With just 45 days to go before the start of the greatest continental multi-sport festival for young people, the ASU2025 Junior Pan American Games, Team Panam Sports 2025 was officially presented.
After successful campaigns for Lima 2019, Santiago 2023 and Paris 2024, a new group of selected athletes from our region were chosen to promote the youth sports festival, which will take place in Asuncion, Paraguay, from August 9 to 23.
They are outstanding athletes from Brazil, Jamaica, British Virgin Islands, United States, Chile, Colombia and Paraguay, who, at their young age, have shined on the world stage in each of their sports and are expected to be the standout figures of ASU 2025.
Panam Sports has been looking for important athletes from our continent, who not only shine within a sports venue, but also outside of it and of course, who represent their countries and the Olympic values at all times.
With the slogan “The Power of the New Generation”, Team Panam Sports will be part of a communication and marketing campaign that will have as its main objective to spread and promote the importance of the ASU2025 Games in the region.
“We have achieved an extraordinary group of ambassadors for Team Panam Sports 2025. World medalists, Pan American medalists and some of them even placed at the top of the senior rankings in their respective sports.
“The most important thing is that they are exceptional athletes, true examples not only in their countries, but also in the entire continent, who we are sure will represent in the best way all the athletes who will be part of the ASU Junior Pan American Games 2025,” said the president of Panam Sports, Neven Ilic.
Among the chosen athletes, the current world number 2 in the 100m freestyle swimming, Brazilian Guilherme Caribe, three- time Pan American champion in Santiago 2023, and the two fastest women in the world in the Under 20 category, Jamaican Alana Reid and British Virgin Islands’ sprinter, Adaejah Hodge, stand out.
Also part of this constellation are the current world junior record holder in track cycling, Stefany Cuadrado of Colombia; the 2-time world champion in water skiing, Chile’s Matías González; the bronze medalist in rowing in Santiago 2023, Paraguay’s Nicole Martínez; and one of the most promising figures in skateboarding for Team USA, Lazer Crawford.
The ASU 2025 Junior Pan American Games will feature the participation of more than 4,000 athletes from 41 countries of the continent.
The Pan American Sports Organization (Panam Sports) is the leader of sport and the Olympic movement in the Americas. It propels the development of sport and support the region’s 41 member National Olympic Committees to inspire more participation in international competitions as well as participation of the youth to prepare the generation to come in its region.
Panam Sports works closely with athletes, National Olympic Committees (NOC), Organizing Committees of all regional games, Pan American Sport Confederations, International Federations (IF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to secure the success and celebration of its main event, the Pan American Games.
