Joscelyn Roberson’s Career: World Medals, Arkansas Success and Her Georgia Move
Joscelyn Roberson is an American gymnast from Texarkana, Texas, with two World Championship medals: team gold in 2023 and an individual bronze on vault in 2025. She traveled to the Paris 2024 Olympics as a replacement athlete but did not compete there.
Contents
- Joscelyn Roberson’s career at a glance
- From Texarkana to national competition
- The international breakthrough in 2023
- What happened at the 2023 World Championships?
- Her role at the Paris 2024 Olympics
- Arkansas in 2025: an immediate college contribution
- Returning to Worlds and winning individual bronze
- The 2026 Arkansas season
- The announced move to Georgia
- Questions about Joscelyn Roberson
- Final Takeaway
- Main Sources
In college, she earned All-America honors in both of her seasons at the University of Arkansas. On May 21, 2026, Georgia announced that she will join the GymDogs as a junior for the 2027 season.
This profile covers her career results through October 26, 2026. She did not compete at the 2026 U.S. Championships or the 2026 World Championships in Rotterdam, and her first Georgia season begins on January 10, 2027.
Joscelyn Roberson’s career at a glance
| Year | Competition | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | U.S. Championships, junior division | Balance beam champion, vault silver |
| 2022 | Winter Cup and U.S. Championships | Vault champion at Winter Cup, vault silver at nationals |
| 2023 | U.S. Championships | Vault champion |
| 2023 | World Championships, Antwerp | Team gold; qualified for the vault final but could not compete after a warm-up injury |
| 2024 | U.S. Olympic Trials | Sixth all-around, tied for first on beam; named a traveling replacement athlete for Paris |
| 2025 | NCAA Championships, for Arkansas | Individual all-around qualifier; Second Team All-America on beam |
| 2025 | U.S. Championships | All-around bronze, floor silver |
| 2025 | World Championships, Jakarta | Vault bronze, 13.983 |
| 2026 | NCAA season, for Arkansas | Regional titles on beam and floor; Second Team All-America on floor at nationals |
| 2027 | University of Georgia | Joins as a junior with two years of eligibility |
Vault brought her individual World medal. In college, beam and floor account for all of her All-America honors and most of her 9.900-plus scores.
From Texarkana to national competition
Roberson’s USA Gymnastics athlete profile lists Texarkana, Texas, as her hometown and 2009 as the year she began gymnastics. Her national record starts at Hopes meets in 2017 and 2018, the younger elite-style pathway described in our guide to qualifying for U.S. elite gymnastics, followed by junior elite meets from 2019.
As a junior in 2021, she won the U.S. title on balance beam and took silver on vault. In 2022, her first senior season, she won vault at Winter Cup and finished second on vault at both the U.S. Classic and the U.S. Championships.
The international breakthrough in 2023
Roberson’s 2023 season brought her first senior international assignments. USA Gymnastics records these results:
| 2023 competition | Roberson’s results |
|---|---|
| Winter Cup, Louisville | Vault champion; second on beam and floor |
| DTB Pokal Team Challenge, Stuttgart | Team and vault gold; floor silver |
| Cairo World Cup | Vault and floor gold; beam silver |
| Senior Pan American Championships, Medellín | Team and floor gold; vault and beam silver |
| U.S. Classic (Core Hydration Classic), Hoffman Estates | Vault champion; third in the all-around |
| U.S. Championships, San Jose | Vault champion; seventh in the all-around |
She won vault at all three of her U.S. meets, including her first senior national title, and reached international podiums on vault, beam and floor.
What happened at the 2023 World Championships?
Roberson made her Worlds debut in Antwerp on a five-member U.S. team with Simone Biles, Skye Blakely, Shilese Jones and Leanne Wong. In qualification she ranked sixth on vault with a two-vault average of 14.049, according to the official qualification results, which earned her a place in the vault final.
She did not compete in the team final. During the final warm-up on vault, just before the competition began, she injured her left leg on a landing, and Wong took her place on vault and floor, as USA Gymnastics reported. The United States still won with 167.729 points, its seventh straight world team title, according to World Gymnastics’ report of the final.
The injury also kept her out of the vault final. One qualification round decides places in the team, all-around and apparatus finals, but each final is a separate competition; our guide to all-around and event finals explains how they differ. Roberson left Antwerp as a world team champion, without an individual medal.
Her role at the Paris 2024 Olympics
At the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials in Minneapolis, Roberson placed sixth in the all-around with 110.975 over two days. The official event results show her tied with Hezly Rivera for the best beam total, 27.975, and fourth on floor and in the two-vault standings.
USA Gymnastics then named her and Leanne Wong traveling replacement athletes. Replacement athletes travel with the team in case a team member has to withdraw, but they are not part of the five-member competing team. Roberson did not compete in Paris, so she has no Olympic scores or medals. The 2024 U.S. women’s Olympic team was Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee and Hezly Rivera.
Arkansas in 2025: an immediate college contribution
Roberson began competing for Arkansas in January 2025 and appeared in every meet as a freshman, usually in the all-around. College gymnastics is scored on a 10.0 scale, so her NCAA scores cannot be compared directly with her elite scores; our guide to NCAA women’s gymnastics scoring explains the difference.
Beam quickly became her key event: she anchored Arkansas’ beam lineup, competing last, in all 11 regular-season meets. She finished the regular season with a 9.915 national qualifying score (NQS) on beam, the ranking score explained in our guide to NCAA rankings, and the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) named her a Second Team regular-season All-American on the event. She also made the All-SEC team on beam and the All-SEC Freshman team on vault, beam, floor and the all-around.
Arkansas did not reach nationals as a team, but her 39.600 in the all-around at the University Park regional semifinal earned her an individual place at the NCAA Championships. In the regional final two days later, she scored 39.625, a new Arkansas freshman all-around record.
At the NCAA Championships in Fort Worth on April 17, 2025, she scored 39.425 and finished 13th in the all-around, the best score by an Arkansas freshman at nationals. Her 9.900 on beam placed eighth in her semifinal and earned Second Team All-America honors, making her Arkansas’ first freshman NCAA All-American since 2012, according to Arkansas’ report from nationals.
Returning to Worlds and winning individual bronze
Roberson returned to elite competition in July 2025 while still an Arkansas gymnast. At the U.S. Championships in New Orleans she won the all-around bronze with 109.600 and took silver on floor. At the selection event in Crossville, Tennessee, she then earned one of four places on the U.S. team for the World Championships in Jakarta, which had no team event that year.
She qualified eighth for the vault final with a two-vault average of 13.599. In the final on October 24, 2025, she won bronze behind Angelina Melnikova, competing as an Individual Neutral Athlete (AIN), and Canada’s Lia-Monica Fontaine:
| Medal | Gymnast | First vault | Second vault | Final score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Angelina Melnikova (AIN) | 14.100 | 14.433 | 14.466 |
| Silver | Lia-Monica Fontaine (Canada) | 13.933 | 13.733 | 14.033 |
| Bronze | Joscelyn Roberson (United States) | 13.966 | 13.600 | 13.983 |
Each of these final scores, from the official 2025 World Championships results book, is the average of two vaults plus a 0.20 bonus. Under the 2025–2028 women’s Code of Points, that bonus goes to a gymnast whose two vaults have saltos in different directions, one forward and one backward, both landed without a fall. Roberson’s average of 13.783 became 13.983 with the bonus. Our guide to women’s vault scoring explains the two-vault format.
Arkansas identified her two vaults as a Mustafina and a double-twisting Yurchenko. The bronze was the first individual World medal of her career.
The 2026 Arkansas season
As a sophomore, Roberson competed in every Arkansas meet and every beam and floor lineup, according to her Arkansas biography. Beam was again her highest-ranked event: she set a career high of 9.975 at LSU on March 13, matching the program record, and finished the regular season with a 9.950 beam NQS, tied for fifth nationally. That ranking made her a WCGA First Team regular-season All-American on beam.
On floor, she matched her career high of 9.975 against Oklahoma on March 6, a score she had first reached as a freshman. In the postseason she won two regional titles and a second NCAA All-America honor:
| 2026 meet | Roberson’s results | Arkansas team result |
|---|---|---|
| SEC Championships, March 21 | 39.575 all-around (sixth); beam 9.950, tied for second | Seventh of nine |
| Lexington regional semifinal, April 3 | Regional titles on beam (9.950) and floor (9.925, shared); 39.425 all-around | First in its session, into the regional final |
| Lexington regional final, April 5 | Beam 9.950, floor 9.950 | Second, qualified for nationals |
| NCAA Championships semifinal, April 16 | Floor 9.9125, Second Team All-America | Seventh overall |
Results from Arkansas’ reports on the SEC Championships, the regional semifinal, the regional final and nationals.
Her SEC all-around score was the highest by an Arkansas gymnast at the conference championships, and she earned All-SEC honors on bars, beam, floor and the all-around. She also vaulted a Mustafina there for 9.850; Arkansas says she was the first gymnast to perform that vault in NCAA competition.
She did not compete at the main U.S. elite meets after the college season. Her name is not in the official results of the 2026 American Classic, U.S. Classic, U.S. Championships or World Team Selection Event, and USA Gymnastics did not include her on the team or replacement list for the 2026 World Championships in Rotterdam.
The announced move to Georgia
On May 21, 2026, Georgia announced that it had signed Roberson as a transfer for the 2027 season. She will be a junior with two years of eligibility, and Georgia’s 2027 roster lists her in that class.
The move reunites her with Cécile Canqueteau-Landi, Georgia’s head coach, and Laurent Landi, named associate head coach in May 2026. The Landis coached her at World Champions Centre in Texas before they moved to Georgia.
Georgia opens its 2027 season on January 10 at the Collegiate Quad in Greenville, South Carolina, against Clemson, North Carolina and Utah, and hosts Arkansas on February 5, according to the GymDogs’ 2027 schedule. She has no Georgia results yet; they will be added here after she competes.
Questions about Joscelyn Roberson
Did Joscelyn Roberson compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics?
No. USA Gymnastics named her a traveling replacement athlete, so she went to Paris with the team but did not compete and has no Olympic results.
What happened to Joscelyn Roberson at the 2023 World Championships?
She injured her left leg landing a vault in the final warm-up before the team final in Antwerp. The United States won team gold without her competing in the final, and the injury also kept her out of the vault final she had qualified for.
What vaults did Joscelyn Roberson do at the 2025 Worlds?
Arkansas identified them as a Mustafina, scored 13.966, and a double-twisting Yurchenko, scored 13.600. Their average plus the 0.20 bonus for two vaults with saltos in different directions gave her 13.983 and the bronze medal.
When will Joscelyn Roberson compete for Georgia?
In the 2027 college season, as a junior with two years of eligibility. Georgia’s season opens on January 10, 2027.
Did Joscelyn Roberson compete at the 2026 World Championships?
No. She was not on the U.S. team or replacement list for Rotterdam, and she did not compete at the 2026 U.S. Championships.
Final Takeaway
Joscelyn Roberson’s record combines elite and college success. She is a 2023 world team champion and the 2025 World bronze medalist on vault, and she earned NCAA All-America honors at Arkansas on beam in 2025 and on floor in 2026.
She was a member of the 2023 world champion team but did not compete in the final, and she went to Paris as a replacement athlete without competing. Her next results will come from Georgia’s 2027 season, which begins in January.
Main Sources
- USA Gymnastics: Joscelyn Roberson athlete profile, career highlights and national and international results
- 2025 World Championships, Jakarta: official results book (USA Gymnastics copy), including the women’s vault final
- World Gymnastics: report of the 2023 women’s team final in Antwerp
- USA Gymnastics: 2024 U.S. women’s Olympic team and traveling replacement athletes named
- University of Arkansas: Joscelyn Roberson roster biography, 2025 and 2026 seasons
- University of Georgia: Georgia Lands Transfer Joscelyn Roberson (May 21, 2026)