STANFORD, Calif. - Stanford men's gymnastics is well-represented on USA Gymnastics' 2019 Pan American Games squad, as current and former Card Grant Breckenridge, Brody Malone and Robert Neff will compete for their country in Lima, Peru from July 27-31.
The team was selected as part of the U.S. Senior Men's National Team May training camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. USA Gymnastics also selected gymnasts for the 2019 Junior World Championships in Gyor, Hungary from June 27-30.
Led by Malone in his freshman year, Stanford recently captured it's seventh men's gymnastics national championship. The native of Summerville, Ga. earned the CGA Rookie of the Year and MPSF Gymnast of the Year while capturing the all-around crown with a career-best 85.832 at the championship meet. He also claimed the national title on floor (career-high 14.800) and high bar (14.633) to become the first Cardinal in program history to win three titles in one season. He is also the third freshman to win the NCAA all-around title, joining Sam Mikulak (2011) and Yul Moldauer (2016). Malone finished the championship run with five All-American selections, capturing the honor on parallel bars (14.100) and rings (14.266) in addition to his three national titles. Malone joins Jair Lynch ('92), Dan Gill ('04) and Akash Modi ('15 & '17) as the only Cardinal gymnasts to ever record five All-American honors in one Championship meet.
Breckenridge wrapped up a stellar four-year career on The Farm in 2019, placing as the national runner-up in high bar for the second consecutive season. A finalist for the Nissen-Emery Award, he earned All-American selections on high bar and in the all-around in 2019 to finish his Stanford career with three total All-American nods. Breckenridge was named to the U.S. Senior National Team in 2017 after finishing seventh in the all-around at Winter Cup that year. A 2018 Winter Cup high bar silver medalist, he also claimed bronze in the parallel bars in 2019. The native of Libertyville, Ill. was a 2018 CGA Second Team All-America Scholar Athlete and a three-time MPSF All-Academic selection.
Neff closed out his career as a two-time NCAA champion in the high bar (2017, 2018) and six-time All-American, claiming titles in the high bar (3), all-around (2) and parallel bars (1). Neff guided the Cardinal to four top-four NCAA Championships finishes, including runner-up efforts during his freshman and sophomore seasons. Neff, who nailed a season-high 14.766 on the high bar to repeat as 2018 NCAA champion, became only the fifth Cardinal gymnast to claim back-to-back NCAA titles and the first since Modi accomplished the feat by winning parallel bars in 2016-17. A 2018 Nissen-Emery Award finalist, Neff was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large second team in his final campaign.
2019 Pan American Games Roster
Lima Peru - July 27-31
Cameron Bock, Ann Arbor, Mich./University of Michigan
Grant Breckenridge, Libertyville, Ill./Stanford University
Brody Malone, Summerville, Ga./Stanford University
Robert Neff, Brookfield, Wis./Stanford University
Genki Suzuki, North Wales, Pa./University of Oklahoma
Non-traveling alternates
Adrian de los Angeles, Long Beach, Calif./U.S. Olympic Training Center
Riley Loos, El Dorado Hills, Calif./Technique Gymnastics
Both teams were named in accordance with the posted official selection procedures, and the Pan Am Games Team is pending approval by the United States Olympic Committee.
Based in Indianapolis, USA Gymnastics is the national governing body for gymnastics in the United States. The organization is committed to creating a culture that encourages and supports its athletes and focuses on its highest priority, the safety and well-being of the athletes. USA Gymnastics has taken specific, concrete steps to strengthen its athlete safety policies and procedures. Former gymnast and business executive Li Li Leung is the new president and chief executive officer of USA Gymnastics. The organization's disciplines include men's and women's artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline and tumbling, acrobatic gymnastics and gymnastics for all (formerly known as group gymnastics). For more complete information, visit usagym.org.
