USA Gymnastics names team for USA-France-Switzerland Meet (15th June, 2006)

Guillermo Alvarez, Alex Artemev of Morrison, David Durante, Jonathan Horton, David Sender and Kevin Tan comprise the six-man U.S. Team that will compete in the USA-France-Switzerland Tri-meet in Paris, France on June 24. The competition format has five men competing on each apparatus, with four scores counting toward the team score. Each team can determine which five compete on each apparatus.

Horton, who trains at the University of Oklahoma, won the all-around title at the Tyson American Cup and the Men’s NCAA Championships earlier this year. Horton and Team Chevron’s Alvarez and Durante competed on the squad that won the team gold medal at the 2005 Pan Am Championships, where Alvarez also was second in the floor exercise. Durante was third in the all-around at the 2006 Tyson American Cup and on the parallel bars at the 2006 Pacific Alliance Championships. Sender, who attends Stanford University, also competed in both the 2006 Tyson American Cup and the Pacific Alliance Championships, where he finished third in vault. At the 2006 NCAA Championships, Sender won the vault title. Team Chevron’s Artemev won the pommel horse title at the 2006 Winter Cup and is competing in his first international event since shoulder surgery late last summer. Tan, who is a member of Team Chevron, won the still rings at the 2006 Winter Cup.