About Visa USA
Visa is the only card accepted for the Visa Championships and the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials. For USA Gymnastics’ other events, Visa is the preferred method of payment. Visa USA is the nation’s leading payment brand and largest payment system, enabling banks to provide their consumers and business customers with a wide variety of payment alternatives tailored to meet their evolving needs. Visa USA is committed to increasing the choice, convenience, acceptance, and security of Visa payments for all stakeholders in the payment system – Members, cardholders and merchants. Through its 13,420 Member financial institutions, more than 488 million Visa-branded cards have been issued to cardholders in the United States. Last year, U.S.-based financial institutions relied on Visa’s processing system, VisaNet, to facilitate $1.3 trillion in transactions with unparalleled reliability. Worldwide, cardholders in over 150 countries carry more than 1 billion Visa-branded cards, accounting for more than $3 trillion in annual transaction volume. Visa offers a trusted, reliable and convenient way to access and mobilize financial resources – anytime, anywhere, anyway.
About Xcel Energy Center
The five-year-old Xcel Energy Center and the Saint Paul RiverCentre Convention and Visitor’s Authority have been very successful in a short period of time at bringing high-profile events, such as the Visa Championships, to the Twin Cities community. Since opening in September 2000 with the first-ever Minnesota Wild NHL hockey game, the Xcel Energy Center has hosted the 2002 NCAA Frozen Four, 2001-06 WCHA Final Five Hockey Tournaments, 2003 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, 2003-04 TJ Maxx Tour of Gymnastics Champions, 2004-05 Campbell’s International Figure Skating Classic and 2004 NHL All-Star Weekend.
Women’s field for the 2006 Visa Championships
California
Ivana Hong, Laguna Hills, Calif./GAGE, junior division
Mattie Larson, Los Angeles, Calif./All Olympia, junior division
Katelyn Mohr, Lincoln, Calif./Byers, junior division
Shantessa Pama, Dana Point, Calif./Gym Max, junior division
Samantha Shapiro, Los Angeles, Calif./All Olympia, junior division
Ashley Stott, Temecula, Calif./SCEGA, junior division
Florida
Jana Bieger, Coconut Creek, Fla./Boca, senior division
Kassi Price, Plantation, Fla./Orlando Metro, senior division
Madison Turchin, Orlando, Fla./Brandy Johnson, junior division
Shayla Worley, Orlando, Fla./Orlando Metro, senior division
Georgia
Taylor Schick, Duluth, Ga./Gwinnett, junior division
Michelle Shealy, Snellville, Ga./Gwinnett, junior division
Hawaii
Randi Lau, Honolulu, Hawaii/Hawaiian Island Twisters, junior division
Indiana
Samantha Peszek, McCordsville, Ind./DeVeau’s, junior division
Shelby Salmon, Noblesville, Ind./DeVeau’s, junior division
Bridget Sloan, Pittsboro, Ind./Sharp’s, junior division