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As a RS Junior in 2008: A first-team College Gymnastics Association (CGA) All-American Scholar Athlete ... an Academic All-MPSF selection ... competed in six meets on pommel horse, still rings, and parallel bars ... hit his season-best of 14.65 on parallel bars at Michigan (3/2).
As a Junior in 2007: Redshirted the season.
As a Sophomore in 2006: A 2006 MPSF Academic All-Conference selection ...competed on all six apparatuses for the Cardinal ... helped Stanford to a third-place finish at the NCAA Team Final by tying for 19th on horizontal bar with a mark of 9.275 and 12th on the parallel bars with a score of 9.2 ... posted a season high 8.75 on floor exercise at the MPSF Championship, and also finished fifth on the parallel bars with a score of 9.15 ... earned season-highs of 52.3 in all-around as well as a career-high 9.15 on horizontal bar at Michigan ... nabbed a career-best 9.25 on parallel bars at the Pacific Coast Classic ... performed career-bests of 9.25 on vault and 8.8 on still rings at Penn State.
As a Freshman in 2005: Advanced to the NCAA Individual Event Final on pommel horse, earning a score of 9.175 for 18th place ... tallied an all-around score of 52.2 during the NCAA Team Qualifier, including a 9.1 on pommel horse to tie for eighth ... recorded season bests in still rings (8.5), parallel bars (9.025) and horizontal bar (8.9) at the Cardinal Invite ... notched a 9.0 in floor exercise at the Peter Vidmar Invitational ... earned a season-best 9.25 on vault to help the Cardinal beat California at home ... posted a season-best 52.85 in all-around at the MPSF Championships, including 8.95 on floor exercise and pommel horse, as well as 9.1 on vault.
High School: A seven-time Junior Olympic (JO) National competitor and finished fourth in all-around in 2004 ... a three-time competitor in the Junior Visa U.S. Championships (2002-2004), placing ninth in all-around in 2003 and 12th in 2004 ... a three-time Boston Globe Gymnast of the Year (2002-04) ... also earned JO National Academic All-American Honorable Mention accolades ... valedictorian of his class at Newton North High School.
Personal: Parents are Anping Shen and Shixin Mao ... majoring in biological sciences.
Getting To Know Jason Shen
| Born in: | Suzhou, China |
| Major: | Biological sciences |
| Nickname: | Shen |
| The best thing about Stanford is: | The opportunities to work with talented people on projects in a huge variety of areas. |
| My favorite place on campus is: | The new Old Union |
| Ten years from now I hope to be: | Leading an organization that is tackling global challenges with innovative and effective solutions |
| My favorite class at Stanford is: | Human Behavioral Biology - learning how neurons and neural networks affect aggression, sexuality, and religion in humans |
| Something people would be surprised to know about me: | That they know me as I really am - what you see is what you get |
| The place I would most like to visit is: | Hong Kong and Sub-Saharan Africa |
| My favorite pre-meet rituals are: | Music and a good night's sleep |
| Stanford Men's Gymnastics will be fun to watch this year because: | We've got big, clean routines and we're going to dominate the rest of the NCAA all season long |
| My greatest athletic moment was: | Nailing my p-bars set on day 1 of NCAAs 2008 |
| The current or former Stanford athlete I most enjoy watching perform is: | Sho Nakamori |
| Since coming to Stanford, I have learned: | How to better leverage my strengths and cover for my weaknesses to succeed |
| The best book I have ever read is: | Ender's Game, Card, and The Art of the Start |
| Favorite food: | Calamari |
| Least favorite food: | Cilantro |
| If I had to cook all of my meals, I'd probably survive on: | Cereal, scrambled eggs, rice |
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| Favorite TV show: | Scrubs |
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| My ultimate ESPN SportsCenter highlight would be: | Watching us win NCAAs |
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| The best advice I've ever received was: | I have three: 1) Be a man, especially in owning up to your mistakes 2) Major in a hard science and 3) Your friends determine your future |
| If I could invite three people from history to dinner, they would be: | Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Gates |
| If I could bring anything from my hometown to Stanford it would be: | Snow |
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