Squads
(Four-Score Averages; the top-four teams are listed)

	Navy	Individual Leader	Greenville	Ind. Leader	Springfield	Ind. Leader	Air Force	Ind. Leader
All-Around	309.917	n/a	309.233	n/a	307.217	n/a	306.067	n/a
Floor Exercise	54.15	B. Thurlow Lam, 14.03	51.75	J. Clapper, 13.78	52.43	E. Reichert, 13.42	51.05	I. Koo, 13.32
Pommel Horse	51.82	J. Soltz, 13.42	52.05	M. Roth, 13.48	52.53	D. Felsenstein, 14.13	52.03	S. Brown, 14.00
Rings	50.63	J. Galvez, 12.70	50.82	S. Popov, 12.95	51.25	B. Rousseau, 13.80	49.18	R. Jacobson, 12.40
Vault	54.43	M. Petros, 14.00	55.03	L. Watterson, 14.05	53.80	E. Reichert, 13.87	53.43	J. Fry, 13.42
Parallel Bars	49.98	M. Petros, 13.03	52.43	J. Clapper, 13.80	50.28	B. Rousseau, 13.02	51.10	J. Foltyn, 13.20
High Bar	51.08	M. Petros, 13.35	49.73	D. Diviney, 12.87	49.50	K. Palacio, 12.68	49.93	T. Gopaul, 13.27

Last Time Out: at Springfield on March 14 
The No. 9 Navy men's gymnastics team closed out the regular season portion of its 2026 schedule on Saturday with a complete top-to-bottom performance that saw the squad post scores of 50.0-plus points on every apparatus on its way to a season-high 314.65-point outing. Going up against No. 11 Springfield and Temple's club team, Navy defeated the Pride by 9.7 points (314.65-304.95) and the Owls by 34.55 points (314.65-280.10) at Blake Arena on the campus of Springfield College.

The nation's scoring leader on the floor exercise Benjamin Thurlow Lam kept up his run of outstanding performances as he posted a score of 14.0 that tied teammate Danilo Viciana for first place in the event. Additionally, Matthew Petros gave the Mids their second event winner of the day as he cleared the field by 0.25 points on the parallel bars.

As a team, Navy scored 55.10 points on the floor exercise, 51.30 on the pommel horse, 50.25 on the rings, 55.05 on the vault, 51.55 on the parallel bars and 51.40 on the high bar. The Mids' vault and p-bars scores were season-highs as previously their best vault effort was a 54.90 at the Navy Open, while they posted a 51.55 on the parallel bars two weeks ago at Illinois.