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2007 Season (Junior): Helped Stanford to a third place finish at the National Collegiate Championships with a season high score of 9.35 on the floor exercise, in addition to scoring an 8.45 on the vault at the Team Finals ... Posted a season-best vault score of 8.85 on the vault against Cal on February 16 ... 2007 College Gymnastics Association Academic All-American ... 2007 MPSF Academic All-Conference.
2006 Season (Sophomore): Competed primarily on the floor exercise and vault for the Cardinal, finishing ninth on the vault for Stanford at the NCAA Team Qualifier ... Also competed on the vault at the NCAA Team Final ... Earned a career-best 9.3 on the vault at the Temple Invitational to finish second ... Posted another career-best score of 8.75 on the floor at Penn State ... 2006 MPSF Academic All-Conference.
2005 Season (Freshman): Competed in the vault and floor exercise for the Cardinal ... Posted a season-best 9.05 on the vault at California ... Also notched a 8.95 on the vault and 8.0 in the floor exercise at the Peter Vidmar Invitational.
In High School: Four-time Junior National Competitor ... Two-time national vaulting finalist, placing fifth twice ... Four-time First-Team Academic All-American ... Valedictorian of Los Altos High School in Hacienda Heights.
Career Bests:
Floor - 9.35
Vault - 9.6
Parallel Bars - 7.225
Getting To Know EliAlcaraz
| Born: | |
| Parents: | Daniel and Jody Alcaraz |
| Major: | International Relations, Spanish |
| Nickname: | E |
| The best thing about Stanford is: | The 3am debates that start about if Pepsi is better than Coke and end up with what is the meaning of life...oh! And Stanford Men's Gymnastics |
| My favorite place on campus is: | Outside my house, at the benches eating dinner, in the spring, watching the sun set over the lake. |
| Ten years from now I hope to be: | An NCAA Team Champion, graduate of law school, bartender, entering my political career and still loving life. |
| My favorite class at Stanford: | Buddhist Political and Social Theory/ Human Behavioral Biology |
| Something people would be surprised to know about me: | I am a certified SCUBA diver as was a huge X-Files fan. |
| The place I would most like to visit: | The Moon and Area 51 |
| My favorite pre-meet rituals are: | Watching our team videos, Mushroom Clap, and feeling like a million bucks when the whole team walks out on the floor decked out in Stanford Gear. |
| Stanford Men's Gymnastics will be fun to watch this year because: | We are going to win and we have style and class. |
| My greatest athletic moment was: | Nailing my floor routine at last year's Stanford Open to help us to a team victory. It is my favorite because when I finished I yelled out of joy, but couldn't hear my own voice because a crowd of 1,300 was cheering even louder back at me. |
| The athlete I admire most: | Jordan Jovtchev |
| The current or former Stanford athlete I most enjoying watching perform: | Dan Gill (Men's Gymnastics), Cynthia Barboza (Women's Vollyball) |
| Since coming to Stanford, I have learned: | The best pick-up line ever. |
| Best book I have ever read: | The Game, The Stanford Spirit, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People |
| Favorite food: | Hot Cheetos |
| Least favorite food: | Lima Beans |
| If I had to cook all of my meals, I'd probably survive on: | Hot Cheetos, eggs, otter pops, no beans chili, Ketchup, Pizza My Heart coupons, and vanilla frosting |
| Favorite movie: | The Alcaraz Family Christmas 1990 (do home movies count?) |
| Favorite TV show: | Lost, Heroes, South Park |
| Favorite actor: | Al Pacino |
| Favorite actress: | Keira Knightly |
| My ultimate SportsCenter highlight would be: | Stanford Gymnastics Winning 4 in a row. |
| My favorite musical group: | Alkaline Trio and Dashboard Confessional |
| The best advice I ever received was: | Never pass up anything free. |
| If I could invite three people to dinner in history, they would be: | The original Buddha, William Jennings Bryan, Thurgood Marshall |
| I'd like to switch places for a day with: | A Dinosaur |
| If I could bring anything from my hometown to Stanford it would be: | My family |
| If I had one CD to listen to it would be: | "Good Morning" -Alkaline Trio |
| One wish I would make for the 21st Century: | Solve sustainability, cure death, make humans able to fly. |
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