On the Radar! 1st Year Senior Gabrielle Hardie Readies For World Selection Camp With Confidence

Gabrielle Hardie isn’t just thinking about LA in 2028; she can envision Brisbane in 2032. As a first-year United States Senior National Team member, Hardie is definitely one to watch as part of the new generation competing for Team USA. 

“LA would be amazing,” she told us in an interview shortly after the 2025 Xfinity U.S. Gymnastics Championships. “It would be so close, and family and friends would be able to go. At the same time, there’s going to be a lot of competition. I always still think of 2032, too. That could never be out of the picture. I always think of both.”

Long-term, Hardie is thinking Olympics. But lately, she’s been lighting up social media with upgrades on floor, including a triple full, front layout + double twist, and a two and half to front full—skills she hopes to debut at the upcoming World Selection Camp if they’re ready to go and she feels confident. Bars and beam (check out her double turn here!) upgrades are also in the works.

As we learned chatting with Hardie, gymnastics is all about progress and the process for her, ensuring the skills are clean and that she’s comfortable with them.

“I’ve been doing my first pass, dancing, second pass. And then when I’m confident with that, I’ll probably start doing routines here in the next two weeks,” she said. “I’m feeling pretty confident in them, so hopefully I can show them at World Selection. I want to get the upgrades, but also want to keep the execution really high.”

Earlier this year, Hardie impressed the gymnastics world at the 2025 Pan American Championships, where she took home three medals in her first senior international competition, including gold with the team and on bars, and a bronze on floor. Heading into U.S. Championships in August, she told us, “I am most proud of being selected to go on a senior international assignment to Pan Ams. At Championships, I am looking forward to being able to compete again in such a highly energized atmosphere!”

She placed 7th in the All-Around in New Orleans, achieving her goal of finishing in the top 8, staying on the national team every year (Hardie is a three-time member of the U.S. Junior National Team), and being consistent. Hardie also had the top E score on floor both days, which she described as “pretty cool” and was excited to share the Championships experience with all of her U.S. teammates. Her favorite memory during the week came on floor, where she said she really enjoyed the performance aspect of the event, and competing in such a fun atmosphere.

“Definitely floor, just being able to perform. On the last day I was last, so it was fun with the crowd and everybody watching. And then, I competed my one and a half on vault at Classics both days, but [at Championships] I was really able to get a good landing both days in a row. So that was one of my goals, too. Just being there. The experience is just always incredible,” she said.

At Pan Ams, the bonding experience was amazing and Hardie is ready for more of that, if it’s meant to be. “I was just very honored and blessed just to be picked to go there. I was very excited to because it was my first senior meet, so that was really fun. Being with all the girls on the team and competing for USA is always just amazing. Being up there with the top girls on a couple of events I competed—it was pretty cool to see my name up there. Winning gold was truly amazing, too.”

Hardie is from Sioux Falls, South Dakota and trains at Twin City Twisters in Champlin, Minnesota. She’s very aware of the incredible athletes who have called TCT home and went on to achieve Olympic, World, and NCAA success including two-time World medalist and eight-time NCAA Champion Maggie Nichols, 2020 Olympic team silver medalist and Utah star Grace McCallum, 2022 World team alternate and LSU sophomore Lexi Zeiss, two-time U.S. National team member turned Oklahoma Sooner Elle Mueller, 2024 All-PAC-12 in the All-Around Katelyn Rosen (UCLA), and 2011 Pan American Games gold medalist and Nebraska standout Jessie DeZiel.

Like most opportunities so far in her career, Hardie doesn’t see following in their footsteps as pressure, just extra motivation.

“It’s really cool. We have [their pictures] up on our wall, and just to see all the athletes and the legacy they’ve built there at TCT, hopefully I can follow in their footsteps,” she said. “It’s really encouraging to see that the coaches there are obviously really capable. I think if I keep working hard, I can get there, too.”

She looks up to McCallum as a role model, and notes three-time world medalist Shilese Jones as someone she also really admires. “Being from the Midwest, I look up to Grace. I always looked up to her gymnastics because she was always clean and consistent. And, I mean, Shilese. I love bars and when I was little watching her on bars, I hoped I could be like her one day.”

Her coaches at TCT are, of course, a huge piece of Hardie’s story, especially when it comes to pacing her during training. Taking us through the upgrades, Hardie described her process and how she and her coaches determine what’s competition-ready, and what needs maybe just a little more time and fine-tuning. Typically, three weeks out from a competition, Hardie will start doing routines. Closer to the competition, she’ll do pressure sets. She said this plan works out well for her and gives her confidence going into meets.

“I’m really blessed with amazing coaches, and they have experience with this. I think that’s worked really well for me is starting routines three weeks prior. We do some mock meets and a lot of pressure sets, and those always help,” she said.

As so many of her TCT teammates have done, competing NCAA gymnastics is also on Hardie’s radar, though she hasn’t made a decision yet on what she’ll do. “I haven’t put much thought into NCAA gymnastics yet, but I think I would like to do it. Obviously, if I had the chance, compete both Elite and college. My sister is a D1 athlete (cross country), and I feel like she’s had an amazing experience at college. So, I feel like it would be fun to go.”

The support Hardie receives from her coaches and family has been unbeatable and it’s yet another reason she’s able to take her success in stride and not get too ahead of herself, whether that’s the Olympics or adding routine-ready upgrades. “I’m super blessed and grateful. I have an amazing family. They’re always there supporting me and taking me every day back and forth to the gym. They make a lot of sacrifices and I’m just extremely grateful. All my siblings, they always love and support me, especially my sister.”

Outside of the gym, Hardie, who says country and Christian music are her favorites, cherishes her time with her family, and loves the time she gets to spend with them whenever she has the chance. She chalks it up to her love for being active and having a balance in and out of the gym.

“I love being outside. When my sister’s home for the summer, she’s a runner, so I like to bike behind her. Sometimes I’ll run with her. We’re always at the pool,” she said. “My brothers, we love to fish. Those are my two favorites. I love reading, art. I love baking and cooking. Those are two of my favorite things. But yeah, being active. I love being active.”

With such a solid start to her 2025, Hardie is on our ‘Must Watch’ list for LA, and as mentioned, if she could predict the future, Brisbane too. For now, her primary focus is on being her best at the World Team Selection Camp September 29-October 1 in Crossville TN, where she’ll be vying for one of the four spots for the U.S. women at the 2025 World Gymnastics Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 19-25. As has become tradition the year following an Olympic Games, the competition is an individual event World Championship only, with no team competition.

Hardie is excited for what she’s achieved so far in 2025, very grateful, and takes every new opportunity and experience as a chance to set the bar higher for herself. Her eyes lit up when I asked about Worlds, though her goal for camp is simple, she said.

“I would just say consistency is the biggest thing, just going in and being confident in all my routines and hitting them to the best of my ability. After that, whatever happens, happens.”

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