2025 Men's Gymnastics Roster
Javier Alfonso
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Weight:
- null
- Hometown:
- Miami, Fla.
- High School:
- FGTC
At Michigan
• NCAA All-American (2024, still rings)
• NCAA All-American (2023, still rings)
• NCAA All-American (2022, still rings)
• CGA Specialist of the Week (March 6, 2024)
• Big Ten Specialist of the Week (March 4, 2024)
• Big Ten Specialist of the Week (Jan. 15, 2024)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2023)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2022)
National/International
• Competed on the floor exercise, still rings, parallel bars, and high bar at the 2025 Winter Cup
• Placed fifth on still rings (28.600), at the 2024 US Championships
• Competed on a trio of events at US Championships (2023), with matching eighth-place finishes on floor exercise (28.000) and still rings (28.100)
• Earned a pair of top-five finishes at Core Classic (2023), scoring a 14.200 on still rings to take third and a 14.300 on floor exercise to place fifth
Graduate Student (2025)
• Served as team captain for the second straight year
• Posted a 13.550 on the still rings against Ohio State
• Scored 13.666 on floor and 13.733 on still rings in the NCAA Qualifier
• Tied for ninth on still rings (13.833) at the NCAA Finals
Senior (2024)
• Served as team captain for the first time, alongside veteran leader Paul Juda
• Competed on still rings in 10 of 11 occasions for the Wolverines, highlighted by a career-record 15.10 at the Windy City Invitational
• Earned seven event titles on still rings during the regular season and broke the 14-plateau eight times, including two scores over 15.00
• Named Big Ten Specialist of the Week twice (Jan. 15 and March 4) and CGA Specialist of the Week once (March 6)
• Joined the Michigan parallel bars lineup on seven occasions, highlighted by a 13.85 against Army (Jan. 20) and a 13.95 against Ohio State (March 9)
• Spent eight weeks at the top of the national still rings rankings, falling to second place only three times
• Took part in U-M floor exercise roster five times, punctuated by a 14.05 at the Winter Cup
Junior (2023)
• Competed on still rings in every competition, breaking the 14-plateau in 10 meets
• Took part in parallel bars lineup on nine occasions, highlighted by a 14.00 at Illinois (March 18)
• Earned event title with a nation-leading 15.00 on still rings at Oklahoma (March 4), setting a new career-high in the process
• Earned NCAA All-America honors on still rings for the second year in a row (8th place, 14.233)
• Earned event win on still rings against Nebraska (March 4), scoring a nation-leading 15.00.
• Took event title on still rings at Penn State with a 14.10 (Feb. 11)
• Member of U-M floor exercise lineup in five meets, including NCAA Qualifier (April 14) with a 14.133 and a 14.033 at NCAA Finals (April 15)
Sophomore (2022)
• Placed third at NCAA Finals on still rings, scoring a career-high 14.366 for first All-America honor of career (April 16)
• Took home individual event titles on still rings against Nebraska (Jan. 29) and Penn State (March 18)
• Achieved a new career-high on still rings (14.35) and on high bar (12.90) against Nebraska
• Set a personal best on the parallel bars against Penn State (March 18) with a 14.00
• Earned spot in still rings lineup in every meet and was in parallel bar lineup on eight occasions
Freshman (2021)
• Made collegiate debut against Illinois/Nebraska (Feb. 21), scoring a 14.250 on vault and a 13.450 on parallel bars
• Competed on still rings, vault and parallel bars against Iowa (March 6), with a debut score of 12.550 on still rings and personal record-tying 14.250 on vault
• Took part in U-M's vault lineup versus Minnesota (March 14), scoring a 13.650
• Missed portions of season due to injury
Prep
• Rated as a 3.5-star recruit by College Gym News and the No. 19 recruit in the country
• Ranked in top-five in age group for five consecutive years
• Five-time region eight all-around champion
• Five-time Florida State Champion
• National Gymnastics Team B member (2016)
• Took eighth in the all-around at the 2016 Junior Olympic Championships
Personal
• Javier Alejandro Alfonso Munoz
• Miami Palmetto High School (2020), Miami, Fla.
• Born October 15, 2002 in Havana, Cuba
• Son of Dianelys Munoz and Giraldo Alfonso
• Has two sisters, Diana and Leah
• Cognitive Science and Psychology major in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
