SEATTLE – Stanford women’s gymnast Elizabeth Price was named the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year, as announced Saturday at the Pac-12 Championships by the conference.
Price is the second Cardinal gymnast to earn Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year honors in program history. Stanford alumna and current Arizona head coach Tabitha Yim was the Cardinal’s first winner in 2008.
It is Price’s second Pac-12 yearly award in as many seasons after earning Specialist of the Year honors as a freshman in 2015.
Price continued to establish herself as one of the nation’s elite gymnasts this season and has won the all-around in seven of the eight meets she has competed in entering the Pac-12 Championships. She tied her career high of 39.675 in the final meet of the regular season against UCLA and Georgia (March 6). Price is tied for third in the nation in the all-around with an RQS of 39.570.
Highlights of Elizabeth Price at the Pac-12 Championships.
Price has scored 9.825 or higher in 32-of-35 performances this season and 9.900 or higher in 39-of-60 performances during her collegiate career. She has won 62 percent of the events she’s competed in this season (26 individual event victories in 42 possible events).
She ranks in the top 25 in four-of-five categories nationally and is in the top 10 in every event among Pac-12 competitors, including being the top-ranked gymnast in three of the events (all-around, vault and bars).
Price has registered Stanford’s top-nine scores this season on vault, seven-of-nine on bars, eight-of-ten on floor, and each of its top-seven scores in the all-around.
Price was named the Pac-12 Gymnast of the Week each of the first three weeks of the season and picked up her fourth honor after the UCLA and Georgia meet. She became the fifth gymnast in Pac-12 history to earn four Gymnast of the Week honors in one season (Kirsten Maloney, UCLA, 2005; Vanessa Zamarripa, UCLA, 2013; Makayla Stambaugh, Oregon State, 2013; Georgia Dabritz, Utah, 2015; Elizabeth Price, Stanford, 2016).