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**Two-Time All-American**
Collegiate Career Bests:
Pommel Horse: 14.950
Still Rings: 15.350
Vault: 15.850
As a Sophomore in 2009: Earned the second All-America honor of his career with a seventh-place finish on rings (15.025) at the NCAA Individuals ... earned a season-best score of 15.350 on rings to finish sixth and help Stanford to the national title at the NCAA Finals ... recorded a season-best score of 14.950 on pommel horse at the NCAA Qualifiers ... had a season high of 15.850 on vault at the Stanford Open.
As a Freshman in 2008: An All-American on pommel horse ... a second-team College Gymnastics Association (CGA) All-American Scholar Athlete ... competed nine times, primarily on pommel horse, and appeared on still rings ... achieved his season best on pommel horse (14.65) at Michigan (3/2) ... finished fourth at the NCAA Individual Event Finals on pommel horse with a 14.6 (4/19).
High School: The 2006 Junior Olympic (JO) national champion on pommel horse ... also finished third on parallel bars, second on pommel horse, and eighth in all-around at the 2006 Visa U.S. National Championships (Level 10) ... a 2005 Visa U.S. Championships qualifier ... selected to the Region I All-Star Team in 2005-2006 ... a JO National Championships qualifier in 2004-2006 ... invited to the 2006 Ricky Deci Honor Training Camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs ... selected to the Superintendent's Honor Roll at Tesoro HS from 2003-2006 ... a CSF Member in 2005-2006 ... earned an AP Scholar with Distinction Award.
Personal: Parents are Seijo and Theresa Escalante-Oi ... has one brother, Dale, and two sisters, Madeline and Allison ... majoring in Classics ... enjoys working on computers, playing video games and watching movies ... 2009 Academic All-MPSF selection.
Getting To Know Kyle Oi
| Born in: | Long Beach, Calif. |
| Major: | Undeclared |
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| The best thing about Stanford is: | The people |
| My favorite place on campus is: | My bed |
| Ten years from now I hope to be: | Somewhere interesting |
| My favorite class at Stanford is: | Latin |
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| The place I would most like to visit is: | Coon Rapids, Iowa |
| My favorite pre-meet rituals are: | Eating at Subway, the spicy Italian is amazing |
| Stanford Men's Gymnastics will be fun to watch this year because: | We've got such great talent, diligence, and determination |
| My greatest athletic moment was: | Hitting my first college routine |
| The current or former Stanford athlete I most enjoy watching perform is: | David Sender |
| Since coming to Stanford, I have learned: | That there is more to life than what we plan |
| The best book I have ever read is: | I'm working on that... |
| Favorite food: | Steak |
| Least favorite food: | Strictly vegetarian entrees |
| If I had to cook all of my meals, I'd probably survive on: | Granola bars |
| Favorite movie: | The Matrix |
| Favorite TV show: | South Park |
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| My ultimate ESPN SportsCenter highlight would be: | Stanford dominating at the 2009 NCAA Championships |
| My favorite musical group/singer is: | The Strokes |
| The best advice I've ever received was: | Just do it |
| If I could invite three people from history to dinner, they would be: | G.K. Chesterton, Clarence Thomas, and Augustine of Hippo (after his conversion by Ambrose of Milan) |
| If I could bring anything from my hometown to Stanford it would be: | the Southern California weather |
| If I had one CD to listen to it would be: | Room on Fire |