David Jessen Season 2016

• 4/22/20: Perspectives (GoStanford.com)

Career Accolades

• NCAA team champion (2019)
• Nissen-Emery Award Finalist (2020)
• NCAA All-American (2019: high bar)
• NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient (2020)
• CoSIDA Academic All-America first team (2020)
• CoSIDA Academic All-District (2020)
• Four-time CGA All-America Scholar-Athlete (2017-20)
• Three-time MPSF All-Academic Scholar-Athlete (2018-20)

As a Senior (2020)

• Nissen-Emery Award Finalist
• NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient
• CoSIDA Academic All-America first team
• CoSIDA Academic All-District
• CGA First-Team All-America Scholar-Athlete
• MPSF All-Academic Scholar-Athlete
• Stanford men's gymnastics Stanford Award recipient
• Stanford men's gymnastics Most Innovative Award recipient
• Nationally-ranked 18^th on high bar (13.500) and 22^nd on pommel horse (13.450)
• Won lone event title on high bar against California/Air Force with a 13.650 (Jan. 18)

As a Junior (2019) • National Champions

• NCAA All-American on high bar
• MPSF All-Academic Scholar-Athlete
• CGA First-Team All-America Scholar-Athlete
• Claimed six individual event titles, including four on high bar and two on pommel horse
• Garnered All-America honors on high bar after registering 13.930 to place fourth at NCAA National Final (April 20)
• Earned a share of the high bar title at Cal Benefit Cup with a score of 13.500 (Jan. 12)
• Won pommel horse (13.950) and high bar (13.750) titles at Pac-12 Invitational (Feb. 2)
• Captured high bar event title at California (Feb. 9) with a score of 14.000
• Won the high bar title (14.100) and finished second on pommel horse (13.600) against Air Force (March 8)
• Earned pommel horse title against California (March 30) with a career-best score of 14.200
• Took second on high bar at MPSF Championships (April 6) with a season-best 14.450

As a Sophomore (2018)

• CGA First-Team All-America Scholar-Athlete
• MPSF All-Academic Scholar-Athlete
• Captured only event title on pommel horse, scoring a 13.700 at the Stanford Open (Jan. 27)
• Managed a career-best 14.150 on vault en route to posting a career-high 77.300 in the all-around at the Pac-12 Invitational (Feb. 10)

As a Freshman (2017)

• CGA First-Team All-America Scholar-Athlete
• Placed fourth in collegiate debut on parallel bars with a 14.000 (Jan. 15)
• Claimed first career event title with a 14.250 on high bar at the Stanford Open (Jan. 21)
• Posted career-best 14.250 on parallel bars at NCAA Finals (April 22)

International Competition

• Competed in the all-around for the Czech Republic at the 2016 Rio Olympics, placing 35th in the high bar
• Four-time Czech National Champion (2015-17, 2019)
• Team USA Junior National Team (2009-14)

Prior to Stanford

• 2015 graduate of Plantation High School in Plantation, Fla.

Personal 

• Born in Brno, Czech Republic
• Son of Lorin and Hana Ricna
• Mother, Hana Ricna-Jessen, is a two-time Olympic qualifier for Czechoslovakia in artistic gymnastics (1984 and 1988) and a two-time World Medalist
• Has three siblings, Sandra, Celine Andre and Lorin Pierre Andre
• Has a pommel horse skill (The Jessen) listed in the Code of Points - DSA with hop backward through handstand on the other end - after successfully performing at 2019 Apparatus World Cup in Doha (QAT)
• Volunteered at Stanford Health at the Lane Surgery Center, and at Heart and Home – an organization providing shelter for homeless women

Career Scores